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Nuffield Physics: Guide to Experiments I

This Nuffield Physics guide to experiments was designed to supplement Teachers' Guide I by giving details of the class experiments and demonstrations to be done during the first year of the Nuffield O-level physics programme. A special feature of the guides was the very clear, three-dimensional diagrams of the apparatus to be used in the experiments. Some of the experiments have been republished with modern guidance on the Institute of Physics website.

 Contents

Materials and molecules: experiments 1 – 20

Measurement: experiments 21 – 32

Springs and elastic properties: experiments 33 – 37

Pressure: experiments 39 – 48

Kinetic theory and molecules: experiments 49 – 62

Measurement of a molecule: experiments 63 – 69 *Energy: experiments 70 – 85

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