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TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Grid
The class forms a "Presidential Task Force" for a week, empowered by the president to find answers and make recommendations concerning the future of the national power grid. Task force members conduct daily debriefings with their...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Chemical Bonding: Metallic Bonds
Given scenarios or diagrams, students will describe the nature of metallic bonding and explain properties such as thermal and electrical conductivity, malleability, and ductility of metals.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Renewable Energy Living Lab
Students become familiar with the online Renewable Energy Living Lab interface and access its real-world solar energy data to evaluate the potential for solar generation in various U.S. locations. They become familiar with where the most...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Charge and Carry
This site from The Exploratorium Museum is a full description of a short activity. An electrophorus plate and a Leyden jar are made. The electrophorus is charged by induction. Its charge is transferred to the Leyden jar by conduction...
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Lcs: Experiments on the Electrolysis of Sodium Chloride
Complete directions several methods of conducting the electrolysis of sodium chloride solution. Helpful tips, discussion and a diagram of the apparatus and set-up is provided. Easily adaptable as a student lab or project.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Science World: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics: Electrical Conduction
A brief definition for what electrical conduction is. Also provides the definition for related terms.
Curated OER
Physics4 kids.com: Electricity Conduction
Illustration showing how the space between atoms in a material affects the production of heat when an electric current passes through it.
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Characteristics of Energy and Matter
A lengthy page from the Fundamentals of Physical Geography site. Energy is distinguished from matter, and the different forms of energy are identified and discussed. Four types of heat transfer (convection, advection, conduction,...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ornl: Teacher's Guide Superconductivity for High School Students
This site from the Human Genome Project provides a large collection of facts and information, demonstrations, experiments and project ideas. Written for teachers but easily adaptable for any type of student work. A good site to check out...
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Insulators
The nature of insulators is described at the atomic level. Band gap theory is used to explain what distinguishes insulators from conductors.
University of California
University of California: Seawater Density & Salinity [Pdf]
Describes the properties of seawater and the variations depending on its location, e.g., near a shoreline, in an estuary, or as sea ice. Discusses the instruments scientists use to measure the density of water and explains other...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Yogurt Cup Speakers
This lesson introduces students to the role of electricity and magnetism as they build a speaker. In addition, students explore properties of magnets, create an electromagnet, and determine the direction of a magnetic filed. They conduct...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Resistance
An electron traveling through the wires and loads of the external circuit encounters resistance. In this tutorial, the concept of resistance is introduced. For an electron, the journey from terminal to terminal is not a direct route....
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Wave Interference
Conduct virtual experiments with water, sound, and light waves to determine the sine wave and patterns created in each.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Faraday Disk Dynamo Model
This simulation demonstrates a rotating conducting disk in a magnetic field which produces a current or a self-exciting dynamo.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Induced Current
A current can be induced in a conducting loop if it is exposed to a changing magnetic field. (Java tutorial)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Resources: Electromagnetic Field Theory
College-level electrical engineering textbook starting from the Coulomb-Lorentz force law on a point charge. Sample problems that reinforce the content are found at the end of each chapter. Includes downloadable excerpts of the textbook...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Resistivity
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The factors that affect resistivity are explained, e.g., wire gauge and length, and conductivity. Also touches upon semiconductors and superconductors. The use of...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating How to Create a Stronger Electromagnet
In this activity, learners will investigate what they can do to produce a stronger electromagnet. Students will use the scientific thinking process to conduct investigations and build explanations. They will present their discoveries to...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Duchenne Machine 1850
French physician Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne invented a device that electrically stimulates muscles. The apparatus gave him new insight into neuromuscular disorders, earned him the epitaph of "father of electrotherapeutics," and...
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University of Delaware Physics Department: Lithography
University of Delaware Physics Department provides this indexing page for a slide show presentation.
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Univ. Of Delaware Physics: More Semiconductor Physics
The University of Delaware Physics Department provides this site from a site titled "Silicon, Circuits, and the Digital Revolution," here is a series of four pages which explain the details behind how semiconductors work. An introduction...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Electrostatics
A teacher lesson plan which includes activities pertaining to common methods of charging objects - induction, conduction, and friction.
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Metals, Insulators and Semiconductors
Acting as an overview from the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook, this site explores insulators in relation to metals and other semiconductors. Other topics include conduction band, dielectric breakdown, photoconductors, and more.