Rotational Motion Background Documents

Welcome to the AH Physics course. Another year, another journey together. I hope you feel that this site meets your requirements and that you can find the materials that you need. Check out MrStewart’s YouTube channel for some great clear explanations from this course. Higher Revision 1 Jumper and building Answers 1b Mechanics Learning Outcomes...

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Virtual AH

Using John Sharkey's Flash Learning Virtual CfE Advanced Higher Physics these videos cover all of the unit Rotational Motion and Astrophysics. Note there have been a few changes to the Course Specifications since these were produced.

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Protected: Relativity

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Stellar Physics

Stellar Physics Notes Great videos are being made all the time. Here is a great little one about the evolution of our sun, it doesn’t bode well for us. Here is a great little video- what do you expect from the IoP? https://www.youtube.com/The Life Cycle of Stars Good Morning campers, on this dreich Scottish Morning,...

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Cavendish Boys Experiment to Determine G

G being Newton’s Universal Gravitational Constant, although a number was only put to this many years after Newton’s time. Cavendish experiment, measurement of the force of gravitational attraction between pairs of lead spheres, which allows the calculation of the value of the gravitational constant, G. In Newton’s law of universal gravitation, the attractive force between two objects (F) is equal...

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Notes for this RM&A

You’re bound to find some notes here that you like. I’ll upload my material when I’ve put it into one booklet. Meanwhile, you can’t go wrong with these. ah rotational motion summary notes and problems 2013  I think these are great and will be the ones I’ll be using. They are Robert Gordon’s College. ah...

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General Relativity

By Mysid (Own work. Self -made in Blender & Inkscape.) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons There are some great videos that can explain General Relativity much better than I can. A few are given below: Youtube Remember at Advanced Higher you are expected to have a BASIC knowledge, not a...

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Moment of Inertia with Walter Lewin

Test your intuition with cylinders rolling down a slope. Just keep your own score of how many you worked out correctly.

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