I can’t thank Martin enough for these high quality resources, and I wish I’d been able to use them in my teaching. These have taken him a long time to produce, and he wants to offer them to the Physics community for free. I hope you’ll agree that with people like this, we’re in a good place. DO pop him a thank you in the comment section. I know he’ll see it!
Thanks to Ms Biggins, there is a new way to revise. BLOCKBUSTERS, the great game from the 1980s. Here she’s tried it out for dynamics. Now no peeking at the answers, as that’s a bit pointless. I’m sure there’ll be more to come.
The lovely Rachel Goddard has produced this excellent resource, taking the questions where the course report indicates that they’ve been poorly done and giving help to answer them. Use this resource well and thanks Rachel.
This helpsheet is on the front page in the general resources but I forgot, so I’ll repost it here so that those who are looking for it get a double chance. ENJOY
Your calculator can go in to all Physics exams unless it is one that isn’t allowed. Here are the two most common calculators and how to set them up. Learning these tips will give you the edge in the exam.
No programmable calculators are allowed in the Physics Exam!
I’ve just found this file, to give you some additional access to other questions to practice. Here some of the topics have got questions from SG, Int 2 and H questions.
A couple of songs to start this unit. I think we should start all topics with a song.
I can’t condone where this guy is putting his hands!
Hot off the press for 2025 Updated booklets from the wonderful Mr Cunningham. I am sure there are more to come. I’ll post these as I receive them in the correct section
With a little help from the IoP here is my updated Newton’s 3 Laws. I hope you can understand it. I’m quite scared to share it with you! The pdf will miss some detail as I’ve overlapped some images.
This is part of a series of brilliant Mind Maps made by Miss Milner for the N5 Physics Course. I’ve broken it up into sections so here are the waves mind maps!
Here are a list of current wave resources. I will add more as I go through them. Thanks to other schools if you have kindly supplied material. I really appreciate it as do my students.
Reflection is not in the N5 Course, but it is good to know about reflection!
waves-summary-notes-gairloch1 Some of these notes are for National 4, use with the content statements so you don’t spend too long learning the National 4 work.
vflambda-vdt This starts with a practical model that you can complete in class using the Virtual Physics/ Flash Learning. It then shows how v=fλ is equivalent to v=d/t. Finally some questions will let you practise what you know.
The audio can be turned off it is annoys. Here is the Virtual converted to an mp4 if I can get it to work. If people comment and find them useful I can do the rest.
PLEASE NOTE: I KNOW I HAVE A FEW BLOOPERS IN HERE. I’VE GOT TO FIND AN EDITING PACKAGE AND FIND TIME TO USE IT.
Fusion is the process when
two SMALL NUCLEI join to form a LARGER NUCLEI with the production of ENERGY
Fission
Fission is the process when two large nuclei split to
form two smaller nuclei with the production of energy. This can occur
spontaneously or due to a collision with a neutron. Often extra neutrons are
produced.
Chain Reaction
When neutrons split nuclei by fission and extra neutrons are produced which can split further nuclei. Large quantities of energy are produced.
Reducing
exposure to ionising radiation.
There are 3 groups of category to reduce harm caused by
radiation:
MONITOR
SHIELD
DISTANCE
Monitor
includes things like wearing radiation badges or EPUs, timing how long you are
exposed to radiation, checking with radiation counters any contamination on
clothes.
Shielding
is placing layers of absorbers between you and the source, BEWARE, goggles and
a lab coat are great at protecting against alpha but have no effect on gamma.
Only thick layers of lead would offer protection against gamma.
Distance. Radiation obeys the inverse square law, as you double the distance from a source the level you are exposed to decreases by ¼ . Using tongs is an effective method of keeping your distance from a source.
To give you an idea of the radiation dose that would occur with radiotherapy, here is my mum’s dose. I know that she’d have been happy to share this with you as a learning experience. I really miss you mum x
Here are some videos and powerpoint shows that I’ve made for the NPA but the outcomes are the same as those in N5 Physics. Thanks to John Sharkey for the use of the Virtual Flash Physics (Int 2) and to Julian Hamm of furryelephant for the animations of ionising an atom.
After watching the video can you mix and match the effects of the radiation. There are a few booboo’s such as given below and I say we put a beta particle instead of a beta source in the cloud chamber! But as I’ve already spent a day on this I had better move on!
NB In the video above I know totally that photographs were taken well before 1896, the first being taken in 1826. Henri Becquerel discovered that Uranium, a naturally radioactive element fogs photographic film.
I hope that I am not breaking any rules, but these great resources no longer appear to be online. Can’t believe they are 20 years old!
The first photos show the background count rate, a reading of counts taken over a 1 minute period. The source is then taken out at 9:00 am and a count taken between 9:00 and 9:01, readings are then taken every 15 mins.
