After 140 million miles and 340 days, let's welcome astronaut Scott Kelly back on earth. His year long mission on the International Space Station will help us better understand how the human body reacts and adapts to long-duration in space. These are monumental steps towards developing capabilities for manned missions to Mars. Read more about it here.
As promised, the February 2016 scheduled updates are now live on prepmagic.com. March 2016, will bring some very exciting interactives as listed below.
CHEMISTRY
Acids & Bases
- Strong-Weak Titration - Interactive demonstrating titration between weak acid and strong base. Compare and contrast with strong-strong titration curves.
NGSS: SEP - Planning and carrying out investigations, SEP - Analyzing and Interpreting Data, CCC - Cause and effect, PS1.B: Chemical Reactions.
Chemical Equations
- Balancing Chemical Equations - Interactive to practice balancing of chemical equations
NGSS: SEP - Analyzing and Interpreting Data, CCC - Energy and matter, PS1.B: Chemical Reactions.
BIOLOGY
Heredity & Evolution
- Genetic Equilibrium - Interactive exploring genetic equilibrium condition proposed by the Hardy-Weinberg principle
NGSS: SEP - Planning and carrying out investigations, SEP - Analyzing and Interpreting Data, CCC - Systems and system models, LS3.B: Variation of Traits.
- Natural Selection - Case of peppered moths - Interactive investigating how natural selection affects population distribution
NGSS: SEP - Developing and using models, SEP - Planning and carrying out investigations, SEP - Analyzing and Interpreting Data, CCC - Cause and effect, CCC - Systems and system models, LS4.B: Natural Selection.
PHYSICS
Electricity
- Electrical Power - Interactive exploring the heating effect of electric current or Joule heating
NGSS: SEP - Planning and carrying out investigations, SEP - Analyzing and Interpreting Data, CCC - Cause and effect, PS2.B: Types of Interactions.
Sound & Waves
- Doppler Effect - Interactive illustrating Doppler effect, the shift in frequency when the source and observer are in relative motion.
NGSS: SEP - Developing and using models, SEP - Planning and carrying out investigations, SEP - Analyzing and Interpreting Data, CCC - Patterns, CCC - Cause and effect, PS4.A: Wave Properties.
- Sub-sonic, Sonic & Super-sonic - Interactives exploring wave formations in case of objects moving slower or faster than speed of sound
NGSS: SEP - Developing and using models, SEP - Planning and carrying out investigations, SEP - Analyzing and Interpreting Data, CCC - Patterns, CCC - Cause and effect, PS4.A: Wave Properties.
Electromagnetic Waves
- Amplitude Modulation of Radio Waves - Interactive exploring application of electromagnetic waves in communication technology, involving amplitude modulation of a carrier wave based on the signal wave.
NGSS: SEP - Developing and using models, SEP - Analyzing and Interpreting Data, CCC - Patterns, CCC - Cause and effect, PS4.B: Electromagnetic Radiation