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
Human and Animal Physiology > Hearing
Human and Animal Physiology > Neurophysiology > Healthy Neural Function
Human and Animal Physiology > Vision
Medical Applications > Biomedical Imaging > Optical Imaging
Medical Applications > Diagnostic (non-imaging) Techniques > Temperature Diagnostics
Chemical Bonding > Bond Lengths and Energies, Molecular Shape
Chemical Energetics > Energy, Enthalpy, Thermodynamic State
Gases > Ideal Gas Law
Intermolecular Forces > Hydrogen Bonding
Spontaneity > Entropy, Free Energy
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