These are the materials from the Light and Sound presentation I gave on 27th November 2024. Many of the slides come from the powerpoint I made for the BGE in the Beyond the Visible and Energy and Sound Topic.
For the 49th Stirling Physics Teachers’ Conference, here are the details of the events and helpsheets etc.
Sorry if this post isn’t as pristine as I had hoped just now, but currently I am dealing with a sinkable boat! You think I’m kidding- check out the blog section when this is all over.
Free Giveaway!
Your Climate change pack
In the pack
One black sock
One white sock
Thermochromic Paper
100 x 100 x 3 mm Aluminium plate
100 x 100 x 3 mm black acrylic plate
mirror and ball-bearings for the radius of curvature to measure g in AH Projects, or use it for an escape room clue
Risk Assessment
Please note the Aluminium plate has sharp edges. Either get these sanded down or only use this as a demonstration being aware that these sharp edges can cause cuts.
Don’t eat the thermochromic paper, and don’t burn yourselves trying to heat something up too much.
The ball-bearing is very small, choking risk and , if dropped a slip risk.
Danger of suffocation from the plastic bag- do I need to write this?
Experiments
Aluminium and Acrylic Plates
A great demo of conduction but not of the heating but of the cooling side. Often a difficult concept for students if the removal of heat!
Here is the kit we couldn’t afford. You can put a couple of O-rings around your plate to stop the melted ice going all over the desk
Basically, get the students to put their hands behind their back and another student to put the black sock on one hand and the white sock on the other. When they feel one hotter than the other they ought to raise their hand. Obviously it ought to be the black sock, but there is always one. This wasn’t as convincing as the JB Sports thicker and uniform socks but we couldn’t afford them.
Another task you can try (I’ve got kids to do this one) is test my theory that wearing black socks gives smellier feet than white sock. I got a student to walk around in one of each and it was exciting as it was a PE day. Try it yourself and see what you think.
If I was doing this cipher again I would only use the capitals or lower case for the a,b,c and uppercase for the symbols. Remember not to use punctuation as it doesn’t come up! The excel template is given below for you to edit and make your own. Obviously you can make your own but using a font that is already available, saves a lot of time in creating the message and translating it for checking.
Notes to make a safe LINAC and CYCLOTRON particle acelerators from salad bowl or guttering. Including some H&S notes
This appears to be all the rage and you can find many youtube videos on making a salad bowl particle accelerator. Here are some of the materials that I’ve done to help.
Brian Redman updated the IOP tests and I was going over these and got very behind. I will put the updated tests in this post in 3 tables N5, H and AH. Do not share these with anyone except in school Physics Departments. They are not to be used by tutors. If we lose the rigour of protecting these they are useless to everyone.
Hi folks, with that panic that has arisen with the imminent demise of talk physics (I can’t say I was a fan) I’ve tried to add some of the essential resources here.
Give me time to upload them.
They are password protected, and not for use by people who tutor and make money out of other people’s work. These are for teachers who are busting a gut trying to keep up with the constant changes in students and education.
A summary of the cut off scores for 5 years at AH, H and N5 physics
AH
year
total
scaled
A
A%
B
B%
C
C%
D
D%
2019
130
90
69
77
59
64
49
57
44
2018
130
87
67
73
56
60
46
53
41
2017
130
84
65
70
54
57
44
50
38
2016
130
84
65
72
55
61
47
55
42
2015 RAH
125
86
69
73
58
61
49
55
44
2015 Trad
125
85
68
72
58
60
54
54
43
Higher
year
total
scaled
A
A%
B
B%
C
C%
D
D%
2019
150
100
67
84
56
69
46
53
35
2018
120
79
66
67
56
55
45
49
41
2017
120
82
68
69
58
57
48
51
43
2016
120
84
70
71
59
59
49
53
44
2015
120
77
64
65
54
54
45
48
40
N5
year
total
scaled
A
A%
B
B%
C
C%
D
D%
2019
125
86
69
72
58
58
46
44
35
2018
125
86
69
72
58
58
46
44
35
2017
100
68
68
56
56
45
45
39
39
2016
100
69
69
58
58
48
48
43
43
2015
100
68
68
58
58
48
48
43
43
2014
100
68
68
57
57
47
54
42
42
As part of the moderation process we’ve got some fake student scripts.
I have not done a definitive marking instructions but I believe the person who sat this paper, a Drew Escutcheon, has made some sneaky errors to look for.
Thanks to Mr C Rossi so making a marking grid for you to add your answers. When we’ve got a finalised MI I’ll publish a commentary with a password so you can’t cheat!
This is a video of an IoP Coaching Session that I took part in on 27th October 2020 trying to inspire teachers to grasp the opportunities that are available for them and their students.
This is a presentation I gave on AH Uncertainties for the IoP. It was the end of term and that’s why I am nearly falling asleep. I had to update it as I had indeed taken the absolute and not fractional uncertainty in T to double for the uncertainty in T2.
As an IoP Coach in Scotland it has been a privilege to produce some resources for a course on language in Science. The talk can be downloaded from Talkphysics but here is the presentation.