I'm an A-Level physics teacher. In my opinion independent learning is the key to success so I focus a lot of effort into making resources to help students learn physics independently. A lot of what I make is available for free on YouTube. My website has links to everything.
I'm starting to offer my free downloads on https://wonkylogic.co/a-level-physics-hq which does not require a log in to download.
I'm an A-Level physics teacher. In my opinion independent learning is the key to success so I focus a lot of effort into making resources to help students learn physics independently. A lot of what I make is available for free on YouTube. My website has links to everything.
I'm starting to offer my free downloads on https://wonkylogic.co/a-level-physics-hq which does not require a log in to download.
Material science worksheets and slides - material classification, structure, periodicity, metals & polymers, ceramics, composites & smart materials, material properties, forms of supply, material failure modes, alloying and thermal equilibrium diagrams, processing polymers - suitable for L3 BTEC applied science, BTEC engineering, and CTEC engineering.
This bundle of resources is available in Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx), Pages² and Keynote¹ formats. Each presentation is included in PowerPoint and Keynote; each document is included in Word and Pages. The file numbering links slides to worksheets. Please note that there is not a 1:1 ratio of slides to worksheets but the key topics are covered over the entirety of the slides and worksheets.
This bundle of resources covers all key topics for material science units:
Classification
Structure
Periodicity
Metals and Polymers
Ceramics
Composites and Smart Materials
Material Properties
Standard Forms of Supply
Material Failure Modes (fracture, fatigue & creep)
Alloying and Thermal Equilibrium Diagrams
Processing Polymers
The presentation slides give an introduction to key topics of materials science relevant to BTEC and CTEC vocational qualifications.
The worksheets are designed to be completed prior to the assessed assignments thus giving tutors the ability to offer feedback on the tasks. The work that learners do in the worksheets can be readily adapted into their assessed assignments. The worksheets in this bundle are editable documents that can be uploaded to Google Classroom or Teams, printable PDF versions with space for learners to complete the tasks directly onto the worksheet are also included. The worksheets include links to relevant research sites to guide learners into their research which will be relevant for their assignments. There is space within each task to compile a bibliography of sources as the learners work thus simplifying the process of compiling a full bibliography for the assessed tasks.
This bundle will drastically ease the life of all tutors teaching material science on BTEC Engineering (units 25 & 26), CTEC Engineering (unit 11), and BTEC Applied Science (unit 22) courses. It will also give learners the ability to develop their portfolio over the entirety of the course thus simplifying the assessment process.
¹ Keynote is Apple’s presentation software. Keynote is an app available on macOS, iOS and iPadOS for free with most new or new-ish Apple devices.
² Pages is Apple’s word processing and desktop publishing software. Pages is an app available on macOS, iOS and iPadOS for free with most new or new-ish Apple devices.
There is a free sample of this bundle of resources with files available in PDF format.
Watch Felix Baumgartner’s Space Jump, collect velocity and time readings from the video, then analyse his motion on a velocity-time graph.
Complete worksheet with instructions for students with completed table and graph at the end.
Complete activity with a worksheet with fifteen incorrect statements about waves that need to be corrected. Each incorrect statement has an identifier indicating how many mistakes there are. This task is A-Level physics standard.
The worksheet is a PDF.
There is a PowerPoint and Keynote presentation for the teacher to use to go through the corrections to the statements in a whole group activity. So the presentation is accessible to Microsoft Windows users, Open Office users and Apple users - whatever floats your boat!
Topics included:
Wave features (wavelength, period, frequency etc)
Transverse and longitudinal waves
Polarisation
Refraction
Diffraction
Superposition
Coherence
Stationary waves
Complete activities each including a PDF worksheet with incorrect statements about an A-Level physics topic that need to be corrected. Perfect for topic revision.
Each bundle also includes a PowerPoint and Keynote presentation for the teacher to use to go through the corrections to the statements in a whole group activity. The presentation is accessible to Microsoft Windows users, Open Office users and Apple users - whatever floats your boat!
Topic Areas Included:
Materials science
Electricity
Waves
Magnetic Fields & Induction
Complete activity with a worksheet with thirteen incorrect statements about magnetic fields and electromagnetism that need to be corrected. Each incorrect statement has an identifier indicating how many mistakes there are. This task is A-Level physics standard.
The worksheet is a PDF.
