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Welcome to the MERLOT Physics Portal, a collection of educational resources for instructors and students of physics. The collection focuses on open access and open source content that improves conceptual understanding and problem solving. You can help build the collection by joining MERLOT, submitting content, lesson plans, and activities, and volunteering to join the peer review process.
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The Editor's Choice 2014: This project provides a wide range of visual, interactive quantum mechanics tutorials. The materials cover all aspects of an upper-level quantum mechanics class, as well as advanced topics in quantum information and the foundations of quantum theory.
New Materials
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H5P OER HUB
H5P's Authoring Tool (https://h5p.org) is used by the global Open Education and K-12 Education Community to create and...
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Lei de Biot-Savart
This is a hypermedia learning object on general topics in Physics – Electricity and Magnetism. It belongs to the...
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Força Magnética em Cargas em Movimento
This is a hypermedia learning object on general topics in Physics – Electricity and Magnetism. It belongs to the...
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Dielétrico Sendo Atraído para Dentro do Capacitor
This is a hypermedia learning object on general topics in Physics – Electricity and Magnetism. It belongs to the...
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Capacitores com Dielétrico
This is a hypermedia learning object on general topics in Physics – Electricity and Magnetism. It belongs to the...
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Capacitor Genérico
This is a hypermedia learning object on general topics in Physics – Electricity and Magnetism. It belongs to the...
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Introduction to Physics OpenStax
Introduction to Physics is an adaptation of Concepts of Physics, itself an adaptation based on modules from OpenStax...
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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Compliance Guideline
The EU General Data Protection Regulation went into effect on May 25, 2018, replacing the Data Protection Directive...
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Neural Covidex: COVID-19 AI-Open Data Mining Search Engine
Scientists and researchers can now quickly, freely, and easily search through over 45,000+ scholarly articles, medical...
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Kaggle: Your Machine Learning and Data Science Community
Kaggle is one of the world’s largest data science communities with powerful tools and resources to help you achieve your...
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Data Dryad - Publish and Preserve your Data
The Dryad Digital Repository is a cross-disciplinary, curated resource that makes research data, discoverable, freely...
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Harvard Dataverse: Cross-Disciplinary Repository
Harvard Dataverse is a free cross-disciplinary repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and...
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ORCID: Connecting Research & Researchers
ORCID provides a "persistent identifier" (an ORCID) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other...
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Smithsonian Open Access: Create. Imagine. Discover
Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian's images right...
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University Physics Volume 1
Physics is devoted to the understanding of all natural phenomena. In physics, we try to understand physical phenomena at...
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Digital Histology
The teaching of histology increasingly relies on digital resources in lieu of traditional microscope laboratories....
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Anatomy and Physiology
Anatomy and Physiology is a dynamic textbook for the two-semester human anatomy and physiology course for life science...
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Interactive Physics Demos | OER Commons
These Interactive Physics Demonstrations were developed by MAJ James Bowen, MAJ Cathleen Barker, MAJ Andrew Wilhelm, and...
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Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
The aim of this book is to provide the reader with an introduction to quantum mechanics, a physical theory which serves...
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Physical Sciences Informatics System
NASAs Physical Sciences Research Program conducts fundamental and applied physical sciences research, with the objective...
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Resistencia aerodinámica (introducción)
El video resume de forma general los patrones de flujo alrededor de un cuerpo a diferentes números de Reynolds. Estos...
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Campo magnético creado por un solenoide
En este vídeo se muestra la forma en que se puede medir el campo magnético en el eje de un solenoide formado por N...
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Resistencia aerodinámica (la pareja de vórtices)
El video resume de forma genera los patrones de flujo alrededor de un cuerpo a bajos números de Reynolds, en situaciones...
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GENERADOR DE CONTINUA
Manejo de un generador de corriente continua en modo independiente, en serie y en paralelo.
