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Welcome to the MERLOT Physics Portal, a collection of educational resources for instructors and students of physics. The collection focuses on open access and open source content that improves conceptual understanding and problem solving. You can help build the collection by joining MERLOT, submitting content, lesson plans, and activities, and volunteering to join the peer review process.
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The Editor's Choice 2014: This project provides a wide range of visual, interactive quantum mechanics tutorials. The materials cover all aspects of an upper-level quantum mechanics class, as well as advanced topics in quantum information and the foundations of quantum theory.
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Graficas de Desplazamiento
Este video es un tutorial que muestra la elaboración e interpretación de una gráfica del desplazamiento en función del...
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Eclipse Resources for the 2023-24 Eclipses of the Sun
Kick-start your planning for the upcoming eclipses in North America -- an annular eclipse on Oct. 14, 2023 and a total...
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200 Vraagstukken Fysische Transportverschijnselen | TU Delft OPEN Textbooks
Deze vraagstukkenbundel is bedoeld als oefenmateriaal bij het bestuderen van de basiscolleges Fysische...
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Fysische Transportverschijnselen: Denken in Balansen | TU Delft OPEN Textbooks
De transport- en overdrachtsprocessen van warmte, massa en impuls worden naar hun analogie behandeld. De processen worden...
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Science Fiction for Scientists
This article constitutes a brief sampler of esepcially interesting hard science fiction (meaning scientifically accurate...
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Solar Eclipses of 2023 and 2024: A North American Double Header
This 36 page booklet is written for librarians (but can be read by anyone) explaining the science and safe viewing of the...
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A Guide to Activities about Eclipses, the Moon, and the Sun
A guide to selected, free, online activities about eclipses of the Sun, and about the Sun and Moon as objects in the sky....
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Clicker questions in thermal physics
Collection of ConcepTests (i.e. "clicker questions") for a one-semester upper-level undergraduate physics course on...
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BASE ORIENTACIÓ DINÀMICA PLANS INCLINATS 1r BATX.
BASE D'ORIENTACIÓ PER FER PROBLEMES DE DINÀMICA DE PLÀ INCLINAT.
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Computational Methods
This course provides a basic understanding of computer modeling in physics. Topics include basics of python programming...
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Operadores de Densidade e a Esfera de Bloch (Revisitada)
This Learning Object belongs to the collection Álgebra Linear para Informação Quântica and addresses topics that are...
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CurvedLand: An Applet to Simulate Curved Space
CurvedLand is an applet for showing what the world would look like with different geometry. It is named CurvedLand in...
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Understanding Sound
Increasingly, colleges are offering intro courses on the science of sound. The idea is to introduce non-scientists to...
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Engineers & STEM: 5 Who gave the Eiffel Tower its name?
This video shows how an engineer named Eiffel Tower.
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Operadores de Densidade: Misturas de Qubits
This Learning Object belongs to the collection Álgebra Linear para Informação Quântica and addresses topics that are...
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Operadores de Densidade: Não-Unicidade
This Learning Object belongs to the collection Álgebra Linear para Informação Quântica and addresses topics that are...
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Operadores de Desnsidade: Introdução e Propriedades
This Learning Object belongs to the collection Álgebra Linear para Informação Quântica and addresses topics that are...
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Estados Separáveis e Emaranhados
This Learning Object belongs to the collection Álgebra Linear para Informação Quântica and addresses topics that are...
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Produto Tensorial de Espaços de Hilbert (Continuação)
This Learning Object belongs to the collection Álgebra Linear para Informação Quântica and addresses topics that are...
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Free Physics Textbooks
Free textbooks (aka open textbooks) written by knowledgable scholars are a relatively new phenomenon. Below, find a meta...
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O Produto Tensorial de Espaços de Hilbert
This Learning Object belongs to the collection Álgebra Linear para Informação Quântica and addresses topics that are...
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O Produto de Kronecker
This Learning Object belongs to the collection Álgebra Linear para Informação Quântica and addresses topics that are...
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Timothy Stiles: Personal Pages - Teaching Demonstrations
Classical Mechanics Brachistochrone Problem Introduction to Oscillatory Motion Oscillation Solution Cart on Track -...
