Energy
Energy and Thermal Physics

Particular issues arising and decisions to be made when teaching Energy

Teaching Guidance for 11-14 Supporting Physics Teaching

Energy particular issues
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Energy
Energy and Thermal Physics Supporting Physics Teaching

Pathways through the topic Energy

Teaching Guidance 11-14

Energy
Energy and Thermal Physics PRACTICAL PHYISCS

Energy: common knowledge, hard concept

The word ‘energy’ is used in everyday life, in news reports, public information leaflets and by politicians and policy-makers...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

Energy
Energy and Thermal Physics IOP RESOURCES

Questions: Energy

These questions can be used to explore students' ideas about energy at age 16 and address the new criteria for GCSEs in...

Diagnostic Questions 14-16

Energy and Thermal Physics Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students are unable to distinguish clearly between momentum and kinetic energy and to recognize which is conserved in specific situations

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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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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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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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