AS / A2 Physics

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AS / A2 Physics

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AS / A2 Physics

• You are about to embark on the AS Physics course
  at Shelley College.
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• This presentation will help you understand what
  the course will entail and what will be expected
  of you over the course of the next year.
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• Shelley College Physics department aim to make
  all the Physics that you study as relevant and as
  contextual as possible.

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AS / A2 Physics

• The course itself has fundamentally changed.
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• There is far more emphasis on acquiring the
  skills to get you as higher grade as possible.

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• How the course runs.
• There are 3 modules
• Module 1, Module 2 and Module 3
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• Module consists of these units
• Higher, Faster, Stronger - The Physics of Sport
• Good Enough to Eat - The Physics of the food
  industry
• Spare Part Surgery - Medical Physics, how
  materials are designed for replacement limbs

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• Module consists of these units
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• Technology In Space  How space stations
  work
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• Sound Of Music  How musical instruments and CD
  players work
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• Digging up the Past Archaeology and Dating
  techniques

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• Module is assessed completely on the
  Coursework.
• You will have to produce just 1 written document
  that incorporates a case study and a related
  experiment. 
• Module 3 makes up 20 of the entire AS
  examination grade.
• To help you get the best possible marks on the
  coursework aspect of the course you will be given
  writing frames and guidance to help you structure
  you report.

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• Teaching
• You will have 2 teachers next year from Ms James
  , Mr Beaumont, Miss Marchesini, or Mr Bardsley. 
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• Each of the units that you learn will be
  available on the Moodle that you will be able to
  access from your network area and from home using
  the Internet.

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• You will be expected to achieve the grade
  calculated from you average points score from
  your GCSE grade.
• You will not be able to access the lesson if you
  do not do your homework.  If you struggle with a
  set piece of homework then you must seek the help
  of your teacher before the lesson.
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• The R's of Physics!
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• evision, evision, evision
• You will be entered into the January exam for
  module 1.

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• Lets do some stuff
• This experiment is taken directly from the Good
  Enough to Eat and Spare Part Surgery units and is
  concerned with the material properties of sweets.
• We are going to use 8 words to describe the
  properties of sweets.
• You will be given a bag of sweets
• Take eat a sweet and grade it from 1 to 7 on each
  of the 8 properties.
• Put a small cross on the line of each properties
  for your grading.
• Using a coloured pencil join up the crosses to
  form a star diagram.
• Put the name of your sweet on the top of the
  sheet and put it at the back of the room in the
  correct place.

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• Compare the differences in spider diagrams from
  each person for the same sweet
• What conclusion can you draw from this?
• The issue we have with testing material
  properties is that they can be subjective, i.e.
  they are reliant on the person doing the test.
• This means we have to have some kind of
  description of material properties

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• We are now going to perform a simple experiment
  to investigate the behaviour of strawberry
  bootlaces under tension.
• Set up the apparatus in a way that will allow you
  to measure the extension that a strawberry
  bootlace will undergo when subjected to a force.
• You will be given the following equipment
• Clampstand
• Clamp
• Boss
• Strawberry bootlace
• Masses
• Ruler

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• Plot a graph of your results with extension on
  the x-axis and force on the y-axis.
• Find the gradient of the graph
• This gradient you have calculated is called the
  stiffness of your strawberry bootlace.
• What do we mean by stiffness?
• Why do you think you have all got different
  answers what might the stiffness depend upon?
• Your bootlace however may display elastic
  properties?
• What do we mean by elastic?

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• Holiday Work
• 1. Answer the past paper questions
• 2. Complete booklet about measurements
• 3. Research the life of a given physicists,
  include the following
• Date and place of birth
• Education
• Major Achievements in Physics
• How their achievements are used today
• NOTE for this task you can find some information
  in
• S\Science\PHYSICS-YEAR12-HOLIDAY-WORK
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