Physics 4/5 for the International Student

Unit 1:

Moon landing
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/21jul_llr.htm

Blind spot
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chvision.html

Eye dissection
http://www.eschoolonline.com/company/examples/eye/eyedissect.html

COSTAR
http://hubble.nasa.gov/

Fred Hollows
http://www.hollows.org.au/

Vision 2020
http://www.v2020.org/

200 years of Braille
http://www.afb.org/louisbraillemuseum/

Diabetic eye disease
http://www.nei.nih.gov/health/diabetic/retinopathy.asp

Unit 2:

Disposal of batteries
http://www.ehso.com/ehshome/batteries.php

Predictive cartoon
http://www.conceptcartoons.com/science/what_is_a_concept_cartoon.html

Superconductors
http://www.superconductors.org/

Unit 3:

Position–time graphs
http://graphs.mathwarehouse.com/distance-time-graph-activity.php

Unit 4:

Wind turbine
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/wind_how.html

Nuclear fission
http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/fission/fission.html

Power tower
http://dsc.discovery.com/video/player.html?playerId=203711706&bclid=958525258

Unit 5:

Hindenburg disaster
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/hindenburg/a/hindenburg.htm

Carbon footprint
http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/

Unit 6:

Spirals
http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/spiral.htm

Heat transfer by radiation 1
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/light_lessons/thermal/transfer.html

Heat transfer by radiation 2
http://www.gcse.com/energy/radiation.htm

Joule
http://www.hasdeu.bz.edu.ro/softuri/fizica/gimnaziu/experiment%20joule/www.einstein-support.co.uk/support/msim/website/experiment/exp_start.htm

Temperature scales
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/maps/ctof.rxml

Challenger space mission
http://newsaic.com/mwchallenger.html

James Watt
http://inventors.about.com/od/wstartinventors/a/james_watt_2.htm

Unit 7:

Amateur astronomers
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/home.html

Retrograde
http://www.unm.edu/~astro1/101lab/lab3/definition/retrogradeanim.html

Kepler
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/kepler.html

Digges
http://space.about.com/od/astronomerbiographies/a/Leonard_Digges.htm

Galileo’s telescopes
http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/instruments/telescope.html

Craters
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/tercrate.htm

Stars
http://www.learner.org/teacherslab/science/light/color/spectra/spectra_1.html

Unit 8:

Brownian motion
http://www.practicalphysics.org/go/Experiment_160.html

Rutherford’s experiment
http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/chemistry/essentialchemistry/flash/ruther14.swf

CERN
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/

Nuclear energy
http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/states/electricity.cfm/state=NY

Plutonium 1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-239

Plutonium 2
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=kims-big-fizzle

Unit 9:

Ultrasound
http://health.howstuffworks.com/ultrasound.htm

Medical physics 1
http://hps.org/hpspublications/radiationfactsheets.html

Medical physics 2
http://health.howstuffworks.com/biotechnology-channel.htm