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Teaching Guidance for 11-14 Supporting Physics Teaching

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Building Sankey diagrams

The purpose of this activity is to introduce the conventions of, and pupils to acquire familiarity with, Sankey diagrams...

Classroom Activity 11-14

Energy
Energy and Thermal Physics Supporting Physics Teaching

Light and sound as pathways

Light is often seen as a place where energy can be found. Here we show a better way to think about light and energy.

Physics Narrative 11-14

Energy
Energy and Thermal Physics PRACTICAL PHYISCS

Galileo's pendulum

Galileo was interested in predicting how bodies move. He allowed an object to roll down and up a curved track, and showed that...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

Energy and Thermal Physics Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students do not think energy is conserved in biological processes, and see these as either using energy, or ‘making energy’ that can subsequently be used

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RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Many students predict that materials wrapped round a hot object will make its temperature fall more slowly, but often think that different materials will reduce the rate at which the temperature of a cold object rises

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RESEARCH REVIEW Energy and Thermal Physics

Pupils use an ad hoc collection of ideas about materials and their properties when asked to explain everyday thermal phenomena

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Energy
appears in the relation ΔEΔt>ℏ/2 ΔQ=mcΔθ E=hf E ∝ A^2
has the special case Photon Energy
is used in analyses relating to Emission/Absorption Spectra Phase Change
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