5 Lesson sequence (for 5 double lessons of 1h40) for Edexcel Physics A Level A2.
Including life cycle of a star, H-R diagram, red shift, Doppler shift, Hubble’s Law, Fate of the universe, Wein’s Law, Stefan Boltzman Law, measuring astronomical distances, luminosity, black body radiators, and nuclear binding energy. Practice questions, exam questions and solutions given.
A2 Physics Exexcel. Introduction to simple harmonic motion including derivation of the equation for displacement, velocity and acceleration using analysis of physical motion and differentiation. Comparative work for graphs of displacement, velocity and acceleration. Summary questions and multiple choice questions and answers.
A2 Physics Edexcel. Lesson about nuclear binding energy, mass deficit, and the binding energy per nucleon graph. Example questions and solutions. Nuclear fusion and how much energy is released in the Hydrogen to Helium process.
A2 Physics Edexcel. A discussion of forced, free and damped oscillations. Examples of light, heavy and critical damping and graphically. Discussion of resonance and two practicals. Multiple choice questions and answers.
AS Physics Edexcel A level.
Double lesson applying standing waves to string, reed and wind instruments talking about harmonics and overtones. Exam questions and answers given.
AS Physics Edexcel A Level. Double Lesson introducing the idea of interference with Young’s double slit experiment. Double and single slit patterns discussed and compared. Explanation created using prior knowledge about phase and path difference. Huygen’s principle discussed and applied to single slits. Students are prompted to make their own predictions of behaviour. Demo of single and double slit needed to accompany this. Multiple exam questions and answers throughout and knowledge check quiz.
AS Physics Edexcel A Level. Double or triple lesson. Introducing the idea of diffraction gratings and how to find the slit width for a grating. Derivation of the nλ = d sin(θ) formula and how to find θ geometrically through experimentation. Practice questions and answers. Instructions for practical (and questions to get students planning the practical for themselves) to find the wavelength of a laser using diffraction gratings(Core practical 8). Full set of example data and analysis. Exam practice questions and answers.
AS Physics Edexcel A Level. Core Practical 7 guide encouraging students to identify relationships and plan investigation and graphical techniques. Full set of instructions, results table, link to y=mx+c, and example results. Lab report word template sheet given.
AS Physics Edexcel A Level.
A double lesson. Introducing superposition, coherence, standing waves, constructive and destructive interference. Description of standing waves and how they occur, labeling of nodes and anti-nodes. Comparison of standing and progressive waves. Simple exam question quiz with answers. Application to standing waves in a microwave practical and exam question testing understanding of the practical.
Practice questions and answers given throughout.
As Physics Edexcel A Level. Lesson stretching single and souble slit interference to compare coloured light patterns (i.e red vs purple) and the effect of using white light. Application to CD’s reflecting coloured light and exam question to test understanding.
AS Physics Edexcel A level.
Double lesson recapping the basics of waves that students should know from GCSE and a multiple choice AS level quiz. AS content introducing radians, wave phase, along with key terms anti-phase and in phase.
A2 Physics A level Edexcel. Full double lesson.
Particle physics module looking at early particle detectors specifically cloud and bubble chambers. Research task for students to understand how they work. Walk through of how force due to magnetic field causes circular motion. Example questions and model answers for determining what is happening in cloud chambers. Difficult cloud chamber image to be analyzed with answers for A/A* students. Instructions for how to make simple cloud chambers.
AS A level Physics Edexcel. Drawing free body diagrams. Resolving vectors into horizontal and vertical components. Finding resultant vectors using trigonometry and scale diagrams for perpendicular and non-perpendicular vectors. Worked solutions to practice questions and answers to questions.
GCSE Edexcel Physics. Entire topic revision slides, specification points, exam questions, answers, practicals and model answers for 6 mark questions. Combined Physics and Separate Physics. The separate topic is clearly marked.
Includes: Electric circuit symbols, key definitions, charge equations, voltage and current in series and parallel circuits, resistors and resistance, Ohm’s law, LDRs, LEDs, thermistors, current and voltage in special resistors, The heating effect, I-V graphs, explaining graphs using the heating effect, power equations.
GCSE Edexcel Physics. Entire topic revision slides, specification points, exam questions, answers, practicals and model answers for 6 mark questions. Combined Physics and Separate Physics. The separate topic is clearly marked.
Includes: geocentric and heliocentric models of the solar system, key astrophysics terms, telescopes, gravity calculations, uses of different orbits, orbital motion as a vector, life cycle of a star, model answers for 6 mark life cycle of a star questions, redshift, the doppler effect, origin or the universe, steady state and big bang theory.
GCSE Combined Science Physics 9-1 Edexcel. Chapter 2 Forces and Motion.
Lesson a&b in chapter. Covering resultant forces and how to calculate them, newton’s first law and how to interpret it and circular motion. Questions and answers given. Opportunities for peer assessment.
AS A level Physics Edexcel chapter 1 rectilinear motion. Everything your students will need for SUVAT and projectiles. Great for A/A* students. Complete powerpoint for entire sequence of learning. This took my classes 6 lessons.
Section 1: Deriving the SUVAT equations and introductory questions with worked solutions /answers.
Section 2: Step by step guide for completing Core Practical 1 “determine the acceleration of a freely falling object” using light gates, free fall apparatus, and G-ball. Instructions to get students to figure out how to complete each part of the experiment and complete the correct analysis. Check list for a perfect practical write up.
Section 3: Complex problems including using resolving in SUVAT and projectiles that do no start and end at the same point. Complete worked examples for both and 10 difficult multi-step questions with worked solutions.
For KS3 (Y8) Physics topic Electricity. 5 lesson sequence including static electricity and current electricity (voltage, current, resistance, series and parallel circuits). Practical activities and student’s investigating relationships for themselves. Plenary quizzes, structured sentences and diagrams.
A2 A level physics edexcel. A complete double lesson dedicated to the standard model including quarks, leptons, baryons and mesons. Details the fundamental particles, their relative size and charges. Predicting the quark composition of mesons due to charge. The hierachy of quark matter.
Conservation laws and applying them to practice questions to see if particle decays are allowed. Quiz about all the basic facts. Questions and answers given.