Revised Nuffield Physics Year 3

The authors of Revised Nuffield Physics hoped that the third year of the course would be a year of capable play in physics, for students with a wide variety of abilities and interests. They wanted students to enjoy being scientists, doing experiments and sometimes thinking about them.

Year 3 included two major topics, waves in a ripple tank and optics of images and instruments, that were not treated again in later years. Nuffield Physics had introduced innovative approaches to both these topics both in terms of the teaching rationale and the sequence of practical activities.