LibGuides: Science: Unit 1 Physics

Science Research Databases

Gale Power Search This link opens in a new window
Searches all Gale Databases in our subscription package.
Password: library
Gale Academic One File Select This link opens in a new window
Gale Academic One file select provides to scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers across disciplines, in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.
Password: library
Gale in Context Science This link opens in a new window
Gale in Context Science provides information on today's most significant science topics, showing how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues, from weather patterns to obesity.
Password: library
Gale in Context High School This link opens in a new window
Gale in Context High School provides access to full-text magazines, academic journals, primary source documents, images and videos on a wide array of subjects.
Password: library
Gale in Context: Middle School This link opens in a new window
Gale in context middle school contains videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more.
Password: library
Gale One File News This link opens in a new window
Gale OneFile: News provides access to more than 2,300 major world newspapers, and includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
Password:library
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to a wide range of academic journals.
Use the following details if accessing from home:
Username: mfac
Password: journals2019
The Conversation This link opens in a new window
Australian based organisation, authors must be a member of an academic or research institution.

Science Magazines

Cosmos Magazine Online
Electronic access:
Username:library@mfac.edu.au
Password: Flinders
New Scientist Magazine
Username: library@mfac.edu.au
Password: Library1

Nuclear power websites

The sites below will help you investigate the claim:

"Fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment".

Coal and Air pollution
Union of concerned scientists website.
Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste
Scientific American article
Gapminder
Gapminder is an independent Swedish foundation with no political, religious or economic affiliations. Gapminder is a fact tank, not a think tank. Gapminder produces free teaching resources making the world understandable based on reliable statistics.
Is it time for nuclear energy for Australia?
The Conversation website.
Is Nuclear Power Good for You?
Response to the paper released by Hoeve and Jacobson.
Reconsidering the Risks of Nuclear Power
Science in the news, Harvard University
Review of the Environmental Impact of Nuclear Energy
International Atomic Energy Association
The Role of Nuclear Energy in a Low-carbon Energy Future
NUCLEAR ENERGY AGENCY
ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT 2012
Solar, wind and nuclear have ‘amazingly low’ carbon footprints, study finds
Carbon Brief. Carbon Brief is a UK-based website covering the latest developments in climate science, climate policy and energy policy.
There Really, Really Isn’t a Silver Bullet for Climate Change
Article about use of Nuclear power in the US, published in The Atlantic paper, March 2019.
Why I changed my mind about nuclear power: Transcript of Michael Shellenberger's TEDx Berlin 2017
Transcript of the TED talk by Michael Shellenberger
Why Nuclear Power Must Be Part of the Energy Solution
Article by Richard Rhodes on the Yale Environment site.
Worldwide health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident
The paper written by meteorologist John Ten Hoeve and environmental engineer Mark Jacobson, from Stanford University in California, published in Energy & Environmental Science in 2012.
How green is nuclear energy?
Policy and technology expert Gail H Marcus assesses the industry’s environmental credentials in comparison to fossil fuels and renewable energy sources. Physics World 2017
Can Alternative Energy Effectively Replace Fossil Fuels?
Whether alternative energies such as renewable energies biofuels, hydrogen, solar, and geothermal, or the non-renewable nuclear energy can meet energy demands better than finite fossil fuels such as oil and coal remains hotly debated.
Should Nuclear Energy be Used to Achieve Net Zero Carbon?
This website looks at the pro's and con's of nuclear energy being used to achieve net zero carbon.

Climate change websites

The sites below will help you investigate the claim.

"Climate change can be modelled using thermal physics."

Climate change in Australia
Sponsored by Department of Environment and CSIRO, includes projections and model.
Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis
Report produced by the IPCC. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.
Climate and Earth’s Energy Budget - Earth Observatory article
The Earth Observatory is part of the EOS Project Science Office at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Climate change: How do we know?
Article from website produced by the Earth Science Communications Team at
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory | California Institute of Technology.
Climate Change - what it is and its impact
Climate and energy project
Climate change and Physics - Teacher's climate guide
Originally made for Finnish teachers, Finnish environmental educator, Pinja Sipari, set it us as a result of a grant from the Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation.
Gapminder
Gapminder is an independent Swedish foundation with no political, religious or economic affiliations. Gapminder is a fact tank, not a think tank. Gapminder produces free teaching resources making the world understandable based on reliable statistics.

Science: Unit 1 Physics

Year 11 Physics

Science Research Databases

Science Magazines

Nuclear power websites

Climate change websites