More Physics Links
Posted on April 16, 2009, 12:50 pm, by Peter, under
Education.
- UMD Physics Education Group’s redesigned website. Collections of good problems (particularly the Alternative Homework Assignments and the two sections of “Thinking Problems”), a set of open-ended problem-based labs, and demo worksheets.
- Context-rich problems from the University of Minnesota (see the “On-line archive”).
- MagnetLab at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at UF. Look at the Interactive tutorials. Somewhere on this site is a video of a levitating frog (made to levitate by a magnet).
- Interactive Physlets has a good optics demo; might have others.
- ComPADRE.org, home of the Open Source Physics java demos, has more stuff, too. Look at “Physics Source,” for example.
- Electronic Dimensions is just down the road – might be a good source for cheap electronic components (I’ve been looking for really big capacitors…).
- A set of good labs at Clemson University, including some online (“CUPOL”).
- Cenco’s Selective Experiments in Physics, a set of lab instructions.
- An application of E&M in the news: MRIs May Burn Patients Who Wear Drug Patches (NY Times, 3/5/09). May require login.
- These “nonstandard experiments” sounded interesting.
- Good basic discussion of sig figs.
- “Electricity is dangerous” from the CDC.
