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Electricity

Text Resources

  • VCE Physics: Electric Power, 1994, 2nd edn, National Electricity.

Audiovisual Resources

It is recommended that teachers should view any video before purchase.

  • Marcom Projects: Autoelectrics; Electric Circuits; Electrical Components 1, 2 and 3; Electrical Principles; Sergeant Magnet of the Electron Army

Relevant papers from recent Physics Teachers Conferences

 Type

Filename

Filesize

Microsoft Word

The Smarties model for electric circuits

72.7 kB

10 page article on 'Some models for developing beginning students' understanding of Electric Circuits'. Presented by Dr Christina Hart at the 2007 and 2008 Physics Teachers Conferences.

Microsoft Word

Circuit Models

159 kB

3 page article on 'Models for DC Circuits'. Presented by Dr Christina Hart at the 2011 Physics Teachers Conferences.

Microsoft Powerpoint

Models for Electric Circuits

1.76 MB

The PowerPoint file from the presentation by Dr Christina Hart at the 2011 Physics Teachers Conferences.

Classroom Activities

0 Conceptual Understanding Procedures (CUPs)

CUPs is a set of teaching procedures for physics developed by Monash University. They are designed to aid the development of understanding of concepts that students find difficult. There are 12 activities, 10 on Forces, Energy and Motion, and 2 on Electricity.

Useful Websites

0 Applets showing models of electric current

The website has two applets using water flow as an analogy and two using flow of charge. They were prepared by Lisa Murphy from the University of Illinois.

0 Lightning Investigation and Analysis

Lightning is one of nature's most spectacular phenomenon. Tom Warner seeks to document lightning's beauty, power, and ferocity using an array of optical and electromagnetic sensors in hopes of better understanding its behavior. Since 2007, he has used high-speed cameras capable of recording lightning at up to 100,000 images per second. These cameras enable us to see lightning like never before as we can clearly watch lightning propagate downward from the clouds or upward from tall objects. The website features Investigations, Projects and a Gallery.