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Welcome – From the Editor
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.
New Materials
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Modern Physics with Numerical Methods
This is an open-source, modern physics textbook typically for the third semester students majoring in engineering,...
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Classical Mechanics with Numerical Methods
A book on introductory mechanics and numerical methods for lower-division undergraduate students in engineering or...
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A Esfera de Bloch - Parte 1
This Learning Object belongs to the collection Álgebra Linear para Informação Quântica and addresses topics that are...
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O que é um Qubit?
This Learning Object belongs to the collection Álgebra Linear para Informação Quântica and addresses topics that are...
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A Notação de Dirac - Parte 2
This Learning Object belongs to the collection Álgebra Linear para Informação Quântica and addresses topics that are...
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A Notação de Dirac - Parte 1
This Learning Object belongs to the collection Álgebra Linear para Informação Quântica and addresses topics that are...
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Espaços de Hilbert
This Learning Object belongs to the collection Álgebra Linear para Informação Quântica and addresses topics that are...
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Base Ortonormal
This Learning Object belongs to the collection Álgebra Linear para Informação Quântica and addresses topics that are...
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Produto Interno
This Learning Object belongs to the collection Álgebra Linear para Informação Quântica and addresses topics that are...
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Espaços Vetoriais
This Learning Object belongs to the collection Álgebra Linear para Informação Quântica and addresses topics that are...
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Álgebra Linear para Informação Quântica: Introdução
This Learning Object belongs to the collection Álgebra Linear para Informação Quântica and addresses topics that are...
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Álgebra Linear para Informação Quântica
Álgbra Linear para Informação Quântica is a collection of Learning Objects (LOs) that address topics in Linear Algebra...
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Online Resources for Science Laboratories (POD) - Remote Teaching
Online Resources for Science Laboratories (POD) - Remote Teaching. This is a live document. For many subjects and...
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Open Scholarship Knowledge Base
The Open Scholarship Knowledge Base contains resources created, curated, and contributed by the Open Scholarship...
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Open at the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education
Open At The Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education is a pertinent book on Open Education, "containing 38...
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Balloons and Static Electricity
Grab a balloon to explore concepts of static electricity such as charge transfer, attraction, repulsion, and induced...
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Graphing with Excel
Basic step-by-step instructions for using Microsoft Excel to produce charts, specifically XY Scatter charts. Includes...
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Força Eletromotriz de Movimento
This is a hypermedia learning object on general topics in Physics – Electricity and Magnetism. It belongs to the...
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Lei de Faraday
This is a hypermedia learning object on general topics in Physics – Electricity and Magnetism. It belongs to the...
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Circuitos LC
This is a hypermedia learning object on general topics in Physics – Electricity and Magnetism. It belongs to the...
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Torque na Espira
This is a hypermedia learning object on general topics in Physics – Electricity and Magnetism. It belongs to the...
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Linhas de Campo Magnético
This is a hypermedia learning object on general topics in Physics – Electricity and Magnetism. It belongs to the...
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Lei de Ampère
This is a hypermedia learning object on general topics in Physics – Electricity and Magnetism. It belongs to the...
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Open Research Library: Open Access Books
The Open Research Library (ORL) will eventually contain a scholarly collection of 20,000+ Open Access books available to...
New Members
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Indika WalimuniCity College of San Francisco
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mythili subramanianHumber College
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Leon WaxerUniversity of Rochester
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Jessica DandoCharlotte County Public Schools
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María AldanaProfessor
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Ernesto RodriguezNone
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Joanna BurgonEnglish Schools Foundation
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Michael ShapiroNew Hyde Park Memorial HS
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ZAHID DURRANIDAR ENGG (ENGG CONSULTANT)
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Carolyn CaudleTennessee State University
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Ralph MarshallDesert Christian High School
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Raj Kumar SinghRU Ranchi
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DEEPA DESHPANDELD-Analytica LLC
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Lisa BraysenUniversity of Houston System - Downtown
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Keerthika BPSG COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
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Henrik MaulaUniversity of Turku
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Physics on the Web
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Jan 21, 2021 07:10 PM PST
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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 →
Physics on Twitter
- RT @tarapatton: Students working together to create working circuits! There was so much collaboration and participation today during our sm…4 hours ago | PhETsims
- RT @SchrodingersTe1: @ChatPhysics @PhETsims Next lesson will include a demo of short circuits and fuses 😆 https://t.co/WvFB9VpTbD, photo: pic.twitter.com/WvFB9VpTbD4 hours ago | PhETsims
- Hearing LOTS about our super popular Circuit Construction Kit today, and YES we will soon have an option for a non-… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…6 hours ago | PhETsims
- RT @nataerosmith: I remotely taught a year 7 class for a colleague today, what a joy! The excited chat messages and the constant screenshot…6 hours ago | PhETsims
- RT @cossettej: @ChatPhysics For a lab with the @PhETsims circuit construction kit, I just make screenshots with some of the values obscured…6 hours ago | PhETsims
- RT @SchrodingersTe1: @ChatPhysics Today I showed my Y10 how to use the @PhETsims dc circuits simulation. They uploaded screenshots of their…6 hours ago | PhETsims
- RT @RGILL_Teach: @ChatPhysics @PhETsims Because PHETSims is ya boyy! Love ALL their Sims.6 hours ago | PhETsims
- RT @cossettej: @Newmanphysics @Ms_D_Sci @ChatPhysics @PhETsims Just trying to help out where I can 😊
Here's a link to that emf/internal re…6 hours ago | PhETsims
- This book presents clear and detailed solutions to all problems from the annual F=ma contest hosted by the American… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…8 hours ago | AAPTHQ