December 2, 2018



For an audiovisual introduction to understanding the structure and navigation of Physclips see What is Physclips?
On Designing educational animations, we list some of the advice given in the literature, and show how some examples from Physclips would appear with and without these principles.
Some support pages, together with the audiovisual introduction, have been translated into Chinese and can be accessed here
For some primary school resources, see Glimpses of Science.
Further educational sites from Joe Wolfe
Credits:
Authored and Presented by Joe Wolfe
Multimedia Design by George Hatsidimitris
Laboratories in Waves and Sound by John Smith

physics animations - relativityWaves and Sound

 

physics animations - relativityWaves and Sound
Links to related material
The eye: optics, anatomy and accommodationThe eye and the camera: similarities and differences. Anatomy and focussing. Accommodation and reading glasses. Retinal anatomies. The blind spot. Image formation and analysis.
Complementary colours, after-images, retinal fatigue, colour mixing and contrast sensitivityAfter-images give complementary colour illusions due to retinal fatigue. Complementary colour charts. Demonstration of contrast sensitivity and lateral inhibition.
Colour mixingColour mixing with additive primaries (RGB = Red Green Blue) and subtractive primaries (CYM = Cyan Yellow Magenta). Additive mixing using RGB monitors, projectors and Newton's colour wheel. Subtractive mixing using paints and filters.
The Eye: performance and compromisesPhoton capture efficiency, aperture and aberration, focal length, integration time/ exposure time/ frames per second, stereoscopic vision, angle of view.
Why vision?Why is the octave from 400 to 700 nm so important? Why so little UR and IV vision? A comparison of vision and hearing.

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Joe Wolfe: educational pages


  • Physclips is my latest project, with producer George Hatsidimitris. It's an organised set of multimedia resources, with film clips and animations. Volumes 1 & 2 on Mechanics and Waves and Sound are finished (they won the Physics division of the Pirelli Prizes for Science Communication). We are currently putting chapters on Light for Volume 3.With help from my colleagues John Smith, John Tann and George Hatsidimitris, I have written various educational web pages, of which this page is a partial catalogue:

    My main research is described in my scientific publications, but there are popular accounts in these areas:
    I am also a composer and the next link is to some of my
    • music for orchestra or for chamber music ensembles.
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    Pages related to learning and teaching in general


    Pages on topics in physics


    Pages on sound, hearing, speech and music


    Miscellany.


    Material for high school physics students and teachers.


    Material for primary school physics students and teachers.


    Joe Wolfe / J.Wolfe@unsw.edu.au, phone 61-2-9385 4954 (UT + 10, +11 Oct-Mar).

     Music Acoustics home page
     Joe's scientific home page
     Joe's music site

    Formal publications on education



    Awards for university and web teaching