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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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UVA Virtual Lab: Resistor Waterwheel Analogy
These pages provide a water model of an electrical circuit. In this case, the gerbil running in its wheel and the bucket pump are the equivalent of a battery. The water represents the electrons in the circuit. The height represents the voltage. The wheel represents the resistor. As the electrons fall from high to low, energy is available to do work.
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Matter & Interactions
This is a chapter from Volume 1 of "Research-Based Reform of University Physics." It describes Matter & Interactions, a modern calculus-based introductory curriculum that emphasizes the power of fundamental principles, and guides students through the process of starting from these principles in analyzing physical systems, on both the macroscopic and the microscopic level.
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Community project to update physics for the life sciences
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Evidence-based methods for teaching physics.
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Event Announcements
AAPT Winter Meeting 2012
The 2012 winter meeting will be held in Ontario California from February 4th to February 8th.
Past events
1950: Orrin H. Smith received the 1949 AAPT Oersted Medal. His acceptance speech was titled "Experience Plus Realization."
Source: Physics Infomall.
