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A blogspot by a theoretical physicist
A blogspot on science and other matters by Sabine Hossenfelder, Assistant professor of High Energy and Nuclear Physics. The page of this link is on Women and Physics.
A comprehensive resource for the NSW physics course
Ancient Chiribaya Mummies: Archaeologists use x-rays and an endoscope to investigate the mummies to learn more about the culture.
A comprehensive site prepared for NASA
Excellent ball dropped from moving horse sequence…(late in program ~ 1h35m)
A Hungarian Nuclear energy site
A multimedia website designed to engage young people. The website follows a young physicist as she learns how to break through three planks of wood. She keeps a lab book of her thoughts and experiments. The website also includes videos of the techniques, discusses the physics principles involved and shows her calculating the energy required and working out whether she can break the wood, given her size and the speed of her arm.
A range of effective applets on navigation
Interactive Applets for Video: Galileo-Battle for the heavens.
A virtual tour of nuclear power plants around the world.
A great location for an excursion is to Scienceworks, Museum of Victoria, Spotswood. Permanent displays: “Sportsworks†and “The Lightning Room†as well as Planetarium presentations.
American Institute of Physics: Women in Physics
Reports of successive International Studies of Women in Physics. More than 1350 women physicists from more than 70 countries answered a survey conducted in connection with the IUPAP International Conferences of Women in Physics. The report covers women physicists’ experiences in education and careers. Comparisons are made between women from developed and developing countries
An Intervention Study to Enhance Girls’ Interest, Self-Concept, and Achievement in Physics Classes
An article by Peter Haussler, Lore Hoffmann from the Leibniz-Institute for Science Education in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching in 2002.
An Introduction to Diagnostic Ultrasound
“Do we need Nuclear Power?â€The website of the UK Institute of Physics features an extensive discussion between a physicist and an economist on this question.
Another interference applet
A description of how the linac works including the electron gun and the buncher.
ANSTO - Nuclear Science in Society
Vision of the Hammer and Feather Experiment performed by Dave Scott, Joe Allen and Jim Irwin on Apollo moon mission.
Applet on Franck Hertz Experiment
Based at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre (SLAC), the SSRL website is well designed and comprehensive n content.
Applet on Interference
How stuff Works: Klystrons & the 'buncher'
Applets from Demos and Animations for Teaching Astronomy
University of Melbourne, a School of Physics website providing authoritative information about Nuclear Power.
Archaeologists use x-rays and an endoscope to investigate mummies
A University of Melbourne, a School of Physics website, that provides authoritative information about Nuclear Power.
Astronomy in the deep freeze
Up to date pics of great things eg the most distant objects etc.
Australian Photonics Institute
This Hitachi website describes the experiment ofelectrons passing through a double slit, one at a time, yet still producing an interference pattern. It includes a video (about 3.5MB, 68 sec long) of the screen with electrons slowly accummulating to build the pattern. There is explanatory text on the bottom as well.
Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)
Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) website contains information on disposal of waste, Chernobyl and Australia’s replacement reactor.
Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)
A page on nuclear accidents on a Hungarian Nuclear energy site, mostly in English.
Australian Synchrotron Project email
A Photonics kit is available from Ciderhouse.
“Do we need Nuclear Power?â€
A Hungarian Nuclear energy site, mostly in English.
Black body radiation applet
Available free online.
Chladni Plate
Over 130 pages of material under the headings 'What is synchrotron?', 'Experimental Beamlines', 'Research Applications', 'When Light interacts with Matter', 'Lessons' and 'Student Pages' with several items for each heading, each of which can be accessed separately.
Code of Practice for the Safe Use of Lasers in secondary schools (1995).
A four minute video on Youtube with occasional commentary.
Colorado Modern Physics
Cornell's Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics uses a synchrotron to study nature's fundamental particles and the laws that govern them. Check 'Education' section then go down to the section for 'Educators'.
Contemporary Physics Education Project
The web site Semiconductor Educational applets has an extensive range of applets covering many aspects of photonics. The applets have a tertiary emphasis but the basic ones are instructive and and they are all professional constructed.
Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
The website has information on 83 female physicists, who are grouped by research interest. Each person has a page about their contributions, publications, honours, positions and comments.
