Hickory Dickory Dock I received this card several years ago (thank you Mr and Mrs Long), and it shows Physics in the animated world! My immediate reaction to the card was “What big ceilings you have Chudleigh.” With a stopwatch and the assumption that g remains constant Higher and A level students should calculate the...
Read MoreA discussion on the Physics Teachers’ Network requested advice on “What is the biggest ever redshift detected?” Research shows it was a redshift, z = 11.09 for galaxy GN-z11; and the measurements were taken in the near infra red using Hubble’s Wide Field Camera. This is a big question because effectively we are seeing the...
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Read MoreResources for Special Relativity Here is a link to a fantastic little book that started me on my “very short introduction” library. It has been uploaded as a pdf file, but if you enjoy it give the author some credit and pay the guy (Russell Stannard) by buying it! Relativity-A-Very-Short-Introduction.pdf Frames of Reference You should...
Read MoreI will add and adapt these as I go through the past papers. If you’ve got additional definitions do pass them on. These would be great written on cue or flash cards. Go through past papers and record any common phrases or answers. Proving the equations of motion Equation 1 Equation 2 Equation 3...
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Here are some links for a more in-depth experience of Dark Matter and Dark Energy. (remember Energy ⇒Expansion, Matter ⇒sMaller, or MAtter⇒ Attracts) http://www.sixtysymbols.com/videos/ed_dark_energy.htm 34 mins interesting video. http://www.sixtysymbols.com/videos/darkmatter.htm 11 mins on Dark Matter Brand New Research- could you be a part of this? https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-dark-energy https://home.cern/about/physics/dark-matter http://www.space.com/20930-dark-matter.html
Read MoreCitation for this article: Markus Pössel, ” The case of the travelling twins ” in: Einstein Online Vol. 04(2010), 1007 The case of the travelling twins- let’s call them Pat and Mike!- pictures to come! An article by Markus Pössel In Einstein’s special theory of relativity, there is no such thing as “time” in the singular....
Read MoreCommunicating Scientific Results Here is a chance for you to practice some of the skills required for your Investigation. This task gives you some practice to help with your Researching Physics topic. It is to help you look at ways of communicating and think who you are communicating to.Log all the work that you do...
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