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This introductory, algebra-based, two-semester college physics book is grounded with real-world examples, illustrations, and explanations to help students grasp key, fundamental physics concepts.

the concept of waves as seen in sound

Discuss Einstein’s and Planck’s differing views about whether science research is removed from social and political forces

•Explain the origin of Ohm’s law. •Calculate voltages, currents, or resistances with Ohm’s law. •Explain what an ohmic material is. •Describe a simple circuit.

This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people, animals, things, images and space move leads to many adventures. This volume presents the best of them in the domain of everyday life.

This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people, animals, things, images and empty space move leads to many adven- tures. This volume presents the best of them in the domains of relativity and cosmology. In the study of motion – physics – special and general relativity form two important building blocks.

This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people, animals, things, images and space move leads to many adventures. This volume presents the adventures one encounters when exploring everything electric.

This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Have you ever asked: Why do people, animals, things, images and space move? The answer leads to many adventures; this volume presents those due to the discovery that there is a smallest change value in nature.

This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how bodies, images and empty space move leads to many adventures. This volume presents the best adventures about the motion inside people, inside animals, and inside any other type of matter – from the largest stars to the smallest nuclei.

This book is written for anybody who is intensely curious about nature and motion. Have you ever asked: Why do people, animals, things, images and empty space move? The answer leads to many adventures, and this book presents one of the best of them: the search for a precise, unified and final description of all motion.

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A series of workbooks, SPIRAL Physics, have been developed and used in place of a standard textbook in the introductory physics course for undergraduates. The workbooks, designed for use in an active learning environment, arrange topics such that students receive repeated exposure to concepts over an extended time interval, each time with an incremental increase in complexity. These workbooks emphasize multiple representation problem solving techniques and goal-less problem statements. The course is divided into Calculus-based Introductory Physics and Algebra-based Introductory Physics. Each module can be downloaded as a PDF file.

Simply put: cool physics and other sweet science

Videos and cool science experiments from Steve Spangler and SteveSpanglerScience.com

The science video blog from atoms to astrophysics!

SciShow's series on the four fundamental interactions in physics.

Watch Dr. Carlson risk life, limb, and dignity as he explains the coolest concepts in science.

Amazing Physics videos that cover all the topics ranging from simple Newton's laws to complex electricity and magnetism theories and understanding e=mc^2 or Schrodinger's equation.

The Khan Academy library of videos covers a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer.

Explore the frontiers of physics research with the scientists on the front lines in this 11-unit course in modern physics. The course covers a broad scale, from sub-atomic particle physics, through atomic and molecular physics, to cosmology.

Helps students learn science by writing better lab reports

All things physics - Videos, examples, lessons, and simulations as well as blogs and other resources for basic physics

Graphics with explanations

Articles, interviews, transcripts, expert Q&A

Discover temperature, states of matter, thephysics of stone arches, the speed oflight a sense of scale, the electromagnetic spectrum and the Doppler effect

Collaborative project of the Center for Integrating Research and Learning at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Molecular Expressions

Interactive simulations including speed, acceleration, friction, pendulums, roller coasters and kinetic energy, and many others

PhET provides fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena for free. The open source simulations are written in Java, Flash or HTML5, and can be run online or downloaded to your computer.

Games focused on particles and the forces between them.

Educational physics applets designed to be scripted in JavaScript for use in quizzes, homework problems, and Just in Time Teaching activities.

Educational java applets written to help visualize various concepts in math, physics, and engineering