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Practice paper for Yr 11
As promised I’ve scanned the other paper I had and uploaded it here;
Use this for practice and revision over the next week or two along with all the other methods we’ve discussed.
I’ll post a mark scheme shortly…
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Year 11 mark scheme and question paper
Whilst I’m sat here furiously marking the last of these I thought I’d scan and distribute the paper and the mark-scheme so you can compare the two.
As soon as I get the chance I’ll do a walkthrough and I’ll post another mock paper for you to have a go at over the holidays!
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Static electricity Podcast
A short podcast covering some of the basics about charges attracting and repelling.
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Podcast downloads…
A couple of you have reported download issues with the podcast. I’ve checked it out this end and on several other machines and I can’t find any problems - Perhaps you’ll have more luck subscribing through i-tunes using the link down on the left…
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Scalars and Vectors podcast…
I’m kicking off this years AS with scalar and vector quantities and a little about SI units. This podcast is focussed on scalar and vector quantities, the next will be SI units.
Thanks for tuning in!
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Podcast 2 - Revision technique
Something that we all have to do is revise, I’ve been revising my knowledge of audio authoring and php coding for the website and it inspired a thought - I spend a little bit of time teaching revision skills but not as long as I would like so here’s a little refresher;
Oh and singing along to the song at the end is not compulsory!
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Podcast Number 1 - Are you ready for armageddon?
My first podcast for jrowing.com contains info from CERN and an introduction to the site….
No - nor am I - but that what a few nutters “eccentrics” are predicting will happen on the 10th September when CERN fires up it’s large hadron collider for the first time.
Along with the vast majority of physicists I am hoping for great things from the LHC.
The LHC is a 27 km long ring of superconducting magnets that will accelerate two beams of protons up to a mind-bending 7TeV in each direction, to put it another way the protons will be lapping the 17 mile loop once every 90 micro seconds or so!
It is hoped that when the two streams collide, the collision will produce the elusive Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and “missing links” in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass. The verification of the existence of the Higgs boson would be a significant step in the search for a Grand Unified Theory, which seeks to unify three of the four known fundamental forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force, leaving out only gravity. The Higgs boson may also help to explain why gravitation is so weak compared to the other three forces. As well as the Higgs boson, other weird particles might be produced, including things called; strangelets, micro black holes, magnetic monopoles and supersymmetric particles!
Of course, if the Higgs particle is not discovered then the news is even bigger - basically we scrap a lot of the leading theories of physics, and start again!
Keep your eyes on the news because whatever happens it’s going to be exciting!