Monday, June 4, 2012

Online Reading for Physics....

I used a lot of online info for our physics class this year, so I wanted to pull it all together in one place.  Hopefully, most of these links will be valid for a while and helpful to others!

These are in order by the topics as we covered them throughout the year.  I didn't use online sources for absolutely every topic (electricity or optics, for example), but did use quite a few of them for other topics....

Bubbles:
http://bubbleology.com/BubbleologyFrame.html

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/bubbles/internet_resources.html

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/bubbles/bubbles.html

http://bubbles.org/



http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/explore/bubbles.html

http://members.tripod.com/sharing_science/bubbles.html

http://www.lanl.gov/news/releases/archive/01-061.shtml

http://42explore.com/bubbl.htm

More on Bubbles/Foams:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLTrD9LYQTs

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-theory-explains-the-p

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~wiebke/PHYSICS/MY_PAPERS/SoftCondensedMatter.pdf

http://www.aquafoam.com/papers/Ouellette.pdf

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/09jun_foam/

http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistryactivities/a/kidelephantdemo.htm


Simple Machines:
http://atlantis.coe.uh.edu/archive/science/science_lessons/scienceles1/finalhome.htm

http://www.mikids.com/Smachines.htm

Website to explore simple and then compound machines:
http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/index.htm

Archimedes’s Screw:
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Archimedes'_screw

http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Screw/applications/Kinderdijk_screw_big.jpg

http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Screw/Applications.html

http://www.experiment-resources.com/archimedes-screw.html

Compound Machine (Rube Goldberg):
http://www.edheads.org/activities/odd_machine/

http://www.fossweb.com/modules3-6/LeversandPulleys/index.html

About Rube Goldberg:
http://www.rubegoldberg.com/

Read about / look at examples of Rube Goldberg Machines:

http://www.mousetrapcontraptions.com/cool-machines-3.html

http://www.jacobshwirtz.com/RubeGoldberg/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhhGeDBsGA0&NR=1&feature=fvwp


Easy steps for making a Rube Goldberg device:

http://www.ehow.com/how_6609630_make-easy-rube-goldberg.html

http://www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Homemade-Rube-Goldberg-Machine

World record just set by Purdue University engineering dept. for most steps to blow up and pop a balloon (300):

http://www.gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/technology/gadgetbox/rube-goldberg-device-takes-300-steps-pop-balloon-686978

Gears:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/cycling/gears1.html

...and on the same topic of bicycles, here's more on wheels and axles, too:

http://www.exploratorium.edu/cycling/wheel1.html

Different types of gears:

http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/InventorsToolbox.html

...and there's a quiz after they read this page:

http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/GadgetAnatomy.html

And here's a very good page with lots of links to info on gears in general and clocks in particular. It also includes some activities:

http://www.fi.edu/time/Journey/Time/Escapements/escapemLG.html

Rader's Physics 4 Kids as a good all-round reading site:

http://www.physics4kids.com/


Force and Motion:


Potential and Kinetic Energy:
http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/unplugged/seven-amazing-domino-creations-232629590.html

A body (or bodies) in motion tend to stay in motion....
Newtonian Physics:
Mechanical Waves:
Games and info on Einstein:

http://www.albert-einstein.org/.index6.html
Flashcards for review of waves:

http://quizlet.com/915979/waves-worksheet-flash-cards/

You can go through them online, too....

More info on waves for review:

http://mrskingsbioweb.com/worksheets/Waves.pdf

These sort of look like a powerpoint presentation in slide form....

Green flashes (light waves):

http://www.exo.net/~pauld/physics/atmospheric_optics/green_flash.html
Two online magnet quizzes:
Info on magnets:
Circuits:
Robotics:
Here's info on building various Lego robots:

http://www.robotsforkids.com/
 
Here's another sort of "robot." It's a balloon powered nano-rover:

http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/nanorover/en/

Here's something to do with those bubbles (a bubble powered rocket):

http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/pop-rocket/en/

More info from NASA on robotics:

http://robotics.arc.nasa.gov/edu/educators.php

And here's a site you can use to learn about robotic engineering:

http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/ROV/

Here's info on artificial intelligence:

http://www.pitara.com/discover/5wh/online.asp?story=176

http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/ar/Artificial_intelligence


Hope at least some of these are helpful!

Regena

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