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Answers		I:\Handout\IB_Physics
Text Book Resources	Physics Principles with Applications, Giancoli 5th ed ISBN 0-13-611971-9	http://www.prenhall.com/giancoli/	Course Text Excellent web site including questions.
	Physics Principles and Problems, Glencoe ISBN 0-02-825473-2	http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/physics/index2.php	Supplementary Text (in class and library)
	Physics for use with the International Baccalaureate diploma program, 2nd ed, IBID Press , Kerrr, Kerr and Ruth ISBN 1 876659 35 1	http://www.ibid.com.au/ibid/web.nsf/productlookup/19?opendocument	Reference Text in Library
	Physics for the IB Diploma study guide ISBN 0-19-914836-8	http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-914836-8	Reference Text in Library
IB Physics Resources and Information		http://www.saburchill.com/physics/physics.html	An excellent resource. This "Open Door Web Site" has an excellent IB Physics section. *Excellent*
		Creating Graphs http://www.saburchill.com/physics/chapters/0071.html
	IB Data Booklet	Data Booklet
Physics and General Information	General Physics Sites	http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html	Georgia State University - Support for High School Physics *Excellent*
		http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Type=TOC	Colorado State University - Just had a preliminary look and it appears to be good
		http://www.iop.org/activity/education/Teaching_Resources/Teaching%20Advanced%20Physics/page_8325.html	Institute of Physics excellent
		http://hypertextbook.com/physics/	under construction ja 2007 good
		http://www.howstuffworks.com/
		http://nobelprize.org/games_simulations.html
		http://www.lightandmatter.com/ http://www.lightandmatter.com/lab.pdf	physics site with free downloadable textbooks and lab manuals, good advice on how to study and learn physics link to lab manual
		http://www.interactions.org/cms/
		http://www.practicalphysics.org/	lots of experiments
	Physics Simulations and Animations	http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~grichert/sciweb/applets.html
		http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/web-pages/
		The Following linked Animations were developed by Dr. Dan Russell, Kettering University Applied Physics (They're excellent)
		http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/Demos/reflect/reflect.html	reflection of waves from boundaries
		http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/Demos/doppler/doppler.html	Doppler effect simulation
		http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/Demos/superposition/superposition.html	superposition simulations
		http://www.phschool.com/science/cpsurf/sound-light/4simu.html	wave simulations
		http://www.mta.ca/faculty/science/physics/suren/Beats/Beats.html	beats simulations
		http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html	quite a few simulations excellent
		http://phet.colorado.edu/web-pages/simulations-base.html	excellent highschool simulations
		http://www.wfu.edu/physics/pira/pira200/pira200.htm	excellent highschool simulations
		http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4237751840526284618&q;=quantum	double slit video simulation
	Online Video	http://www.learner.org/resources/series42.html	excellent series 'The Mechanical Universe'
	Simulations Calculator and Unit Converters	http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/applist/applets.htm
		http://www.megaconverter.com/mega2/	MegaConverter - calculator, unit conversion, all kinds of reference data
	Scientists	http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientists.php	Canadian Scientists
	Tutorials - Math	logarithms U Guelph
	Waves	Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster	Multimedia
		http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/YBA/M31-velocity/Doppler-shift-2.html	Doppler Shift
		http://www.falstad.com/ripple/ex-2slit.html	wave tank applet
		http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/beats.html	Explanation of Beat formula Derivation
Class (Lab) Resources	Graph Paper	1 mm grid protractor http://www.printfreegraphpaper.com/
Class (Lab) Resources	Graph Paper	http://www.padowan.dk/graph/	graphing software for labs etc. has error bars, can export images and easily change axes labels etc. excellent
Software Information	Downloadable Vectorworks Viewer	http://www.nemetschek.net/downloads/ VectorWorks 11 Viewer for Windows http://www.nemetschek.net/downloads/fundamentals/index.php#viewer	Some graphics on the site are vectorworks documents. You must download them and open them in a vectorworks viewer program available free from the link.
Intro Unit	Dealing with Uncertainties	http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/errorsx.htm	A very comprehensive coverage of dealing with uncertainties without calculus.
Intro Unit	SI Units	see intro unit page	a plethora of links
Forces	Fundamental Forces	http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/forces/funfor.html	detailed discussion, basically you need to know the 4 types and their relative strength. (at the beginning of the article) They don't do a good job of mentioning magnetic force from a high school level.
Forces	Theory of Everything	http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/everything.html	One of the most succinct and clear explanation to get the idea of some of the latest physics theories which are still in controversial and being developed. Good for an advanced read at a high school level.
Fundamental Particles		http://www.ipp.ca/poster/ http://www.ipp.ca/poster/poster.pdf http://www.ipp.ca/poster/booklet.pdf http://particleadventure.org - click on start here http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/pub/bigbang/part1.html
Optics & Light		http://njsas.org/projects/speed_of_light/index.html	historical speed of light experiments
		http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/emspectrum.html	electromagnetic spectrum
		http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/smt-gst.nsf/vwapj/spectallocation.pdf/$FILE/spectallocation.pdf	radio spectrum allocation
		http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html	hyperphysics diffraction
High School Physics Sites		the physics classroom

Math Review	Logarithms and Exponents	http://www.intmath.com/Exp_log/Exponent.php
Equipment Information	multimeter	quick specs vendor link I:\Handout\mcculloch\equipment - see file dm9700.pdf for specsheet
	digital oscilloscope	quick specs vendor link I:\Handout\mcculloch\equipment - see file PC_Scope_GB.pdf & PC-LAB2000_GB.pdf
	analogue oscilloscope	vendor information analogue oscilloscopes general vendor specs for this oscilloscope I:\Handout\mcculloch\equipment - file FGGuide.pdf - general info on analogue oscilloscopes I:\Handout\mcculloch\equipment - file 1541D_manua.pdf - manual for this oscilloscope
Reference Data	Periodic Table	http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/PerTable/index.html http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/education/elements/index_e.html
Atomic Nuclear Quantum	Emission Spectra	http://www.jce.divched.org/JCEDLib/WebWare/collection/open/JCEWWOR001/atomicspectraa.html
Relativity		http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/relativity/
Relativity		http://www.learner.org/resources/series42.html

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