Thanks to the wonderful Physics teacher who provided these.
| Dynamics & Space | Electricity & Energy | Waves & Radiation |
|---|---|---|
| Notes ver 1.2 doc | Notes ver 3.1 | Notes ver 2.1 |
| Problems 1.2 doc | Problems 3.0 doc | Problems 3.1 doc |
| Problems 1.2 pdf | Problems 3.0 pdf | Problems ver 3.1 pdf |
| Answer File ver 1.4 | Answer File ver 3.0 | Answer File ver 3.1 |
Space Notes
Sorry I just couldn’t get this to fit on 2 pages. I am sure someone will send it back to me looking beautiful!
Just heard about this on twitter!
You can read about some of the risks of human spaceflight in the infographic below.
Source Space.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration
Here are a few links and documents. Hope you can get access to them.
www.open.edu/History of Universe Timeline
The EM Spectrum and Space
The EM spectrum gives us loads of important information about the world outside our Earth
http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/HTML5/emission_spectra.html
Want to be a rocket scientist? Can you launch a payload to 400 km in your first go? Don’t forget to have drag on and mass use to be more natural!
https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/389-lift-offRocket
Lots of people are asking me about the answers to these North Ayrshire revision check tests. Can I also recommend you pop across to the Learning Outcome Questions, which have fully worked answer. Click on the links below. No cheating though!
https://mrsphysics.co.uk/n5/category/coursematerials/lo/
Thanks to those in North Ayrshire who provided these excellent questions for you to get your teeth into. I’ll post the answers as password protected to protect those students and staff who are giving these for homework! They’re in the old order, so you’ll have to search through for the right section.
ENJOY!
| Units | Summary Notes | Problems |
|---|---|---|
| Dynamics & Space | Summary Notes D&S | Questions D&S pdf Problems D&S doc |
| Electricity & Energy | Summary Notes E&E | Questions E&E pdf Problems E&E doc |
| Waves & Radiation | Summary Notes W&R | Questions W&R pdf Problems W&R doc |
If you don’t know your scalars from your vectors try this….
Space Definitions 1
Space Definitions 2
Thanks to Ms K Ward from Edinburgh Academy for these equation flashcards. If you print them on card double sided you can get two lots to share with a friend
A revision planner for you to use. 
Revision-plan 2018 19
Try the following questions
Section 1: q6, 10, 11, 12, 13,14,15,16,17, Section 2: Q5, 6, 7, 8
Section 1: Q1-7, 19, Section 2: Q1,2,3,
Section 1: Q1-7 Section 2: Q1,2,3,4,5
Section 1: Q1-6 Section 2: Q1,2,3,4
Section 1: Q1-7 Section 2: Q1,2,3
Learn the formula for
Ew=QV, Ew=Fd, Ep=mgh, Ek=½mv2, E=Pt, Ee=ItV, EH=mcΔT, EH = ml, P=F/A, Q=It, R in series, R in parallel, V1 =R1/Rt ´Vs, V=IR, P=IV, P=I2R, P=V2/R, pV/T(K)=constant
Make flashcards of
Learn the units for all the electricity quantities, properties of matter and energy quantities.
I’ll add to this during the week as I have time
Look over some OLD Higher papers for the Pressure and Gas Laws as well as the relevant past papers above. I’ll look out the papers with question numbers as soon as I can.
If you’re doing the Waves and Radiation UASP I’ll get some revision plans up soon
Old/ traditional higher……
H 2015 Q7 and 24
H 2014 Q7 and 24
H 2013 Q7 and 24 not part c
H2012 Q7 and 24
H 2011 Q7 and 24
H 2010 Q7 and 23 b
H 2009 Q7 and 23 a,c
H 2008 Q7 and 23
These can be found on the higher part of the website.
Updated July 18
This is a ten week revision plan, put together by Mr A Riddell from “up North”. It will give you some ideas on how to break up the daunting task of revision. NB I’ll need to change this for the 2024date of 25th April for your exam.
Hi Folks these are the dates for the N5 Prelims
Mrs H’s class: Monday 8th January P3 & 4, extended questions
Tuesday 9th January P6, 25 multiple choice questions
Miss H’s class: Tuesday 9th January P5, 25 multiple choice questions
Wednesday 10th January P5 & 6, extended questions
Not the best fit for a Properties of Matters song, but still lots of important material here.
