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High school physics course notes, with JavaScript simulations

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Re: High school physics course notes, with JavaScript simulations

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I just completed my two year project to build an online website to pair with my 11th grade physics classes.

I hope it can be a resource for those learning and teaching physics. I've got some free time this summer so let me know if you have any advice about what else to add.

Re: High school physics course notes, with JavaScript simulations

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I just completed my two year project to build an online website to pair with my 11th grade physics classes. I hope it can be a resource for those learning and teaching physics. I've got some free time this summer so let me know if you have any advice about what else to add.

Hey, these are great. Must have taken a lot of work. Nice job!

I wanted to do the same thing for a long time, but never got around to it, so seeing this made me very happy.

It mostly works on my phone, too (layout).

Re: High school physics course notes, with JavaScript simulations

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I just completed my two year project to build an online website to pair with my 11th grade physics classes. I hope it can be a resource for those learning and teaching physics. I've got some free time this summer so let me know if you have any advice about what else to add.

I find this a fantastic work!

I created my own simulations when studying these topics, and sure it helped much (though they were not as tidy and organized like these). Not sure if it was the effort to make the simulation that made things clearer, but I believe this can be indeed a wonderful resource.

Re: High school physics course notes, with JavaScript simulations

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I just completed my two year project to build an online website to pair with my 11th grade physics classes. I hope it can be a resource for those learning and teaching physics. I've got some free time this summer so let me know if you have any advice about what else to add.

Awesome! It is nice for those who need some visual guidance. I think this would make a wonderful resource.

Re: High school physics course notes, with JavaScript simulations

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I just completed my two year project to build an online website to pair with my 11th grade physics classes. I hope it can be a resource for those learning and teaching physics. I've got some free time this summer so let me know if you have any advice about what else to add.

What did you use to make the static diagrams, for example on the Newton's Laws page?

https://landgreen.github.io/physics/notes/force/1-intro/inde...

Re: High school physics course notes, with JavaScript simulations

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post #3

I just completed my two year project to build an online website to pair with my 11th grade physics classes. I hope it can be a resource for those learning and teaching physics. I've got some free time this summer so let me know if you have any advice about what else to add.

Hey, these are great. Must have taken a lot of work. Nice job! I wanted to do the same thing for a long time, but never got around to it, so seeing this made me very happy. It mostly works on my phone, too (layout).

I have always thought an ideal physics curriculum at such a level would actually involve the students creating software packages to accomplish something like this. I think these are great illustrations of the principles, but there's value in making the students visualize the problem independently IMHO. Then again, I hear the argument "not everyone needs to learn programming" too often to think my idea has a realistic chance of traction any time soon.

Re: High school physics course notes, with JavaScript simulations

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nice...have you considered PHET syms (https://phet.colorado.edu/)?

I also built a CMS-type environment for this type of content. It combines content creation with an IDE to create simulations that can be combined with the content.

Here is a static and old version of the software: http://schoolnotez.com/

There are folks interested in creating these types of interactive learning environments, unfortunately it doesn't appear that there is much demand for it by schools.

Re: High school physics course notes, with JavaScript simulations

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I just completed my two year project to build an online website to pair with my 11th grade physics classes. I hope it can be a resource for those learning and teaching physics. I've got some free time this summer so let me know if you have any advice about what else to add.

I'm curious about the Javascript simulations -- which lessons contains those simulations? (I couldn't find any in the few lessons I looked at)
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