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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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J. Pungia - PHY 200 - Engineering Physics I Faculty e-Portfolio for California State University, San Bernardino
This open textbook is being utilized in a Physics course for undergraduate Mechanical engineering and Engineering...
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OER-UCLouvain : Fiche pédagogique : expérience d’électrocinétique - Ampoules de puissances différentes en série
La ressource consiste en une fiche pédagogique portant sur une expérience d'électrocinétique. Celle-ci propose des...
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OER-UCLouvain : Fiche pédagogique : expérience d’électrostatique - Force de Coulomb sur une canette neutre
La ressource consiste en une fiche pédagogique portant sur une expérience d'électrostatique. Celle-ci propose des...
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OER-UCLouvain : Fiche pédagogique : expérience de mécanique des fluides - Pression à l'intérieur d'une éprouvette retournée remplie d'eau
La ressource consiste en une fiche pédagogique portant sur une expérience de mécanique des fluides. Celle-ci propose des...
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Fiche pédagogique : expérience de mécanique - Balle dans un cerceau ouvert et à plat
La ressource consiste en une fiche pédagogique portant sur une expérience de mécanique. Celle-ci propose des informations...
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OER-UCLouvain : Fiche pédagogique : expérience de thermodynamique - Une casserole en papier
La ressource consiste en une fiche pédagogique portant sur une expérience de thermodynamique. Celle-ci propose des...
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OER-UCLouvain : Fiche pédagogique : expérience d'électrocinétique - Pour comprendre les conditions d'un court circuit
La ressource consiste en une fiche pédagogique portant sur une expérience d'électrocinétique. Celle-ci propose des...
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Body Physics: Motion to Metabolism
Body Physics was designed to meet the objectives of a one-term high school or freshman level course in physical science,...
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The Adventure of Physics - Vol. VI: The Strand Model - A Speculation on Unification
This book is written for anybody who is intensely curious about nature and motion. Have you ever asked: Why do people,...
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The Adventure of Physics - Vol. V: Motion Inside Matter - Pleasure, Technology, and Stars
This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how bodies, images and empty...
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The Adventure of Physics - Vol. IV: The Quantum of Change
This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Have you ever asked: Why do people, animals,...
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The Adventure of Physics - Vol. III: Light, Charges, and Brains
This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people, animals, things,...
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The Adventure of Physics - Vol. II: Relativity
This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people, animals, things,...
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The Adventure of Physics - Vol. I: Fall, Flow, and Heat
This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people, animals, things,...
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OER-UCLouvain : Fiche pédagogique : expérience de mécanique - Chute de deux billes de masses différentes dans l'air et dans l'eau
La ressource consiste en une fiche pédagogique portant sur une expérience d'électrocinétique. Celle-ci propose des...
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OER-UCLouvain : Fiche pédagogique : expérience de mécanique des fluides - Mouvement d'un ludion commandé par une seringue
La ressource consiste en une fiche pédagogique portant sur une expérience de mécanique des fluides. Celle-ci propose des...
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Fiche pédagogique : expérience de mécanique des fluides - Fontaine d'eau créée par une différence de pression
La ressource consiste en une fiche pédagogique portant sur une expérience de mécanique des fluides. Celle-ci propose des...
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OER-UCLouvain : Fiche pédagogique : expérience de mécanique des fluides - Eau dans un tube soulevé
La ressource consiste en une fiche pédagogique portant sur une expérience de mécanique des fluides. Celle-ci propose des...
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OER-UCLouvain : Fiche pédagogique : expérience d'électrostatique - Polarisation et conservation des charges
La ressource consiste en une fiche pédagogique portant sur une expérience d'électrostatique. Celle-ci propose des...
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OER-UCLouvain : Fiche pédagogique : expérience d'électrostatique - Interactions sans contact entre deux corps chargés
La ressource consiste en une fiche pédagogique portant sur une expérience d'électrostatique. Celle-ci propose des...
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20th Century Physics
20th Century Physics: A Liberal Arts Approach is the story of the transition from classical to modern physics. Because...
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CSU Maritime PHY 120 Physics for Future Leaders Open Source Adoption
This is an Open Textbook Adoption Portrait for a conceptual physics course primarily intended for nonscientists. Topics...
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Fiche pédagogique : expérience d'électrostatique- Conservation de la charge
La ressource consiste en une fiche pédagogique portant sur une expérience d'électrostatique. Celle-ci propose des...
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OER-UCLouvain : Fiche pédagogique : expérience de mécanique - Mouvement de projection
La ressource consiste en une fiche pédagogique portant sur une expérience de mécanique. Celle-ci propose des informations...
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Serena Mershon-LohkampGogebic Community/Technical College -
Nathan MooreWinona State University
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Laura ErnstPerryville High School
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Dhaval SutharGardi college
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Cynthia TrevisanCalifornia Maritime Academy
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Cinnamon FrameResearch Triangle High School, Opportunity Learning
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Donna HensonWest Vigo Middle School
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Beta KeramatiUniversity of Pittsburgh - Johnstown
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Materials by Discipline
- Classical Mechanics (347)
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Physics on the Web
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Indonesian students win silver, bronze in International Physics Olympiad in Israel
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Fernando Corbató, scientist who fostered digital revolution and computer password, dies at 93
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Hong Kong team grabs 5 silver medals at Physics Olympiad
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Israeli education minister Rafi Peretz skips handshake with teenage girl
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UNM leading the country in quantum science education
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Romanian students score top results at international science competitions
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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
- When a movie character uses the word quantum: https://t.co/dF0A9e42B2, photo: pic.twitter.com/dF0A9e42B215 hours ago | PhysicsCentral
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#OER #FoundInMERLOT #FireSafety https://t.co/UTL4oE7CZN, photo: pic.twitter.com/UTL4oE7CZN19 hours ago | MERLOTorg
- RT @NASA: At 9:32am ET, the #Apollo11 launch occurred sending three astronauts on a trajectory to the Moon. As we celebrate our #Apollo50th…21 hours ago | AAPTHQ
- Einstein's theory of relativity may seem really complicated, but it actually simplified the way we mathematically d… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | PhysicsCentral
- https://t.co/rindCYXyRw, photo: pic.twitter.com/rindCYXyRw1 day ago | PhysicsCentral
- NASA will make their media library publicly accessible and copyright free! buff.ly/2OsV2hf1 day ago | MERLOTorg
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Thanks to all those that joined us in celebrating #lgbtstemday e… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | PhysicsCentral
- Oregon's estimated 2017-19 Student Savings in No-Cost/Low-Cost Courses buff.ly/2LdCgZe1 day ago | MERLOTorg
- RT @APSphysics: Breaking News: Mathematician Alan Turing has been selected from a list of almost 1,000 scientists to appear on the new £50…1 day ago | PhysicsCentral
- Dark matter is one of the most frustratingly difficult mysteries of the universe. A new theory, one that eliminates… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | PhysicsCentral