Help is here! If you're a high school student, you can use this site to get background information about HSC physics topics or ask questions on our Bulletin Board, where you'll quickly get a straight answer from either a UNSW physicist, the Board community, or both.

If you're a teacher and want access to our teaching resources, learn about our current outreach activities, or want some ideas about how physics education can improve student career paths, this is the place to start.

Physclips Website (previewed above) includes mechanics, waves and sound, electric motors and special relativity.

Background material for teachers and students

• Notes from development day February 2011
  • Notes on using the wii mote
  • Induced currents and eddy current demonstrations
• HSC Teachers Professional Development Workshop 2007 downloads
  • The Physics of Climate by Michael Box (ppt)
  • Presentation on Space and Gravity by Michael Burton (ppt)
  • Spreadsheeet for Solar System calculations (excel spreadsheet)
• Information about the research in the School of Physics.
• Interesting and inexpensive experiments for HSC Physics. Download the teachers' notes.

Preliminary Course

• World Communicates
• Electrical Energy in the Home
• Moving About
• Cosmic Engine

Core Components

• Space
• Motors and Generators
• From Ideas to Implementation

Optional Components

• Astrophysics
• From Quanta to Quarks
• The Age of Silicon

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