Category: Project

Writing Up Your Project

A set of videos to help you write up your advanced higher project report.

How to record your relationships!

This is not a discussion about your friendships but how the data can be described.

The best terminology to use for graphs that have

a trend which is a straight line is ‘a linear relationship’.

That avoids issues around whether something is directly proportional or proportional.

Directly proportional only applies when the graph is a straight line through the origin (or close to the origin within the uncertainty in the y-intercept). It is best to avoid ‘proportional’ altogether.

A curve, such as that produced when plotting irradiance against distance, can never be described as showing an ‘inversely proportional’ relationship, since it does not show the actual relationship (it could potentially be any number of different relationships).

Inverse proportionality can only be claimed when the correct graph of, for example, irradiance against 1/d2 is drawn, and it produces a straight line through the origin.

The type of graph produced for an internal resistance experiment is covered by the term ‘linear relationship’, as it follows the equation y=mx+c format.

Setting up a Word Document

In this section I’ll add information about how to write up your AH Project. Here is the first installment. Nothing great, but just to set up your document so that you gain the Structure mark

https://www.youtube.com/embed/aEXKJ66v5ck?si=E-YuybM5bz28aTgQ

Producing Graphs for your project

Being edited!

Adding Your Graphs into your project

Referencing

If you’ve time this is a great little document from Queen’s University Belfast,

Filetoupload,1560644,en.pdf (qub.ac.uk)

Filetoupload1560644enDownload

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Project 2019+ UPDATED

Some really important information before starting out on your project. Plus some references you might wish to consult.

This is a sample of great References you can get if you sign up to the Archive. No idea how many of us can borrow these books at once!

I’ve tried really hard to locate the Publishers of Tyler’s “A Laboratory Manual of Physics” to sort out copyright, but no one is owning up to this. Edward Arnold was taken over and is now part of the Hodder Education Group. I contacted them and they’ve no record of this book.

I will take down these files asap if anyone objects. Please don’t fine me, I am trying to support Physics Education. This is the non-SI version, get an updated version if you can.

Mechanics1Download
Mechanics2Download
Electricity1Download
Electricity2Download
Heat,pdfDownload
Light1Download
Light2Download
1959 tyler SoundDownload
MagnetismDownload
MiscellaneousDownload

An adaptation of Tom Balanowski’s notes by Mr Bailey. This is a useful guide to teachers preparing students for their AH Physics Project. PLANNING is the KEY.

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AH-Physics-Project-Advice-for-TeachersDownload

If you are not familiar with Excel can I recommend you spending a bit of time looking over the post in the BGE section (link below). I’ll add a further advanced part for you below.

Other packages are available and some are more robust such as R but I am not sure whether I will introduce that to you now.

Creating-Graphs-in-Excel-PART-1Download
Creating-Graphs-in-Excel-PART-2Download

https://www.mrsphysics.co.uk/advanced/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Hookes-Law-Table-in-Excel.mp4

Hookes-Law-Table-in-ExcelDownload
Excel Tables Hookes Law with AH EXTENSION 2020Download
Excel Tables Hookes Law with AH EXTENSION 2020Download

6772Phys2Download
Note Document 6772 IS NOT CURRENT. It is based on AH from 2000-2015, but it does contain some useful hints, tricks and examples. Caveat emptor!
Creating-Tables-in-Excel-PART-1Download

Creating-Graphs-in-Excel-PART-2Download

https://youtu.be/aEXKJ66v5ck

SPECIFIC PROJECT MATERIALS

Young’s Modulus

s2-7 Young’s Modulus

Episode 228 – The Young modulus_0

episode-229-1-analysis-of-tensile-testing-experiments

Young’s Modulus

 

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Project Information

2017 Group

Below is a list of the titles for potential projects that we can offer. If you think of something else do discuss it with your teacher. A good project is something where the data can be used to generate a graph, from which information can be obtained. This then gives plenty of opportunities for analysis, and collecting marks!

TopicComments
gGood one
Focal lengthGood one
Young’s ModulusCan be good but watch the numbers
Refractive IndexBut you’d need to find a method to generate graphs
SheepDifficult, but interesting
SoundLots of potential but work needed
LCR CircuitsIf you like circuits this can be a good one
Planck’s ConstantIf that is what you like!
Wavelength of Sodium LightIf that is what you like!
SHMIf that is what you like!
Moment of Inertia Of Bike Wheels, fly wheels, spinners???
ViscocityIf you can find a way to generate graphs
Surface TensionIf you can find a way to generate graphs

Also LASERs, Strings,
Here is the mark scheme for the project. It is worth 30 marks, so please ensure that you check off each part. Further details can be found in the Investigation Booklet, attached.

SQA mark scheme  Mark scheme 2017 a pdf version of the mark scheme with space for marking.

Mark scheme 2017 a word version of the mark scheme with space for marking.

Project Mark Scheme 2 page marking scheme with room for comments.

Mark-Scheme 2 page marking scheme with room for comments on page 1. The pdf file of the above document.

Project Mark Scheme pdf file single page marking scheme, no room for comments.

Investigating unit day book

UPDATED VERSION 2:  AH Physics Project Advice for Teachers

Here is the information from Tom B, former PA for AH Physics, it is more for teachers than students, but it can’t do harm to read it and you might get some great tips.

AH Physics Project Advice for Teachers pdf version

AH Physics Project Advice for Teachers word version February 2017

Here is an excellent information sheet to using MS Excel for your project write ups including how to create error bars. (Thanks Tom B)

Use of Excel in AH 2010 this is the word version, below is the same document as a pdf file.

Use of Excel in AH 2010

I am not allowed to give you a template to use for your project write-up, however, I think that you ought to be aware of the usefulness of WORD and how it can do many of the things that you need for your project write-up. I see this as similar to the Excel help that is given below.

If you’re lucky enough to have excel 2013- here is a document from Mr Taylor from Strathhaven on plotting graphs in excel with error bars etc.

AH Sciences Graphs in Excel 2013

AH Sciences Graphs in Excel 2013

AH Science Project write up word

AH Science Project write up pdf file

word set up AH Science Project word file

Initial word set up AH Science Project pdf document

I’ll keep adding more as it arrives!

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