Exploring Creation with Physical Science

Modules

• 1 The Basics- Introduction
• Atoms and molecules
• Experiment 1.1 Atoms and Molecules
• Measurement and Units
• The Metric System
• Manipulating Units
• Converting between units
• Converting between systems
• Experiment 1.2 Cubits and fingers
• Concentration
• Experiment 1.3 concentration
• 2 Air- introduction
• The Air and humidity
• Experiment 2.1 Evaporation and Temperature
• The composition of air
• Experiment 2.2 Oxygen and Fire
• Carbon Dioxide in the Air
• Experiment 2.3 Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect
• Global Warming
• Parts Per Million
• Ozone
• Air Pollution
• 3 The Atmosphere- Introduction
• Atmospheric Pressure
• Experiment 3.1 Atmospheric Pressure
• The layers of Earth's Atmosphere
• The Homosphere
• What is Temperature?
• Experiment 3.2 Seeing the effect of changing temperture
• The Temperture Gradient in the Homesphere
• The "Hole" in the Ozone Layer
• The Heterosphere
• 4 The Wonder of Water- introduction
• The Composition of water
• Experiment 4.1 The Chemical Composition of Water
• Chemical Formulas
• Water's Polarity
• Experiment 4.2 Water's Polarity
• Water as a Solvent
• Experiment 4.3 Solvents and Solutes
• Hydrogen Bonding in Water
• Experiment 4.4 Comparing Solid Water to Solid Butter
• Water's Cohesion
• Experiment 4.5 Water's Cohesion
• Experiment 4.6 The Forces between Molecules
• Hard Water and Soft Water
• 5 The Hydrosphere- introduction
• The Parts of the Hydrosphere and the Hydrologic Cycle
• Experiment 5.1 Evaporation, Condensation, and Percipation
• The Ocean
• Glaciers and Icebergs
• Experiment 5.2 Ice and Salt
• Groundwater and Soil Moisture
• Surface Water
• Atmospheric Moisture
• Experiment 5.3 Cloud Formation
• Water Pollution
• 6 Earth and the Lithosphere- introduction
• The Crust
• The Mantle
• Experiment 6.1 How Sound Travels through different substances
• Experiment 6.2 A Simulation of Plastic Rock
• The Earth's Core
• Experiment 6.3 Making an Electromagnet
• Plate Tectonics
• Experiment 6.4 A Model of Plate Tectonics
• Earthquakes
• Mountains and Volcanoes
• 7 Factors That Affect Earth's Weather- introduction
• Factors that Influence Weather
• Clouds
• Experiment 7.1 A long term weather experiment
• Earth's Thermal Energy
• Latitude and Longitude
• Uneven Thermal Energy Distribution
• Air Masses
• 8 Weather and its Prediction- introduction
• Precipitation
• Thunderstorms
• Experiment 8.1 Making your own Lightning
• Tornadoes and Hurricanes
• Weather maps and weather prediction
• Interpreting the results of Experiment 7.1 and Making Your Own Weather Predictions
• Experiment 8.2 Turning Experiment 7.1 into a Weather Preiction Tool
• 9 An Introduction to the Physics of Motion- introduction
• Mechanics- Yhe Study of Motin, Forces, and Energy
• Speed: How Quickly Motion Occurs
• Velocity: Speed and Direction
• Experiment 9.1 The Importance of Direction
• Accelerating: The Ratevof Change in Velocity
• The Acceleration Due to Gravity
• Experiment 9.2 The Acceleration Due to Gravity is Independent of the Object Falling
• Experiment 9.3 Measuring Height with a Stopwatch
• 10 Newton's Law- introduction
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Newton's First Law of Motion
• Experiment 10.1 Two experiments Demostrating Newton' s First Law
• Experiment 10.2 An Experiment to see how well you understand Newton's First Law
• Friction
• Experiment 10.3 Friction
• Newton's Second Law
• Static and Kinetic Friction
• Newton's Third Law of Motion
• Experiment 10.4 Newton's Third Law
• 11 The Forces in Creation - Part 1 - introduction
• The Four Fundamantal Forces of Creation
• The Gravitational Force
• Force and Circular Motion
• Experiment 11.1 Force and Circular Motion
• A Fictional Force
• The Gravitational Force at work in our solar system
• Comets
• Hey, What About Pluto?
• What causes the Gravitational Force?
• Experiment 11.2 The "Bent Space and Time" Theroy of Gravity
• Experiment 11.3 The Graviton Theroy of Gravity
• A Brief History of our view of the Solor system
• 12 The Forces on Creation - Part 2 - introduction
• James Clerk Maxwell
• The Electromagnetic Force
• Experiment 12.1 Electrical Attraction and Repulsion
• Photons and the Electromagnetic Force
• How objects become electrically charged
• Experiment 12.2 Making and using an Electroscope
• Electrical Circuits
• Resistance
• Experiment 12.3 Current and Resistance
• Switches and Circuits
• Series and Parallel Circuits
• Magnetism
• Permanent Magnets
• 13 The Forces in Creation - Part 3 - introduction
• The Structure of the Atom
• The Periodic Table of the Elements
• The Strong Force
• Radioactivity
• The Dangers of Radioactivity
• The rate of Radioactivity Decay
• Radioactive Dating
• 14 Waves and Sound- introduction
• Waves
• Sound Waves
• Experiment 14.1 The medium through which sound waves travel
• The Speed of Sound
• Experiment 14.2 The speed of sound
• The speed of sound in other objects
• Sound Wavelength and Frequency
• Experiment 14.3 Wavelength and Sound
• The Doppler effect
• Experiment 14.4 The Doppler Effect
• The Volume of Sound
• Experiment 14.5 The Amplitude of a sound Wave
• Uses of Sound Waves
• 15 Light- introduction
• The Dual Nature of Light
• Wavelength and Frequency of light
• Experiment 15.1 Seeing different Wavelengths of light
• Reflection
• Experiment 15.2 The law of reflection
• Refraction
• Experiment 15.3 Refraction of light
• Experiment 15.4 The "Magical " Quarter
• Lenses
• The Human Eye
• How we perceive color
• Experiment 15.5 How the Eye detects color
• Adding and Subtracting Colors
• 16 An Introduction to Astrophysics
• The Sun
• Nuclear Energy
• Classifying the stars in the Universe
• Variable Stars
• Measuring the distance to Stars
• Galaxies
• An Expanding Universe
• Experiment 16.1 An Expanding Universe
• Summing It All Up