Physics needed for participation in the project "Astrophysics Research by High School Students"
1. Kinematics of circular motion.
2. Newton's laws, the law of universal gravitation. Gravitational potential energy .
3. Laws of conservation of linear and angular momentum, mechanical energy.
4. Oscillations and waves - wave properties, interference, standing waves, diffraction, polarization.
5. Ideal gas law, absolute temperature, the average kinetic energy of gas particles and the temperature of gas.
6. Electric charges and electric field - Coulomb's law, potential energy of interaction of two charges and of one charged object, potential difference, ionization, energy of ionization.
7. Electric current. Ohm's law.
8. Magnetic field - the effect of magnetic field on moving charged particles. Radius of curvature of a moving charged particle in a given magnetic field.
9. Electromagnetic induction. Electromagnetic waves. Accelerated charged particles and radiation of e/m waves.
10. Geometrical optics. Laws of reflection and refraction, mirrors and lenses, how to build images.
11. Wave optics. Interference and diffraction. Diffraction grating. Resolving power.
12. Quantum optics. Plank's constant, quanta of energy, emission and absorption of light.
13. The structure of atoms. Bohr's postulates, different spectra, energies and wavelengths of photons radiated or absorbed by hydrogen.
14. Nuclear physics - what is inside nuclei, bonding energy, different types of decays and the reasons they occur. Fusion and fission.
Here are some possible Websites to recommend your students to study these topics:
1. GRAVITY
Exlporing Gravity Tutorial
http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept/phys-sci/gravity/index2.htm
Gravity Simulator
Hey, check out my interactive gravity modeler
http://www.arachnoid.com/gravitation/
2. WAVE MOTION
Superposition Principle of Wave
http://www.dipmat.unict.it/vpl/ntnujava/waveSuperposition/waveSuperposition.html
Interference Between Two Sinusoidal Waves
http://plabpc.csustan.edu/general/tutorials/oscillations/interference.htm
Superposition Principle
http://webphysics.davidson.edu/Applets/Superposition/Superposition_EX.html
3. IDEAL GAS LAWS
Molecular Model for an Ideal Gas
http://www.dipmat.unict.it/vpl/ntnujava/idealGas/idealGas.html
Temperature and Kinetic Energy
http://plabpc.csustan.edu/general/tutorials/temperature/temperature.htm
Charles' Law
http://plabpc.csustan.edu/general/tutorials/temperature/CharlesLaw/CharlesLaw.htm
THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM
http://javalab.uoregon.edu/virtuallab/Thermodynamics/index.html
Particles in Plasma Movies
http://space.ucsd.edu/htmls/movie.html
Wave-Particle Interactions in Plasmas.
http://space.ucsd.edu/space/index.html
Pure Electron Plasma Simulation
http://www.phy.ohiou.edu/~mitchell/java/XYpic/XYpic.html
Black Body Simulator
http://www.astro.ubc.ca/~scharein/a311/Sim.html
4. ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS
VRML Gallery of Electromagnetism
http://physics.syr.edu/courses/vrml/electromagnetism/
Charges and Fields (JAVA Applet)
Add terminals and "test charges" and drag things around to see how the forces change.
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/applets/nforcefield.html
Electric charges in JAVA
This applet allows you to see in a graphical way concepts like electric and potential fields. Furthermore, there is no danger to receive a deadly discharge.
http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~sebrodri/JAVA/Proyecto/ProyectI.html
Charges and Fields (JAVA Applet)
Click to place a static "test charge" showing strength and direction of the field at that point. Click and Drag to place a lot of them. Press 'R' to randomly place 500 charges.
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/applets/forcefield.html
Electric Field (JAVA Applet)
http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~kamikawa/electricfield/elefi_e.htm
Lorentz Force I (JAVA Applet)
This java applet tries to show the motion of a charged particle in a uniform and constant electric/ magnetic field
http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/emField/emField.html
Lorentz Force II (JAVA Applet)
This Java applet demonstrates the Lorentz force, exerted on a current-carrying conductor swing in the magnetic field of a horseshoe magnet.
http://home.a-city.de/walter.fendt/physengl/lorentzforce.htm
Kepler's Three Laws of Planetary Motion
http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/education/reference/orbits/orbit_sim.html
Virtual Telescope
http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/Telescope/
Planet data calculator - one-day version
http://alife.mic.dundee.ac.uk/Astronomy/Astronomy/observe.html