Purpose#
As an educator I often find myself in need of resources I've used for past units and projects, but I rarely archive them in any kind of well-organized way. This site is an attempt to pool some of those bits together for my students and myself. The ultimate goal is to have a useful repository of topics connected to International Baccalaureate (IB) Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science.
For more information about the topics in IB:
Organization#
Astronomy
Part 1: Measuring light
Part 2: Measuring stellar distances
Part 3: Practical measurements of flux
Part 4: Luminosity of a star
Part 5: Colors and temperatures of stars
Part 6: Determining Main Sequence star properties from scratch
Black Holes
What is gravity?
Orbit of Halley's Comet
How far away are galaxies?
What are spectral emission lines
Reading steller spectra
Conservation and equivalence derivations
Derivation of mass and energy equivalence from General Relativity
Mathematics
The Dr. Loh method for finding quadratic roots
Predicting the dimensions of an inscribed equilateral triangle
An introduction of parameterization
How to find the tangent line to a curve
Prime spiral
Mechanics
An exploration of SI units: Mechanics