Cornell University: Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics
Excursion to Alfred Brash Sound House, Victorian Arts Centre, St Kilda Road, Melbourne 3000.
CSIROSEC
The Australian Academy of Science runs the website Nova: Science in The News. For each news item they provide "key text", "Glossary", "Activities", "Further reading" and "Useful Sites". There is a news item on the Synchrotron, posted in November 2002.
Decibels
How stuff Works video. Philips Helps Children Take CAT Scans. CAT Scans provoke anxiety in patients, but Philips has designed a new technology to help ease that anxiety. (2.5 min)
Destiny - The Sun's Fate
The ABC Science site,The Lab, is a rich resource for science teachers and students, with new material being added almost every day.
Dr Peter Hammond of the University of Western Australia
This is an interactive and educational web site about sound. Covering everything from the most basic concepts of what sound actually is to the specifics of how humans perceive it, the Soundry aims to promote enthusiasm and knowledge of sound. The site was created by US high school students as a ThinkQuest contest entry.
Duplicate of Decibels
A very comprehensive web resource on relativity is Relativity on the World Wide Web. It lists popular science sites (without the maths), visualisation sites, web tutorials, observational and experimental evidence, discussion of scientifically inaccurate claims and formal coursework at undergraduate and graduate level.
Duplicate of Nuclearinfo.net
Click on Kiran Sachdev, the winner, and also Alan Boyle and Clay Frost.
Duplicate of Nuclearinfo.net
The Moving Man: Using a mouse, the student drags a stick figure back and forth across the top of the screen between its home and its school. Below, graphs of the motion appear as the motion progresses. Detailed instructions.
Effect of baffle board
A University of Melbourne, a School of Physics website, that provides authoritative information about Nuclear Power.
Einstein Light by Uni of NSW
Their website also features an extensive set of resources available in pdf form. There are 11 files of explanatory notes, 6 files of activities, a file of video and multimedia resources and a file of useful websites.
Encouraging Girls in Math and Science: A Practice Guide
A 2007 report by the US Institute of Education Sciences in the National Centre for Education Research. 55 page pdf file.
Engaging with Girls - An Action Pack
This Action Pack is part of the IOP initiative 'Girls in Physics'. It includes a practical guide to developing and embedding good classroom practice (3MB, pdf file) nd a pack of additional resources (316kB, pdf file).
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory: Education
The page opens with a very effective animation showing the phase change at an open end from a pressure point of view.
forces
Includes good downloadable exercises
GEMS Club
Girls Excelling in Maths and Science (GEMS) clubs are a US initiative for upper primary age students. The activities page included activities for Physics as well as Engineering, Chemistry, Biology, Maths and Computing.
George gamow's Mr Tompkins in Wonderland
The Australian Synchrotron has a well resourced website that contains within its links all that teachers and students will need to know about the Synchrotron. When this site comes up one of the options displayed is a "Discussion Forum" which offers sections for everyone from the general public to physics teachers to research scientists specialising in a particular use of synchrotron radiation. You are welcome to join any of these sections and see what is being discussed.
Girls and physics: teaching and learning strategies tested by classroom interventions in grade 11
An article by Peter Labudde et al published in the International Journal of Science Education in 2001. It can be fully downloaded at no cost. " ..various strategies are developed and empirically tested for an approach to physics instruction that should improve girls' and boys' attitudes toward and achievements in physics. Strategies include opportunities to integrate different pre-existing knowledge and the variation of teaching methods to enhance co-operation and communication in the classroom. ... The focus (is) on some of the applied strategies. Implications for the teaching and learning of physics and for teacher education are discussed."
Girls and the Physical Sciences
A report of a Symposium held at the Wright Center for Science Education at Tufts University in 1993. There is a link to a 24 page 9MB pdf file.
Girls in Physics: A teacher shows how
In this video, a UK physics teacher, Barry Berndes demonstrates how he keeps his female students motivated and engaged by following the five golden rules for Girls in Physics. Also available is a Word document from the video.
Girls in Physics: An IOP Initiative
This is the opening page to the initiative by the Institute of Physics in the UK. There is a short explanatory introduction and links to a review of research, an action plan for teachers, videos and a briefing on action research. These aspects are also individually linked elsewhere on this page.
