Energy
Energy and Thermal Physics

Particular issues arising and decisions to be made when teaching Energy

Teaching Guidance for 11-14 Supporting Physics Teaching

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A lot of bottle

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Using cannon balls to estimate the age of the Ea...

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The legend of the boiling river

For hundreds of years, legends spoke of a boiling river in the Amazonian jungle. In 2011, geoscientist Andrés Ruzo...

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Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students strongly link energy with movement and/or force

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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 think of energy as synonymous with fuel

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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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