• How to Get the Most out of Studying (Stephen Chew, Samford University)
• Story about a flipped classroom (might give you some insight into why the homework in this class focuses on the approach you use, not the answer)
• Five habits of a critical thinker
• Resources for Teaching Premedical Physics (Haverford U, S. A. Kane)
• Why not just tell you what you need to know?
• Glossary of science words translated to various languages.

• Bond Energies
• Electric motors
• water droplets orbiting a charged knitting needle in "zero gravity"
• Star Wars Deflector Shields
• Scientists Develop Magnetic Force Field (YouTube)
• Losing weight (British Medical Journal)

• DC Circuits Kit (PhET)
• Visualizing current (as the movement of electrons in a wire)
• Make the bulb light (with 2 A of current; no more, no less!)
• Create your own circuits at the Ohm Zone
• Vlabs (from NSTA)

• Capacitors (visualizing the charging and discharging)

• Induction (current induced by moving a magnet in and out of a solenoid)
• Lenz's Law (magnetic field induced by moving a magnet in and out of a solenoid)
• Electric fields can be visualized via the PIRA Webring site and the Giambattista site

• A good introduction is given by at the Acoustics and Vibration Animations page by Dan Russell, Kettering University
• Ripple Tank
• In-class PhET simulations:
  • Wave Interference
  • Wave on a String (used for standing waves)
• Neat music video with standing waves (and Faraday cage)
• Mosquito Ring Tones
• Wave Applets
• Wave Demos (movies)
• Tour of the Electromagnetic Spectrum (videos by NASA)
• How Your Brain Understands What Your Ear Hears (National Institutes of Health; student activities)

• Simulation
• Video
• There is also Video taken from three perspectives (within the car, outside the car and in another car) Video of someone skiing down a mountain while playing the trombone
• Video of space shuttle launch (listen and watch what happens when it passes the speed of sound at around 1 minute into the video)

• Interference between two point sources (shows differences in distance from each source)
• Thin Film Interference and examples in nature
• Ripple Tank Effect
• Beats (half-way down the page you can choose to hear "beating")
• Reflection from hard and soft boundaries
• Standing Waves (string)
• Standing Waves (pipe)

• Polarization (Michael W. Davidson and Florida State University)
• Refraction
• Dispersion and Tunable Dispersion
• Image formation by Plane Mirror, Converging Lens and Diverging Lens
• Optics Physlet
• Optics Bench
• In-class PhET simulations:
  • Refraction
  • Image Formation with a Converging Lens
• YouTube video of twins in a mirror
• Light Walk (a description of how images are formed, starting with pinholes)

• The MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) has a search engine you can use to find lots of simulations in science (not just physics)
• TEAL Visualizations (MIT)
• PhET simulations (Physics Education Technology Project)
• Simulations
• Simulations from Giambattista
• Visualizations (good for waves and fields)
• Flash animations by David M. Harrison.
• Java Applets for High School Physics Education

• Videos by ESPN on various physical concepts.
• One resource of applications of physics to biology is given here.
• Information about electricity and magnetism, organized by concept maps.
• History of optics and electromagnetism
• How to avoid Electric Shocks
• For information about modern physics (lasers, microwave ovens, etc.), check out Physics 2000
• Context-Rich Problems

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