Girls in Physics: IOP videos
The 'Girls in Physics', an IOP initiative, has produced two videos, each about 15 minutes: 'Saving Nellie', is a scripted drama that shows two teachers struggling to change their teaching to “save” their student Nellie’s interest in physics. 'Key Stage 3/4 Science: Girls in Physics' is a documentary that was produced by Teacher’s TV and features a real lesson showing how a teacher attempts to ensure that girls are engaged in the lesson. The videos can be viewed from the website or downloaded with iTunes.
Girls in the Physics Classroom
An Institute of Physics (IOP) Report: A review of the research on the participation of girls in Physics. It is a 66 page pdf file.
harness
Another extensive list of links on road safety.
Heavens Above website
Very nice links with text and photos of real things. I like this one very much.
How stuff Works
Detailed instructions.
HR diagram applet
ATSB is the government body responsible for transport safety, it covers aviation, maritime and rail safety. Road safety is now in a separate department. See Raod safety link.
Hubble Telescope website No 1
Infra red astro in the Antarctic. Astro in different parts of the spectrum.
Hubble Telescope website No 2
An encyclopedia of physics including a section on Astro and relativity. Very useable, simple and complete.
Hubble Telescope website No 3
An Introduction to Diagnostic Ultrasound available for rental or purchase from Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine
Images: Women at Work
Seven photos of women in high tech laboratories at FermiLab with text descriptions.
Info on Radiocarbon Dating
Website for students and teachers.
Interactive Applets
A file of speed records compiled by the International Human Powered Vehicle Association (IHPVA)covering all manner of configurations on land,on and under water and in air.
Is the physics classroom any place for girls? The gender imbalance in physics education: How it came about and what teachers can do about it
A comprehensive document by Dean Baird (B Sci Ed, The University of Michigan) written in 1986.
Life history of a star
Very pretty, very sensible, very well organised.
Linac design & operation
Uses "P" for Power and 'p" for pressure, but not "I" for intensity so it could be confusing for some students, nevertheless a very thorough website. It also introduces "sones".
Longitudinal wave applet
A multimedia website designed to engage young people. The website follows a young physicist as she learns how to break through three planks of wood. She keeps a lab book of her thoughts and experiments. The website also includes videos of the techniques, discusses the physics principles involved and shows her calculating the energy required and working out whether she can break the wood, given her size and the speed of her arm.
Meltdown at Three Mile Island
Contains information about the meltdown at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, including a timeline and facts on key people and events, plus a teacher's guide. Also outlines the episode of the PBS series "The American Experience" relating to the Three Mile Island accident.
Microphone handbook No 1
This video is on HowStuffWorks. New Technology Could Mean Fewer Breast Biopsies A revolutionary new imaging technology is expected to help physicians better classify breast lesions and thus reduce the need for biopsies. Learn how Siemens' new technology means fewer breast biopsies in this video from Siemens. (2 min)
Microphone handbook No 2
How Stuff Works video. Ultrasound in Your Pocket. The world's smallest and first true pocket-ultrasound system. Doctors are calling this the "visual stethoscope" because it delivers images of the heart and other critical areas in seconds, which could make a huge impact in an emergency. (1.4 min)
New Technology Could Mean Fewer Breast Biopsies
A description of the microwave system in a synchrotron including the klystron, wave guides and RF cavities.
Nova: Science in The News
An ARPANSA pdf file of 48 pages covering classification of laser devices, rstrictions on equipment used, Hazards in the use of lasers, General administrative requirements, General working rules, Class 1 lasers: Requirements for operation, Class 2 and 3A lasers: Requirements for safe operation, Optical fibres: Requirements for safe operation, Glossary and Appendices.
Nuclear Accidents
A sophisticated applet simulating traffic through a series of controlled intersections. You can set the period of each colour of the traffic lights, the delay time between the lights at adjacent intersections as well as the maximum speed and acceleration of the cars.
Nuclear Physics: Past, Present and Future
The Astronomical Society of Victoria is based in Melbourne, Australia and includes city and many country members. The Society attracts people with astronomical interests, from a wide range of ages and with a wide range of abilities and interests.
