Physics 152 & 212
Class Resources


OpenStax at Rice University
College Physics
University Physics, Volume 1
University Physics, Volume 2
University Physics, Volume 3

General Resources
Activity Guide Guidelines
Homework Grading Rubric
Activity Guide Grading Rubric
Problem Solving Guide & Rubric

PhET - University of Colorado at Boulder

Crash Course Physics
      (Video Series by Dr. Shini Somara, Imperial College)
How to Get the Most Out of Studying
      (Video Series by Dr. Stephen Chew, Samford University)

Modeling Worksheet (modelingWorksheet.xlsx) - Excel Spreadsheet

Unit 14, Harmonic Motion
Activity 14.3.1 - Logger Pro
Activity 14.4.1 - Excel Spreadsheet
Activity 14.5.2 - Excel Spreadsheet

Activity 14.6.1 - Logger Pro
Activity 14.6.1 - Excel Spreadsheet
Activity 14.6.3 - Excel Spreadsheet

Activity Guide Changes   Session 1   Session 2

PhET - Masses and Springs: Basics
PhET - Masses and Springs
PhET - Pendulum Lab

Unit 15, Waves and Optics (Phys 152)
umd005 - Logger Pro
umd005 - Movie
TravelingWaves - Excel Spreadsheet
PhET - Wave on a String
PhET - Fourier: Making Waves
PhET - Bending Light Simulator
PhET - Geometric Optics

Activity 15.2.7 - Logger Pro

Snell's Law - Excel Spreadsheet

Class Notes, Session 1   152
Class Notes, Session 2   152
Class Notes, Session 3   152
Class Notes, Session 4   152
Class Notes, Session 5   152

Wave Movies

Waveform FFT - Logger Pro

PhET - Sound Wave Simulator
PhET - Wave Interference Simulator
PhET - Color Vision Simulator
PhET - Blackbody Spectrum Simulator

2 Wave Superposition (Mathematica Notebook)
Refraction and Reflection at an Interface (Mathematica Notebook)
Parallel Interfaces (Mathematica Notebook)
Submerged Light Source (Mathematica Notebook)
Light through a Prism (Mathematica Notebook)

Acoustics and Vibration Animations - Penn State University (Dr. Daniel Russell)
The Physics Classroom - Waves and Sound
The Physics Classroom - Refraction and Lenses
Geometric Optics Simulator (Southwestern College)
SimBucket
Ray Optics Simulator
Sound: An Interactive eBook

Unit 16, Temperature and Heat Transfer
Activity 16.4.1 - Logger Pro
Activity 16.4.2 - Logger Pro
Activity 16.6.1 - Logger Pro
Activity 16.7.2 - Logger Pro
Activity 16.7.2 - Procedure
Activity 16.9.1 - Logger Pro
Activity 16.10.1 - Logger Pro

Activity Guide Changes   Session 1   Session 2   Session 3

Class Notes, Session 1   152
Class Notes, Session 2   152

Temperature Scales 1 (from "The Straight Dope")
Temperature Scales 2 (from "The Straight Dope")

What the Fahrenheit! (from "2Veritasium")
What the Fahrenheit! - animated version (from "Veritasium")
Celsius Didn't Invent Celsius (from "Veritasium")

Unit 17, The First Law of Thermodynamics
Activity 17.3.2 - Logger Pro
Activity 17.8.1 (V vs. T) - Logger Pro
Activity 17.8.2 (P vs. T) - Logger Pro
Activity 17.8.3 (P vs. V) - Logger Pro
Activity 17.11.1 - "Atom in a Box" Movie
Logger Pro file for "Atom in a Box" (gassimv.cmbl)

Activity Guide Changes   Session 1   Session 2   Session 3

Class Notes, Session 3   152   212

PhET - States of Matter: Basics
PhET - States of Matter
Temperature vs. Q for water
PhET - Gases Intro
PhET - Gas Properties

Unit 18, Heat Engines
Activity 18.10.3 - Logger Pro
Activity 18.10.3 - Logger Pro (with data)

