AS and A2 electronics Coursework timescales

HW for year 13 Electronics

Bishop Chapter 27.
To be completed this week.

Yr 12E completion of Foundation section

Please check though all your support booklets and work done so far. Bring in all work on Monday.




The resources availiable for this topic are

HW Year 13 Physics

• questions p 173
• questions P188
• Read chapter 15 in APFY and then do questions p187

yr 12 Electronics learning part 2

12E HW Motor

write an explanation of how an electric motor works by next week

Photoelectric effect

Experiment
http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph11e/photoeffect.htm
Reading
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/mod1.html#c2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectric_effect
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/quantumzone/photoelectric.html

HW
Write a brief (3-4 sides A4) description of the photoelectic effect and the experiment to show it. Why was it such an important experiment/theory?
Due in 17 NOV

yr 12 Electronics learning

Ensure that you have done all the work so far and understand everything in your support booklet that we have been though.
Bring in evidence of HW completed and questions to class on the first lesson back after half term.

Homeworks so far

I am trying to fill in a dates in a format in excel and post them here

13 Physics HW

Practice questions chapters 1 -8 by 20th October

Files for AS/A2 level

Some AS/A2 level files are stored on the intranet
Go to student forum
then Science
then Dr Lawson

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HW for year 13

Prepare a revision program for the AS modules you are resitting.

2HWYr13E

You need to do some background reading this week
This is work I have set before

Reading
Chapters from unit 3 support booklet
BISHOP chapter 33 Programming
BISHOP chapter 34 Programming languages
BISHOP chapter 29 Control systems
BISHOP chapter 32 Processing

HW for year 12 Electronics

Complete "section six current electricity" by 15 September.

HW for year 12 Physics

Go through the "Bridge the gap" booklet and complete in full during September. Hand to me in October.

AS (2008) Level Electronics New Course information

NB Need to fit in Two more lessons per fortnight.

Information
Learning Platform https://www.klp.rm.com developed this year
in the mean time
http://scienceatbcc.blogspot.com/ for notices
and on the intranet go to \Dr Lawson\A'Level\Electronics for files and resources (note new syllabus)


WEB SITES
AQA
http://www.aqa.org.uk/qual/gce/electronics_new.php
Specification http://www.aqa.org.uk/qual/gce/pdf/AQA-2430-W-SP-10.PDF

IKES
For support booklets and much more.
http://www.ikes.freeserve.co.uk/

TEXT BOOK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Electronics-Circuits-Systems-Owen-Bishop/dp/0750658452

OTHERS
http://www.theiet.org/education/supportteachers/electronicseducation/index.cfm
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electronic/etroncon.html#c1
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Electronics
http://www.softwareforeducation.com/electronics/index.htm

AS (2008) Level Physics New Course information

WEB SITES

http://advancingphysics.iop.org/
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A-level_Physics_(Advancing_Physics)
http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/asa_levelgceforfirstteachingin2008/physics_b/

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html

Information
Learning Platform https://www.klp.rm.com developed this year
in the mean time
http://scienceatbcc.blogspot.com/ for notices
and on the intranet go to \Dr Lawson\A'Level\Physics for files and resources