SI Units, Errors, & Uncertainties Full Topic Worksheets - AQA A Level Physics

A full set of worksheets covering the entire Limitations of Physical Measurements topic to help your students get a grip on errors, uncertainties, and SI units .Designed with plenty of practice and scaffolding to help them build towards the complicated, multi-step uncertainty calculations, and finishing with an end of topic assessment in the style of past exam questions.

These worksheets are suitable to use for classwork and homework to ensure students get plenty of practice at performing uncertainty calculations, percentage difference calculations, and balancing SI units.

I wrote these worksheets after finding existing resources to be sparse. I wanted my students to have plenty of repetition for each concept before moving onto the next step.

All worksheets are editable Word documents that can be adapted to your needs. Please enjoy, and let me know if you find them useful!

Included in this resource (all have a separate answer sheet included with full worked answers):

• Converting Non-SI Units Worksheet
• Deriving SI Units for Physical Constants Worksheet
• Reading Vernier and Micrometer Scales Grid
• Absolute Uncertainties Worksheet (includes distinguishing between readings and measurements, determining the absolute uncertainty from the scale of an instrument, and calculating the absolute uncertainties in the mean of repeated readings)
• Calculating Uncertainties Grid (includes finding absolute and percentage uncertainties in readings and measurements, finding the absolute and percentage uncertainties in means, and absolute and percentage uncertainties in the gradient and y-intercept of straight-line graphs - both methods).
• Combining Uncertainties Grids (works through the rules for combining uncertainties in derived values, scaffolding to complex, multi-stage calculations)
• Precise, Accurate, Both or Neither Worksheet (practicing evaluating precision and accuracy of results by calculating the percentage difference and percentage uncertainty in the results)
• Measurements and Uncertainties Exam Question Practice (past AQA exam questions)
• Limitations of Physical Measurements End-of-Topic Assessment (written by me, in the style of past AQA exam questions).