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written by Steve Wirt
designer: the Science Joy Wagon

Science Joy Wagon and the Ithaca City School District offer the Physics Zone Web site as a resource for algebra-based physics courses. Numerous interactive lessons, simulations, descriptions, and other online learning material are categorized into nine subjects including motion; forces; work and energy; momentum; electricity and magnetism; waves, light, and sound; modern physics; and nuclear physics.

http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/physicszone/

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Applications of Newton's Laws General Physics - Collections - Measurement/Units Oscillations & Waves - Acoustics	- High School - Lower Undergraduate	- Collection - Instructional Material = Activity = Interactive Simulation = Tutorial - Audio/Visual = Image/Image Set = Movie/Animation

Intended Users	Formats	Ratings
- Learners - Professional/Practitioners - Educators	- text/html - application/flash - application/shockwave - video/quicktime	Currently 0.0/5 Want to rate this material? Login here!

Access Rights:: Limited free access and
Available by subscription; Atlthough some materials are available for free, there is a small membership cost to access most materials.
Restriction:: © 2002 Science Joy Wagon
Keywords:: algebra-based physics, introductory physics
Record Creator:: December 31, 2002 by Waylon Flinn
Record Updated:: September 7, 2011 by Caroline Hall
Other Collections:: The PSRC

The Physics Front

pay to access?

Author: Dave Cross
Posted: May 14, 2005 at 1:11PM
Source: The Physics Front collection

Shouldn't Compadre be promoting the free distribution of information. I do not charge for the ideas and items on my site - I sure as hell have no intention of paying others for a bunch or rehashed ideas they found elsewhere.

Good luck to them in their endeavors - but, Compadre, please do not waste my time sending me to pay-2-join sites!

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Re: pay to access?

Author: swirt
Posted: Jul 26, 2005 3:57PM UTC

The Physics Zone does not charge for ideas, I charge for animations that take weeks to create and the hundreds of dollars in bandwidth costs. When you have a multimedia intensive site, bandwidth is not cheap. The Physics Zone is a very popular site and the bandwidth charges were in triple digits per month. I could no longer afford to offer free access (it was free for 7 years).

Dave makes unscientific claims here about what he thinks is in the member's side because he didn't want to pay the $5 to access the site for a year. What is actually on the members side is certainly not re-hashed from anywhere else on the web. The non-members section (free) does have work that was donated by others and is found elsewhere, but the members side does not.

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