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Physics


General

Contemporary Physics Education Project
Particles, Fusion, Nuclear Science and History & Fate of the Universe

Flash animations

Glenbrook South Physics Page

Hyperphysics
Packages of instructional material across the full range of physics.

Physics Applets

Physics Virtual Bookshelf

Resourceful Physics

Webphysics
Collection of many physics websites.

Unit 1

Wave-like properties of light

Physics of Theatre

Polarisation

Polarised Light in Nature and Technology

Reflection & refraction by Huygen's Principle

Nuclear and radioactivity physics

History of Physics: Curie

Law of Radioactive Decay

Radioactive Decay Series

Medical physics

The Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine

Energy from the nucleus

Nuclear Energy Institute - Commercial (US)

World Nuclear Association - Commercial (UK)

Unit 2

Movement
The Comparison of Aristotle and Galileo

Galileo's battle for the heavens

Crumple Zones in Automobiles

Severe and Fatal Car Crashes due to Roadside Hazards

Kinematics and Dynamics

Electricity

Household Wiring

Investigations: alternative energy sources

Hydrogen, Hydrogen-based economy.

Renewable energy

Solar Tower, Solar tower construction.

Solar Tower for Mildura

Wind Energy, Wind Farms: The Blue Energy company.

Unit 3

Motion in one and two dimensions

Centripetal acceleration

Elastic and Inelastic Collision

Projectile Motion

Electronics and photonics

Photonics Educational Applets

Investigating structures and materials

Bridges

Resource forTeachers on Materials

Unit 4

Interactions of light and matter

Modern physics

Electric Power

DC Motor

Generator

Lorentz Force

Magnetic Field Around a Wire

Recording and reproducing sound

Magnets, coils, loudspeakers