KS3 KS4 KS5 Salters Horners KS5 AEB
Links for Karin Parker's lessons
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Updated 17 June 2001 |
General: (there are more links on the resources page)
New Scientist - website contains articles from the magazine, past and present.
How stuff works - a huge site that will answer most questions about how gadgets work - some of this is also on the school's intranet
Interactive periodic table
What would a holiday on other planets be like ? Check space holidays
SATs revision - BBC bitesize
GCSE revision - BBC bitesize
Your syllabus - MEG Double Award Suffolk Science
Electricity demand profiles including a graph of how demand changed during the England v Germany Euro 96 game
Animation to test your ideas about freefall and terminal velocity - excellent
Stopping distances - a table ; an article about how light condtions can alter reaction times and stopping distances
How physics helps forensic scientists in road traffic accident investigations
The Highway Code; stopping distances section
Facts about seatbelts (from the 1998 Belt Up campaign); ROSPA seat belt information sheet
Star life cycles - try and put the pictures in age order
Education Guide to Space (Leicester University) - good background information and a tour of the planets.
Energy saving and efficiency
Watt Watcher's energy saving projects homepage (US based)
includes a useful page of energy saving tips and a comparison of the real cost of 'cheap' filament bulbs compared to their energy saving alternatives
A page of links to Energy Advice Services
Energy Saving Trust - click the links for 'your home'; you can look at where energy is wasted by many appliances in your home. Full of information but may take a while to load.
Non-renewable Energy Resources
Government paper about how efficient fossil-fuel fired power stations are
Combined heat and power - how some power stations use 'wasted' heat usefully
Guardian newspaper article about how reliant we are on fossil fuels
An article on the safety of nuclear power plants
British Energy fact files - loads of data about nuclear power
How a nuclear power station is decommissioned; there is a section on cost but it's not very clear! It shows that it costs £4.6 billion pounds a year for decommissioning.
Oneworld site on energy - lots of information in one place - particularly useful for nuclear energy
The economics of nuclear power (Nuclear Issues Briefing paper) including graphs showing selective use of statistics
Renewable Energy Resources
Yorkshire Electricity's education pages - basic background to energy resources
Energy supplies (thanks to Angus Gregson for this lot!)
All types:
dti
site
Australian
government site
Hydroelectricity:
waterpower
Tidal
Waves
An article on the refraction of earthquake waves
KS5:
There are many animations/demos at 'Computer animations of Physical Processes' (Siltech)
Excellent videos of many processes - the waves section is particularly useful.
How things fly - Bernoulli's and fluid flow
The Concorde crash problem sheet
Stuart Quayle's piece on the Theory of Flight
Some problem sheets etc from the year 13 course
For links on thermometry go to spidercox resources and check the heat section
Additionally, try the National Physical Laboratory's resources
Moon crater simulation
Physics 2000 - many applets for looking at 'modern' physics
Higher, Faster, Stronger module AS
Experimental determination of g: what is it ? - an intro; pendulum method; gravity lab (results from an experiment in which an object is dropped); acceleration and freefall - very detailed but excellent background info (you should be able to work out how to find g by freefall from this)
New Scientist article on how world records have been changing
Pole vaulting - use java applet that allows you to work out how high, in theory, you could vault. Excellent links from here too.
Speed skiing - the definitive site - 0 to 154mph in 10 seconds! But some say it's not dangerous - an interview with a top skier. And the mechanics of it. Phew.
Dick Fosbury talks about his flop in a newspaper interview; High Jump physics with some background about how the centre of gravity bit works. For background, Britannica's page on the high jump. A set of stills from a video sequence for a high jumper (sehr gut - auf Deutsch!)
International Amateur Athletics Federation Lots of photos of recent athletic achievements, and world rankings and another athletics site with all the world record data you might want
Sports records from just about everywhere
Olympic federation home page
Biomechanics link page to many of the world's top organisations - academic related
Sports Science link page including to Skateboard science and a Sport Science FAQ and a page compiled by the UK athletics team senior sports coach with extensive information for a training program.
The Tyrolean Traverse explained - by climbers and another more technical guide and a practical example - Old Man of Stoer
Newton - did that apple really fall ?
Animation to test your ideas about freefall and terminal velocity - excellent
Hooke's Law:
A sample practical method sheet (school) and one that's more advanced
Applications within orthapaedic biomechanics, including a very good graph and explanation (does get complicated).
An article on Hooke the scientist - apparently he was not a very handsome chap and had many run-ins with Newton; exactly who stood on the shoulders of giants?
Bungee jumping links (find out what the very first bungee cords were made from, and where the first 'official' jump took place). Physics of bungee jumping - does include some maths beyond physics A/Level but worth looking at for what it says about materials.
Some training shoe ads and specifications: skyflex meridiansports newbalance find your perfect shoe sneakers - all types (not much science)
Funfair Physics
Technology in Space module AS
Read this first: How Stuff Works - satellites - typical chatty and informative HSW site. Excellent to give you the background for the topic.
