Physics animations, film clips, interactive tutorials and supporting pages
PHYSCLIPS MULTIMEDIA (audio-visual presentations)
Physclips provides learning and reference tools for students and resources for teachers. The level is approximately that of introductory university or advanced high school.
The largely completed volumes are Mechanics, Waves and Sound and Special Relativity. Multimedia tutorials, with interactive control, give a brief overview. Hyperlinks lead to web resources with broader and deeper discussions. Downloads are provided for teachers and designers, either individually or in a compressed file. The volumes Motors, generators and circuits and Thermal physics so far are only collections of web resources. |
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Einsteinlight: Relativity in 10 minutes or 10 hours
Einsteinlight was the predecessor to Physclips. The multimedia modules give a brief overview of relativity - they present the main ideas. Inevitably, you will have questions. So the related links give more complete explanations, at levels with ( ) or without mathematics ( ). The text from the multimedia modules is available in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. Einstein Light has been recommended by a range of organisations, journals and web directories, including the Australian Institute of Physics, the Sunday Times, Yahoo (pick of the day, 22/10/2005) etc.
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review in Science magazine
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award from Scientific American
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For some primary school resources, see Glimpses of Science.
On Designing educational animations, we list some of the advice given in the literature, and show how some examples from Physclips would appear with and without these principles.
Credits:
Authored and Presented by Joe Wolfe
Multimedia Design by George Hatsidimitris
Laboratories in Waves and Sound by John Smith
Further educational sites from Joe Wolfe
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