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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench Showcase: Physics, Quantum Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of simulations to show the important topics of quantum physics.
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Quantum Mysteries: Deepening Quantum Mysteries

For Students 9th - 10th
Although it is arguably the most successful theory in physics, quantum physics has often baffled and confounded both its practitioners and the general public. This informative website discusses the types of mysteries, which still plague...
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University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: The Quantum Age Begins

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of St. Andrews page provides an interesting discussion of the beginning of the age of quantum physics. (Quantum physics/mechanics is thought to govern the energy levels of electrons in atoms.) There is a references link...
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Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a modern physics course that focuses on quantum mechanics. The course is taught at Stanford University. The course includes ten lectures that vary in length.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Quantum Tunneling and Wave Packets

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch quantum "particles" tunnel through barriers. Explore the properties of the wave functions that describe these particles.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Physics: Definitions and Applications

For Students 10th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to describe the definition, aims, and branches of physics; describe and distinguish classical physics from modern physics and describe the importance of relativity, quantum mechanics, and...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Physics 2000: Elements as Atoms: Quantum Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th
Each electron has a set of quantum numbers that specify it's location, orbital, and energy in a unique manner.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Physics: Early Unification for Electromagnetism

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the connection between electricity and magnetism and the early work of Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell. Electromagnetic interactions were first described by Maxwell. Continues on with a discussion of quantum physics and...
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Atomic Physic at Lund University

For Students 9th - 10th
Lund University's on atomic physics. The site is quite comprehensive with information on projects, research, publications, reports, external sites, etc.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Physics: An Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive lesson introduces students to the branch of science known as physics.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What in the World Is Topological Quantum Matter?

For Students 9th - 10th
David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016 for discovering that even microscopic matter at the smallest scale can exhibit macroscopic properties and phases that are topological. Find out...
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Particles, Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics

For Students 9th - 10th
Quantum physics, despite its inherent weirdness, is thus far the best model physicists have for explaining the universe. This site gives a great overview of the principles of quantum mechanics and gives scenarios to help the reader...
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Other

Topological Quantum Field Theory Club: Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit the Topological Quantum Field Theory club's website. Find out about their organization and visit links to club events and other related topics.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive tutorial students explore special relativity and quantum mechanics. Learn basic tenets of the theory of special relativity and the relationship between mass and energy. Also discover the evidence for the particle...
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American Institute of Physics: Werner Heisenberg and the Uncertainty Principle

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource is an online exhibit covering Heisenberg's physics, career, personal, and political life.
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Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
The FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) is one of the five national research institutes of the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM). The research at AMOLF is focused on selected areas of atomic,...
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Ippog: Hands on Particle Physics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Looking for more insight into particle physics? Search among several general particle physics resources. Or locate a specific particle physics institute in your area of the world.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Quantum Mechanical Model of the Atom

For Students 9th - 10th
Introduction to the quantum mechanical model of the atom: Thinking about electrons as probabilistic matter waves using the de Broglie wavelength, the Schrodinger equation, and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Electron spin and the...
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Quantum Numbers, Hydrogen Atom

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial contains links to explanations of the four different quantum numbers (principal, orbital, magnetic, and spin). Equations for each are provided.
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1918: Max Planck

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to learn about the scientific work of physicist, Max Planck (1858-1947 CE), whose studies in radiation and light earned him the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics. Read his Nobel Lecture, "The genesis and present state of...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Optical Quantum Control

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore an active area of research in optical physics: producing designer pulse shapes to achieve specific purposes, such as breaking apart a molecule.
Primary
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Nobel Prize in Physics 1922 Presentation Speech

For Students 9th - 10th
This Nobel Foundation site provides the "Presentation Speech by Professor S.A. Arrhenius, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on December 10, 1922."
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Science Struck

Science Struck: A Comprehensive List of All the Physics Formulas

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a long list of physics formulas for easy reference.
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957 Presentation Speech: Yang

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nobel Foundation provides a fascinating speech by O.B. Klein of the Physics Committee. Elegant, erudite, and fully explanatory of the work of Lee and Yang. His description of a physicist on another planet is very insightful. This is...

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