# How things work college course

* Category:Physics and Astronomy/Labs
* Wright State University Lake Campus
* Notice: Efforts on this page shall be paused while the commercial book How Things Work (looseleaf) by Bloomfield is evaluated (ISBN 9781119013846 Wiley)

## Newtonian Physics
### Labs in progress

* Physics and Astronomy Labs/Motion down an incline
* Air drag drop experiment
* Breaking broomstick demonstration
* Momentum transfer under elastic and inelastic collisions

### Classical Physics
#### Wikibooks:FHSST_Physics/Rectilinear_Motion/Graphs

    Motion simple arithmetic quiz
    Conceptual physics wikiquizzes
    How things work college course/Waves (Physics Classroom)
* Also: This quiz should be converted to Quizbank form: How_things_work_college_course/Conceptual_physics_wikiquizzes/Uniform_circular_motion

### Modern Physics
#### Quantum mechanics/Photoelectric effect

* Quantum mechanics/Photoelectric effect/Lab
    Quantum mechanics/Photoelectric effect/Quiz

#### Quantum mechanics timeline

    Quantum mechanics timeline/Quiz

### Physics in our lives
#### Industrial Revolution
##### Wikipedia:Industrial_Revolution

    quiz (based on the permalink to the Wikipedia article)

#### Nuclear power
##### Wikipedia:Nuclear_powerWikipedia Article

    LEDE-HISTORY quiz POWER PLANT - END quiz (index)

#### Global warming
##### Wikipedia:Global_warming Wikipedia Article

    Global warming quizzes (based on the permalink to the Wikipedia article)
* Lab: Go to internet and find the rate at which Ohio warms as you travel south (degrees C per mile). Take .1 C per decade as nominal rate of global warming. How far south each year do you have to travel to achieve that rate? Note: One mile per year is within a factor of 2 of what we obtained.
* Berkeley Earth is affiliated by the highly trusted and respected Richard Muller.
** Muller's take on Climategate
** Muller on whether the pause is temporary or a new trend
* https://www2.ucar.edu/climate/faq/how-much-has-global-temperature-risen-last-100-years
* Wikipedia:Global_warming_controversy
* Wikipedia:List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming

#### Computer
##### Wikipedia:Computer (See also Wikipedia:Turing machine * Wikipedia:Busy beaver * Wikipedia:Halting problem * Wikipedia:Bombe) (Wikipedia articles)

    Computer quiz
    Turing machine quiz  ...(index to these two computer quizzes)
* Online turing machines: http://morphett.info/default.html http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/06/turing-test/ http://www.turinghub.com/

### The Antikythera mechanism
#### Wikipedia:Antikythera_mechanism

    Antikythera mechanism/Quizzes

#### Wikipedia:Saros (astronomy)

    Orbital mechanics/Saros/Quiz 1

#### Wikipedia:Ecliptic and Ecliptic/Quizzes/Gallery

    Ecliptic/Quizzes/Quiz 1

## Appendix
### Units under construction

    Electricity and Field theory
    YouTube#Physics_and_Astronomy
    Hunting the Elements (PBS NOVA)
    Python journal
    How_things_work_college_course/Conceptual_physics_wikiquizzes/Uniform_circular_motion Needs major rewrite.

### Units that will not be used (move to Astronomy)
#### Why_is_the_Sky_Dark_at_Night

    Why is the Sky Dark at Night/quiz

## Free online resources

* coursera.org/course/howthingswork1? (Free and of good quality. Some students found that he went too slowly.)
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/aqa/ (Looks excellent)
* Physics of Music (Michigan Tech)
* Physics Classroom