Tag Archive for: physics
The Aerospace Engineer
/0 Comments/in pop-up shop/by Melanie HoranExtension materials for our Aerospace Engineer workshop. Activities for primary-age children and families to do at home.
Simple harmonic motion
/1 Comment/in Required Practical/by JonathanUsing the pendulum method to find a value for the acceleration due to gravity, and one approach to quantifying the uncertainty in the measurement.
Inverse Square Law
/0 Comments/in Required Practical/by JonathanApproaches to the radioactive source practical, and a related activity which can help clarify some of the core ideas.
Force on a Current-Carrying Wire
/3 Comments/in Required Practical/by JonathanAn unusual approach to the classic ‘F=BIL’ practical, setting your students a puzzle.
Diffraction
/4 Comments/in Required Practical/by JonathanCareful measurements and some lateral thinking in this comparison of double slit and diffraction grating approaches to determining the wavelength of laser light.
Discharging a Capacitor
/1 Comment/in Required Practical/by JonathanProcessing data and the confident handling of natural logarithms, in this guide to two approaches to the core practical for A-level physics.
Measuring the EMF and Internal Resistance of a Cell
/4 Comments/in Required Practical/by JonathanExecution, data handling, and the use of different types of cell for this core practical.
Measuring g via Free Fall
/4 Comments/in Required Practical/by JonathanFour different approaches to measuring g: try several and prompt your students to think about how they differ in terms of accuracy and repeatability.
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