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Physics includes the study of forces and motion, conservation laws, heat, fluids, vibrations and waves, electricity and magnetism, and sound and light.

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Newspaper Physics for First-Year College Students

This article describes and illustrates a physics course for first-year college students whose only knowledge of physics is that they do not like the subject. The physics content is driven entirely by what appears in the daily newspapers and general...

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The Tachyon Nexus

This article describes a website called The Tachyon Nexus (no relation to Tachyon Nexus Inc.), which includes reliable information about the controversial subjects of time travel and faster-than-light particles known as tachyons. This compendium of...

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The Bohr Model of the Atom

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Focus on Physics: The Physics of Rainbows

Building an understanding of physical principles. ...

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The Science of Hurricanes, Earth’s Most Powerful Storms, May 7, 2026

Join us on Thursday, May 7, 2026, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET, to learn the basic science behind the formation, growth, and lifecycle of hurricanes, as well as groundbreaking research in better predicting these powerful storms....
 

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Sponsored Web Seminar: Archive: Fall Into Science: Seasonal Investigations with Vernier, October 20, 2025

From “puking pumpkins” to decomposing leaves, participants will explore biology, chemistry, and physics experiments that connect real-world phenomena with timely, hands-on learning. In this web seminar participants will:...
 

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Archive: Science Update: Bringing Quantum Science to the K-12 Classroom, November 6, 2025

Over the past 100 years quantum mechanics has become central to scientists’ understanding of the physical world: from governing the rules of chemical bonds, to underlying the workings of electronics and computers, to deepening the answers to qu...
 

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Sponsored Archive: From Local Data to Global Phenomena: Hands-On Climate Science Investigations, April 21, 2025

Ready to engage your high school physics, biology, earth science, and environmental science students in meaningful climate investigations?  Join Vernier biology and physics experts Colleen McDaniel and Fran Poodry, along with Vernier Trendsetter...
 

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Archive Science Update: The Wonderful World of Plasma Physics: From the Birth of Stars to Building Cell Phones, February 20, 2025

What is inside our sun and other stars? What fills up the interstellar space? What is lightning? Trying to answer similar questions that come to the curious mind expanded our understanding of what happens to matter at high enough ...
 

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Engaging Middle School Students with the Nature of Particles, Waves, and Light

This three-day unit engages students in the exploration of light behavior and makes connections to the advanced idea of the wave-particle duality of light. Students begin by exploring the behaviors of marbles (particles) as they interact with differe...
 

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Teaching Physics as the Awesome Rules of Nature

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Why is that Pole Wet on One Side and Not the Other?: Transitioning to Phenomenon and Problem-Driven Teaching in Kindergarten

This paper discusses two teachers’ experiences implementing a phenomenon and problem-driven curriculum for the first time in two kindergarten classes. It describes how teachers shifted their teaching to support students’ collaborative sensemaking...
 

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Archive Science Update: Exoplanets: Finding Life in the Galaxy, January 30, 2025

Join exoplanet astronomer Rob Zellem, of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, as he discusses how we find and characterize exoplanets, planets outside of our own Solar System, with the goal of detecting signatures of life. He will also discuss c...
 

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Some Physics of Wheels and Tires

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Archive: Science Update: Space Weather on Our Approach to Solar Max, August 15, 2024

Join us on Thursday, August 15, 2024, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET, to learn about space weather from NASA. In this web seminar, we will delve into the recent solar storm that illuminated the skies with stunning auroras across North America on May 10t...
 

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The First and Most Important Day of Class

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