Revised Nuffield Physics Pupils’ Text Year 5

The Revised Nuffield Physics books for students were not conventional textbooks. In line with the aim of teaching for understanding, the books contained instructions for experiments and a large number of questions. The text for Year 5 did not include answers to questions but it did include more of the language of physics and longer explanations.

An exceptional feature of this text was three chapters for students to read and study about the apparent and real motions of the stars and planets. This includes an outline of the changing explanations through time and culminates in the grand theory based on Newton’s laws of motion and gravitation.

Contents
Chapter 1: Motion in an orbit
Chapter 2: Measuring electrons
Chapter 3: Thinking in science: facts and early fancies
Chapter 4: New developments
Chapter 5: The Grand Theory: Universal Gravitation
Chapter 6: Oscillations: simple harmonic motion
Chapter 7: Alternating currents
Chapter 8: Waves and theories of light
Chapter 9: Diffraction gratings; spectra, electromagnetic spectrum
Chapter 10: Radioactivity; experimental study, nuclear atom; neutrons, reactors
Chapter 11: Waves and particles