Electricity and Magnetism

Many of the basic ideas can be studied with a range of capacitors (at least one with a large value, 10 000 mF or more) and...

Teaching Guidance 16-19

The equipment used in this topic is relatively basic. Look out for display meters, excellent for demonstrations, and which are...

Teaching Guidance 16-19

Most multimeters can function as ohm meters, for measuring resistance directly. They apply a small voltage to the component...

Teaching Guidance 16-19

It is essential to become well-versed in the use of an oscilloscope for displaying voltages. If you have access to more than...

Teaching Guidance 16-19

A joulemeter will be useful when discussing energy and power in electric circuits. It is worth practising with it before using...

Teaching Guidance 16-19

There are some tricky experiments in this topic, and it is well worth practising them in advance.

Teaching Guidance 16-19

Magnetic fields will have to be shown; iron filings are a standard way to do this, but you may also find a magnaprobe useful –...

Teaching Guidance 16-19

Students will have a simple idea of electromagnetic radiation.

Teaching Guidance 16-19

A machine to make charges was invented in 1929 by a young American called Van de Graaff. Huge machines, some over ValueUnit{30...

Teaching Guidance 11-14 14-16

It is often up to a teacher and a particular class to decide what equipment to use to introduce electric circuits.

Teaching Guidance 14-16

Electrical phenomena result from a fundamental property of matter - electric charge. The atoms that constitute most matter we...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

There are many ways of explaining root mean square (rms) voltage and current at different levels of complexity, to advanced...

Teaching Guidance 14-16