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A Keynote presentation with worksheet to help teach your students how to present science experiment results in tables and graphs. The presentation includes a table and graph with errors that the students try to identify - they can annotate the accompanying worksheet. Each error is identified with animated annotations in the presentation. A good table / graph is then shown to illustrate the good features. The worksheet solutions includes the good table and graph for optional sharing with

A Keynote¹ and PowerPoint presentation to aid teaching students how to use Vernier Calipers and Micrometers with accompanying printable worksheet. Learning how to use vernier calipers and micrometers is an important part of physics A-Level, and engineering courses. The presentation includes a labelled diagram of a vernier caliper, followed by high quality diagrams of vernier calipers showing different measurements. The diagrams match those on the worksheet so that students can work through

Activity for practicing drawing tangents on curved velocity-time graphs and calculating gradient values for those tangents in order to calculate acceleration values. The first page includes the activity for students to complete and the second and third pages includes solutions to the questions. Suitable for most physics specifications. This is part of a series of worksheets for practicing different graph skills. This worksheet is great for home learning since it has solutions to all questions

Worksheet for practicing drawing and analysing log graphs. There are two log graphs to plot and analyse. The first data set is from the oscillations of a mass-spring system and requires a log base 10 graph. The second data set is from a capacitor discharge experiment and requires a natural log graph. The first two pages include the activity for students to complete, the third and fourth pages are the solutions. Suitable for most physics specifications. This is part of a series of worksheets for

Activity for practicing plotting graph data points on log graphs, drawing a line of best fit, calculating a gradient and analysing the line in order to calculate quantities. There are two log graphs to plot and analyse. The first data set is from the oscillations of a mass-spring system and requires a log base 10 graph. The second data set is from capacitors in series and requires a natural log graph. Suitable for any physics specification (e.g. AQA and OCR Physics A AS-Level and A-Level s

Differentiated activity for practicing drawing curved graphs. There are four curves to plot and draw, which includes choosing the scale on the y-axis. The four graphs are gas pressure and volume, gravitational field strength, radioactive activity and capacitor charging. The first two pages include the activity for students to complete, the third and fourth pages are the same activity but designed as an extension activity for more able students to complete, the final two pages are the solutions.

Help your students practice recall of graph shapes and features across most physics subject areas (A-level and equivalent). This activity is differentiated. Included is a PDF that has two versions of blank graph grids for students to draw onto. The first version has no help beyond quantities labelled on the axes. The +1 version has some additional guidance included on the axes / grid (such as intercepts or markers). For more guidance there is a page of all graph shapes that students

A detailed presentation to aid explanation of the role of radiation intensity in the photoelectric effect for various photon frequencies relative to the threshold frequency of the metal. Students often misunderstand the inability of increased intensity to trigger the photoelectric effect and therefore believe it has no role. This presentation is a visual aid to help the teacher show that it has a role in controlling the number of photons arriving per unit time. This presentation compares

Evaluate a set of experimental data obtained during an experiment to determine the Young’s Modulus of a copper wire. Tasks include: calculating the absolute and percentage experimental uncertainty in quantities,application of uncertainty rules,drawing error bars,drawing lines of worst acceptable fit,determining uncertainty in a gradient value, andconverting a percentage uncertainty into an absolute uncertainty.This is an excellent follow up exercise to the Young’s Modulus Experiment Worksheet.

Evaluate a set of experimental data obtained during an experiment to determine the specific heat capacities of a copper and aluminium block ( video of experiment). Tasks include: 1. calculating the absolute and percentage experimental uncertainty in quantities, 2. application of uncertainty rules, 3. converting a percentage uncertainty into an absolute uncertainty 4. comparing a percentage difference and experimental uncertainty. Full solutions are included. This is an excellent

A worksheet to enable students to analyse experimental data from the experiment to estimate Planck's constant with LEDs. I’ve made a video of the experiment here youtu.be/JZ7XW-BfPa4. The data collected in the video can be used to complete a table and graph and then answer a series of analysis questions in order to determine Planck's constant. There are links from the PDF directly to the relevant part of the data collection in the video for anyone using the worksheet electronically. Full sol

A worksheet to enable students to analyse experimental data from the experiment to determine the capacitance of a capacitor by discharging it through a known resistance. I’ve made a video of the experiment here youtu.be/IQQ6XWTBYmY (available from 27 Aug). The data collected in the video can be used to complete a table of potential difference values, calculate natural log of V, plot a graph and answer a series of analysis questions in order to determine the unkown capacitance. A second met

An activity to guide students through the analysis of real planetary data (orbit radius and period) to see if it is consistent with Kepler's Third Law. Includes: 1. A worksheet (PDF) for students with complete instructions. This can be issued to students as independent work in class or at home. Space is provided for working out and writing answers to the questions. 2. A Numbers¹ spreadsheet with solutions. There is an Incomplete tab, which can be projected whilst introducing the activity if

A worksheet to enable students to analyse experimental data from the specific heat capacity experiment. I’ve made a video of the experiment here youtu.be/CJTfyD7aiL4 . The data collected in the video can be used to complete a table and answer a series of calculation questions in order to determine c for copper and aluminium. Copper and aluminium are handled on separate pages. There are links from the PDF directly to the relevant part of the data collection in the video for anyone using

Update 18/11/21: Contrast of graph grid lines increasedA worksheet to enable students to analyse experimental data from the experiment to investigate the relationship between gas pressure and volume (Boyle’s law). I’ve made a video of the experiment here youtu.be/J9IoAp51_7w. The data collected in the video can be used to complete a table, plot two graphs and answer a series of analysis questions in order to empirically determine the relationship between gas pressure and volume. There are lin

Activity for practicing plotting graph data points, drawing a line of best fit, calculating a gradient and analysing the line in order to calculate quantities. The first page includes the activity for students to complete and the second page includes solutions to the questions. Suitable for AQA and OCR Physics A AS-Level and A-Level specifications. (7407, 7408, H156, H556) This is part of a series of worksheets for practicing different graph skills. Graphs Skills worksheets 1 & 2 are availa

This is a free Numbers¹ spreadsheet to help teachers having to set multiple assessments for their students some of which are used to calculate a centre assessed grade. The spreadsheet accomplishes the following tasks: Ensures consistency among multiple assessments each with unique numbers of raw marks and requiring their own unique grade boundaries.Very easy grade boundary adjustment by use of stepper cells.Selects the top three UMS scores from the assessments and calculates an average UMS sco

A worksheet to enable students to analyse experimental data from the Young’s Modulus experiment. I’ve made a video of the experiment here youtu.be/xASsYJo3zrM. The data collected in the video can be used to complete a table and graph. Then the graph can be analysed to determine E. There are links from the PDF directly to the relevant part of the data collection in the video for anyone using the worksheet electronically. There are solutions at the end. Perfect for A-level physics studen

A worksheet to enable students to analyse experimental data from the experiment to determine the acceleration of free fall with a light gate. I’ve made a video of the experiment here youtu.be/yKVjlnSOu7s (available from 20 Aug). The data collected in the video can be used to complete a table, plot a graph and answer a series of analysis questions in order to determine the acceleration of free fall. There are links from the PDF directly to the relevant part of the data collection in the v

A worksheet to enable students to analyse experimental data from the experiment to investigate the transformers turns ratio equation (V₁ / V₂ = N₁ / N₂). I’ve made a video of the experiment here https://youtu.be/rXzTp4dzjGw. The data collected in the video can be used to complete a table, plot a graph and answer a series of analysis questions in order to explain if the equation is supported by the data that was collected. An additional extension guides students through the manual calculation of