Activity Guide Changes   Session 1   Session 2   Session 3   Session 4

Class Notes, Session 1   152   212
Class Notes, Session 4   152   212

4 Thermodynamic Processes
Thermodynamics Movies and Pictures
Stirling Engine
Quiz on Work and Internal Energy Change

Unit 19, Electric Fields
Activity 19.6.2 - Coulomb 004 Movie
Logger Pro file for Coulomb 004 Movie (coul004.cmbl)
Activity 19.6.2 - Coulomb 005 Movie
Logger Pro file for Coulomb 005 Movie (coul005.cmbl)
Activity 19.6.2 - DSON 015 Movie
Logger Pro file for DSON 015 Movie (dson015.cmbl)
Activity 19.6.2 - Excel Spreadsheet
Activity 19.8.1 - Excel Spreadsheet
Activity 19.9.2 - Excel Spreadsheet

Activity Guide Changes   Session 1   Session 3

Class Notes, Session 3   152   212
Class Notes, Session 4   152   212

PhET - Balloons & Static Electricity
PhET - John Travoltage
PhET - Coulomb's Law
PhET - Charges and Fields
Test charge concept

Unit 20, Electric Flux and Gauss' Law
Activity 20.2.1 - Electric Field Lines
         Simulation 1, Physlet Physics (Select "Ch.23: Electric Fields")
         Simulation 2, The Physics Classroom
         Simulation 3, Boston University, Andrew Duffy
         Simulation 4, B. Surendranath (Select "menu (top left)-Electricity-Electric Field")
         Simulation 5, Matter and Interactions, University of North Texas, Ruth Chabay
         Simulation 6, Academo.org

Activity 20.3.2 - Excel Spreadsheet
Activity 20.7.1 b - Movie
Activity 20.7.1 c/d - Movie

Activity Guide Changes   Session 1   Session 2   Session 3

Class Notes, Session 1   152   212
Class Notes, Session 2   152   212
Class Notes, Session 3   152   212

Unit 21, Electrical and Gravitational Potential
Activity 21.9.1 - Excel Spreadsheet

PhET - Charges and Fields

Activity Guide Changes   Session 1

Class Notes, Session 1   152
Class Notes, Session 2   152
Class Notes, Session 3   152

Unit 22, Batteries, Bulbs, and Current Flow 
Activity 22.8.1 through 22.16.2 - Logger Pro

PhET - DC Circuit Simulator

Activity Guide Changes   Session 2

Class Notes, Session 1   152
Class Notes, Session 2   152
Class Notes, Session 3   152

Unit 23, Direct Current Circuits
Activity 23.2.1 - Logger Pro
Activity 23.6.1 - Logger Pro
Activity 23.6.1 - Excel Spreadsheet
Activity 23.10.1 - PDF File
Activity 23.11.1 - Wolfram Alpha
Activity 23.12.1 e - Movie

PhET - DC Circuit Simulator

Example - Circuit Analysis, Resistors

Class Notes, Session 1   152   212
Class Notes, Session 2   152   212
Class Notes, Session 3   152   212

Unit 24, Capacitors and RC Circuits
Activity 24.3.1 - Excel Spreadsheet
Activity 24.7.1 - Logger Pro
Activity 24.7 - Excel Spreadsheet
Activity 24.8 - Excel Spreadsheet

PhET - Capacitor Lab: Basics
PhET - Capacitor Lab (Java)
PhET - AC Circuit Simulator

Example - Circuit Analysis, Capacitors

Class Notes, Session 3   152   212

Unit 26, Magnetic Fields
Activity 26.9.1 - Logger Pro
Activity 26.11.1 - Excel Spreadsheet

Class Notes, Session 1   152   212
Class Notes, Session 2   152

PhET - Magnetic Field Simulator (Java)
Right Hand Rule Practice

Unit 27, Electricity and Magnetism
Activity 27.5.2 - Logger Pro
Activity 27.6.1 - Logger Pro

PhET - Faraday's Law

Unit 15, Chaos (Phys 212)
Activity 15.4.2 - Logger Pro
Activity 15.4.3 - Logger Pro
Activity 15.4.4 - Logger Pro
Activity 15.4.4 - Excel Spreadsheet
Activity 15.6.2 - Excel Spreadsheet
Activity 15.7.2 - Logger Pro
Activity 15.7.3 - Excel Spreadsheet
Activity 15.8.2 - Logger Pro
Activity 15.9.2 - Excel Spreadsheet