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Brownian motion

	Single grain of dust
	Two grains of dust
	Increase the temperature
	Looking at the motion
	Comparing particles
	Investigating Brownian Motion

Construction of capacitors

Incomplete capacitor circuits

Stored charge: effect of voltage

Capacitor Experiment Data Sheet

Capacitance formula

Stored charge: other factors

Designing capacitors (1)

Designing capacitors (2)

Energy stored in a capacitor

How much energy is stored?

Energy stored by a capacitor - data sheet

Stored energy: graphical view

Charging through a resistor

Charging and discharging capacitors

Analysing the charging data

Discharging a capacitor

Analysing capacitor discharge

Chemical reactions

What is bond energy

Bond activation

Testing energy diagrams

Calculating enthalpy of reaction

	Calculating the enthalpy of reaction from bond energies
	Calculating the enthalpy of reaction from bond energies

Explaining electrolysis

	Explaining voltage changes in electrolysis
	Explaining electrode separation effects in electrolysis
	Explaining concentration of solution changes in electrolysis
	Content/Electrolysis/ElecExplain.html

Current v solution concentration

Current v electrode separation

Current v voltage

Experiment - step 1

Experiment - step 2

Experiment Data Sheet

Experiment results

Different springs

Experiment results

Plastic deformation

Deformation of materials

Interference of Light Waves

Principle of superposition

Principle of Superposition - Simulation

Coherent sources

Double slit interference

Young's double slit: Experiment

	Experimental details
	Experiment Data Sheet
	Slit width
	Derivation of Young's double slit formula

Diffraction Gratings

Diffraction Gratings explored...

Magnetic fields due to electric currents

	Introduction
	Current flow through a straight wire
	Current flow through a circular coil
	Current flow through a solenoid

Nuclear binding energy

Alpha scattering

Relation of mass to energy

	Einstein's equation
	Binding energy values

Binding energy of elements

Binding energy per nucleon

Nuclear Reactor

Inside a Nuclear Reactor

Content/NuclearReactor/NuclearReactorApplet.html

Refraction of light at a boundary

Experimental results

Refractive index

Refractive index of glass

Experiment results

Reversibility of light

Total internal reflection

	Periscopes
	Fibre Optics

Absolute refractive index

Resistors in series and parallel

	Serial circuit
	Serial circuit 2
	Parallel circuit
	Parallel circuit 2
	Combined circuit 1
	Combined circuit 2
	Combined circuit 3
	Combined circuit 4
	Combined circuit 5
	Questions: serial circuits
	Questions: parallel circuits
	Questions: combined circuits

Longitudinal and transverse waves

'P' and 'S' waves explored

Seismometers - 'P' waves

Seismometers - 'S' waves

Seismometer traces

Waves through solid and liquid

Wave Velocity through Solids and Liquids

Waves through the earth

Measuring the earth's core

	The size of the outer core
	Measurement Techniques

Distance from an earthquake

	Data sheet
	Finding the epicentre of an earthquake

Location of an epicentre - 2

The Young modulus

Stiffness vs. strength

Experiment - step 1

Experiment Data Sheet

Experiment - step 2

Experiment - step 3

Software evaluation

Interactive Exercises in Advanced Chemistry

	Alkanes
	Alkenes
	Build a protein
	ECS
	Sunbathing
	CD purchase

	Activation energy
	Bond energy
	Brittle
	Capacitance
	Charge
	Circuit Symbol
	Component
	Control Rods
	Coulombmeter
	Critical angle
	Density
	Dielectric
	Discharge
	Ductile
	Elastic collision
	Endothermic reaction
	Energy diagram
	Epicentre
	Exothermic reaction
	Farad
	Fracture
	Fuel
	Half-life of a capacitor
	Inelastic collision
	Kinetic energy
	Maximum Working Voltage
	Momentum
	Normal
	Permittivity
	Products
	Reactant
	Endothermic reaction
	Refractive Index
	Principle of reversibility
	Richter scale
	Snell's Law
	Still air
	Strain
	Stress
	Tensile force
	Time Constant
	Total internal reflection
	Waisting
	Work

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