Publications in English

The Karlsruhe Physics Course

Volume 1: Energy, momentum, entropy
Volume 2: Data, electricity, light
Volume 3: Reactions, waves, atoms
The Teacher‘s Manual

Publications in the American Journal of Physics

Publications in the European Journal of Physics

Equilibria in the Troposphere
F. HERRMANN
Physics Teaching and Learning, GIREP Book of Selected Papers, Forum Editrice Universitaria Udinese srl, 2005, pp. 39-48

Guest publication
An Electrical Model of a Carnot Cycle
MINGHUA CHEN, Teacher Education Center, Shaoxing, China

Thoughts on the Karlsruhe Physics Course
GUOBIN WU, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

Historical burdens on physics

F. Herrmann and G. Job

The articles appear as a column in the German school science review Praxis der Naturwissenschaften since 1994. Now there exist about 140 single articles. The first 64 appeared in German language as a booklet. They are also available in the internet in Spanish and Italian translation. The English articles are published here one by one as translation is progressing. Our goal is one per month.

Introduction

1. Forms of energy
2. Power
3. Carnot efficiency
4. Efficiency and Carnot Factor
5. Pure energy
6. The Equivalence of Heat and Work
7. The Energy Mass Equivalence
8. Conservation laws
9. Tendency to the energy minimum
10. Integrals of motion
11. Isolated Systems
12. The energy conservation law
13. State variables
14. Internal energy and heat
15. Evaporating and boiling
16. Physical and chemical processes
17. Chemical equilibrium
18. Electrochemical cells
19. Nuclear reactions and radioactivity
20. Hysteresis
21. Actions at a distance
22. The Third Law
23. Thermal expansion of liquids and solids
24. Entropy
25. Available energy
26. Excess and deficit of electrons
27. Newton’s laws
28. The field as a region of space
29. Momentum as the product of m and v
30. Measuring entropy
31. Thermal radiation