New Members
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Collins NdoloMwalimu Ndolo Foundation -
Bente BrauerCypress Lake High School
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Marty BriggsGeorgia-Cumberland Academy
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DEXTER SENDIONGdepartment of education
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Keith MorrisonBirdville ISD
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Oly YakITMO
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Nicolás Reyes GarridoWebClass
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Somaan AlamStyle Textiles Pvt. Ltd
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Eric HedinBiola University
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Vincent HradilConcordia University, Chicago
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Abhijit BorahFazl Ali College
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Igor BaryakhtarMassachusetts Bay Community/Technical College
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Olukayode KarunwiAnderson College
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Helen MelinoRyerson University
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Leiliza CanizaresColegio San Agustin
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Neha NasirRyerson University
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Gwen CastillonDe La Salle University
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Travis AsheThe School for Entrepreneurship and Technology
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Roben CardCovenant Academy
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Aimee BabbinHigh Technology High School
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Abhilash AgrawalCBSE
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Robert MitchellSaint Ambrose University
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#AAPTSM18 Recap #1 – “Can We Have a Group Test?”
Aug 07, 2018 02:55 PM PDTSaturday July 28 “Can We Have a Group Test?” Designing Collaborative, Active, Alternative Assessments for Physics Classes (Kelly O’Shea, Danny Doucette) On Saturday, I attended Kelly O’Shea’s and Danny Doucette’s all-day workshop on lab practicums. All of their slides and … Continue reading →
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Day 65: Hour of Physics Code
Dec 11, 2014 05:14 PM PSTOriginally posted on Noschese 180: College-Prep Physics: I’ve been coding with my AP Physics classes for years. But in honor of this week’s Hour of Code, I tried VPython programming for the first time with my College-Prep class. We used the GlowScript version…
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Day 26: What Causes Gravity?
Oct 11, 2014 07:21 AM PDTOriginally posted on Noschese 180: College-Prep Physics: Even though we now have a mathematical relationship between mass and weight, we still don’t know what causes Earth’s gravitational pull. So first, we took a short survey: Download a copy here: GRAVITY Survey 2015 Then we…
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Day 16: Relative Motion
Sep 24, 2014 01:06 PM PDTOriginally posted on Noschese 180: College-Prep Physics: This year I decided to bring relative motion into my curriculum. It’s a unit in Preconceptions in Mechanics, a book I used a lot last year for introducing different types of forces. My hope is that vector…
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Day 13: A New Approach to Colliding Buggies
Sep 19, 2014 02:50 PM PDTOriginally posted on Noschese 180: College-Prep Physics: Modeling Instruction’s standard lab practicum for the constant velocity unit is colliding buggies. Lab groups take data to determine the speed of their buggy, then the buggies are quarantined and groups are paired up. Each group…
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Flappy Bird Physics Is Real Life?
Jan 30, 2014 03:39 PM PSTIf you don’t already know, Flappy Bird is the hot new mobile game right now. The premise is simple: navigate the bird through the gaps between the green pipes. Tapping the screen gives a slight upward impulse to the bird. … Continue reading →
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What Happened When I Gave Them the Answers
Nov 19, 2013 04:11 PM PSTOriginally posted on Noschese 180: [TL;DR – Not as much as I had hoped.] College-Prep Physics: Students came to class with the following question completed for homework: You are on a sleigh ride in Central Park one brisk winter evening. The mass…
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Quizzes vs. Projects (Mass & Weight Edition)
Nov 16, 2013 07:09 PM PSTTests are evil, let them do projects. That type of rhetoric frequently appears in my Twitter stream. My gut reaction is hell yeah. But some recent quiz results have gotten me thinking …. Take for example, this learning objective: The … Continue reading →
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Edtech PR Tips
Jul 14, 2013 10:54 AM PDTI’m not a PR guy. I’m just a teacher. But they say that if you want to be a disruptor, the best experience is no experience. So here goes… 1. It’s not about the technology. It’s about what students are … Continue reading →
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Convincing Reluctant Teachers
Jul 11, 2013 09:00 PM PDTThis question was posted to Twitter today: Question: how do you convince teachers who are ADAMANT that they teach to the rigor required by CCSS that they really don’t? (CCSS means Common Core State Standards) This is a great question. … Continue reading →