Student’s Guide to IT Links (Textbook)

Pure Physics

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Chapter 1: Measurement

Unit 1.2 / 6 / http://powersof10.com / Click on 100 on the right hand side and find out more about Chuang Tzu. Click on the other powers of 10 and see how small or big things can get.
Unit 1.4 / 13 / http://www.sundials.co.uk/projects.htm#edial / Choose from 6 sundial projects to create your own! / MC
Chapter 2: Kinematics
Unit 2.3 / 36 / http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/explrsci/media/reflex.htm / Test your audio and visual reaction and see how it differs when you’re tired. / MC
Unit 2.4 / 38 / http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/theories/copernican_system.html / Read about how Galileo discovered that the Sun was the centre of the solar system, even back then! / MC
Chapter 3: Forces
Unit 3.2 / 51 / http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/resultant.htm / Learn more about resultant force by changing sizes and directions of forces yourself. / MC
Chapter 4: Mass, Weight and Density
Unit 4.1 / 73 / http://hubblesite.org/discoveries/black_holes/ / Find out what happens when a clock is thrown into a black hole. This link may put a whole new perspective on gravitational force. / MC
Chapter 5: Turning Effect of Forces
Unit 5.2 / 87 / http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph11e/lever.htm / Click to place weights at different distances on a lever. How many possibilities can you find for balance? / MC
Chapter 6: Energy, Work and Power
Unit 6.2 / 114 / http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/kap5/work/work.htm / Adjust the mass of a box and the friction acting on it and watch the amount of work done with each change. / MC
Unit 6.3 / 116 / http://ippex.pppl.gov/interactive/energy/boilwater.html / Pick an amount of water and heat energy and see if you can accurately guess how long it takes. / MC
Chapter 7: Pressure
Unit 7.3 / 137 / http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/hydrostpr.htm / Play with the values of liquid depth and density to find out which liquid exerts the greatest or smallest pressure. / MC
Chapter 9: Kinetic Model of Matter
Unit 9.1 / 158 / galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/Applets/brownian/brownian.html / See what Brownian Motion would look like under a microscope. / MC
Chapter 15: Sound
Unit 15.3 / 300 / http://www.concerthalls.unomaha.edu/
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/fluteacoustics.html / Ever wondered how there is almost no echo in a large concert hall? Find out what affects the quality of sound in concert halls and musical instruments. / MC
Chapter 16: Static Electricity
Unit 16.3 / 323 / http://qbx6.ltu.edu/s_schneider/physlets/main/efield.shtml
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/waves_particles/wavpart2.html
http://www.edumedia.fr/m195_l2-electric-field.html / See more diagrams on electric fields and see how these fields exert force on nearby charges. / MC
Chapter 18: D.C Circuits
Unit 18.3 / 359 / http://www.article19.com/shockwave/oz.htm
http://www.phys.hawaii.edu/~teb/optics/java/resist4/
http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/kap20/RR506a.htm
http://webphysics.davidson.edu/applets/circuitbuilder/tutorial/circuitbuilder_intro.htm / You’ll never have more fun setting up circuits and learning how circuit arrangements affect potential difference and resistivity! / MC
Chapter 19: Practical Electricity
Unit 19.2 / 379 / http://services.spservices.sg/cs_services_energy-audit.asp / Calculate your electricity consumption according to what appliances you have and how often you use them. / MC
Chapter 22: Electromagnetic Induction
Unit 22.5 / 451 / http://www.schulphysik.de/ntnujava/oscilloscope/oscilloscope.html
http://www.csupomona.edu/~pbsiegel/www/ideas/oscilloscope.html
http://www.csupomona.edu/~pbsiegel/www/gsix/oscilloscope.htm
http://www.alternate-energy.net/oscillo03-5.html / Practise how to use a cathode-ray oscilloscope like setting a time-base and voltage gain. / MC

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