Physics: A World Iin Motion

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Grade Level: Senior High (10-12)-General
Subjects: Physics
Produced By: Alberta Advanced Education
Year: 1996
Country: Canada
Language: English

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Historical discovery, on-location investigation and laboratory experiments are used to present the phenomenal world of physics in a real-life context that students can relate to and easily understand. The development of pertinent physical concepts move from concrete examples to theoretical explorations requiring abstract models. Students are encouraged to apply a variety of strategies to problems and issues requiring qualitative and/or quantitative solutions. A comprehensive resource correlation guide is included free with the complete series.

This series consists of the following products

Physics: A World in Motion - Resource Correlation Guide

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

Conservation of Engergy - Resource Correlation Guide - Unit 1

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

Conservation of Momentum - Resource Correlation Guide - Unit 1

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

Electrostatics and Electric Forces - Resource Correlation Guide - Unit 2

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

Electric Fields - Resource Correlation Guide - Unit 2

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

Current Electricity - Resource Correlation Guide - Unit 2

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

Magnetic Fields - Resource Correlation Guide - Unit 3

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

Electromagnetic Induction - Resource Correlation Guide - Unit 3

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

Electromagnetic Waves - Resource Correlation Guide - Unit 3

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

The Electric Nature of the Atom - Resource Correlation Guide - Unit 4

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

Quantum Nature of Light - Resource Correlation Guide - Unit 4

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

Quantum Nature of the Atom - Resource Correlation Guide - Unit 4

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

Nuclear Physics - Resource Correlation Guide - Unit 4

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Provides additional information, experiments and problems on concepts presented in the video programs.

Work and Energy

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Elevators, escalators and an amusement park ride explain mechanical energy transformations and provide data to calculate the work done and power…

Energy Conservation

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Analyses the transformation of gravitational potential energy to kinetic energy using algebraic and graphical means. The motion of a mass on a…

Energy Transformation

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

The work-energy theorem is used to solve problems involving change of gravitational potential energy to mechanical kinetic energy and the work done…

Momentum and Impulse

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Information is gathered from a vehicle-safety expert and a self-defence instructor and used in an exploration of the concepts of momentum and…

Collinear Momentum

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

The biathlon provides the context for investigating the law of conservation of momentum. Identifies different types of collisions in which momentum…

Momentum: Vector Addition

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Explores the conservation of momentum in two dimensions on location at a curling rink and in the laboratory with an air table. Applies conservation…

Two-Dimensional Collisions

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Explores the concept of conservation of momentum in two dimensions in the context of fireworks, bumper cars, open-pit mining, and within the isolated…

Elastic and Inelastic Collisions

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Elastic and inelastic collisions are analysed. A montage of sports images reveals that most collisions are inelastic. Uses criteria of conservation…

Conservation of Momentum and Energy

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Exploring the physics of a soccer game, a projectile spring and a ballistic pendulum, leads to the understanding of the concepts of energy and…

Risk Benefit Analysis

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Explores benefits and risks in personal safety equipment, and develops a generic Risk-Benefit Assessment model. The model is used to reach personal…

Electrostatics

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Historic views, from the two-fluid concept of the Greeks to Franklin's single positive fluid, explain electrostatic charge in terms of electrons…

Transferring Charge

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Introduces charging by conduction and induction by showing how Rice Krispies are attracted to a charged rod and then fly off. Explains a Van de…

Coulomb's Law

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A torsion balance is used in a quantitative analysis of the relationship among charge, distance and electrostatic force to verify Coulomb's law…

Coulomb Forces in Nature

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Ionic crystals provide a real-life application of quantifying electrostatic forces between point chages. Large-sized models are used to facilitate…

Fields Around Point Charges

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

The concept of field and field strength around point charges is developed from the parallel ideas in gravitation. Investigates the shape of…

Electrical Potential

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Defines electric potential and electric potential difference. A ride on a water slide is used to compare the effects of potential difference on…

Electric Fields Between Plates

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Investigates the shape of electric fields between and around plates, and reveals the uniformity of such fields. Analyses the behaviour of moving…

Current Electricity

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Viewers are challenged to devise a source of potential difference from provided materials. Investigates electric-current concepts by discussion…

