In this presentation, each slide is a single lesson. I have found that pupils really benefited from having the information condensed onto a single slide and displayed throughout the lesson whilst they were doing question practice. The slides are densely packed with information, images and animations to help make the topics clear. The order presented here is the same as the OUP AQA Physics GCSE Third Edition textbook, by Jim Breithaupt.
I’ve included a pdf in case different versions of PowerPoint scramble things, but the animations will not work for the pdf. The animations work fine on PowerPoint.
In this 12-part video series, I describe the history of the standard model, and explain some of the key features. This is suitable for students studying A Level Physics and would be really useful for revision. At just 1 hour and 47 minutes, the series isn’t long enough to cover absolutely everything, but it does cover the essentials.
This spreadsheet generates questions where pupils have to determine the colour of light that is either reflected from a coloured object, or transmitted through either one or two coloured filters. Every possible combination is included from the colours red, blue, green, cyan, magenta, and yellow.
All of my drills are fully Excel compatible spreadsheets. This one is a question generator, which can be used to generate an unlimited number of unique questions.
Just press F9 (PC) or Cmd+= (Mac) to refresh the spreadsheet and generate a new question.
This spreadsheet generates questions where pupils have to use Fleming’s left hand rule to determine the direction of either the current, magnetic field, or force on a wire.
All of my drills are fully Excel compatible spreadsheets. This one is a question generator, which can be used to generate an unlimited number of unique questions.
Just press F9 (PC) or Cmd+= (Mac) to refresh the spreadsheet and generate a new question.
These spreadsheets generate questions where a particle decays into other particles, and the student is asked whether or not the decay is possible. All A Level particle decays are included (all hadrons and leptons that are in A Level)
All of my drills are fully Excel compatible spreadsheets. These are question generators, which can be used to generate an unlimited number of unique questions.
Just press F9 (PC) or Cmd+= (Mac) to refresh the spreadsheet and generate a new question.
This spreadsheet generates worksheets where students are given quantities and asked what the units and dimensions are. Analysing a quantity’s units is a skill students are often tested on in the multiple choice part of the A Level exams, and on the paper that tests practical skills.
All of my drills are fully Excel compatible spreadsheets. Just press F9 (PC) or Cmd+= (Mac) to refresh the spreadsheet and generate a new worksheet.
These spreadsheets generate questions where two or three forces produce moments in equilibrium around a pivot. Pupils have to calculate the missing quantity.
All of my drills are fully Excel compatible spreadsheets. These are question generators, which can be used to generate an unlimited number of unique questions.
Just press F9 (PC) or Cmd+= (Mac) to refresh the spreadsheet and generate a new question.
This spreadsheet generates questions where three forces are in equilibrium and students have to use the principles of vectors to determine a missing quantity, such as the angle of one of the vectors or the magnitude of one of the forces.
All of my drills are fully Excel compatible spreadsheets. This one is a question generator, which can be used to generate an unlimited number of unique questions.
Just press F9 (PC) or Cmd+= (Mac) to refresh the spreadsheet and generate a new question.
This spreadsheet generates questions where two substances are placed together and allowed to reach thermal equilibrium (assuming no heat loss), and students have to calculate what the equilibrium temperature is. Questions can be quite simple, such as the same substance and no state changes, or much more complicated, such as different substances and only some of one of the substances changing state.
This spreadsheet generates full worked solutions too, to help students understand how to solve these types of problems. Teachers can use ‘debug mode’ to choose their own bespoke questions, if they wish, or allow the spreadsheet to generate random questions.
All of my drills are fully Excel compatible spreadsheets. This one is a question generator, which can be used to generate an unlimited number of unique questions.
Just press F9 (PC) or Cmd+= (Mac) to refresh the spreadsheet and generate a new question.
This simulator shows students what conditions are necessary for stationary waves to form. Various quantities can be adjusted to see whether stationary waves form or not.
All of my drills are fully Excel compatible spreadsheets. This one is a simulation, which can be used to investigate the conditions for stationary waves to form.
This spreadsheet generates worksheets where students are shown rays and given refractive indices, then are asked what happens to the ray next (either refraction or total internal reflection).
All of my drills are fully Excel compatible spreadsheets. This one is a worksheet generator, which can be used to generate an unlimited number of unique questions.
Just press F9 (PC) or Cmd+= (Mac) to refresh the spreadsheet and generate a new question.
This spreadsheet can be used to generate questions where students are given two or more vectors and asked to find what the resultant vector is. They can do this graphically and algebraically.
All of my drills are fully Excel compatible spreadsheets. This one is a question generator, which can be used to generate an unlimited number of unique questions.
Just press F9 (PC) or Cmd+= (Mac) to refresh the spreadsheet and generate a new question.
This spreadsheet generates diagonal projection questions. Students are given some quantities and asked to find the others. This helps students develop their problem solving skills whilst they practise solving projectile problems.
All of my drills are fully Excel compatible spreadsheets. This one is a question generator, which can be used to generate an unlimited number of unique questions.
Just press F9 (PC) or Cmd+= (Mac) to refresh the spreadsheet and generate a new question.
Answers are correct to 2sf, so use some discretion when reviewing answers.
This is a simulator of a photocell. Students can change values related to the incident radiation (wavelength and intensity) and the photocell (the potential difference across it and other things that would be kept constant). Students can use this in lessons or for homework.
All of my drills are fully Excel compatible spreadsheets. This one is a simulator, which students can use to get data to determine Planck’s constant
Just press F9 (PC) or Cmd+= (Mac) to refresh the spreadsheet and generate a new question.
This spreadsheet generates a table with missing quantities that the student has to calculate for fully elastic, fully inelastic and partially elastic collisions. There is a setting to increase or decrease the difficulty level of the questions for differentiation.
All of my drills are fully Excel compatible spreadsheets. This one is a worksheet generator, which can be used to generate an unlimited number of unique questions.
Just press F9 (PC) or Cmd+= (Mac) to refresh the spreadsheet and generate a new question.
This spreadsheet generates worksheets to help students practise key skills with log graphs, such as reading from logarithmic scales and finding decay constants for exponential decays. These skills are now being examined at A Level.
All of my drills are fully Excel compatible spreadsheets. This one is a worksheet generator, which can be used to generate an unlimited number of unique questions.
Just press F9 (PC) or Cmd+= (Mac) to refresh the spreadsheet and generate a new question.
This spreadsheet generates questions where students have to calculate resultant field strengths and potentials from the data and diagram given. It gives them really good practise of these essential skills.
All of my drills are fully Excel compatible spreadsheets. This one is a question generator, which can be used to generate an unlimited number of unique questions.
Just press F9 (PC) or Cmd+= (Mac) to refresh the spreadsheet and generate a new question.
This question generator produces worksheets including numerical questions about Boyle’s law, Charles’ law, Gay-Lussac’s law (pressure law) and the Ideal Gas law. It is customisable so that you can select the units to be included in the questions and increase the difficulty of the worksheet by including a larger selection of the laws.
All of my drills are fully Excel compatible spreadsheets. This one is a worksheet generator, which can be used to generate an unlimited number of unique questions.
Just press F9 (PC) or Cmd+= (Mac) to refresh the spreadsheet and generate a new question.
These are interactive simulations of the circular fine beam tube and the Teltron deflection tube D, to show electric and magnetic deflection of electron beams. This can be shared with students so that they can use them in lessons.
All of my drills are fully Excel compatible spreadsheets. This one is an interactive simulator, which can be used to make measurements to determine the specific charge of the electron.