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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Energy and Thermal Physics PRACTICAL PHYISCS

Does energy make things happen?

You often read that “Energy is what makes things happen”. But you need to be careful to think a bit before you say it.

Teaching Guidance 14-16

Energy
Energy and Thermal Physics Supporting Physics Teaching

Avoid chains of energy

In presenting these various energy descriptions of familiar processes, we have been careful to study one process at a time...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

Energy
Energy and Thermal Physics Supporting Physics Teaching

An energy ladder

The purpose of this activity is to enable pupils to build up some idea of the size of the joule unit of energy.

Classroom Activity 11-14

Energy and Thermal Physics Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Few students use ideas about energy and energy conservation and are more likely to use ideas like speed or force

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RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many lower secondary students make incorrect quantitative predictions about the temperature of a mixture of two samples of liquid at different initial temperatures, even when they can make correct qualitative predictions

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RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students attribute macroscopic properties like hot and cold, melting, or expanding to particles (or to atoms, molecules) when using a particulate model to explain thermal phenomena

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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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