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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Black’s curious and puzzling thing

Joseph Black, who became professor of medicine and chemistry at Glasgow University, was born in Bordeaux in 1728 to a family...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

Energy
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Musical thermodynamics

Flanders and Swan wrote a song about the first and second laws of thermodynamics that contains the verses:

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

Energy
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What Watt did next

Despite his financial success, Watt was not a natural businessman and he wrote in a letter:

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students explain thermal expansion in terms of increased particle size

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RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Students who are aware that energy ideas and terms are used differently in science and in everyday life may have difficulties deciding which perspective to use when answering questions

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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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