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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.
New Materials
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Learning Circuits - Learn about electricity for free
Learning Circuits is a free web resource to learn about the basics of electricity and circuits. Designed for children...
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MEDIDAS DIRECTAS E INDIRECTAS. INCERTIDUMBRES
Se indica cómo calcular las incertidumbres de medidas directas e indirectas
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Mirando la Piedra Celta
La Piedra Celta o Rattleback es un sólido que cuando se le hace girar como peonza exhibe un comportamiento sorprendente....
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Detección de bordes
El objeto muestra la aplicación de distintas técnicas de detección de bordes a imágenes médicas.
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Cálculo del flujo de un campo vectorial
OBJETO DE APRENDIZAJE EN EL QUE SE EXPLICA EL PROCEDIMIENTO PARA CALCULAR EL FLUJO DE UN CAMPO VECTORIAL A TRAVÉS DE UNA...
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Teorema de Gauss
Deducción del teorema de Gauss a partir de la ley de Coulomb. Deducción de la ley de Coulomb a partir del teorema de...
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Integral curvilinea de un campo vectorial
Integral curvilínea de un campo vectorial. Propiedades. Casos particulares.
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Visualizador de campos electrostáticos
Este applet permite que el usuario sitúe cargas eléctricas positivas y negativas, tanto de forma libre como seleccionando...
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Generacion de colores: sintesis aditiva
El color de las imagenes que muestran las pantallas de los dispositivos electronicos se obtiene mezclando pixeles de los...
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Visualizador del gradiente y la derivada direccional en un campo escalar bidimensional
Este applet permite que el usuario seleccione un campo escalar bidimensional entre varias familias disponibles, y...
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Visualizador de movimientos bidimensionales
Este applet permite que el usuario introduzca las expresiones x(t) e y(t) de un punto móvil, o seleccione un tipo de...
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Visualizador de ondas electromagnéticas
Este applet permite que el usuario seleccione diversos tipos de ondas electromagnéticas (polarizada lineal o...
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Visualizador de ondas unidimensionales
Este applet permite que el usuario seleccione diversos tipos de ondas unidimensionales(longitudinal, transversal, mixta,...
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Visualizador de oscilaciones
Este applet permite que el usuario seleccione los parámetros característicos de un sistema oscilante (masa, constante...
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Potencial electrico creado por un anillo cargado uniformemente
Variación del potencial eléctrico creado por un anillo cargado uniformemente en función de la distacia al centro del...
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Momento de fuerzas que ejerce un campo magnetico sobre una espira de corriente
Calculo del momento de fuerzas que ejerce un campo magnetico sobre una espira de corriente
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Campo electrico creado por un disco cargado uniformemente
Variación del campo eléctrico creado por un disco cargado uniformemente en función de la distacia al centro del mismo
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Campo eléctrico creado por un cilindro sólido de carga infinitamente largo
Variación del campo eléctrico creado por un cilindro solido de carga infinitamente largo en función de la distacia al...
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Campo eléctrico creado por una esfera sólida uniformemente cargada
Variación del campo eléctrico creado por una esfera solida uniformemente cargada en función de la distacia al centro de...
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Energía potencial y cinética en función del tiempo
Estudiar como varía la energía cinética y la potencial de un objeto describiendo un movimiento armónico simple (MAS) en...
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Compresión de imágenes mediante la descomposición en valores singulares
En la imagen digital, la intensidad de cada pixel se almacena en una matriz. Mediante la descomposicion en valores...
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Campo magnético creado por un conductor largo rectilíneo
Variación del campo magnetico creado por un conductor largo rectilineo en función de la distacia al mismo
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Campo magnético creado por una espira de corriente
Variación del campo magnetico creado por una espira de corriente en función de la distacia a la misma
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Posición, velocidad y aceleración en un movimiento rectilíneo uniformemente acelerado (MRUA)
Estudiar como varía la posición, la velocidad y la aceleración en función del tiempo para un movimiento rectilíneo...
New Members
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Noreen TullySt. Andrew's School -
Claudio EgalonCalifornia State University, Dominguez Hills
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Matt JennerNone
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steve holyoakerossmoyne shs
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Lauren WoolseyGrand Rapids Community/Technical College
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Linda Gatti-ClarkArkansas State University - Beebe (2 - year campus)
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Jennifer GavinCalifornia State Polytechnic University, Pomona
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Igor TyukhovSan Jose State University
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Scott SeversonSonoma State University
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Xueli ZouCalifornia State University, Chico
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Josefa Guerrero MillanAugusta State University
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Alfio RussoPrincipe Umberto di Savoia Catania
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naim ayalaNone
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Miloudi KASMIChakib ARSALANE College
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David LiaoNone
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Niravkumar JoshiUniversity of Sao Paulo
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Petar PervanInstitute of Physics
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Scott PillsburySkowhegan Area High School
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Serena Mershon-LohkampGogebic Community/Technical College
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Nathan MooreWinona State University
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Laura ErnstPerryville High School
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christoffer andersennyborg gym
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Dhaval SutharGardi college
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Cynthia TrevisanCalifornia Maritime Academy
Materials by Discipline
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Physics on the Web
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Dominican students will participate in the World Robotics Competition in Dubai
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Number 1, January 2020
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Physics Education, Volume 55, 2020
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Enlightening young minds: ISU reaches out to local youth at Children's Discovery Museum
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Assistant Clinical Professor
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Education experts offer insiders' look at needs, concerns, values
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National Hispanic science and engineering organization honors two Sandia researchers
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Educational verve: New approaches to teaching revolutionize classroom
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Spring 2020 American Physical Society Prizes and Awards Announced
Oct 22, 2019 06:30 AM PDT
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Contrasting LAIX (NYSE:LAIX) and TAL Education Group (NYSE:TAL)
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The Education Revolution
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Airman for Life
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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
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