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New Members
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MARÍA ESTHER RODRÍGUEZ RAMÍREZUniversidad de Guadalajara -
Gerard NIZEYIMANAUniversity of Rwanda, College of Education
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aditya sharmaIB,AP,CAMBRIDGE BOARD
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John ZettelUniversity of Guelph
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Natasha RabinowitzPhenix City Schools
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Amit D1to1Guru
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Mathew Chi Kit CheungBaanCrab
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Kelsey EvansUniversity of Maryland System - Baltimore
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FRANCISCO AURELIO MADUREIRA DA SILVAColégio Foco
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Octavio Cardona CaviedesUDI: Universidad de Investigación y Desarrollo
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Yinka AdesinaThe Bedford College Group
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Jin BaiUniversity of Edinburgh
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AYOUB AIT ELARABIUniversity of Debrecen
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News from the world of Education: June 7, 2023 - The Hindu
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Magnetic trap keeps a superconducting microsphere levitated and stable - Physics World
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Teaching Physics Using Virtual Reality | AIP Conference Proceedings
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#AAPTSM18 Recap #1 – “Can We Have a Group Test?”
Aug 07, 2018 02:55 PM PDTSaturday July 28 “Can We Have a Group Test?” Designing Collaborative, Active, Alternative Assessments for Physics Classes (Kelly O’Shea, Danny Doucette) On Saturday, I attended Kelly O’Shea’s and Danny Doucette’s all-day workshop on lab practicums. All of their slides and … Continue reading →
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Day 65: Hour of Physics Code
Dec 11, 2014 05:14 PM PSTOriginally posted on Noschese 180: College-Prep Physics: I’ve been coding with my AP Physics classes for years. But in honor of this week’s Hour of Code, I tried VPython programming for the first time with my College-Prep class. We used the GlowScript version…
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Day 26: What Causes Gravity?
Oct 11, 2014 07:21 AM PDTOriginally posted on Noschese 180: College-Prep Physics: Even though we now have a mathematical relationship between mass and weight, we still don’t know what causes Earth’s gravitational pull. So first, we took a short survey: Download a copy here: GRAVITY Survey 2015 Then we…
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Day 16: Relative Motion
Sep 24, 2014 01:06 PM PDTOriginally posted on Noschese 180: College-Prep Physics: This year I decided to bring relative motion into my curriculum. It’s a unit in Preconceptions in Mechanics, a book I used a lot last year for introducing different types of forces. My hope is that vector…
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Day 13: A New Approach to Colliding Buggies
Sep 19, 2014 02:50 PM PDTOriginally posted on Noschese 180: College-Prep Physics: Modeling Instruction’s standard lab practicum for the constant velocity unit is colliding buggies. Lab groups take data to determine the speed of their buggy, then the buggies are quarantined and groups are paired up. Each group…
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Flappy Bird Physics Is Real Life?
Jan 30, 2014 03:39 PM PSTIf you don’t already know, Flappy Bird is the hot new mobile game right now. The premise is simple: navigate the bird through the gaps between the green pipes. Tapping the screen gives a slight upward impulse to the bird. … Continue reading →
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What Happened When I Gave Them the Answers
Nov 19, 2013 04:11 PM PSTOriginally posted on Noschese 180: [TL;DR – Not as much as I had hoped.] College-Prep Physics: Students came to class with the following question completed for homework: You are on a sleigh ride in Central Park one brisk winter evening. The mass…
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Quizzes vs. Projects (Mass & Weight Edition)
Nov 16, 2013 07:09 PM PSTTests are evil, let them do projects. That type of rhetoric frequently appears in my Twitter stream. My gut reaction is hell yeah. But some recent quiz results have gotten me thinking …. Take for example, this learning objective: The … Continue reading →
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Edtech PR Tips
Jul 14, 2013 10:54 AM PDTI’m not a PR guy. I’m just a teacher. But they say that if you want to be a disruptor, the best experience is no experience. So here goes… 1. It’s not about the technology. It’s about what students are … Continue reading →
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Convincing Reluctant Teachers
Jul 11, 2013 09:00 PM PDTThis question was posted to Twitter today: Question: how do you convince teachers who are ADAMANT that they teach to the rigor required by CCSS that they really don’t? (CCSS means Common Core State Standards) This is a great question. … Continue reading →