Practical Physics Lessons

Useful Applications of Physics Knowledge

This is the case primarily because no one (and no textbook) showed them the incredible usefulness a moderate knowledge of Physics can be.

This series of lessons is meant to correct that situation. Students in High School or College Physics should be able to benefit from and EVEN ENJOY (!!) these Physics lessons. The lessons should help clarify the usages of a lot of those dry subjects and equations the teacher or professor tries to ram down your throat. These lessons are freely made available to teachers and professors for use as they desire, either on the InterNet or in the classroom.

(The preceding paragraphs appears in each lesson, in the event that someone happens to find a single lesson from this series as a result of a search-engine search.)

• Could People ever be 12 feet tall?
  
• Why Are Planets Round?
  
• Distances, Heights
  
• Animal Sizes
  
• Why is the Earth Round?
  
• Why is the Sky Blue?
  
• Why are Sunsets Red?
  
• Has the Earth Always Looked Blue from Space?
  
• How Big Is the Earth? The Moon? The Sun? How Far?
  

More Advanced:

• Several Dinosaur Subjects (more advanced discussions)
  
• A Possible Hubble Experiment to Prove the Existence of Photons
  
• A Better Kite?
  
• Personal Safety Regarding Lightning
  
• The Origin of the Moon (more advanced discussions)
  
• Why Do Giant Planets Like Jupiter Rotate So Fast? (more advanced discussions)
  
• Precession of a Gyroscope (more advanced discussions)
  
• Precession of the Earth (more advanced discussions)
  
• Carbon-14 Radioactive Age Dating
  
• Radiometric Age Determination
  
• Relativistic Red Shift Factors (more advanced discussions)
  
• Improving the Performance of a Rowboat (more advanced discussions)
  
• Segmented Rockets for Better Efficiency (more advanced discussions)
  
• SETI - Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
  
• Applying Stealth Technology to Slow-Moving Ships (more advanced discussions)
  
• Why Does the Sun Rotate the Way It Does? (more advanced discussions)
  
• Source of the Earth's Magnetic Field (more advanced discussions)
  
• Considering the Causes of Plate Tectonic Movements (more advanced discussions)
  
• Is Time Travel Possible?
  

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C Johnson, Physicist, Physics Degree from Univ of Chicago