TUTORIALS

There are several sites available which provide interesting and interactive tutorials in physics.  Put them to good use!

http://www.phschool.com/science/cpsurf/  (cpSurf) This is a tutorial provided by the publisher of a popular high school physics textbook.  The emphasis here is mostly conceptual, so you will find fewer formulas and equations.

http://library.thinkquest.org/10796/  (Learn Physics Today!) Here you will find a healthy portion of interactive problems and simulations.  Good tutorial.

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/BBoard.html (The Physics Classroom) This page was developed at Glenbrook South High School (by five full-time physics teachers working first as volunteers, then under a grant from the First in the World Consortium) as a resource for their students and students of other schools via the internet.

http://library.thinkquest.org/3042/  (Bang! Boing! Pop!) Despite the corny name, this website is a useful introduction and tutorial about energy and momentum and their conservation.  You will find insightful explanations and simulations here.

http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/tutorials/tutorials.html  (Physics Tutorials, University of Guelph) Here you will find detailed on-line tutorials covering the topics of torque and rotational motion, free body diagrams, simple harmonic motion, DC circuits, and exponential growth.  (You will also find remedial tutorials for dimensional analysis, trigonometry, graphing, algebra, and vectors.)

http://www.explorescience.com/activities/index.cfm  (ExploreScience.com) These Shockwave™ Activities create real-time correlations between scientific theories and applications that help students visualize, experiment, and interact with many of the major concepts in science (including mechanics, waves, electricity and magnetism, optics, astronomy, and vectors). To use an Activity you must first have the free Shockwave™ plugin (available free for download at the site).

http://brad.tcimet.net/java_samples/sigfigs/autogen_SigFigs.html At this interactive site, a number is randomly generated and the user is asked to specify the number of significant figures. When the user guesses incorrectly, a hint is given to prevent the user from making similar mistakes in the future. This is great practice!