Energy
Energy and Thermal Physics

Pathways through the topic Energy

Teaching Guidance for 11-14 Supporting Physics Teaching

Energy pathways
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Burning the toast

It is challenging to toast bread to the perfect colour because of thermal runaway: as the surface of the bread darkens it...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

Energy
Energy and Thermal Physics IOP RESOURCES

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

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, a naturalist and mathematician, provided an early estimate of the age of the Earth by...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

Energy
Energy and Thermal Physics PRACTICAL PHYISCS

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 also associate energy with fuels and with electricity

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RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students see energy as an ‘intangible fluid’ that flows from one place or object to another during a process

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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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