The Properties of Matter Booklet in both word and pdf form.
Here are a set of summary notes, I made a few changes and put them into a table rather than boxes to help the flow, not that anyone would know. Thanks to the teacher who produced these- sorry there was no name on them.
Gay-Lussac is incorrectly recognized for the Pressure Law which established that the pressure of an enclosed gas is directly proportional to its temperature and which he was the first to formulate (c. 1809). He is also sometimes credited with being the first to publish convincing evidence that shows the relationship between the pressure and temperature of a fixed mass of gas kept at a constant volume.
Maybe for the deception he should be sent to Pressure Cooker!
These laws are also known variously as the Pressure Law or Amontons’s law and Dalton’s law respectively.
Thanks to other Physics teachers who have provided resources for these notes.
Here I will post a few tips and hints to remember when answering SQA N5 Papers. Hopefully they’ll be quick, snappy and memorable. You’ve got the whole of the Scottish Physics Teachers’ Community Wisdom Below!
Some practice notes from Mr Dawson from Wallace Hall Academy.
N5 Revision Pupil Questions pdf version
N5 Revision Pupil Questions word version
Here is the topic song
Updated November 2019
Electricity 2017 Final word version of the Electricity Unit.
Electricity 2017 Final pdf version.
The booklet is large as it contains lots of questions for you to practice, practicals for you to complete and notes.
They are large notes so that you ought to be able to work your way through whether you are in class or away at college etc.
Please return your copy to the faculty on 30th April 2020!
The section numbers are linked to the compendium with all the things to cover in National 5 Physics.
I can now upload ppp to mrsphysics, so here is one of the first. It is to cover section 9 and 10 of the outcomes. Thanks to the kind person who produced the stuff on A.C and D.C. I’ve been using it for years. Let me know if I’ve nicked it from you and I’ll add my grateful thanks.
resistor network Try this when you think you have got to grips with resistances in series and parallel.
AC_DC[1] This is a powerpoint presentation that someone passed to be in the days of SG. It covers AC and DC traces
VOLTAGE DIVIDER FORMULAE The formula sheet for voltage dividers
VOLTAGE divider Q Practice those horrible voltage divider questions with this pdf version of the document below. The answers are given for you to check. VOLTAGE divider Q
Here are some additional notes that might help as you go through the materials. Check out the post on using your calculators to measure resistance (I’ll add the link here when I’ve found the post!)
Ring main Based on the SG course notes and not really in the N5 course, but it might give a little background to why when calculating the fuse rating for an appliance you use 240V and not the 230 V as stated.
EE1 – Electricity LOCKERBIE The old electricity notes (based on a colleagues work- thank you and I’ll find out who you are), these will be superceded when the document above is completed.
Elect & elect D&G Prob Book no answers These are some great little questions by Mr Belford from Dumfries Academy, but some of the numbers are a little bit fictional!
Elect & elect D&G Prob Book no answers The above document as a pdf file.
…… to be continued!
TEACHERS: Mosey along to Usefullinks and I’m going to put some teacher points there for you. I’ll add the link when I’ve added the materials.
This table has the worksheets in word form.
