Student’s Guide to IT Links (Textbook)

Pure Physics

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Chapter 1: Measurement
Click on 100 on the right hand side and
find out more about Chuang Tzu. Click
Unit 1.2 6 http://powersof10.com
on the other powers of 10 and see how
small or big things can get.
Choose from 6 sundial projects to create MC
Unit 1.4 13 http://www.sundials.co.uk/projects.htm#edial
your own!
Chapter 2: Kinematics
Test your audio and visual reaction and MC
Unit 2.3 36 http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/explrsci/media/reflex.htm
see how it differs when you’re tired.
Read about how Galileo discovered that MC
Unit 2.4 38 http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/theories/copernican_system.html the Sun was the centre of the solar
system, even back then!
Chapter 3: Forces
Learn more about resultant force by MC
Unit 3.2 51 http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/resultant.htm changing sizes and directions of forces
yourself.
Chapter 4: Mass, Weight and Density
Find out what happens when a clock is MC
thrown into a black hole. This link may
Unit 4.1 73 http://hubblesite.org/discoveries/black_holes/
put a whole new perspective on
gravitational force.

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Chapter 5: Turning Effect of Forces
Click to place weights at different MC
Unit 5.2 87 http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph11e/lever.htm distances on a lever. How many
possibilities can you find for balance?
Chapter 6: Energy, Work and Power
Adjust the mass of a box and the MC
Unit 6.2 114 http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/kap5/work/work.htm friction acting on it and watch the
amount of work done with each change.
Pick an amount of water and heat MC
Unit 6.3 116 http://ippex.pppl.gov/interactive/energy/boilwater.html energy and see if you can accurately
guess how long it takes.
Chapter 7: Pressure
Play with the values of liquid depth and MC
Unit 7.3 137 http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/hydrostpr.htm density to find out which liquid exerts
the greatest or smallest pressure.
Chapter 9: Kinetic Model of Matter
galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/Applets/brownian/brown See what Brownian Motion would look MC
Unit 9.1 158 ian.html like under a microscope.
Chapter 15: Sound
Ever wondered how there is almost no MC
http://www.concerthalls.unomaha.edu/ echo in a large concert hall? Find out
Unit 15.3 300
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/fluteacoustics.html what affects the quality of sound in
concert halls and musical instruments.
Chapter 16: Static Electricity
http://qbx6.ltu.edu/s_schneider/physlets/main/efield.shtml See more diagrams on electric fields MC
Unit 16.3 323 http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/waves_particles/wavpart2.html and see how these fields exert force on
http://www.edumedia.fr/m195_l2-electric-field.html nearby charges.
Chapter 18: D.C Circuits
Unit 18.3 359 http://www.article19.com/shockwave/oz.htm You’ll never have more fun setting up MC
http://www.phys.hawaii.edu/~teb/optics/java/resist4/ circuits and learning how circuit

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 http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/kap20/RR506a.htm
arrangements affect potential difference
http://webphysics.davidson.edu/applets/circuitbuilder/tutorial/circuitbuilder
and resistivity!
_intro.htm
Chapter 19: Practical Electricity
Calculate your electricity consumption MC
Unit 19.2 379 http://services.spservices.sg/cs_services_energy-audit.asp according to what appliances you have
and how often you use them.
Chapter 22: Electromagnetic Induction
http://www.schulphysik.de/ntnujava/oscilloscope/oscilloscope.html MC
Practise how to use a cathode-ray
http://www.csupomona.edu/~pbsiegel/www/ideas/oscilloscope.html
Unit 22.5 451 http://www.csupomona.edu/~pbsiegel/www/gsix/oscilloscope.htm oscilloscope like setting a time-base and
voltage gain.
http://www.alternate-energy.net/oscillo03-5.html

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