I am sharing a set of instructional materials from my Honors Physics unit on Electricity and Electric Fields. The collection includes lesson materials, mini-lessons, assessments, and laboratory activities designed for a typical high-school physics sequence covering circuits, Coulomb’s Law, and electric fields.
The unit follows a logical progression beginning with electric circuits and current, moving through Ohm’s Law and electrical power, and concluding with electrostatics, Coulomb’s Law, and electric field concepts.
These resources were developed for classroom use and emphasize conceptual understanding, algebraic reasoning, and real-world applications of electromagnetism.
Contents of the Download
Lesson Docs: Core lesson notes and structured instructional materials used during class.
Mini-Lessons: Short concept explanations and worked examples used to introduce or reinforce key ideas.
Worksheets: Guided practice problems and structured exercises designed to strengthen algebraic reasoning and physics problem-solving skills.
Quizzes and Tests: Assessments used throughout the unit to evaluate student understanding of circuits, Coulomb’s Law, and electric fields.
Labs: Hands-on investigations including circuit construction, resistance experiments, and mapping electric field lines.
We all run into problems—physics problems, real-life emergencies, coding frustrations, lab setups, you name it. The instinct is often to jump straight into action, but that’s usually how mistakes get made. APEX is a simple framework I use in physics and in everyday thinking to slow things down, bring structure to the chaos, and make better decisions.
APEX stands for: Assess → Plan → Execute → eXamine
It works because it gives you a sequence. Order matters. You can’t plan before you understand the situation, you shouldn’t execute before you have a plan, and you definitely shouldn’t walk away before checking if things actually worked.
Why APEX?
APEX turns “where do I even start?” into something predictable and manageable. Whether you’re solving a Coulomb’s Law problem or dealing with a real-world emergency, the steps don’t change. Break the problem into parts, think clearly, and avoid panic.
The Four Steps
1. Assess
What do you know? What don’t you know? What’s the situation? This step is about gathering information without judgment or rushing.
2. Plan
What tools, equations, or actions do you need? You form a strategy—simple, clear, and executable.
3. Execute
Do the thing. In a physics problem, this means plugging in values, drawing diagrams, or performing the calculation. In real-life scenarios, this is where you actually act on your plan.
4. eXamine
Did it work? Does the answer make sense? Do you need to adjust anything? Most problems don’t require perfection—they require reflection.
APEX Resource Files
I use APEX constantly in my physics classes. It’s especially helpful for problems that seem overwhelming at first glance. In the APEX document, I walk step-by-step through a Coulomb’s Law example involving two charged nanobots in a fluid channel. Students see how each APEX step narrows the chaos into a clean calculation.
The accompanying slide deck offers a concise visual version of the same idea, showing how Assess–Plan–Execute–eXamine can be taught quickly and reinforced frequently.
Here is how to move a simple WordPress blog to Azure Web App Service. This method is not the simplest but it works well enough and is pretty clean.
Backup
Export the database with a tool such as phpMyAdmin. Then zip up all the files from the wp-content folder.
Or you could use a commercial plugin to to the backup and restore. I don’t like the ones I’ve tried and the manual way is fairly simple.
Create Web App in Azure
In Azure portal, Create a New Resource
Search for “WordPress” then create
Next, fill out the forms with values that make sense, although a few things to pay attention to are:
Database Provider
If your web site gets very little traffic, then choosing “MySQL In App” is reasonable and it’ll save money; About $250/month. The main limitation with this option is the site cannot scale out to handle sudden, heavy loads. However, you can “scale up” the service tier which may help.
App Service Options
App Service Plan
Choose the app service that’s right for you. In this example, we picked the lowest price tier and expect it’ll be upgraded later after some testing.
Keep in mind you can reasonably add up to 5 or so websites within a production tier service plan if they are low traffic and not resource needy.
D1 price tier
Configure WordPress
After the deployment, go to the resource overview page and copy the site’s URL.
Resource Overview Page
Follow URL to the WordPress setup page and do the initial setup.
Fill out the form to initialize WordPress then login to the fresh site. The username and such isn’t needed beyond getting logged in for the first time because in the next steps the whole site is restored from backup.
Initialize the WordPress site
Restore from the backup
How to do this part depends on what method used to backup the website. If you are using a plugin then install it and follow its instructions.
Manual restore
Manual restore is basically two steps:
Import the database using the phpMyAdmin tool
Upload the wp-content folder contents to the website
Import database – Click on “MySQL in App” on the left-side menu then find “Manage” to use the phpMyAdmin tool. Use phpMyAdmin to drop the existing database tables then import your site’s database.
Upload Files – First you need the login credentials. Look in Deployment Center -> “Deployment Credentials” to get what you need to connect to the document root of the web app, using SFTP.
Using your favorite SFTP application, connect to the website and upload your wp-content folder. I recommend zipping up the wp-content folder and upload that. Then connect using the console to unzip the file.
Find the SFTP URL and credentials
Console/Terminal – Click on “Console” in the left-side menu to use command line tools such as Zip, Gzip, Tar, etc.
Finish up
After the import is successful, login with an account from your restored website and do:
Go to Settings -> Permalinks and click the Save button to rebuild them.
Edit the wp-config file “Authentication Unique Keys and Salts” and perhaps other settings to reflect what you had before. Do Not replace the wp-config file outright because it is specifically configured to work with Azure.
Back in the Deployment Center, disconnect from the gitHub repository; You don’t need it anymore.
Extras
For the most part, the site is ready to use and it’s a good idea to review everything is working now.
Fix URLs
Install “Better Search Replace” plugin to change your website URLs if needed. Usually this is because your domain name had to change. For example, “n390.com” moved to “n390.com”.
Add a custom domain name
After the content is imported you can browse the App Service URL and everything should be as it should. However, the hostname is using YOURWEBSITE.azurewebsites.net domain name.
On your Azure Web App blade’s left-side menu go to Custom Domain and click on “Add a custom domain”. Follow the instructions to validate ownership then it should be good-to-go.
Add TLS/SSL
Good news! SSL is available in Azure. But, if you want to add one to your custom domain, then you gotta upgrade to at least the Basic Plan.
Click on TLS/SSL settings in the left-side menu then look in “Private Key Certificates” to create your own. Follow these instructions for complete details.
