10 page pdf booklet that covers correct use of scientific calculators including common keys & functions, understanding of scientific notation/standard form/exponents and interpreting displays. Aimed at students who persistently copy their calculator displays onto their test papers instead of converting it to standard form!! This update replaces “calculators and calculations” that has been removed from the site,

A etymology table of some of the common greek & latin word roots used in science. intended to get students to realise that the origin of scientific terms give them meaning. Hopefully extends knowledge and vocabulary at the same time! May be a good “filler” activity or basis for quizzes and questioning.

Physics course notes and exercises booklet (31 pages) for Level 3 NCEA Electricity & Magnetism AS91526 Content covers . . . Intro to A.C. - generation of waveform - peak & RMS values - using phasors - Current Voltage Resistance Reactance Impedance - rectification - Capacitors in AC circuits - voltage phase shifts - Inductors in AC circuits - Resonance in RCL circuits Answers to exercises. This version (Oct '23) replaces previous edition which has had errors checked & corrected Additional Excel spreadsheet utility I use for RCL calculations & graphing.

Physics course notes and exercises booklet (23 pages) for Level 3 NCEA Electricity & Magnetism AS91526 Content covers . . . Electric Fields - voltage & potential work & energy - Capacitance - dielectrics - series & parallel capacitors - charging/discharging in DC circuit - R-C circuit & time constant - graphs - energy stored. Answers to numerical questions, This version (Oct '23) replaces previous edition which has had errors checked & corrected

Some visual reminders of rules for electromagnetism single sheet pdfs conventional current used.

This is a part finished (i.e. work in progress) for NZ NCEA course specific material and is aimed at providing guidance in graphing data for the PHY3-1 investigation. It contains hints and tips about the “steps-up” that are expected when plotting graphs for the year 13 Physics Investigation so the students know which hoops to jump through! It might be useful for non-physics specialist or those unfamiliar with the NZ course.

A Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet to check correct reprocessing of uncertainties for the Physics 3-1 investigation. Intended as a checking aid for teachers when marking assignments where error and uncertainties have to be reprocessed for data transformed into squared, square root or inverse values. Automatically converts absolute uncertainty values into percentage uncertainty and operates the transformations necessary, Should be self evident to those who undertake this assessment.

NZ Year 12 NCEA course material extracts . . .If you download it please review it! Contains: Adding velocity vectors for beginners pdf Defining distance/displacement speed/velocity pdf Vectors of balanced forces : 2 page pdf + powerpoint to show closed polygon of force vectors in equilibrium Difference between Free body diagram & force vector diagram

Pages from physics course notes and exercises booklet for Level 3 NCEA Electricity & Magnetism AS91526 this booklet dated Oct 23 16pages Content covers . . . Key concepts of current voltage resistance & power - Cells & Internal resistance - Kirchhoff’s current and voltage laws & exercises

Pages from physics course notes and exercises booklet for Level 3 NCEA Electricity & Magnetism AS91526 Content covers . . . Magnetism/magnetic Fields - magnetic flux - flux density - Faraday’s Law of induction - Lenz’s law - Why induction happens - Eddy currents and applications. - Inductance - inductors - current/voltage time graphs - time constant - energy stored - back emf - mutual inductance & transformers

Extract & exercises from course notes

Overview/Revision of concepts and calculations with worked answers for projectile motion. Extract from our course notes.

Notes and questions to increase confidence using equations of motion

Overview/revision/summary of Inertia momentum impulse and applications of Newton’s 3 laws of motion .