Curated OER
Polymers
Students explore online tutorial on polymers. In this chemistry lesson, they create two polymers in the lab and compare their properties. They write a sales letter about their new and improved polymer product.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Work, Energy, and Power: Calculating Work Done by Forces
Through interactive practice problems and examples, students calculate the amount of work done by forces.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Power
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This online tutorial asks students to calculate the mechanical energy of power generated within a physical system.
University of New South Wales (Australia)
University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physclips: Energy and Power
Learn about energy and power in this learning module that contains videos and animation.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Power
Given diagrams, illustrations, scenarios, or relevant data, students will calculate the power of a physical system.
Science Struck
Science Struck: A Comprehensive List of All the Physics Formulas
Provides a long list of physics formulas for easy reference.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Work, Energy, and Power: Power
In this interactive module, students learn the basic terminology and concepts of power as it has to do with work and energy.
University of California
University of California Los Angeles: Force, Work and Power
Describes the definition and relationships between force, work and power. Includes nice drawings to increase conceptual understanding.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Work, Energy, and Power
The mathematical model for the relationships between work and energy serves to model physical problems and, more importantly, predict natural and man-made phenomena. Students discover the relationships which serve as a powerful...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Work, Energy, and Energy Resources: Summary
This is a summary of the information in Chapter 7: Work, Energy, and Energy Resources for the AP Physics I course online.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Work, Energy, and Energy Resources: Problems & Exercises
This is a list of 74 problems/exercises to solve over the content of Chapter 7: Work, Energy, and Energy Resources from the AP Physics online text.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Work and Power: Waterwheel
Investigating a waterwheel illustrates to students the physical properties of energy. They learn that the concept of work, force acting over a distance, differs from power, which is defined as force acting over a distance over some...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Power
Kids learn about power in the science of physics and the laws of motion including units and measurement in watts. Calculate power using work divided by time.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Work, Energy, and Power in Humans
In the following interactive students will begin to explain the human body's consumption of energy when at rest vs. when engaged in activities that do useful work. They will also calculate the conversion of chemical energy in food into...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1938
At this site from The Nobel Foundation, read about the life and scientific discoveries of physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), whose work with radiation and "discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons" earned him the...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Work, Energy, and Power: Definition/mathematics of Work
Through examples and interactive practice problems, motion will be approached from the perspective of work and energy.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Power?
Learn what power means and how we use it to describe the rate of energy transfer.
University of Sydney (Australia)
University of Sydney: Structure and Properties of Materials/thermal Physics
An exhaustive set of "lecture notes" on various topics in thermal physics (including thermal expansion). Explanations are well done and more interesting than most. Includes both a mathematical and conceptual treatment of topics. Humor,...
Physics4kids
Physics 4 Kids: Work Quiz
Take this ten question multiple choice quiz on the physics of work.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Motion Glossary and Terms
Kids learn about glossary and terms in the science of physics and motion. Definitions for words such as momentum, force, work, energy, gravity, scalar, vector, power, and more.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Power
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Power and how it relates to work and time, how to calculate power and the unit called horsepower.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Work, Energy, and Power in Humans
By the end of this section, you will be able to explain the human body's consumption of energy when at rest versus when engaged in activities that do useful work and to calculate the conversion of chemical energy in food into useful work.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Power: Putting Charges to Work
In this tutorial the concept of how electrical energy is transformed is introduced. Learn how electric charges actually work and take the interactive quiz to assess your understanding.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Work, Power and Efficiency
This lesson focuses on energy and power. Energy is a key principle in physics, as it allows work to be done. The rate at which energy is transferred is called power and the amount of energy that is usefully transferred is called...