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- Subject: Science
- AS: AS90768
- Level: 2
- Credits: 4
- External
Science 2.9 Use physics concepts and principles to describe the behaviour of light
Sites for revision
The Physics Classroom
This website is an online physics tutorial for high school physics students – motion, Newtons Laws, vectors, momentum and conservation, work, energy and power, waves, light and colour, reflection and refraction. There are animated examples and quizzes. Suitable for NCEA levels one and two.
Bitesize Revision – Physics topics
This website provides revision and interactive tests in a number of physics topics – the solar system, forces and motion, energy, electricity and magnetism, radioactivity, and waves. Suitable for NCEA levels one and two.
Higher Bitesize Revision – Waves
A website that presents the properties of waves – wave phases, wave reflection, wave diffraction, and interference. There are problems with solutions explained, and an opportunity to test understanding. Suitable for NCEA level two.
Java Applets on Physics
This website provides interactive java applets on topics of physics – mechanics, oscillations and waves, electrodynamics, optics, thermodynamics, theory of relativity, physics of atoms, nuclear physics. Suitable for NCEA.
HyperPhysics
This website has information about many topics in the subjects physics, chemistry, geophysics, and biology. You can select the subject area to find a topic or select from an index. Suitable for NCEA levels two and three.
Light and Colour
A website that describes with interactive tutorials the complex phenomenon that is classically explained with a simple model based on waves and particles. The topics includes sources of visible light (electromagnetic radiation), the theory behind light being made up of waves or particles, speed of light, reflection, refraction, diffraction and interference of light, and basic properties of mirrors, prisms and lasers. Suitable for NCEA level two.
