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These activities demonstrate what air is like and where it is found. Students will understand that air can be compressed, has weight, and exerts force.
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The
American
Association
of
Physics
Teachers
(AAPT)
homepage
provides
AAPT
news;
information
on
membership;
announcements
of
meetings
as
well
as
highlights
and
abstracts
of
past
meetings;
online
publications
such
as
the
American
Journal
of
Physics,
the
Physics
Teacher,
and
the
Announcer
magazine;
links
to
other
publications
such
as
Physics
Today;
information
on
AAPT
high
school
and
college
programs;
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This
classroom
activity
gives
students
a
firsthand
look
at
how
the
color
of
a
surface
influences
its
ability
to
reflect
or
absorb
heat.
The
printable
five-page
handout
includes
a
series
of
inquiry-based
questions
to
get
students
thinking
about
what
they
already
know
about
albedo.
There
are
detailed
experiment
directions
along
with
a
worksheet
that
helps
students
use
the
experiment
results
to
obtain
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This
lesson
introduces
students
to
gravity
as
a
force
and
explores
the
role
of
gravity
in
falling.
Elementary-school
students
typically
do
not
understand
gravity.
They
see
the
phenomenon
of
a
falling
body
as
natural
with
no
need
for
further
explanation.
This
lesson
will
help
to
correct
misconceptions
about
gravity,
such
as
thinking
it
is
the
air
that
exerts
this
force,
or
that
the
magnitude
of
the
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Students
working
in
pairs
or
in
small
groups
will
predict
how
to
make
a
rainbow
using
the
materials
they
are
given,
then
compare
the
rainbows
that
they
produce
with
other
groups
of
students
and
identify
and
record
the
colors
that
they
see.
They
should
also
draw
diagrams
that
show
how
a
prism
separates
the
colors
of
light.
Alternative
methods
to
demonstrate
the
separation
of
white
light
into
the
color
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This
lesson
explores
the
idea
of
the
expanding
universe
through
video,
text
and
questions.
Discussion
includes
the
cosmological
constant,
a
universal
force
that
opposes
gravity
which
Albert
Einstein
called
his
biggest
blunder,
rate
of
expansion
of
the
universe
and
dark
energy.
This
is
a
product
of
Teachers'
Domain,
an
extensive
library
of
free
digital
media
resources
produced
by
public
television,
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This
resource
from
Glenbrook
High
School
in
Glenview,
Illinois
explains
and
illustrates
the
nature,
properties
and
behaviors
of
waves.
The
unique
nature
of
a
standing
wave
is
also
introduced
and
explained.
Each
lesson
resembles
the
type
and
extent
of
coverage
given
to
that
physics
topic
in
class.
The
sub-lessons
are
accompanied
by
Check
Your
Understanding
sections,
providing
an
opportunity
to
assess
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This set of four animated slides illustrates the Coriolis effect, a manifestation of one of Newton's laws which says that objects move in a straight line, in an "inertial" frame of reference, unless acted upon by a force. The slides use the analogy of a ball thrown on a rotating carousel.
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In
this
activity
students
will
discover
that
magnetism
is
the
force
produced
by
magnets
which
does
all
of
the
"holding"
and
that
it
is
also
a
very
important
force
in
nature.
This
activity
introduces
the
student
to
simple
toy
magnets
to
explore
magnetic
attraction
to
items
which
contain
metal
by
using
paper
clips.
Students
will
experience
that
a
magnetic
force
is
invisible
and
explore
the
magnets
attracting
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These
lectures
by
Stephen
Hawking
are
divided
into
physics
colloquium
lectures
(where
at
least
undergraduate
knowledge
of
physics
is
assumed),
and
public
lectures.
The
public
lectures
include:
The
Beginning
of
Time,
The
Nature
of
Space
and
Time,
Space
and
Time
Warps,
Does
God
Play
Dice,
and
Life
in
the
Universe.
The
physics
colloquium
lectures
include:
Inflation:
An
Open
and
Shut
Case;
Gravitational
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