Friday, August 6, 2010

Some Physics video sites

These sites are good sources of videos on basic or advanced Physics. The videos are mainly of demonstrations or labs rather than lectures.

www.onlinecolleges.net/2010/03/03/100-amazing-videos-for-teaching-and-studying-physics/       
100 videos on both basic and advanced topics.

www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/
Substantial and organised collection of animations and clips. Many of advanced level.

physics.decapoa.altervista.org/fisica/
A long illustrated listing of Youtube Physics videos.

freescienceonline.blogspot.com/
A blog with many posts with links to Physics videos (and lectures too).

www.freesciencelectures.com/videos/physics/education/1/
A collection of some miscellaneous interesting videos. Basic and advanced.

www.wfu.edu/physics/demolabs/demos/avimov/#Video
A collection of videos done at Wake Forest University. Most are of basic Physics.

Physics practicals help

This web site is a great source of instructions for doing labs. Each lab has a sheet of instructions. A real gold mine!

PracticalPhysics.org
"This website is for teachers of physics, enabling them to share their skills and experience of making experiments work in the classroom."

Some reasons for studying Physics

Here are some web sites I came across while working on the "Why Study Physics" presentation which make the case for studying Physics, giving reasons for doing so.

Why Study Physics? - reasons in support of studying physics


Why study physics and is physics relevant?


Why Study Physics