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Electric Field: What is Wrong? Package  [ Computer Program ]
  
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Authors:
Cox, Anne
Christian, Wolfgang
Esquembre, Francisco
Main Level:
Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:
Electricity & Magnetism / Electric Fields and Potential / Electric Field
Electricity & Magnetism / Electrostatics
Electricity & Magnetism / Electrostatics / Coulomb's Law
General Physics / Computational Physics
Education Practices / Active Learning / Modeling
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The EJS Electric Field: What is Wrong? Package is a collection of models for electrostatics with errors intentionally built into each model. Users can move charges around and see the…
http://www.physicssource.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9964&DocID=1589
MIT Physics 8.02: Vector Fields Visualizations - Cross Product of Two Vectors 
  
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Main Level:
Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:
General Physics / Mathematical Tools / Vector Algebra
Other Sciences / Mathematics
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This item is an interactive three-dimensional animation that illustrates vector cross product. Users set angle theta from zero to 360 degrees, and then rotate a vector through the…
http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/vectorfields/Cross...
Assessing-to-Learn Physics: Error Analysis 
  
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Publisher:
UMass Physics Education Research Group
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Lower Undergraduate
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General Physics / Measurement/Units / Error
Other Sciences / Mathematics
Education Foundations / Assessment / Instruments
Education Practices / Technology / Audience Response
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This item is an in-class question requiring students to apply knowledge of error analysis to solve a problem. It was designed for collaborative learning use with a classroom response…
http://a2l.physics.umass.edu/library/item_0010
Matter & Interactions Practice Problems: Interactions and Motion 
  
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Author:
Titus, Aaron
Main Level:
Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:
Classical Mechanics / Applications of Newton's Laws
Classical Mechanics / Motion in One Dimension
Classical Mechanics / Motion in Two Dimensions
Classical Mechanics / Newton's First Law
Classical Mechanics / Linear Momentum / Conservation of Linear Momentum
Classical Mechanics / Linear Momentum / Collisions in One Dimension
General Physics / Mathematical Tools / Vector Algebra
General Physics / Computational Physics
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This page contains a set of problems that supplement the introductory textbook Matter and Interactions by Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood. The problems were developed specifically to…
http://linus.highpoint.edu/~atitus/mandi/index.php?dcsid=1100
Newton’s Mountain Model  [ Computer Program ]
  
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Author:
Timberlake, Todd
Main Level:
Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:
Classical Mechanics / Motion in Two Dimensions / Projectile Motion
Astronomy / Astronomy Education / Curricula
Astronomy / Fundamentals / Night Sky
Astronomy / Historical Astronomy / History of Astronomy
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The EJS Newton’s Mountain model illustrates the motion of a projectile launched from the top of a VERY tall mountain on Earth. The diagram shown in the simulation is taken from…
http://www.physicssource.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9391&DocID=1299
Dimensional Analysis Tutorials 
  
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King, Angela
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Lower Undergraduate
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General Physics / Measurement/Units / Units
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This interactive tutorial provides practice in using dimensional analysis to do metric conversions and validate the conversion factors in equations. Users are first guided through…
http://www.wfu.edu/~ylwong/chem/dimensionanalysis/index.html
OU Engineering Media Lab: Significant Digits 
  
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Author:
Gramoll, Kurt
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Other Sciences / Mathematics
General Physics / Measurement/Units
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This item is an interactive demonstration of the topic of significant digits. It computes the error that can be introduced by rounding during a calculation. Users input numbers and…
https://ecourses.ou.edu/cgi-bin/ebook.cgi?doc=&topic=st&chap_sec=01.1&pa...
University of Vermont Physlets: Trigonometric Relations (Tangent) 
  
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Spartalian, Kevork
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General Physics / Mathematical Tools / Trig and Pre-cal
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This Physlet-based simulation, developed to help build proficiency in trigonometry, allows users to practice calculating the tangent value for various right triangles. This…
http://www.uvm.edu/~kspartal/Physlets/ForSimon/Triangles_Tan_1.html
University of Vermont Physlets: Trigonometric Relations (Sine) 
  
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Spartalian, Kevork
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This Physlet-based simulation, developed to help build proficiency in trigonometry, allows users to practice calculating the sine value for various right triangles. This…
http://www.uvm.edu/~kspartal/Physlets/ForSimon/Triangles_Sin_1.html
Colliding Galaxies  [ Computer Program ]
  
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Authors:
Christian, Wolfgang
Lim, Kyung
Main Level:
Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:
Classical Mechanics / Gravity / Orbits
Astronomy / Galaxies / Galactic Structure
Classical Mechanics / Motion in Two Dimensions / Center of Mass
Classical Mechanics / Motion in Two Dimensions / Central Forces
General Physics / Computational Physics
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The Colliding Galaxies Model is an implementation of Alar and Juri Toomres’ 1972 super computer model showing the formation of galactic bridges and tails under the assumption that…
http://www.physicssource.org/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8985&DocID=1200
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