| Topic | Sheet | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Dynamics / Space | N5 Hookes Law A | Hookes Law A |
| Dynamics / Space | N5 Hookes Law B | Hookes Law B |
| Dynamics | N5 Acc slope | Acceleration and angle of the slope |
| Dynamics | N5 F=m a A | F=ma changing mass :A |
| Dynamics | N5 F=m a B | F=ma changing mass: B |
| Dynamics | N5 projectiles A | Projectiles changing the launch angle: A |
| Dynamics | N5 projectiles B | Projectiles changing the launch speed: B |
| Dynamics | N5 projectiles C | Projectiles changing the launch height: C |
| Dynamics | N5 Stopping distance A | How the speed affects the stopping distance |
| Dynamics | N5 Stopping distance B | How the speed affects the stopping distance |
| Dynamics | Pendulum and length | |
| Prop. of Matter | ||
| Prop. of Matter | N5 Charles' Law A | Volume and Temperature with constant pressure |
| Prop. of Matter | N5 Boyles Law A | Pressure and volume for constant temperature |
| Prop. of Matter | N5 Boyles Law B | Pressure and volume for constant temperature: A |
| Prop. of Matter | N5 Pressure Law A | Pressure and Temperature for constant volume: B |
| Prop. of Matter | N5 Pressure and depth A | Effects of pressure of a liquid with depth |
| Prop. of Matter | N5 SHC A | Specific Heat Capacity measure V and I |
| Prop. of Matter | N5 SHC B | Specific Heat Capacity using joule meter |
| Prop. of Matter | N5 Cooling Curve A | Cooling curve of water and stearic acid |
| Prop. of Matter | N5 Latent heat of vaporisation A | Determining latent heat of vaporisation A |
| Prop. of Matter | N5 Latent heat of vaporisation B | Determining latent heat of vaporisation B |
| Electricity / Energy | N5 Solar Cell A angle | Solar Cells A Angle |
| Electricity / Energy | N5 Solar Cell B distance | Solar Cells B Distance |
| Electricity / Energy | N5 Solar Cell C translucent | Solar Cells C Translucent |
| Electricity / Energy | N5 Solar Cell D area | Solar Cells D Area |
| Electricity | N5 Ohms Law A | Measuring voltage and current for a ohmic conductor (resistor) |
| Electricity | N5 Ohms Law B | Measuring voltage and current for a non-ohmic conductor |
| Electricity | N5 Thermistors A 2023 | Thermistors |
| Electricity | N5 LED 2023 | LEDs |
| Electricity | N5 LDR A | An LDR -distance from the light source. |
| N5 Assign LDR B | An LDR - light intensity: B | |
| Electricity | N5 Assign LDR C | Calibrating an LDR against a light level meter |
| Space | Orbit period v height |
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| Waves / Space | Microwave distance v signal strength | |
| Waves | N5 Speed of Sound | Speed of Sound |
| Waves | N5 Refraction A | Refraction |
| Radiation | ||
“The experiments detailed in the course specification can be used. Centres are obviously free to choose other experiments if they wish, as long as they’re commensurate with the level. One of the advantages of using the experiments in the course is that you can be sure that the physics is accessible and at the correct level.
In the past, we saw some examples where centres had used rotational motion experiments with N5 candidates, and you could tell that the candidates had no clue what they were doing. It’s also been obvious at National 5 level that some centres are still using kits they had for Standard Grade investigations, which is fine, but you do need to make sure that the underlying physics is accessible. To give an example, solar cells was always a popular topic for Standard Grade and we see centres using them for National 5, but explaining how a solar cell produces a potential difference is something N5 candidates will probably struggle with.
Your colleagues may wish to have a look at the Physics pages on the Understanding Standards website:
SQA – Understanding Standards: Introduction (Nat 5)
SQA – Understanding Standards: Introduction (Higher)
where they will see several exemplars based on the experiments detailed in the course specification.
If you have things that have worked well in the past, then it’s worth remembering that nothing has changed in any of the coursework requirements, and therefore they should still work in the same way.”
SQA Good Guy
Here is a marking grid, obviously only if you are able to find time for a practice. It is not to be used to tentatively mark the student assignment being sent to the SQA.
The material has recently been published on the Understanding Standards Website SQA Physics N5 INFO
Above gives an example of the new Assignment requirements. It is vital that you don’t copy or even attempt to copy this assignment. If you are likely to copy other people’s work it is best to choose another topic.
| Section | Expected response | Max mark |
|---|---|---|
| Title | The report has an informative title. | 1 |
| Aim | A description of the purpose of the investigation. | 1 |
| Underlying physics relevant to the aim | A description of the physics relevant to the aim which shows understanding. | 3 |
| Data collection and handling | A brief description of the experiment. | 1 |
| Sufficient raw data from the experiment. | 1 | |
| Raw data presented in a table with headings and units. | 1 | |
| Values correctly calculated from the raw data. | 1 | |
| Data from an internet/literature source. | 1 | |
| A reference for the internet/literature source. | 1 | |
| Graphical presentation | The correct type of graph used to present the experimental data. | 1 |
| Suitable scales. | 1 | |
| Suitable labels and units on axes. | 1 | |
| All points plotted accurately, with line or curve of best fit if appropriate. | 1 | |
| Analysis | Experimental data compared to data from internet/literature source. | 1 |
| Conclusion | A conclusion related to the aim and supported by data in the report. | 1 |
| Evaluation | A discussion of a factor affecting the reliability, accuracy or precision of the results. | 2 |
| Structure | A report which can be easily followed. | 1 |
| TOTAL MARKS | 20 |
Before Starting on your assignment take time to go over the following, it is vital that you know what you are doing.
