WebAssign was founded by Dr. John Risley, a physics professor who was passionate about education. His passion inspired a broad offering of peer-reviewed and tested physics content that is available free to all WebAssign users. You can add any or all of these teaching tools to your physics course simply by selecting from a checklist under “Free Additional Content” when you create a new course, or by contacting us today.
AP Test Prep Question Bank
- 570 questions from the OpenStax College Physics for AP Courses eBook
- Designed to help students relate the physics concepts they explore in the classroom to their lives and apply them to the AP test
- Gives students practice question to build confidence before the AP test
OSU Physics Clicker Questions
- 160 sessions of sequenced multiple-choice questions designed by education researchers at Ohio State University
- Each session focuses on one physics concept, with different surface features
- Thoroughly researched and proven effective at helping students overcome common misconceptions
UMass Assessing-to-Learn Conceptual Clicker Questions
- 300 multiple-choice questions developed by the University of Massachusetts Physics Education Research Group
- Carefully crafted questions focus on common student misconceptions
- Widely class-tested as “clicker” questions
- Ideal for pre-lecture, post-lecture, or in-lecture activities
Force Concept Inventory & Mechanics Baseline Test
- Thoroughly researched assessments, developed to measure student knowledge acquisition
- Designed to be administered at the start and end of each course
- Free access granted to non-WebAssign users for testing purposes
Brief E&M Assessment
- Multiple-choice test designed by physics education researchers to measure student understanding in basic E&M concepts
- Typically administered before instruction and again at the end of the course
- Utilized at a number of large-enrollment engineering schools to compare the effectiveness of different types of introductory E&M curricula
NCSU Physics Test Bank—Feedback and Solutions
- Collection of multiple-choice calculus-based introductory physics questions based on exam questions used at North Carolina State University
- Each question has unique Socratic-style feedback for each individual answer choice
- Feedback designed to help students overcome common misconceptions and problem solving errors
- Every question has a detailed solution available, useful for student review and self-study
NY Regents Exam
- Multiple-choice questions that cover a full range of topics in high school physics, from mechanics to thermal physics to electricity and magnetism
- Pulled from standardized exams in core high school subjects taken by students in the state of New York
- Past Regents Exam questions from 2000 to 2008 are also available
- Excellent source of extra practice problems, in class exercises, or test questions
Physics Olympiad Exams
- 425 questions from past screening exams used by the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and the American Institute of Physics (AIP) to select high school students for the International Physics Olympiad Competition
- Multiple-choice questions, dating back to 1997, cover a full range of topics in introductory physics, from mechanics to thermal physics to electricity and magnetism, and provide an excellent source of extra practice problems, in class exercises, or test questions
Physics Bowl Exam
- 300 exam questions from past years of the AAPT Physics Bowl, a competition held annually for high school physics students, consisting of a timed multiple-choice test on a range of topics in high school physics
- Past exams are available in WebAssign to all instructors
- Multiple-choice questions cover a full range of topics in high school physics, from mechanics to thermal physics to electricity and magnetism, and provide an excellent source of extra practice problems, in class exercises, or test questions
Algebra Review for Physics Personal Study Plan®
- A collection of questions, offered in self-paced format, that enables students to practice and master algebra concepts necessary for success in a physics course
- The Personal Study Plan® can be added to any physics, astronomy, or engineering class, regardless of textbook.