There is a PowerPoint and Keynote presentation for the teacher to use to go through the corrections to the statements in a whole group activity. So the presentation is accessible to Microsoft Windows users, Open Office users and Apple users - whatever floats your boat!
Topics included:
Magnetic flux density
Fleming’s left hand rule
Velocity selector
Magnetic flux
Faraday’s law
Lenz’s law
Alternator
Transformers
Turns ratio equation
Complete activity with a worksheet with fourteen incorrect statements about deforming solids that need to be corrected. Each incorrect statement has an identifier indicating how many mistakes there are. This task is A-Level physics standard.
The worksheet is a PDF.
There is a PowerPoint and Keynote presentation for the teacher to use to go through the corrections to the statements in a whole group activity. So the presentation is accessible to Microsoft Windows users, Open Office users and Apple users - whatever floats your boat!
Topics included:
Hooke’s Law
Force constant
Stress and strain
Features of stress-strain graphs
Elasticity
Plasticity
Brittle materials
Ductile materials
Complete activity with a worksheet with eight incorrect statements about charge and current that need to be corrected. Each incorrect statement has an identifier indicating how many mistakes there are. This task is A-Level physics standard.
The worksheet is a PDF.
There is a PowerPoint and Keynote presentation for the teacher to use to go through the corrections to the statements in a whole group activity. So the presentation is accessible to Microsoft Windows users, Open Office users and Apple users - whatever floats your boat!
A compilation of extended calculation exam questions (calculations worth 3 or more marks). These are questions that prove challenging to many students. The intention of this compilation is to give students focussed practice on these challenging questions.
The AS collection covers the modules of first year A-level physics.
The A2 collection covers the modules of second year A-level physics.
The questions are provided in two separate PDF documents with hyperlinks between individual questions and their mark scheme and the subject headings and their section of the mark scheme for easy electronic navigation. The questions are laid out to make them a great printable resource.
UPDATE 24 May 22: Couple of typos / omissions corrected.
I use this generator extensively for continual revision throughout the school year. Each lesson we have a 5-10 minute quiz on past topics to keep them fresh in students’ minds. This is one of Rosenshine’s key principles.
Generate a recap / review quiz on a subject in physics with ease. Comes with a database of questions categorised into topic areas (physics subjects), you just select the topic area you want a quiz for and you’ll immediately get a mini quiz of five questions. When the class has finished attempting the questions click once to reveal the solutions.
Want to cycle the questions for a new quiz? Check a checkbox and boom you’ve got a new quiz on the same topic area (use the Refresh drop down menu on Excel).
This is an entirely offline solution meaning you can use this even when your school’s internet connection drops out. The supplied questions are categorised as literacy or numeracy (where applicable). And those linked skills are displayed to the class to reinforce that the mini quiz includes those skills.
The master sheet has a single database of questions to make question maintenance a breeze - one place to input / edit questions. All lookup formulae are dynamic so that you don’t have to worry about which order the questions are in - so feel free to change the order of questions or add/remove questions as you see fit.
In the Numbers (Apple) version the master database also harnesses Numbers’ built in categorisation on the subject so you can expand and collapse collections of questions easily - once again maintaining the database is made super easy.
The quiz generator is designed to randomly select five questions from the database. But note that for subjects with a small number of questions in the database duplicate questions may occasionally be shown. If you can try to keep numbers of questions above 15 to reduce the likelihood of this.
Comes with over 600 questions ready to get you going with a bang! Here’s the subject break down of the questions:
UNITS 12
EQUILIBRIUM 21
MOTION 26
FORCE AND MOTION 21
WORK AND ENERGY 14
MATERIALS 25
ELECTRICITY 49
WAVES 18
REFRACTION & TIR 21
WAVE INTERFERENCE 34
QUANTUM 50
GASES AND KINETIC THEORY 35
THERMAL PHYSICS 13
CIRCULAR MOTION 27
SHM 28
GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS 33
ASTROPHYSICS 47
ELECTRIC FIELDS 15
CAPACITANCE 26
MAGNETIC FIELDS 50
PARTICLES 18
RADIOACTIVE DECAY 39
NUCLEAR ENERGY 24
MEDICAL PHYSICS 19
**Now includes an Excel spreadsheet **. For Windows users. Windows users suffer enough with poor OS & software options so I created an Excel version to take the edge off it ; )
Includes a Numbers spreadsheet. Numbers is spreadsheet software made by Apple, it opens with the Numbers app available for free with most recent iPhone / iPad / Mac devices also available with a free Apple ID for use in most web browsers.
