Review for:The Physics Classroom

posted: on June 1, 2007 at 1:39PM

physics

mechanics and some of the optics

to provide my students with a textbook-like experience without having them purchase a text book.

Intro or Regular

As a textbook, usually as the reading part of a homework assignment.

Provides visualization or animation, Increases graphing skills, Increases modeling skills, Provides a virtual lab, Provides practice or tutorial, Provides additional content, Increases student engagement and motivation

quality of the content is high; it is written in a very "Paul Hewitt" kind of style and many of the pictures are in his style; my students have never complained that they had any trouble accessing the site; it is easy to find by just typing in "the physics classroom" into google and it is the first hit on the list; it also has some nice animations in the "multimedia physics studio"

we don't have many reading assignments and I hate having students buy a text book for $100 +, when they can just get these notes on line for the 6-10 times a year when we want them

It doesn't come with supplementary problems (problems without published answers) as a text book has

I need to be somewhat judicious using it because I want students to figure out f=ma in the lab before they read about it online. Timing therefore can be critical.