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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.

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PhET Simulations: Ladybug Revolution
This is PhET simulation on the topic of circular motion featuring one or two ladybugs. Users can change the various initial kinematics quantities and display time progression vectors, graphs and data of these kinematics quantities.
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Context Rich Problems
This web site provides information on the creation and assessment of "Context Rich Problems". These problems place physics in a real-world context to help students develop problem-solving skills.
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Latest Source Materials

Oct 23	Boston University Physics Easy Java Simulation: Vector Addition- Integer components
Oct 23	Boston University Physics Easy Java Simulation: Vector Addition
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

1974: A team at the Stanford Linear accelerator have discovered the Y' particle, an excited state of the J.
Source: Physics Infomall.