Nuffield Physics: Teachers’ Guide II

The second year of the Nuffield Physics programme, like the first, put great emphasis on providing students with hands-on experiences so they would delight in learning through their own experiments. Teachers were asked to think of themselves as leading strangers in the land of physics and reminded to make the general topography obvious.

Contents
Preface to Year II
1. Forces - turning effects; magnets
2. Electric circuits – lamps, switches, ammeters
3. Electric currents - conduction in liquids and gases, electron streams
4. More forces - weight, friction
5. Energy - energy changes; power
6. Heat - measurement and effects, temperature, molecular models
7. Heat transfer - experiments on conduction, convection and radiation