Nuclearinfo.net
At Strathmore Secondary College offers programs for VCE Physics students.
On-line course in first year Astro
Contains information of Radiation Basics and fact sheets on Radiation and Health, as well as technical reports.
Orbiting binary stars applet
Suggested excursion destination.
PET Scan Imaging
First 8 pages only.
Philips Helps Children Take CAT Scans
Seeing Relativity: a multimedia relativistic visualisation work called “Through Einstein’s Eyesâ€, and an interactive relativistic visualisation program called “Real Time Relativityâ€.
Physics - Girls Speak Out
A short video from teachers.tv in the UK. Three young women go back to school to find out what turns girls away from physics, asking what can be done to improve the situation.
Physics Education technology (PhET)
A link to their resources and programs.
Pirelli Relativity Multimedia Award
Another interference applet allowing variation of wavelength, slit spacing and distance to screen.
Pregnancy Ultrasound digital images
Uses "P" for Power and 'p" for pressure, but not "I" for intensity so it could be confusing for some students, nevertheless a very thorough website. It also introduces "sones".
Road Safety
The government's department concerned with road safety. Its road safety activities include undertaking research projects to improve national road safety, research and statistical analysis, coordination of the National Road Safety Strategy and Action Plan, and publication of road fatality statistics.
Road safety: Contolling speed
The Public Broadcasting System (PBS)(US)website is an accessible, but comprehensive description of passive safety strategies. It includes a Teacher guide.
Ruben's Tube
Our sun is a medium-sized star. Eventually, the supply of hydrogen fuel will run down and the star will die. In the process of dying, the sun will go through stages, including becoming a red giant, core fusion and status as a white dwarf (2:15 min)
Science Education And Young People’s Identity Construction - Two Mutually Incompatible Projects?
A paper by Camilla Schreiner and Svein Sjoberg. This article is based on the view that teaching must build on an understanding of students’ values, cultures, priorities and concerns. Rather than discussing how value issues can be addressed in science lessons, they aim at describing aspects of the spirit of our time, and how these might influence young people’s ways of seeing and valuing their science lessons and the role of science and technology (S&T) in society.
Seeing Relativity: a multimedia relativistic visualisation work
An impressive set of visualisation tools by Antony Searle of ANU
Semiconductor Educational applets
An effective demo, once seen is easily copied at school.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
The UK website produced by the IOP Teaching Medical Physics has an extensive range of downloadable resources including PowerPoints on The EM Spectrum, Radioactivity and Ultrasound, Additional images, Teaching notes with Worksheets in Word or pdf, A textbook of 24 pages in either A5 or A4 size and in Word or pdf format, and also posters. The material is written for the GCSE, so it is more basic than Unit 1, but it is very valuable introductory material.
Speed records
A study by the University of Adelaide, it contains: A literature review, An examination of general crash data, A detailed examination of fatal car crashes and At scene investigation of road crashes .
Spitzer's Spin on Stars
The American Association of Physics Teachers has a very comprehensive site called Physical Science Resources Centre.
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
12 pages of text on different types of microphones.
Stellar Evolution applet
Shows in real time the location of all satellites in 3D, useful for showing geostationary satellites.
Street Mozart
Spitzer's Spin on Stars. Watch this NASA video explaining the similarities between spinning stars and spinning skaters. The stars with dust clouds spin slower - similar to a skater with extended arms. Video courtesy of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (2.5 min)
Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse
Like other stars of its type, our Sun will eventually become a planet-engulfing red giant (2 min video)
Teaching Medical Physics
A Science resources for students and teachers in Years 7 to 10. The Resources pages in teh Teacher s section has an extensive list of websites: pro, anti and UN based.
TechnoGirl
A cartoon strip about a girl who does work experience at an engineering dept at a university. An ABC initiative. Reasonably engaging without being too preachy.
