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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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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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Problem Based Learning for College Physics
This web site contains a collection of field-tested problem-based learning (PBL) activities for introductory physics classes. The site also includes background and references on the PBL approach.
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Latest Source Materials

Feb 5	Physical Pendulum Forces
Feb 2	Faraday Disk Dynamo Model
Feb 2	Micrometer Model
Feb 2	Boston University Easy Java Simulations: A Charge in Electric and Magnetic Fields

This Day in History

1971: The third successful lunar landing ended with the Apollo 14 splashdown.
Source: Physics Infomall.