Practical activities sheets are
designed to help the students learn to carry out practical work efficiently
and thoughtfully and to present it clearly. Some sheets are very structured
to help them develop these skills whilst others require them to write a full
report with less help. There are teacher sheets to go with all these activites.
There are about 100 activities in the AS topics. The Materials and Mechanics
topic, for example, includes the following 23 activities:
Section A1
c Forces in equilibrium
c Friction and slipping
angle
c Moments, CM and the human
body
Section A2
c Rubber force v extension
graph
w Young Modulus of metals
c Breaking strength of glass
fibre
c EPE to KE using area under
F-x graph
c Spring energy to GPE
Symbols:
w = Careful student write-up
is required; class experiment unless stated otherwise.
c = Class experiment
a = Part of a circus
s = Demonstration
p = Computer modelling
or data logging
Section A3
c 'g' by free fall
c 'free fall' down stair
well - is drag coming in?
pc F=ma
data-logged smart pulley
pd Terminal velocity of
cart using a motion sensor
pd Approach
to terminal velocity modelled with Berkeley Madonna
w Pendulum T v l for dimensional
analysis and uncertainties
p Damped
pendulum
w Mass on spring, pattern
finding+ dimensional analysis