Students in introductory physics courses typically begin to solve a problem by plunging into the algebraic and numerical solution -- they search for and manipulate equations, plugging numbers into the equations until...

The Council on Undergraduate Research is a national professional organization with more than 3,500 members representing over 850 institutions in seven academic divisions. Serving faculty and administrators at primarily...

This resource, created by Dean Zollman of Kansas State University, discusses light emitting diodes and the role of energy (band) gaps. It also discusses the effects of impurities. The resource has contains information on...

This site, from UCLA's Department of Physics, contains web and in-class demonstrations of physics concepts in the topic areas of mechanics, harmonic motion and waves, electricity and magnetism, acoustics, optics, matter...

This website allows students to design a simple roller coaster, and it then evaluates the roller coaster based on physical principles such as potential energy and circular motion. It rates the roller coaster on safety...