Chapters 1-10 | Physical Science, 5th ed. Web Links
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Chapter 1: Modeling God's Word
- Sketchup—A free 3D modeling program from Trimble Buildings
- Pinger—A sound file demonstrating a sonar pinger
Chapter 2: Matter
- STM Images—Overview information and images of STM; Wikipedia
- 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
- 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—Searchable summary of weather-related casualties
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—Information on how solar energy and solar cells work from HowStuffWorks
- Solar Panels—Overview of solar energy products; PV Systems, LLC
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