Test your own hearing
This video about diagnostic imaging is on HowStuffWorks. Positron Emission Topography (PET) scans provide doctors with detailed imaging of a patient's ailments. Most of the video is an interview from a Business TV channel. (13 min)
Testing Beethoven's hair
A Shure website with files on an audio guide for music educator that covers everything from recording to live sound reinforcement and will help you choose equipment for a variety of applications;A music studio guide that describes particular microphone techniques and placement, it also includes tips on how to pick up a natural tonal balance, help reject unwanted sounds, and create special effects;W hat happens when a high impedance microphone is connected to a low impedance input?"; Common questions regarding microphone sensitivity ratings and dB SPL input levels; Shure is often asked "How far away will my microphone pick up?" or "Which microphone has the best reach?" Both questions are based on a misunderstanding of how microphones work. This bulletin attempts to debunk the myth of microphone reach;
The Australian Synchrotron web site resources
Dr Peter Hammond of the University of Western australia has a website of useful images and animations.
The Cultural Production of Science in Reform-based Physics: Girls’ Access, Participation, and Resistance
An article by Heidi B. Carlone from the School of Education, The University of North Carolina. It was published in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching in 2004. Abstract: Recent literature in science education suggests that, to transform girls’ participation, learning, and identities within school science, we must think about ways to engage girls in different kinds of educational activities that promote broader meanings of science and scientist. This study was designed to examine more deeply this call for a changed science curriculum and its implications for girls’ participation, interest, and emerging science identities.
The joy of Physics - A Tour of Australia through the eyes of a female physicist
A report by Prof Tanya Monro of her year as the AIP Women in Physics Lecturer in 2007.
The LHC runs on woman power
An extended article from the CERN Courier of April, 2008.
The Light Guide
Standing wave of flaming gas jets, some play music through the tube as well, but in such cases the flames are just a visual volume indicator. None of the videos show the pressure antinodes at the closed ends as they don't have holes there.
The Photonics dictionary
Several Chladni figures produced by a bow on a square steel plate.
The Soundry
How Stuff Works. 16 Pregnancy Ultrasound digital images.
The truck and the ladder
Extensive description and analysis, includes animation.
Time and Temperature: The Sun
The WWW Virtual Library for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine is a virtual library of Internet resources on the history of science, including biographies, journals and organisations.
Transistor applet
A very comprehensive website on motors, generators and transformers featuring many effective animations.
Tutorial on amplifier design
An extensive set of applets, select 'Light and radiation' and 'Quantum Phenomena'.
Ultrasound in Your Pocket
Longitudinal wave applet with many aspect to be varied.
Victorian Photonics Network
An interactive journey through numerous applets with accessible supporting text.
Video: Galileo-Battle for the heavens
Animation from Glenbrook P - 12 school of a truck with a ladder on top which collides with a car and the ladder keeps moving.
videoseeker
An extensive list of links on Road safety both for Australia and from around the world.
West Point Bridge Designer 2006 software
The Department sends out regular news bulletins by email, if you want to be on the mailing list, Send an email to Australian Synchrotron Project
Why do so few girls elect to do Physics at A level?
BBC radio interview
Why Don't Girls do Physics?
A short video from teachers.tr in the UK. Although equally interested at a young age, the older you get, the more male dominated the field. Research into how girls can be encouraged to take physics at A-level, suggests that we should link it more to the real world.
Why so Few?
This webpage is on the American Association of University Women (AAUW) website. It contains from the 2010 report titled "Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics". It presents in-depth yet accessible profiles of eight key research findings that point to environmental and social barriers – including stereotypes, gender bias and the climate of science and engineering departments in colleges and universities – that continue to block women’s participation and progress in science, technology, engineering, and maths. The page has links to the full report, a video and powerpoint presentations and a webcast.
WISE Resources
Women Into Science and Engineering (WISE)is a UK website. it has an activity called 'Values Game', and two colourful and engaging posters called Mind Maps.
Women explore the frontiers of Physics
An article on MSNBC with stories about several women currently active in physics in the US. It is part of a series of articles on 'A century of Einstein'.
Women in Physics Tour 2006
The report of Pref Deb Kane of her year as the AIP Women in Physics Lecturer for 2006.
Women on the Manhattan Project
The website has information on the physicists, engineers and military personnel involved in the Manhattan Project. It also has information on several of the prominent female physicists on the 20th century.
Women's history: A few prominent physicists
The Women's History website has links to extended biographies of Rosalind Franklin, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Marie Curie, Frances Anne Cordova and Lene Vestergaard Hau.