Energy
Energy and Thermal Physics

Kitset of the main ideas in the topic Energy

Teaching Guidance for 11-14 Supporting Physics Teaching

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Energy
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Starting and ending

This post picks up on the third of the three step approach given in the 'Starting Out' post: start and end points in an energy...

Perspectives

Energy
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Historic and pre-historic energy use

A paper has estimated the power output of a single Norman water mill as around 1.3 kW and, using the number of mills listed in...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

Energy
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Galileo's pendulum

Galileo was interested in predicting how bodies move. He allowed an object to roll down and up a curved track, and showed that...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students attribute macroscopic properties (like hot, cold, expansion) to particles when using a particulate model

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RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students associate ‘energy’ with humans and other living things

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RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students also associate energy with fuels and with electricity

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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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