Revised Nuffield Physics Teachers’ Guide Year 4

The Teachers’ Guides for Revised Nuffield Physics sought to convey the spirit of the approach and its rationale while providing all the technical details for the experiments (based on the Guides to Experiments in the first edition). The guides suggested a language for talking about ideas in physics at an appropriate level at each stage of the course. The guides did not include answers to the many questions in the parallel student texts. The Guide for Year 4 included discussions of the suggested approaches to the major topics in the programme including Newton’s laws of motion, the kinetic theory of gases and energy conservation. Many of the experiments have been re-presented, with modern guidance on health and safety, on the Institute of Physics website.

Contents

 Foreword General Editors' Preface Preface to Year 4

Experiment List

SECTION I MECHANICS

Chapter 1: Motion

Chapter lA: Help with Useful Mathematics and Metric Measurements

Chapter 2: Force, Mass, Acceleration

Chapter 3: Newton's First Law

Chapter 4: Momentum; Conservation of Momentum

Chapter 5: Kinetic Energy, Conservation of PE and KE

SECTION II GASES

Chapter 6: Gases I

Chapter 7: Gases II Richer predictions

Chapter 8: Gases In A Greater Prediction - after a Hard Climb

SECTION III UNIVERSAL CONSERVATION; POWER AND HUMAN ENERGY

Chapter 9: Energy and its Grand Total: Conservation

Chapter 10: Power and Human Energy SECTION IV ELECTRICITY

Chapter 11: Electric Circuits with Voltmeters

Chapter 12: Ohm's Law and Others

Chapter 13: Power in Electric Circuits

Chapter 14: Electrons

APPENDICES

Appendix 1: Multiflash photography

Appendix 2: Processing films in the laboratory

Appendix 3: Operating instructions for cathode ray oscilloscopes

Appendix 4: Using the timer-scaler as a clock

Appendix 5: Suppliers of solid carbon dioxide