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| Unit.1 What ideas explain the physical world |
| 1. How can thermal effects be explained? |
Temperature |
Notes 1.1.1 |
Celsius Video |
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Fahrenheit Video |
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Absolute Zero |
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How does a thermocouple work? |
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PhET Simulation – States of Matter |
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PhET Simulation – Gas Properties |
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Finding Absolute Zero |
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Balloons & liquid Nitrogen |
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Temperature Science |
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PhET Worksheet – Absolute Zero |
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Heat transfer |
Notes 1.1.2 |
PhysicsOnline video: Convection exp. |
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FLIR Video |
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Thermal equilibrium |
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PhET Energy forms & changes |
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Misconceptions about Temperature |
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Heat transfer |
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BBC: House Design & energy consideration |
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Specific Heat Capacity |
Notes 1.1.3 |
Worksheet: Specific heat capacity |
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Worksheet Solutions: Specific heat capacity |
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Juddy Productions: Calculating a specific heat capacity video |
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Fuse School: Specific Heat Capacity video |
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Food calorimetry lab: video |
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Specific Latent Heat |
Notes 1.1.4 |
Fuse School: Latent Heat video |
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Worksheet: Heating Graph |
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Laws of Thermodynamics |
Notes 1.1.5 |
The Royal Institute: The zeroth law of thermodynamics video |
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The Royal Institute: The first law of thermodynamics video |
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Khan Academy: Thermodynamics |
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The Electromagnetic Spectrum |
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Ice cutting experiment |
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BBC Heat Transfer |
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PhET Stefan Boltzmann demo |
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Introductory Video |
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Explanatory Video |
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Virtual Lab |
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Atmosphere thumbprints |
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Juddy tutorial video |
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Climate Change |
Notes 1.1.6 |
Global Heat Record |
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An Inconvenient Truth |
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National Geographic site |
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| 2. How do electric circuits work? |
Current Electricity |
Notes 1.2.1 |
CrashCourse: Electric charge |
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CrashCourse: Electric current |
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What is current? |
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Circuit basics |
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PhET Circuit Builder |
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PhET Ohm’s Law demo |
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Ohm’s Law simulation |
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Circuit Analysis |
Notes 1.2.2 |
CrashCourse: Circuit analysis |
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Juddy Productions: Electric circuit activity video |
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Juddy Productions: Voltage divider challenge video |
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Using electricity |
Notes 1.2.3 |
Difference between AC and DC current |
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PhET Circuit Construction Kit: AC |
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| 3. What is matter and how is it formed? |
Radioactivity and the nucleus |
Notes 1.3.1 |
What is a neutrino? |
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Antimatter explained |
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Known isotopes |
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Nuclear Half Life and Decay Series |
Notes 1.3.2 |
PhET – Alpha decay |
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PhET – Beta decay |
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Uranium – Twisting the Dragon’s Tail (1) |
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Uranium – Twisting the Dragon’s Tail (2) |
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Sample Decay Series |
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Nuclear Forces |
Notes 1.3.3 |
Khan Academy video |
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Mouse Trap – Nuclear Fission |
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Veritasium – Energy of the sun |
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Binding Energy Calculations |
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The Standard Model |
Notes 1.3.4 |
Four Fundamental Forces |
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Subatomic Particles |
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The standard model (Bozeman video) |
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The standard model (Ri video) |
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Gravitational Waves |
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The best & worst predictions in Science |
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The Australian Synchrotron |
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Historic Timeline 20th Century |
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How big is the universe? |
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Henriett Leavitt Discovery (1912) |
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Harlow Shapley Discovery(1920) |
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Edwin Hubble Discovery (1929) |
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Penzias & Wilson Discovery (1964) |
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The Expanding Universe |
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The Hubble Law (Dr Brian Cox) |
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The Doppler Effect |
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The Big Bang Theory |
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Minute Physics: Pictures of the Big Bang |
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Minute Physics: Expansion |
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The Beginning of Everything |
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Veritasium: Big Bang Theory |
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Evidence of Comsic Inflation |
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