They are organized here to match the chapters of the commercial Top Hat text, "Living Physics vol. 2". (PDFs of the text are also available in this portal.) In Top Hat, these questions can be autograded and integrated into most Learning Management Systems.
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Electricity & Magnetism > Capacitance, DC Circuits
Electricity & Magnetism > Electric Fields and Potential > Electric Field, Electrostatic Potential and Potential Energy
Electricity & Magnetism > Resistance
Optics > Color, Diffraction, Geometrical Optics
Optics > Interference > Interference From Two Sources
Optics > Modern Optics > Photons
Thermo & Stat Mech > First Law
Thermo & Stat Mech > Kinetic and Diffusive Processes > Diffusion, Kinetic Theory
Thermo & Stat Mech > Second and Third Law > Entropy, Second Law Formulations, Thermodynamic Potentials
Healthy Neural Function
Hearing
Optical Imaging
Temperature Diagnostics
Vision
Bond Lengths and Energies
Energy
Enthalpy
Entropy
Free Energy
Hydrogen Bonding
Ideal Gas Law
Molecular Shape
Thermodynamic State
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