Physics AS Revision Guide to download

http://teachphysics.org/wp/physics-as-revision-guide/

Physics AS Revision Guides come in plenty of different shapes, sizes and prices but this revision guide for year 12 physics is different to all the others

It's 100% focused on doing well in the AS Physics exams. There is nothing unnecessary just quality Physics revision.

You can download from here

Canon Eos Camera Review

I've just bought myself a Canon Eos Rebel T2i Digital SLR camera that I'm still getting to grips with. It can shoot full HD movies and I'm looking forward to thinking up some uses for it in the Physics lab.

I bought it after reading this review

So far it seems brilliant. Will post soon after I've thought up some uses - got a few ideas already

Some interesting sites

http://hubpages.com/hub/Never-Get-Caught-Speeding

http://physicsteaching.wordpress.com/

http://www.squidoo.com/got-caught-speeding

Have a look at these if you get the chance today

Radar Detector Reviews

I've been looking into buying a radar detector for my car recently. I settled on an Escort Passport 9500ix in the end. Hopefully no more speeding tickets for me! Anyway, I found the reviews on whatradardetector.com to be really useful.

Some good physics there too!

Physics for Entertainment

“Published in 1913, a best-seller in the 1930s and long out of print, Physics for Entertainment was translated from Russian into many languages and influenced science students around the world. Among them was Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman, the Russian mathematician (unrelated to the author), who solved the Poincaré conjecture, and who was awarded and rejected the Fields Medal. Grigori’s father, an electrical engineer, gave him Physics for Entertainment to encourage his son’s interest in mathematics. In the foreword, the book’s author describes the contents as “conundrums, brain-teasers, entertaining anecdotes, and unexpected comparisons,” adding, “I have quoted extensively from Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Mark Twain and other writers, because, besides providing entertainment, the fantastic experiments these writers describe may well serve as instructive illustrations at physics classes.” The book’s topics included how to jump from a moving car, and why, “according to the law of buoyancy, we would never drown in the Dead Sea.” Ideas from this book are still used by science teachers today. Yakov Isidorovich Perelman died in the siege of Leningrad in 1942.”
Physics for Entertainment is fantastic – it’s packed full of interesting examples grouped together into topic chapters. Click here to visit teachphysics.org to download a free pdf version of the whole book

Brand New Physics Teach Site

www.teachphysics.org

This is the brand new redesigned guide to teaching Physics better. Loads of free resources and ideas.

www.teachphysics.org

Using the Bloodhound SSC land speed car in Physics lessons

Just been reading last week's New Scientist which has a fascinating article about the Bloodhound SSC. I think I've probably mentioned this in every lesson for the past week! I have one of the big free posters (available here) in the corner of my room and it's a real talking point.

Anyway, I'm using the data from www.revisingphysics.com/gcse (a link to the Bloodhound file is in the mechanics section) to produce velocity-time graphs with year 10s. It's a really fun activity and with a bit of cross-curricular thrown in too it's a real winner! Plenty of awe and wonder as well. They find it fascinating to imagine travelling that fast.
Hope it's useful to you.