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ShelterPhysics is a resource for high school physics students at all levels, being built by a retired teacher with over 40 years of teaching, engineering and IT experience.
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Contents
Methods
Velocity
Acceleration
Forces
One Dimensional Force Analysis
Two Dimensional Force Analysis
Circular Motion and Centripetal Forces
Gravity and Forces That Vary with Position
Air Resistance and Forces That Vary With Velocity
Energy
Work as a Means of Transferring Energy
Heat as a Means of Transferring Energy
Understanding Entropy
Momentum
Impulse and Momentum
Rotation
Rigid Bodies in Rotation
Angular Momentum
Oscillation
Pendulums
Electrostatics
Circuits
Magnetism
Waves
Optics
Relativity
Quanta
Connections
Physics as a Process
ShelterPhysics promotes physics as a process: a way of thinking about the world. While focus on topics in physics is unavoidable—picking a topic is how we relate our experiences of the world to what physicists have to say about them—insights into the physical world arise from humans doing physics.
If we guide students' focus only toward outcomes, and not toward the lines of reasoning that lead to those outcomes, we skip the most important and useful aspect of an education in physics.
Simulations and Tools
Simulations allow for visualization of action in the real world, leading us to better understanding of how physics guides what we see and experience. Two such simulations are in beta testing and available for you to... well, learn from, mess around with, enjoy, and comment on.
ShelterLab Mechanics (beta) Go→
Small Sailboat Simulator (beta) Go→
Data collected in the Mechanics simulator can be copied into a full-featured graphing app for analysis. The graphing app is also available for standalone use.
ShelterGraph Go→
YouTube
The ShelterPhysics YouTube channel is also just getting started! Go→
Time and Space
The ShelterPhysics Blog
The ShelterPhysics Blog