Chapters 1-10 | Physical Science, 5th ed. Web Links

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Chapters 1–10 | Chapters 11–21 | Lab Manual | About Links

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Chapter 1: Modeling God's Word

• Air France Flight 447—The BEA's (Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la sécurité de l'aviation civile) official website and report of the crash of Air France Flight 447
• Sketchup—A free 3D modeling program from Trimble Buildings
• Pinger—A sound file demonstrating a sonar pinger
• AUV Animation—An excellent animation of the Remus AUV; BEA

Chapter 2: Matter

• STM Images—Overview information and images of STM; Wikipedia
• More STM Images—Lots of images of STM with description (click Preparation of Specimen and Photo Gallery); Nobel Prize Organization
• Brownian Motion—An article on Brownian Motion; American Institute of Physics
• More Brownian Motion—An animation of Brownian motion (the animation may not work in all browsers); American Institute of Physics
• States of Matter—An interactive states of matter particle simulator; University of Colorado
• Sand to Glass—Video description of glassmaking; Alan MacFarlane, anthropologist
• Molecular Vibrations—Numerous animated graphics of various molecular vibration modes; University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
• Measuring Hardness—Mineral hardness and comparison of Mohs and absolute hardness scales

Chapter 3: Measurement

• Curiosity Rover—Videos from the NASA Mars Science Laboratory Mission website showing interesting aspects of the mission
• Measurement Smorgasbord—A Web resource describing the kinds and abbreviations of units around the world; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• History of the SI—A brief history of the International System of units; US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
• Interactive Whiteboard—Information page for Mimio® Interactive Teaching Technologies; Precept Marketing
• Unit Conversion Practice—A browser-based resource of interactive quizzes to practice unit conversions and related concepts; Rogers State University
• Noah's Ark—A comprehensive website dealing with the engineering of Noah's Ark; Tim Lovett
• Scientific Notation Practice—An interesting discussion about the uses of scientific notation; Institute for Energy and Environmental Research

Chapter 4: Kinetics: How Things Move

• Model Rockets—The Estes model rocket site, for all things having to do with model rocketry

Chapter 6: Energy

• Natural Hazard Fatalities—Summary of weather-related casualties. Replace the two digits in the "/sum12" portion of the URL with the last two digits of a year to view the data for that particular year. NOAA/NWS
• Change a Light—Information on compact fluorescent lights; California Energy Commission's Consumer Energy Center

Chapters 7: Work and Simple Machines

• Big Ben—Information on the famous bell and clock tower; United Kingdom Parliament
• Ark Encounter Project—Website of the Noah's Ark theme park in Kentucky, USA
• Bacterial Motor—video of the molecular construction and operation of a flagellum motor; Discovery Institute/YouTube
• Archimedes's Screw—Illustrations of various applications of Archimedes's screw; New York University resource webpage

Chapter 8: Fluid Machines

• Tsunami Detection—Discussion of tsunami detection motivated by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami; NASA

Chapter 9: Thermodynamics

• Heat and Energy—Overview of the development of the theory of heat and thermal energy; University of Virginia
• Stardust Mission—NASA mission page of the completed cometary dust return mission

Chapter 10: Electricity

• Static Electricity—A variety of brief lessons, illustrations, and self-checks on electrostatics; The Physics Classroom
• Lightning—Lightning Resource Page; The National Weather Service, Pueblo, CO
• Learning from Lightning—NASA resource reporting research into lightning; many interesting links
• Human Voltage—Hazards and effects of being struck by lightning; NASA
• Worldwide Lightning—Visualization of NOAA global weather data sets (Download the kmz file and double click to load it into Google EarthTM.); Google Earth Blog
• Solar Cells—Eleven pages of information on solar energy and solar PV panels; HowStuffWorks.com
• Solar Panels—Overview of solar energy products; PV Systems, LLC