Physics Activities and Links
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If you come across an excellent resource, let us know at hello@harborandsprout.com so we can add it to the list!Physics project ideas: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/physics
Interactive physics simulations: https://ophysics.com/
PHET interactive physics simulations: https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/filter?subjects=physics&type=html,prototype
Physics is Beautiful database: https://www.physicsisbeautiful.com/curriculum/
The Feynman Lectures on Physics: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
Phys Org database: https://phys.org/
Berkeley Physics: https://physics.berkeley.edu/research-faculty/budker-group/physics-tutorials
MIT Physics resources: https://ocw.mit.edu/search/?d=Physics&s=department_course_numbers.sort_coursenum
Huygens' Principle Tutorial: https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/reflection/huygens/index.html
Copernicus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0p6NKANE08
What is Classical Physics?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=aaCyf4diZ38
What is Mechanics?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfMl6NJYHfY
The Physics Classroom Newton playlists: https://www.youtube.com/user/physicsclassroomLIVE
Geometric Optics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh4m8Ees-3Q
Optical Instruments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SddBPTcmqOk
What are Virtual and Real Images?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwBK_cXUTZI
Carl Zeiss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1derlRnz2s4
Carl Zeiss Foundation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIt9aLmzk4E
Make an Electromagnet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAXfO6ekUq8
Sound and waves: https://youtu.be/9YgcdK0qY8w
Pythagorean tuning: https://youtu.be/510oXj_eBQI
TedTalk on how our brains are conditioned to sound: https://youtu.be/jDy5j0c6TrU
Coulomb’s Law: https://youtu.be/G11OJMnMlTE
Discovery of the Atom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb6MguN0Uj4
Oersted Compass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwilgsQ9xaM
Maxwell’s Equations (CrashCourse): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K40lNL3KsJ4
Albert Einstein (brief): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NORQHedJbbY
General Relativity Explained Simply & Visually (Has a short sponsored ad): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzQC3uYL67U
Special Relativity (CrashCourse): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AInCqm5nCzw&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtN0ge7yDk_UA0ldZJdhwkoV&index=43
If Light has No Mass, Why…?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXhJDPu0G-E
Thermodynamics (CrashCourse): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i1MUWJoI0U
What is entropy?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM-uykVfq_E
Planck’s Constant and the Origin of Quantum Mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQSbms5MDvY
Quantum Harmonic Oscillator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdizRUe84bg
A Better Way to Picture Atoms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Xb2GFK2yc
Quantum Mechanics in Simple Words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9pPjASnnxw
How the Third Law of Thermodynamics made Einstein Famous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueqVVa4iA24
Niels Bohr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IIg4Qt_qv4
Quantum Mechanics and the Schrödinger Equation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6g-7rUgrdg
Schrödinger's cat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjaAxUO6-Uw
The Born Rule: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHlqY44fOg0
Quantum Fields: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoStndCzFhg
Quantum Electromagnetics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHTWBc14-mk
Quantum Electromagnetics & Feynman Diagrams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-FEU4mQWtE
Quantum Chromodynamics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY3kr5L-Nso
Is this What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIyTZDHuarQ
Geographic Poles & Magnetic Poles(dual language): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4VRzwp4Mu4
What it takes to be a Field Geophysicist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ-Pjgdj2Go
Geophysics & Earthquake Prediction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCDRZj8mVR0
What is Geodesy?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQXVJNeItr4
9 Impacts of Geodesy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCK5Zj--w7w
What is the theme in literature?:https://youtu.be/I5KZcdAmWLw
Science Fiction Genre Characteristics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcO1WJumdmE
The History of Science Fiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tbUxCJRGAk
Who is Issac Asimov?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9e4hcmR5Yc
How to Build a Fictional World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQTQSbjecLg
The Evolution of Science Fiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4j5tGNms14
Sound: CrashCourse Physics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV4lR9EWGlY
Sound Wave Experiments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mlBh5d1IUY
Converting Pa to dB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz5Sr-WUKrM
Max Planck - Accidentally Started Quantum Mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMUi3o78qgQ
Max Planck Biography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hzw622nMIs
Visual Science Communication Gallery: https://www.gnsi.org/visual-science-communication-in-action
Cognitive Art of Feynman Diagrams: https://www.fnal.gov/pub/tufte/artwork.html
Kathleen Lonsdale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGJC1LaoD3k
Feynman- Physics is Fun to Imagine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3pYRn5j7oI&t=95s
Feynman diagrams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk1cOffTgdk
Definite Integrals: https://youtu.be/epMo9f5_sjc
Indefinite Integrals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTFMeSCxgcA
Derivatives (CrashCourse): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObHJJYvu3RE
Derivatives (Khan): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2PpRnFqnqY
Introduction to Limits (Khan): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riXcZT2ICjA
Calculating Average Velocity (Khan): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRKxmXwLvUU
Limit tutorial website: https://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/classes/calcI/defnoflimit.aspx
Literary devices, definitions, and examples: https://writers.com/common-literary-devices
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
Basic Physics: A Self-Teaching Guide by Karl F. Kuhn
Professor Povey's Perplexing Problems by Thomas Povey
Physics for Dummies by Steven Holzner
Cosmic Queries by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Essential Calculus-Based Physics Study Guide Workbook by Chris McMullen
Essential Trig-Based Physics Study Guide Workbook by Chris McMullen
Must Know High School Physics by Christopher Bruhn
Quantum Physics for Beginners by Carl J. Pratt
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Principia by Sir Isaac Newton
For the Love of Physics by Walter Lewin and Warren Goldstein