Eric Giler-CEO of MIT-inspired WiTricity- wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. Here, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT’s breakthrough version, WiTricity — a near-to-market invention that may soon recharge your cell phone, car, pacemaker.
This week, 04-10 October is celebrated as the World Space Week for 10 years by more than 80 nations. Here is the list of the activities planned in our school, Liceul International de Informatica Constanta:
Wednesday, 7th Oct. 10:30 Who wants to be a millionaire? Space Version
12:30 Visit to UMC Navigation Simulators
14:30 The Universe-Saturn Documentary
20:00 Night sky observation at planeterium
Thursday, 8th Oct. 10:30 Building and launching Model Rockets
13:30 RC plane-helicopter flight demonstration
14:30 “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle” project presentation
Friday, 9th Oct. Closing ceremony at CNMB
You can find the official Activity Guide with many ideas from www.worldspaceweek.org.
Let’s add some fun in our lessons. Here is the famous “Who wants to be a millionaire?” game in flash format which comes with a text file so that you can customizable the game. Prepare your own questions, write them in the custom xml file, and it is ready to play with your friends/students. In order to select who will play, I give you a cool spinner in which you assign a number to each student and select a random number simply by spinning the disk. Read on… [...]
Time to time, I would like to post some cool games for interactive whiteboards. They are great fun to play during breaks or in free times of the school day. Today we start with the game called “Cannons”, a simplified version of famous Tanks that I was playing a lot, many years ago. Up to four players try to adjust speed and angle for the projectile motion of the cannon – yes there is a lot of physics in here- to shoot the other players. You can also move the cannons by cursor keys. Download here. (size: 2.1 Mb)Good luck!
This page provides access to Flash animations for illustrating Physics content. The animations are sorted by category, and the file size of each animation is included in the listing. They were written by David M. Harrison, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto. Very nice collection of free flash animations. Thanks Mr.Harrison!
Today I publish my first lesson of physics. This is an introduction to the scope of physics in general. It aims to have a better understanding of ”What is physics? What does physics deal with? What are the branches of physics? etc”. Enhanced with popular and interesting videos and animations, this lesson can be a good start in your classrooms. You can also find a special file for Interactive SmartBoards in the package. Download now! (Total size: 62 Mb)
I have found very nice interactive simulations over the net. ForgeFX is proud to present this collection of some of favorite projects. Interactive 3D technology applies to a broad range of applications and the examples we selected represent a good selection of different areas. Have a look at the educational simulations link. I enjoyed playing with Design and Test Simulator in which you design and test a catapult to get the expected result. Eye, 4-stroke engine, Animal and Plant cells, Eclipses, Solar system are some others worth looking at…
You would like to see a lesson by a proffessor in MIT university, wouldn’t you? Now you can. Highlights for High School features MIT OpenCourseWare materials that are most useful for high school students and teachers. There are resources for Biology, Calculus, and Physics. Each category includes free Lesson Videos, Lecture Notes, Demonstrations, Practice Problems, Exam Questions. You can watch videos online or download them. Here is the link for the physics resources. There is also a page for physics video downloads.
Bumper Cars are very good examples to simulate elastic and inelastic collisions. Download Paul’s momentum simulator to learn more. You might need Flash Player to run this simulation.
Physics Portal is now turned into Science & IT Portal! We have been posting physics news in this portal as www.physics.ro We decided to expand the content of our site with more interesting stuff from all science and IT subjects under a brand new domain name: www.digiscience.net. By the help of science and IT teachers of Lumina Institutions, you will find more than physics now! The site address www.physics.ro will be still available though. Keep on touch with us.
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