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The Physics Source is a collection of resources for introductory college level physics courses. It includes curriculum, curriculum support material, reference material, and pedagogical and physics education research inspired content.

The Source relies on you, the community of teachers, to expand and maintain its holdings.

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Circuit Simulator Applet
The circuit simulator applet allows the user to virtually build and a test an infinite number of circuit configurations. The picture shows a full wave rectifier setup. The user can change the frequency, the waveform, the maximum voltage, the DC offset, the phase offset, the diode forward voltage, and the load resistance.
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ISLE: Investigative Science Learning Environment
This approach to teaching physics has students perform experiments and build models in a manner similar to physics research. Included are example labs and curricular materials, research results, and discussion boards.
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Latest Source Materials

Oct 23	Boston University Physics Easy Java Simulation: Vector Addition- Integer components
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Oct 22	Boston University Physics Easy Java Simulation: Free Body Diagrams
Oct 22	Boston University Physics Easy Java Simulation: Collisions in One Dimension

This Day in History

1888: Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born in Trichinopolyin, India. He was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him."
Source: Physics Infomall.