The measurements, instruments and concepts to describe and explain in exam questions about physics practical work.
Measurements to Take: Distance / Length, Small Distance / Length / Diameter, Time, Launch / Final Velocity, Temperature, Voltage, Current and more!
Common Relationships to Investigate: Direct and Inverse proportionality
And How to Investigate Relationships.
Suitable for OCR Physics A, AQA Physics and Edexcel physics.
Material science worksheets and slides - material classification, structure, periodicity, metals & polymers - suitable for L3 BTEC applied science, BTEC engineering, and CTEC engineering.
This bundle of resources is available in PDF format. This is a free sample of the upcoming full bundle of resources with presentations available in Keynote¹ and PowerPoint (.pptx) formats and editable worksheets available in Pages² and Word (.docx) formats. The file numbering links slides to worksheets. Please note that there is not a 1:1 ratio of slides to worksheets but the same topics are covered over the entirety of the slides and worksheets.
The full bundle of resources covers all key topics, in addition to those mentioned above the full bundle includes:
Elastomers
Ceramics
Composites and Smart Materials
Material Properties
Standard Forms of Supply
Material Failure Modes (fracture, fatigue & creep)
Alloying and Thermal Equilibrium Diagrams
Processing Polymers
The presentation slides give an introduction to key topics of materials science relevant to BTEC and CTEC vocational qualifications.
The worksheets are designed to be completed prior to the assessed assignments thus giving tutors the ability to offer feedback on the tasks. The work that learners do in the worksheets can be readily adapted into their assessed assignments. The worksheets in this bundle are printable with space for learners to complete the tasks directly onto the worksheet. The worksheets include links to relevant research sites to guide learners into their research which will be relevant for their assignments. There is space within each task to compile a bibliography of sources as the learners work thus simplifying the process of compiling a full bibliography for the assessed tasks.
The full bundle is a paid download and will drastically ease the life of all tutors teaching material science on BTEC Engineering (units 25 & 26), CTEC Engineering (unit 11), and BTEC Applied Science (unit 22) courses. It will also give learners the ability to develop their portfolio over the entirety of the course thus simplifying the assignment process.
¹ Keynote is Apple’s presentation software. Keynote is an app available on macOS, iOS and iPadOS for free with most new or new-ish Apple devices.
² Pages is Apple’s word processing and desktop publishing software. Pages is an app available on macOS, iOS and iPadOS for free with most new or new-ish Apple devices.
An independent activity worksheet for students to recap the main points of electromagnetic induction: the definitions of key quantities magnetic flux and magnetic flux linkage, their unit, definition of the weber, and the circumstances that give rise to an induced e.m.f. in a conductor (wire or coil).
The PDF includes solutions on the second page.
A summary activity to enable students to compare the force constant (from Hooke’s Law) with Young’s Modulus in order to appreciate the benefit that Young’s Modulus provides in discussion about material stiffness.
Answers included on page 2.
A summary activity to facilitate students comparing electric and gravitational fields. The nature of the fields, direction, definitions, units, equations (strength, potential and potential energy) paths of objects with mass/charge are included.
The comparison is done by field property in a tabulated layout. Page 1 is designed for students to write onto directly. Page 2 has solutions.
A differentiated activity worksheet for students and Keynote¹ presentation with answers. Four different elastic collisions are presented and students have to apply conservation of momentum and conservation of kinetic energy to the collision to determine the correct outcome. The problems range in difficulty from straightforward to advanced problem solving.
There are two versions of the activity included:
Extension version with limited guidance on the task.
Accessible version with four possible outcomes shown that students need to evaluate.
(Both worksheets are combined into the single pdf document - just print what you need.)
This is a paid version of a lite product which includes the same task without the differentiated version.
The worksheet should prove self explanatory for students. The presentation is designed to aid the teacher’s explanation. There are slides that can be used to show solutions for both versions of the worksheet giving the teacher the option to choose how to work through the the tasks. The slides linked to the differentiated version include the algebraic working to analyse conservation of momentum and KE - making the teacher’s life even easier!
¹ The presentation is made with Keynote which is Apple’s presentation software. It can be exported to PowerPoint but I don’t guarantee the output will look and operate in the same way. Keynote is an app available on macOS, iOS and iPadOS for free with most new or new-ish Apple devices. You have my permission to try exporting into PowerPoint for your personal use in teaching your classes.
