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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

Georgia State University - Support for High School Physics

***Excellent***

Colorado State University - Just had a preliminary look and it appears to be

good

under construction ja 2007

*good*

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

http://nobelprize.org/games_simulations.html

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/

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)

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

wave simulations

beats simulations

quite a few simulations

excellent

excellent highschool simulations
excellent highschool simulations
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4237751840526284618&q;=quantum
double slit video simulation
Simulations Calculator and Unit Converters
http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/applist/applets.htm

MegaConverter -
calculator, unit conversion, all kinds of reference data

Scientists
Canadian Scientists
Tutorials - Math
logarithms U Guelph

Waves

Multimedia

Doppler Shift

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/

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
A very comprehensive coverage of dealing with uncertainties without calculus.
SI Units
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.

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
 
electromagnetic spectrum
 
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
 
       
       
       
       
       

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