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Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Spectra and Interaction of Light and Matter
Acting as a subtopic of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook's section on Atoms and the Periodic Table, this site discusses continuous spectra and line spectra using examples and charts to assist in the understanding.
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Open Curriculum: Acceleration and Free Fall
These notes and illustrations will help you understand the concept and properties of acceleration.
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Open Curriculum: Analysis of Forces
This study information helps students apply Newton's third law and understand forces.
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Open Curriculum: Bounded Waves
To understand how bounded waves behave and how reflection of waves affects the wave components.
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Open Curriculum: Capacitance and Inductance
Students learn about capacitors and inductors and their role in electrical circuits.
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Open Curriculum: Circular Motion
Students learn about uniform and non-uniform circular motion in this illustrated article.
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Open Curriculum: Conservation of Angular Momentum
Students learn the concept of angular momentum of objects in two dimensions and how rotational motion is determined.
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Open Curriculum: Conservation of Energy
This Kahn Academy tutorial helps students understand the principles of conservation of energy and mass. [10 min, 6 sec]
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Open Curriculum: Conservation of Momentum
This article helps students understand and apply Newton's third law and the conservation of momentum.
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Open Curriculum: Electricity and Circuits
This article helps students understand the concepts of electricity and circuits.
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Open Curriculum: Electromagnetism
This article helps explain the concept of electromagnetism as well as magnetic fields and the properties of the speed of light.
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Open Curriculum: Force and Motion
This article helps students learn about Newton's laws of motion and the properties of force.
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Open Curriculum: Free Waves
With this article, students can learn about and understand the concept of wave motion.
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Open Curriculum: General Relativity
Read this article to help understand and describe Einstein's general theory of relativity.
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Open Curriculum: Gravity
This article helps students understand and apply the concept of gravity and Newton's Laws.
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Open Curriculum: Light and Matter: Images by Reflection
An illustrated article helps students understand the concept of reflection of images and the differences in reflection with different optical devices.
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Open Curriculum: Images, Quantitatively
This article helps students quantitatively describe the changes in images on mirrors or other surfaces.
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Open Curriculum: Light as a Particle
Students learn about the properties of light as a photon and the wave-particle duality.
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Open Curriculum: Matter as a Wave
This article helps illustrate the behavior of electrons as waves and the uncertainty principle.
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Open Curriculum: Newton's Laws in Three Dimensions
Students can use this article to learn about forces and motions in three dimensions.
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Open Curriculum: Refraction
Students can study this article to help them understand the concept of refraction and index of refraction.
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Open Curriculum: Relativity and Magnetism
Understand and learn about the properties of space and time and the concept of relativity.
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Open Curriculum: Rules of Randomness
Discuss methods of working with probabilities and quantum physics in this article.
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Open Curriculum: Simplifying the Energy Zoo
Physics students find out how to effectively define and clarify kinetic and potential energy.