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published by the Annenberg Foundation
content provider: the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
This is a free online course aimed at secondary teachers and adult learners. It includes 3 components: written text arranged in units, short video segments, and interactive web modules. Topics include fundamental particles and interactions, gravity, and string theory. More advanced learners can explore quantum mechanics, manipulating light, and biophysics. A comprehensive Facilitator's Guide supports teachers with an overview of rapidly-advancing knowledge in subatomic-scale experimentation.  

Current titles include:

1. The Basic Building Blocks of Matter
2. The Fundamental Interactions
3. Gravity
4. String Theory and Extra Dimensions
5. The Quantum World
6. Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics
7. Manipulating Light
8. Emergent Behavior in Quantum Matter
9. Biophysics
10. Dark Matter
11. Dark Energy

Each chapter offers offer a professionally-produced educational video appropriate for undergraduate physics produced in association with the Harvard University Department of Physics. Each video explores with leading scientists a frontier area of physics. The DVD collection is available for purchase, along with a facilitator guide. See Related Materials for a link to digital versions of this resource, available for free download.
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Astronomy
- Cosmology
= Dark Energy
= Dark Matter
- Fundamentals
= Gravity
General Physics
- Curriculum
Modern Physics
- Elementary Particles
Quantum Physics
- Entanglement and Quantum Information
- Foundations and Measurements
- General
- Quantum Experiments
Relativity
- Beyond Relativity
= Strings
- Lower Undergraduate
- High School
- Middle School
- Collection
- Instructional Material
= Course
= Interactive Simulation
- Audio/Visual
= Movie/Animation
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- Educators
- Learners
- General Publics
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- application/pdf
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DVD versions of the web materials are available for purchase through this website.
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© 2010 Annenberg Media
Produced by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Science Media Group in association with the Harvard University Department of Physics. Sponsored by Annenberg Media.
ISBN Number:
1-57680-891-2
Keywords:
Standard Model, antimatter, dark matter, matter, quark, strong force, unification theory, weak force, Biophysics
Record Creator:
Metadata instance created July 30, 2011 by Ramon Torres-Isea
Record Updated:
August 19, 2020 by Lyle Barbato
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November 18, 2010
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(Annenberg Foundation, 2010), WWW Document, (https://www.learner.org/series/physics-for-the-21st-century/).
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Physics for the 21st Century (Annenberg Foundation, 2010), <https://www.learner.org/series/physics-for-the-21st-century/>.
APA Format
Physics for the 21st Century. (2010, November 18). Retrieved March 19, 2024, from Annenberg Foundation: https://www.learner.org/series/physics-for-the-21st-century/
Chicago Format
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Physics for the 21st Century. Annenberg Foundation, November 18, 2010. https://www.learner.org/series/physics-for-the-21st-century/ (accessed 19 March 2024).
MLA Format
Physics for the 21st Century. Annenberg Foundation, 2010. 18 Nov. 2010. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. 19 Mar. 2024 <https://www.learner.org/series/physics-for-the-21st-century/>.
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