Physics Links

Week 1
Science Fair Ideas
Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment

Week 2
Inside a Bathroom Scale

Week 3  
How Bridges Work      

Week 4
Newton's First Law of Motion
Newton's Second Law of Motion
Newton's Third Law of Motion
Newton's Laws of Motion Home Page

Week 6
Buoyancy Basics
Buoyancy Explorer (this is an interactive experiment with different objects and different liquids)

Week 7
Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy
Great Explanation of the Law of Conservation of Energy

Week 8
Projectile Motion
Interactive Application of Projectiles
Physics of Flight

Week 9
Archimedes Screw
Interactive Simple Machine Games
Interactive Simple Machine Game
Lever Quiz

Week 12
Light and Shadows Interactive Website    

Week 13
Primary Colors of Light
Mixing Colors of Light and Pigments of Paint

Week 14
Mirrors, Lenses and Your Eyes
Lens (Optics)

Week 15
How Your Eyes Work
Human Vision and Color Perception

Week 16
YouTube Explanation of the Sonic Boom
Sonic Boom

Week 17
Doppler Effect and Sonic Booms
Example of the Doppler Effect
Doppler Effect

Week 18
YouTube video of sound waves causing water to dance at a very low frequency
YouTube video of sound waves causing salt to form patterns at high frequencies
YouTube video of a wine glass shattering because of resonance

Week 19
Families of the Orchestra
How a Musical Instrument Works

Week 20
How the Ear Works Video
This is a video from the Science Museum of Virgina (it is a great overview of what we have studied so far)

Week 21
How Sound Moves (This is a great interactive site illustrating sound movement)

Week 22
Information about Atoms
How Does Static Electricity Work?
Van de Graaff Generator video clips
Static Electricity

Week 24
Circuits
Series and Parallel Circuits

Week 25
Conductors and Insulators

Week 26
Resistance in a Conductor
YouTube Demonstration of Resistance
Resistance in a Light Bulb
Resistance at the Molecular Level

Week 27
Great Basic Information About Electricity (scroll down the page for information on measuring electricity)
Demonstration of a Variable Resistor

Week 28
 Magnet Madness

Week 29
Magnetic Poles
Moving Magnets
MagLev Trains
YouTube presentation in favor of Maglev Trains
How Maglev trains work

Week 30
Magnetic Fields
Information about the Magnetosphere
The Earth's Magnetosphere

Week 31
 Making Magnets

Week 32
 Electromagnet Demonstration Video
 Faraday's Magnetic Field Induction Experiment
 Electromagnetism

Week 33
 Generating Electricity
 Making Electricity
 Another of Faraday's Experiments

Week 34
 Explanation of how a Simple Motor Works
 Another Simple Motor
 Another Simple Motor    

Week 35
  Advanced Motor Video
  Another Advanced Motor