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Fermi National Accelerator Lab: Discovery of Top Quark
This article announces the discovery of the top quark and its significance in particle physics.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: The Particle Adventure
Visit this site for an interactive tour of the atom and all aspects of particle physics. View the animations available with almost every description on this site. A great place for the fundamentals of particles and forces including a...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Cockroft Walton
Provides a description of the Cockroft-Walton accelerator built in 1932.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Continuous Electron Beam
A diagram of the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Van De Graaff
Featured is a brief description of the Van de Graaff accelerator and its uses.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Linear
Use this site to learn about the invention of the linear accelerator and how it works.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Analyzing Forces and Motion Graphs by Riding an Elevator
A high school physics lab on classical mechanics in which students study force versus time and acceleration versus time. Students need access to an elevator to complete the experiments. A lab handout is provided.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Lab Work Forces & Acceleration
The Illinois Institute of Technology provides this site. The site contains a graphing activity which illustrates that a constant force exerted upon an object results in constant acceleration. Rolling carts and stopwatches are used to...
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: Reading Passages: Natural Resources
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining natural resources. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed along with...
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Jefferson Lab: Place Value Game
This interactive math game lets you create the largest number possible as the computer gives you numbers.
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Jefferson Lab: Reading Passages: Digestion and Nutrition
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining digestion and nutrition. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed along...
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Jefferson Lab: Reading Passages: Charges and Electricity
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining charges and electricity. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed along...
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Jefferson Lab: Reading Passages: The Water Cycle
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining the water cycle. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed along with your...
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Jefferson Lab: Reading Passage: The Water Cycle 2
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining the water cycle. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed along with your...
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Jefferson Lab: Reading Passage: Minerals
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining minerals. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed along with your choice.
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Jefferson Lab: Reading Passages: Looking for Quarks Inside the Atom
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining quarks inside the atom. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed along...
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Jefferson Lab: Reading Passages: Magnets and Electromagnets
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining atomic history. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed along with your...
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Jefferson Lab: Reading Passages: Liquid Nitrogen
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining liquid nitrogen. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed along with your...
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Jefferson Lab: Reading Passage: Surface Area
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining how to calculate surface area. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed...
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Jefferson Lab: Reading Passages: Cell Division Through Mitosis
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining cell division through mitosis. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed...
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Jefferson Lab: Reading Passages: Parts of a Plant
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining the parts of a plant. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed along with...
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Jefferson Lab: Reading Passages: The Three Branches of Government
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining the three branches of government. Each blank has a drop-down menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be...
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Jefferson Lab: Reading Passages: Movies and Filmography
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining the history of movies and filmography. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click 'Check my answers.' If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be...
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Jefferson Lab: Reading Passages: Atomic History
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining atomic history. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed along with your...