Uncertainties

New for 2022 KNOWLEDGE ORGANISERS Teamwork by Mr Stewart (Berwickshire HS) and I. He designed and made them and I tweaked them. Thanks Mr Stewart they’re ace! It is really important that you get to grips with the uncertainty section. You will need this information for your Assignment and it could well form a question...

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Forces 2020

S2 Forces Unit Material, containing the Assessed Practical and details for plotting graphs in Excel.

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N5 Revision Q based on Int2 / SG Papers

Thanks to Mr Duffy for the above work.

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Workshop 2017 for SQA

National 5 Workshop for Physics- Thursday 3rd May 2018 P1 & 2  This is the document that we will be going through. We wont have time to go through all the material, so you might want to use this as part of your revision. Do start your revision early and be sure to look over...

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SG Investigation Booklet

If you want to introduce students to Assignments and investigations then the SG booklet isn’t a bad place to start, although you wont have time to look at this if you are doing a one year N5 course, so start in the BGE with this one. Here is a blast from the past, people were...

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Semiconductors

For some of you this first link will help explain about semiconductors, for others it will freak you out. If you are someone who likes to know and understand the background behind your Physics, then this video will help in your understanding. If you just like to accept what you’ve been taught then maybe give...

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A.C/D.C

As Mr Clydesdale says “A very good band” The date is really 2020, but I need this post under the main Electricity notes section. Mr Sharkey demanded I take screenshots of the traces for his OneNote ClassNotebook as he was made to leave against his will! So he asked, and I did! Here are the...

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IoP Physics Teacher Award

IoP Teachers of Physics award The Teachers of Physics awards celebrate the success of secondary school physics teachers who have raised the profile of physics and science in schools. The IoP acknowledge that teachers contribute an immense amount to society and wish to accord them the recognition they deserve. The IoP Teacher of Physics awards,...

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The Expanding Universe Practical

A great little practical with washers, that was used as an exam question! Try the following practical http://www.schoolsobservatory.org.uk/astro/cosmos/uniball expanding universe school observatory Expanding Universe Experiment To understand how the redshift of galaxies is due to the expansion of the Universe, try the following experiment. You will need the following items: Step 1 : Setting Up...

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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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Revision Help

What Type of Learner are You? Before you start a revision plan check out what kind of learner you are. This will then direct you to the best way for YOU to revise. Find your learning style Once you’ve found your learning style take a look at the advice in the documents below.     How to work...

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