How things work college course


 * Category:Physics and Astronomy/Labs
 * Wright State University Lake Campus
 * Notice: Efforts on this page shall be paused while the commercial book How Things Work (looseleaf) by Bloomfield is evaluated (ISBN 9781119013846 Wiley)

Labs in progress

 * Physics and Astronomy Labs/Motion down an incline
 * /Air drag drop experiment/
 * /Breaking broomstick demonstration/
 * /Momentum transfer under elastic and inelastic collisions/

Classical Physics

 * FHSST_Physics/Rectilinear_Motion/Graphs
 * /Motion simple arithmetic quiz/
 * /Conceptual physics wikiquizzes/
 * How things work college course/Waves (Physics Classroom)


 * Also: This quiz should be converted to Quizbank form: How_things_work_college_course/Conceptual_physics_wikiquizzes/Uniform_circular_motion

Modern Physics

 * Quantum mechanics/Photoelectric effect
 * Quantum mechanics/Photoelectric effect/Lab
 * Quantum mechanics/Photoelectric effect/Quiz


 * /Quantum mechanics timeline/
 * /Quantum mechanics timeline/Quiz/

Industrial Revolution

 * Industrial_Revolution
 * quiz (based on the permalink to the Wikipedia article)

Nuclear power

 * Nuclear_powerWikipedia Article
 * LEDE-HISTORY quiz     POWER PLANT - END quiz        (index)

Global warming

 * Global_warming Wikipedia Article
 * /Global warming quizzes/ (based on the permalink to the Wikipedia article)


 * Lab: Go to internet and find the rate at which Ohio warms as you travel south  (degrees C per mile).  Take .1 C per decade as nominal rate of global warming.  How far south each year do you have to travel to achieve that rate? Note: One mile per year is within a factor of 2 of what we obtained.
 * Berkeley Earth is affiliated by the highly trusted and respected Richard Muller.
 * Muller's take on Climategate
 * Muller on whether the pause is temporary or a new trend
 * https://www2.ucar.edu/climate/faq/how-much-has-global-temperature-risen-last-100-years
 * Global_warming_controversy
 * List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming

Computer

 * Computer (See also Turing machine * Busy beaver * Halting problem * Bombe) (Wikipedia articles)
 * /Computer quiz/
 * /Turing machine quiz/          ...(index to these two computer quizzes)


 * Online turing machines: http://morphett.info/default.html http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/06/turing-test/ http://www.turinghub.com/

The Antikythera mechanism

 * Antikythera_mechanism
 * Antikythera mechanism/Quizzes


 * Saros (astronomy)
 * Orbital mechanics/Saros/Quiz 1


 * Ecliptic and Ecliptic/Quizzes/Gallery
 * Ecliptic/Quizzes/Quiz 1

Ecliptic/Quizzes/Quiz 2 Will not be on How Things Work (may move to Astronomy)

Units under construction

 * /Electricity and Field theory/
 * YouTube
 * /Hunting the Elements (PBS NOVA)/
 * /Python journal/
 * How_things_work_college_course/Conceptual_physics_wikiquizzes/Uniform_circular_motion Needs major rewrite.

Units that will not be used (move to Astronomy)

 * Why_is_the_Sky_Dark_at_Night
 * Why is the Sky Dark at Night/quiz


 * already converted====


 * 1) How things work college course/Conceptual physics wikiquizzes/Velocity and acceleration
 * 2) How_things_work_college_course/Motion simple arithmetic quiz
 * 3) Why_is_the_Sky_Dark_at_Night/quiz
 * 4) Quantum_mechanics/Photoelectric_effect/Quiz
 * 5) How things work college course/Quantum mechanics timeline/Quiz
 * 6) How_things_work_college_course/Industrial_Revolution_quiz
 * 7) How things work college course/Global warming quizzes
 * 8) How_things_work_college_course/Nuclear_power_quizzes
 * 9) How things work college course/Computer quiz
 * 10) How_things_work_college_course/Turing_machine_quiz
 * 11) Antikythera mechanism/Quizzes
 * 12) Orbital mechanics/Saros/Quiz 1
 * 13) Ecliptic/Quizzes/Quiz 1
 * 14) How things work college course/Waves (Physics Classroom)


 * need to convert====


 * Ecliptic/Quizzes/Quiz 2 This quiz will be moved to Astronomy

Free online resources

 * coursera.org/course/howthingswork1? (Free and of good quality. Some students found that he went too slowly.)
 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/aqa/ (Looks excellent)
 * Physics of Music (Michigan Tech)
 * Physics Classroom