Ohm's Law and Energy

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Investigates the nature of resistance and safety when dealing with electric circuits. Focuses on the dangers posed by electric current and how to…

Series and Parallel Circuits

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Gathers and analyses quantitative data of simple series and parallel circuits. The analysis develops mathematical expressions describing the…

Networks

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Develops a five-step procedure for analysing network circuits and uses it to analyse a model circuit built by referring to historic trolleys…

Kirchhoff's Rules

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Explores the development of electrical systems in automobiles, from turn of the century cars to hybrid electric vehicles. Using automobile circuitry…

Magnetism

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Examines the use of a compass needle in navigation and links its behaviour to the Earth's magnetic field. Explains how other common magnetic objects…

Electromagnetic Forces

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

The concept of electromagnetism is introduced and investigated. The principles discussed are then applied to the workings of a malfunctioning…

Motor Effect

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Viewers apply motor-effect principles to the design of electric DC motors. A quantitative investigation is performed to determine the force on a…

Charged Particles in Magnetic Fields

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Auroras provide a context to study moving charges within a magnetic field. Shows that moving electric charges experience a force in magnetic fields…

Generator Effect

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Investigates induction and provides explanations of the effect based on magnetic field-current interactions. Discussions with musicians and…

Generators

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Rotates a loop of wire in a magnetic field, returns to basic principles to explain the observations, and then compares generators to motors…

Lenz's Law

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Investigates the self-regulating nature of electric-motor speeds and uses Lenz's law as a method of explaining the event. The Meissner effect and…

Transformers

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Explains the operating principles of the transformer and gathers empirical evidence to deduce the relationships among the important variables at…

EMR Fundamentals

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Focuses on the historic development (Oersted, Ampere, Faraday, Maxwell) of electromagnetic theory. Mini-labs demonstrate the wave-like behaviour of…

Electromagnetic Waves and Communication

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Emphasis is placed on how radio transmission and reception occur through a studio model of a transmitter and receiver and interviews with experts…

EMR and the Stars

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Explains that different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum are used to explore the universe. Explores the value of satellite-observing platforms…

Biomedical Applications of EMR

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Discusses the relative energy of electromagnetic waves of different frequencies ii terms of their penetrating ability in human tissue. Focuses on…

From Cathode Rays to X-Rays

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Traces historical events that led up to the discovery of cathode rays and X-rays. Explains that science often progresses in a haphazard way: one…

Charge to Mass Ratio

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

A detailed analysis of J.J. Thomson's charge-to-mass ratio experiement. Data from the experiment is used to calculate the ratio of charge to mass…

Charge on the Electron

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Repeats R.A. Millikan's oil-drop experiment. Measures, collects and carries out an analysis of the data to determine the charge on one electron…

The Photon Model of Light

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Observes the behaviour of light in experiments involving black body radiation and the photoelectric effect. When the observations are analyzed from…

The Photoelectric Effect

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Data is collected and analysed to investigate the photoelectric effect and begin to quantify the photon model of light. These concepts are applied…

Wave Particle Duality

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Examines the medical use of x-rays, x-ray production, the photoelectric and Compton effects, and wave-particle duality as it applies to photons. De…

Atomic Spectra

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Reveals the visible spectra of a number of gases, and explains the analytical power of spectral analysis. This line of thought leads to a number of…

The Hydrogen Spectrum

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Uses the Rydberg equation to quantitatively analyse the hydrogen gas spectrum. The idea of energy levels within the hydrogen atom is introduced…

The Bohr Model of the Atom

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

The ideas of atomic spectra and the specifics of the hydrogen spectrum are synthesized to present Bohr's model of the hydrogen atom. The laser…

The Quantum Mechanical Model

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

The phenomena of fluorescence and phosphorescence provide the context to explore, qualitatively, the main ideas of the quantum mechanical model of…

Radioactivity

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Radioactivity is introduced. Explores the properties of alpha, beta and gamma radiation and conducts a risk-benefit assessment, in the context of…

Radioactive Decay

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

Radioactive decay is introduced using radioactive dating of artifacts and fossils as examples. Explains how to describe decay in terms of nuclear…

Fission and Fusion

By Alberta Advanced Education - 1996

The final program of the series looks to the future. In the context of speculating how electricity will be generated 40 years from now, it…

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