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The Nobel Prize: Press Release: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 with one-half to David J. Thouless of University of Washington and the other half to both F. Duncan M. Haldane of Princeton University and J....
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Open Curriculum: Matter as a Wave
This article helps illustrate the behavior of electrons as waves and the uncertainty principle.
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Open Curriculum: Simplifying the Energy Zoo
Physics students find out how to effectively define and clarify kinetic and potential energy.
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Open Curriculum: Velocity and Relative Motion
An illustrated article helps physics students learn about center of mass and velocity, and define the concept of inertia.
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Open Curriculum: Rules of Randomness
Discuss methods of working with probabilities and quantum physics in this article.
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Open Curriculum: The Ray Model of Light
Students will understand the concept of the ray model of light and how light interacts with matter and reflections.
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Open Curriculum: Analysis of Forces
This study information helps students apply Newton's third law and understand forces.
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Open Curriculum: Capacitance and Inductance
Students learn about capacitors and inductors and their role in electrical circuits.
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Open Curriculum: Conservation of Angular Momentum
Students learn the concept of angular momentum of objects in two dimensions and how rotational motion is determined.
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Open Curriculum: Conservation of Energy
This Kahn Academy tutorial helps students understand the principles of conservation of energy and mass. [10 min, 6 sec]
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Open Curriculum: Conservation of Momentum
This article helps students understand and apply Newton's third law and the conservation of momentum.
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Open Curriculum: Electricity and Circuits
This article helps students understand the concepts of electricity and circuits.
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Open Curriculum: Electromagnetism
This article helps explain the concept of electromagnetism as well as magnetic fields and the properties of the speed of light.
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Open Curriculum: Force and Motion
This article helps students learn about Newton's laws of motion and the properties of force.
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Open Curriculum: Free Waves
With this article, students can learn about and understand the concept of wave motion.
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Open Curriculum: General Relativity
Read this article to help understand and describe Einstein's general theory of relativity.
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Open Curriculum: Gravity
This article helps students understand and apply the concept of gravity and Newton's Laws.
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Open Curriculum: Images, Quantitatively
This article helps students quantitatively describe the changes in images on mirrors or other surfaces.
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Open Curriculum: Light as a Particle
Students learn about the properties of light as a photon and the wave-particle duality.
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Open Curriculum: Newton's Laws in Three Dimensions
Students can use this article to learn about forces and motions in three dimensions.
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Open Curriculum: The Atom
Learn about atoms and their properties of motion with this illustrated article.
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Open Curriculum: The Nonmechanical Universe
Students learn about the fields of force and gravity in this illustrated article.
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Open Curriculum: Thermodynamics
Students learn about the conservation of energy, aspects that affect energy in a system such as pressure and temperature, and to gain a better understanding of concepts such as entropy.
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Open Curriculum: Vectors
Master the use of vectors and vector notation for three dimensional analysis.