An activity worksheet for students and Keynote¹ presentation with answers. Four different elastic collisions are presented and students have to apply conservation of momentum and conservation of kinetic energy to the collision to determine the correct outcome. The problems range in difficulty from straightforward to advanced problem solving.
This is a free lite version of a premium product which includes the same task differentiated. In the differentiated version the same collisions are the basis of the question but there are multiple possible outcomes that students evaluate.
The worksheet should prove self explanatory for students. The presentation is designed to aid the teacher’s explanation but does not show all working.
¹ The presentation is made with Keynote which is Apple’s presentation software. It can be exported to PowerPoint but I don’t guarantee the output will look and operate in the same way. Keynote is an app available on macOS, iOS and iPadOS for free with most new or new-ish Apple devices. You have my permission to try exporting into PowerPoint for your personal use in teaching your classes.
An activity to guide students through the analysis of real planetary data (orbit radius and period) to see if it is consistent with Kepler’s Third Law.
Includes:
A worksheet (PDF) for students with complete instructions. This can be issued to students as independent work in class or at home. Space is provided for working out and writing answers to the questions.
A Numbers¹ spreadsheet with solutions. There is an Incomplete tab, which can be projected whilst introducing the activity if desired. The Complete tab has all the solutions to aid the teacher as they work through it with the class. Solutions include results computed directly from the data using spreadsheet formulae and a separate table in which results from a hand drawn graph can be inputted and computed. The Printable tab has the solutions in a printable format if needed.
The Incomplete and Printable tabs from the spreadsheet are also included as separate PDFs for anyone unable to use the Numbers app.
¹ This is a Numbers spreadsheet. It is possible to convert Numbers spreadsheets to Excel files but I cannot guarantee an easy to use output since the tables may be converted to separate worksheets in the Excel file.
A simple but beautifully well illustrated set of Keynote slides to help teachers introduce students to common scientific measuring instruments and their precision.
The first two slides link precision to the scale division of the instrument and the use of different prefixes for the same measurement and uncertainty.
Includes high quality diagrams to help link the measurement concept to use of the real instrument. A slide at the end shows how to indicate precision in tabulated results.
Instruments covered in this presentation deck:
Ruler
Vernier caliper (standard precision ± 0.1 mm)
Micrometer
Voltmeter (digital and analogue versions [10 V shunt ± 0.2 V]
Handheld stopwatch
Thermometer
Weighing scale
This presentation is available to you for free, but it is copyrighted - no alterations are to be made and it is not to be distributed further.
This is made with Keynote which is Apple’s presentation software. It can be exported to PowerPoint but I don’t guarantee the output will look and operate in the same way. Keynote is an app available on macOS, iOS and iPadOS for free with most new or new-ish Apple devices. You have my permission to try exporting into PowerPoint for your personal use in teaching your classes.
A spreadsheet that can be used to analyse the data obtained in the experiment to investigate the transformers turns ratio equation like in this video.
The spreadsheet automatically calculates the turns ratios and potential difference ratios from the inputted turns and p.d. values. The calculated ratios are added to two carefully formatted graphs - a column chart and a line graph. A line of best fit is automatically plotted. The linear correlation of the line is automatically calculated from the line graph. This spreadsheet is perfect for rapidly analysing experimental data.
This is a Numbers spreadsheet. It is possible to convert Numbers spreadsheets to Excel files but I cannot guarantee an easy to use output since the tables may be converted to separate worksheets in the Excel file.
A worksheet to enable students to analyse experimental data from the experiment to investigate the transformers turns ratio equation (V₁ / V₂ = N₁ / N₂). I’ve made a video of the experiment here https://youtu.be/rXzTp4dzjGw. The data collected in the video can be used to complete a table, plot a graph and answer a series of analysis questions in order to explain if the equation is supported by the data that was collected. An additional extension guides students through the manual calculation of R². Instructions for computation of standard deviation on popular CASIO calculators are also included. Yup all this for free!
There are links from the PDF directly to the relevant part of the data collection in the video for anyone using the worksheet electronically. There are solutions at the end.
Perfect for A-level physics students on any specification.
This worksheet is ideal for home learning since it has an accompanying video explanation of the experiment, the analysis of results and solutions to all questions are included in the document.
One thing to note: I mistakenly used a different set of results in my analysis video. I’m sorry about that. However, the analysis methodology is still relevant.