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For guidance on how the quiz questions are designed and intended to be used, see the page Using Clickers.

The sample questions are presented as Word files so you can easily cut, paste, and modify problems.

Energy

• Chemical interactions and binding 

Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics

• Random motion and kinetic theory
• Thermodynamics: Energy and the first law
• Thermodynamics: Entropy and the second law

Electric Forces, Fields, and Potentials

• Electric forces and fields
• Electric energy and potentials
• Capacitors
• Electric fields and potentials in matter

Electric Currents and Devices

• Electric currents and circuits

Oscillations, Waves, & Sound

• Oscillations
• Transverse waves on an elastic spring
• Sound

Light

• Photon model
• Ray model
• Wave model 
  

Additional topics can be found at Clicker Questions Physics 131.

If you create new clicker questions, please email them to Joe Redish (redish@umd.edu) for inclusion in these files.