Energy
Energy and Thermal Physics

Pathways through the topic Energy

Teaching Guidance for 11-14 Supporting Physics Teaching

Energy pathways
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A fatal miscalculation

An important factor in the failure of Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition to the South Pole was an error in estimating the energy...

Stories from Physics 11-14 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
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Human energy expenditure

A wonderfully detailed list of the energy expenditures of various activities has been produced.

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many pupils associate ‘energy’ with humans and other living things

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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

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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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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