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Investigations: Sustainable energy sources

Type	Filename	Filesize

	Unit 2 Planning Document	82.9 kB
A planning document for the 2005 - 2008 Study Design prepared by Gary Bass. It contains numerous activities and many useful websites.

Text Resources

Victorian Solar Energy Council 1987, Energy, Technology and Society, Melbourne.

Audiovisual Resources

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

Marcom Projects: Energy Alternative, set of 3

Relevant papers from recent Physics Teachers Conferences

Type	Filename	Filesize

	Keynote address by Dr Graeme Pearman	7.96 MB
Opening Powerpoint of Keynote address by Dr Graeme Pearman. Note: The weather animations in two of the slides ar not available.

	Investigating the Characteristics of Photovoltaic Panels	211 kB
Theory Notes from the presentation by Saverio Ciccone, Overnewton College at the 2008 Physics Teachers Conference

	Practical Activities with Photovoltaic Panels	1 MB
Practical activities from the presentation by Saverio Ciccone, Overnewton College at the 2008 Physics Teachers Conference

	Teaching the Physics of Climate Change: 1 The Physics	6.88 MB
presented by Keith Burrows, member of the AIP Education Committee, STAVCON 2008.

	Keynote address by Dr Graeme Pearman audio	60 B
The audio file starts a few seconds after Dr Pearman begins. He talks for about 55 minutes.

	Renewable Energy and ecologically sustainable design at ecolinc	2.86 MB
Part 1, a pdf file.

	Renewable Energy and ecologically sustainable design at ecolinc	2.77 MB
Part 2: Classroom activities

	Using solar cells to generate electricity	972 kB
Presented by Dr Murray Anderson, Camberwell Grammar School, at 2007 Physics Teachers Conference.

	Using solar cells to generate electricity: Excel data	27.1 kB
Presented by Dr Murray Anderson, Camberwell Grammar School: an excel file of performance data and a JPEG image.

	Unit 2 Investigations: Alternative energy sources	856 kB
Presentedd by Saverio Ciccone, Overnewton College at 2007 Physics Teachers Conference.

	Photovoltaic Panel Physics	179 kB
Companion document to presentation by Saverio Ciccone on Unit 2 Investigatiosn: Alternative energy sources

	Solar Panel Devices	348 kB
Companion document to presentation by Saverio Ciccone on Unit 2 Investigations: alternative energy sources.

	Schott Data	25.1 kB
An excel file to support the presentation by Saverio Ciccone on Unit 2 Investigations: alternative energy sources.

Useful Websites

Cooperative Research Centre for Renewable Energy

Environmission: Solar Tower

A newly listed public company committed to establishing profitable,large-scale renewable energy generation power stations for the Australian electricity market. They are planning the Solar Tower north of Mildura.

Hydrogen Economy from "How Stuff Works"

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