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Guidelines for success in A level Physics exams

Guidelines for success in A level Physics exams 1. Know the formulae: You need to learn the formulae by heart, including the meaning of symbols and the units of quantities. Pract...
Rhys

Hydride Superconductors: Developments in our Understanding and Uses for High Tc Applications

Hydride Superconductors: Developments in our Understanding and Uses for High Tc ApplicationsPaper by Rhys The Story so Far Superconductivity is a quantum mech...
Thomas

Electricity. Part 1: The Basics.

Electricity is a topic which seems to confuse a lot of students. Perhaps because electric current cannot be seen so a lot has to be taken on trust , perhaps because the topic l...
Thomas

Potential Dividers

Potential Dividers Many students are confused by Potential Dividers but this need not be the case. A potential divider is a circuit which uses two resistors or a rheostat (variable ...
Daniel

Electricity: Direct current and circuits

Electricity: Direct current and circuitsElectricity is perhaps the most disliked and least well understood topic in A-level Physics. While it can be difficult, by learning the followi...
Thomas

A Level Physics: Errors and uncertainties Part 2.

Part 2: Compound Uncertainties. Where a result is calculated using a formula, every measurement used in the calculation contributes to the uncertainty of the result. This is what we m...
Thomas

A Level Physics: Errors and uncertainties Part 1.

This is a topic which seems to confuse a lot of students but it needn't be so. The word error suggests a mistake in a result but this is not the case: the word uncertainty is clearer:...
Thomas

Newton`s 3rd Law

Newton's Third LawEvery action has an equal and opposite reaction.Everyone knows this catchphrase but Newton's Third Law still causes much misunderstanding.The first two laws concern ...
Thomas

Newton`s 1st and 2nd Laws

Newton's laws of motionNewton's laws of motion are the basis for our understanding of the mechanical world. While students may or may not know them by name, they underpin most of the ...
Thomas

The Photoelectric Effect

Photoelectric EffectIf EM Radiation is incident on a metal surface, electrons may be emitted. The electrons emitted are from the so-called sea of delocalised electrons (not elec...
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