Energy
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Teaching Guidance for 11-14 Supporting Physics Teaching

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Why birds should avoid solar furnaces

The world’s largest solar furnace, in Odeillo in the French Pyrenees, was built in 1968. The furnace could, when newly...

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Energy CPD videos

When teaching this topic, it is important to avoid your students conflating the energy analysis with an explanation of what’s...

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Pathways

This post discusses the idea of pathways, which link physical processes and an energy analysis.

Perspectives

Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students also associate energy with fuels and with electricity

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RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

The vast majority of students’ alternative ideas about energy could be classified into seven alternative frameworks

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RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students see energy as an ‘intangible fluid’ that flows from one place or object to another during a process

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Energy
appears in the relation ΔEΔt>ℏ/2 ΔQ=mcΔθ E=hf E ∝ A^2
has the special case Photon Energy
is used in analyses relating to Emission/Absorption Spectra Phase Change
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