Understanding Standards Webinar
To kick you off with your assignment Mr Forwood has supplied the following document.
N5 Assignment instructions (editable in word)
N5 Assignment instructions (pdf file)
The document below is one that I started in the holidays but got distracted. I will get something together a.s.a.p but until then make do with this starter!
You must also correctly reference your work, learn how to do this with the following link.
Exeter.ac.uk/studyskills/harvard_referencing.htm
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 some of the ways to revise, I’ll get a link when I can locate it! It the Higher Revision section of the site there is a link to type of learner. Try the learning styles it will help you revise.
Click on the link below to go directly to the SQA website where you can make a personalized exam timetable.
https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/1439.html
If you’re less computer savy, or a parent he is the paper copy for this year
Nat 5 open ended questions booklet
Nat 5 Dyn 3 Skills and Open ended
Thanks to Mr Cavers, and Belmont Academy for sorting the N5 past papers into topic order.
Exam Practice Questions DYNAMICS
Exam Practice Questions ELECTRICITY
Exam Practice Questions ENERGY
Exam Practice Questions PROPERTIES OF MATTER
Exam Practice Questions RADIATION
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!
We’ve plugged in a 1.5 V cell to the picoscope, put a voltmeter in parallel and noted the reading on the voltmeter and the looked at the value on the picoscope.
The picoscope was picking up some of the electrical signals from the computers and power around the room.
Notice on these images the reading on the picoscope and the voltmeter are the same. The cell is a source of D.C, direct current. In direct current the current /charges only flows in one direction. The free electrons in the ciruit are always drifting around the circuit in one direction.
When the polarity is reversed (swapping the positive and negative connections to the cell) the trace moves below the zero line showing that the current is now in the opposite direction. The voltmeter reads -1.5 V (the negative indicating that the current is in the opposite direction).
When we connect up to the A.C supply of the usual school power supplies we can see that the trace indicates the current flows in both directions. We can tell this as the trace of the voltage goes above and below the 0 V line on the picoscope. The trace shows a wave indicating the voltage and hence current is changing direction and magnitude many times per second. In the case of the mains voltage the frequency of the supply is 50 Hz.
Notice that the reading on the voltmeter reads 6.69 V. The power supply is set to 6V, but the peak of the trace is greater than this, about 9.5 V. The peak voltage of an A.C. trace is always greater than the quoted voltage of the supply. This is because we want to be able to compare A.C and D.C traces and so the quoted value is 1.414 times smaller than the peak voltage, try this.
When the polarity is reversed it makes no difference to the trace.
Another power supply in the Department is the 5.0 V regulated power supply. We can see this is a D.C trace and that the value of the voltage and hence the current is steady.
We can see when the polarity is changed (the connections to the power supply are swapped over) We can see the the trace of the voltage goes below the zero line, indicating the current is moving in the opposite direction. The voltmeter reading is the same as the value on the picoscope.
However, when we connect the picoscope to the usual Lockmaster power supply on the D.C. setting we get a rather unusual trace. The trace is D.C, remember direct current tells us that the current remains in one direction. However, the voltage and hence current isn’t constant. This is an unsmoothed D.C trace, and is common in cheaper power supplies. The trace never goes below the zero value on the screen.
Reversing the polarity shows us that the voltage is opposite, we get a negative value on the power supply but the trace never goes above the line. The current remains in one direction.
So in summary
In DIRECT CURRENT the current always moves in one direction.
In ALTERNATING CURRENT the current changes direction, usually many times per second. The current also usually changes magnitude (size).
With cells or regulated power supplies the D.C trace gives a constant value. In an unregulated trace the current also changes magnitude, but never direction.