Sites recommended for info by the exam board:
Small satellites:
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) - commercial designer and builder of both civil and military micro- and mini-satellites, and now nano-satellites (<10kg). Some excellent info here.
Small satellite homepage - maintained by Surrey University; contains data on power- systems for many satellites.
Oscar 11 Satellite (UoSAT-2) - a page from which to access loads of raw satellite data
Built in only 6 months, UoSAT-2 carries the first modern digital store and forward (S&F) communications payload and a prototype CCD camera. this page has been set up by amateur radio and satellite enthusiasts and has loads of files that UoSAT-2 transmits back to earth. Software is also available to decode it!
Other UK space projects:
Education Guide to Space (Leicester University) - good introduction
Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC), Space Science Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
European Space Agency
ESA is the organisation responsible for European space projects
National Aeronautics and Space Administration - NASA
International Space Station - you cannot get more current than this! Track the Space Station from here. Graphic of the design of the ISS and an artist's impression of the complete station
Other useful sites the exam board did not find!
How do astronauts go to the toilet ?
Were the moon landings a hoax ? Moon fakers
Voyager Space Mission - interplanetary mission, and beyond!
Meteosat images - fantastic updated images from Nottingham University for weather forecasting, also a link to an excellent sequence of the 1999 Eclipse
Keep clicking on the map to get a satellite image of the area: MSN terraserver (includes a download of an image viewer) - and the picture of Bristol is grey
More maps and satellite images
LANDSAT images
Satellite image of Katherine Lady Berkeley School, Wootton-under-Edge, Glos. - we can't seem to find a similar one for Downend
Some declassified US images of weapons plants and conflicts including images like those from the Bosnian conflict that indicated mass graves and ethnic cleansing (too sad to comprehend).
Images of Chernobyl showing how habitation has changed since the explosion.
Digging up the Past module AS
Short article on nuclear techniques in archaeology
An old Aztec weapon that used some great physics (allegedly)
Archaeological methods - excellent site with links for dating techniques, imaging, searching etc.
eg using CT scans to read cuneiform tablets (newspaper article)
British Archaeology magazine - this one has an article on an Iron Age Shetland toilet, a Viking falling down a rabbit hole, and a Bronze age warrior found buried with a spear in his hand; the gossipy side of archaeology.
Jarlshof - a site in Shetland that has been continually inhabited since 3200BC - check out the skulls at the Sumburgh cist that were discovered near there (not much physics here but the place is amazing and gives me an excuse to go on about how wonderful Shetland is...)
Archaeosurvey site for nondestructive techniques - click on geoelectric for a real life resistivity survey.
Online text book, courtesy of Kevin Greene including chapter on Dating Techniques (technical but thorough - loads of stuff on thermoluminescence amongst other things)
Good Enough to Eat module AS
The Cadbury website - this has loads of information about chocolate and the specific products the company makes - try to concentrate on the science of the production of it! (History of chocolate, then the production link)
Nestle (if your conscience permits)
Useful food resource index - University of Oregon
Basic background to viscosity; and a glossary. And another more detailed background article with some maths
Bostock consistometer - details - and another example
Redwood viscometer and the Saybolt second
Cambridge Applied Systems Viscometer
Instrumentation for food testing - Oregon State University
A set of lab investigations on food properties - Purdue University
Article on electrorheology and chocolate
Useful notes on material properties, with definitions and explanations of behaviour
Background to Mohs' scale - geological - and a few standards on it
Brinell's hardness test and background on hardness; article that describes many hardness scales and has a useful comparison table
Optical properties of solutions - introduction - chirality means 'handedness'
Another introduction with a more practical bias (A/Level standard from schoolscom)
Historical article on the Pulfrich refractometer
UK government site for food standards - this has all the government legislation and requirements for food hygiene; search the archive under packaging and you'll find even the teabag gets tested and that hydrocarbons can be found in chocolate
Food irradiation - facts from IAEA (International Atomic Energy Authority) - check in particular the link on packaging, and some work based on a SATIS 16-18 exercise from Independent Learning network Website.
Probing the Heart of Matter module A2
Theories and ideas about the creation of the universe (based on Hawking's universe tv series)
Strange stuff explained - useful if you want to know what quarks and antimatter are
Ned Wright's Tutorial on Cosmology and astrophysics - top of A2/undergraduate standard
Interactive timeline for the history of the universe (pbs).
Text timeline from a different source (St Vincent)
Link for tutorials on antimatter and classifications of particles and interactions.
Extensive page of links for particle physics.
Excellent slideshow and presentation on particle physics from the Royal Holloway College
The particle adventure - interactive tour of the basics of particle physics - needs shockwave.
You can download the syllabus from Edexcel - as a pdf file
Useful addresses for the course
What is 'the worshipful company of Horners' and who are 'Salters' ?
Updates for the course