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Featured learning resource

The Observational astronomy learning project has activities for participants that guide them through the same process that an astronomer uses to analyze data.

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CERN LHC tunnel

The Wikiversity Institute of Particle Physics is a content development project where participants create and organize learning resources related to physics. Resources are under development in: Statistical mechanics, Special and General Relativity, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Quantum mechanics I, Classical mechanics, Chaos theory.

Featured research project

Participants in the Theory of Everything Project develop research projects involving public databases for particle physics experiments.

News

Geology.
"Geology may work in favor of energy producers" by David Elbert.
Sandstone domes in the remnants of the North American Midcontinent Rift can be used to store energy.

Did you know?

The red curve is a cycloid.

The Euler-Lagrange equation of classical mechanics was discovered during attempts to find a curve for which the time taken by a frictionless particle sliding down it under uniform gravity to its lowest point is independent of its starting point.

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Telescope Array Component

"This is not your mother's radio telescope." - Jill Tarter speaking about the Allen Telescope Array. See Astronomy Project.

"We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it". - Marie Curie

Featured learning projects

The Wikiversity page for Acid-base chemistry introduces the fundamentals and links to related resources at Wikibooks and other websites, including videos.