Advancing Physics Wiki

This is getting better and better over time so have a look.


http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A-level_Physics_(Advancing_Physics))

Brief notes on errors

Yr 12 Homework 18 Oct to 7 Nov

Text Book

• Read chapters 1.3
• questions page 25 (Quick Check)
• check summary page 26
• questions page 27

[AS1.3 lens questions.xps ]

• Question 150S Short Answer ‘Cameras and eyes’
• Question 160C Comprehension ‘Satellite imaging’
• Question 50D Data Handling ‘Representing experimental uncertainties graphically 1’

[100P.xps ]

• Activity 100P Presentation ‘Images presentation’ to be presented to the rest of the class on Monday 7 November

Yr 12 Physics 3 Oct 2011

• Activity 50S Software Based ‘Image processing: The surface of Mercury’

Plus at least one of:

• Activity 60S Software Based ‘Image enhancing: Volcanoes on Io’
• Activity 70S Software Based ‘Medical uses of x-ray images’
• Activity 80S Software Based ‘Medical uses of ultrasound images’

Questions

• Question 60S Short Answer ‘A scanning electron microscope image of Velcro’
• Question 70S Short Answer ‘Image processing by brightness and contrast control’
• Question 140S Short Answer ‘Response of the human eye to differences in brightness’

12 Physics HW (4 October to 17 October)

Text book section 1.2 Read and questions etc at end. eg look up key words etc
File 1.2 questions.pdf containing

• Question 40S Short Answer ‘Smoothing pixels using mean or median’
• Question 110S Short Answer ‘Bits and bytes in images’
• Question 120S Short Answer ‘Logarithms and powers’
• Question 130C Comprehension ‘X-ray image of the Kepler supernova remnant’ (plus image 130C in this blog entry)

PLUS (as no lesson Friday 7th) read through text book section 1.3 and do questions at the end as well as looking at links to advancing physics CD-ROM (have to do in school)

GCSE to A'Level Physics equations

Most of these equations you would have seen in GCSE (especially if you did P7)

Images you can focus AFTER you have taken them

http://www.lytro.com/picture_gallery

AS HW and Lesson questions

HW called 10S20E30E30X will be printed and given to you.
It has also been transfered to the Learning platform HW section.
It consists of
Question 10S Short Answer ‘Speed, wavelength and frequency’
Question 20E Estimate ‘Large and small distances and times’
Question 30E Estimate ‘Making estimates about images’
Question 30X Explanation–Exposition ‘Different kinds and uses of images’

DUE 3rd October 2011

Yr 12 HW

Complete MIND THE GAP by 23rd September

AS Physics 2011-2012 information

Responsibility to

• Complete all the work set
• To bring up any problems you have to your teacher
• Check the blog regularly > you can set up an RSS link if you like
• Get information from the learning platform > https://www.klp.rm.com

A level resources now in

• Shared spaces
• Interest space
• Physics A Level

HW sheets will be added to this section

WEB SITES
http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/type/gce/science/physics_b/
http://advancingphysics.iop.org/
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A-level_Physics_(Advancing_Physics)
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html

Learning Platform Update

A level resources now in

• Shared spaces
• Interest space
• Physics A Level

HW sheets will be added to this section

The Learning space is still there but will not be updated.

Summer work A2 year 12 into 13

To complete before September

Creating Models

[10.1 questions.pdf [20S,30S,40S,5C,10C]],[10T Turin shroud.pdf ]

AND

[A2 10.2 questions.pdf [50S,60S,65S,70S,80S,110S,120S,140S,130D]]

Text book Read through chapters 10.1 and 10.2 and do the questions at the end of the chapters. If you are in school you can also try out activities listed at the end (these we did in class).

Great physics sites

http://www.sixtysymbols.com/

Friday

http://www.sixtysymbols.com/videos/planck.htm

http://www.sixtysymbols.com/videos/debroglie.htm

AS Physics IMPORTANT

Mondays Lesson

MANY PATHS

Advancing Physics software

MAIN

• 110S
• 120S
• 140S
• 170S

FURTHER

• 100S
• 150P
• 160H
• 180S
• 190S
• 200S
• 210S

You can do the same thing using a pizza cutter to act like a rotating arrow

See 80E

Printed question for 7.2

Fridays Lesson

Electron diffraction as evidence of quantum behaviour of electrons. De Broglie wavelength l = h / mv.

Printed question for 7.3 and section 7.4

The Pre release material and exam preparation

To do before exam

• Read text book and answer questions at the end of the chapters
• Learn the revision booklet
• Do the past papers on the OCR web site
• Do email me if you have any problems
• Do check the BLOG
• Do go through in detail the pre release material

Q.E.D. Richard Feynman Links

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1501838765715417418#docid=-5604842186235091737

Richard Feynman on Quantum Mechanics - Part 2 - Reflection and Quantum Behaviour

For more educational videos, please visit www.cosmolearning.com The Douglas_Robb Memorial - University of Auckland Lecture 2 - Fits_of Reflection and Transmission - Quantum Behaviour

Legacy codes

http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/type/gce/science/physics_b/documents/index.html

AS

2860 > G491

2861 > G492

A2

2863 > G494

2864 > G495

2865 also which is a mixture

Past papers

[http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/type/gce/science/physics_b/documents/index.html]

AS images Revision day

Smart Revision

AS revision day internal resistance