Class practical: Students observe brittle fracture during compression of a Crunchie bar, and take measurements to calculate...

Practical Activity 14-16

Class practical: Students make their own springs and use them for investigations involving simple graph construction.

Practical Activity 14-16

Class practical: Though we might claim to know, intuitively, the difference between a large force and small force, we resort...

Practical Activity 14-16

Demonstration: The behaviour of a metal when it is subject to a stretching force reveals clues about the forces between its...

Practical Activity 14-16

Demonstration: With a little ingenuity, even a small change in length of a wire becomes measurable.

Practical Activity 14-16

Class practical: To look at a material that does not obey Hooke’s law.

Practical Activity 14-16

Demonstration: By stretching confectionery laces, students learn that extension is not always proportional to load. They also...

Practical Activity 14-16

Metals are polycrystalline; inside each crystal, atoms are regularly arranged and close together. Left alone, the atoms...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

The tongues of frogs and toads are finely evolved to capture prey.

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

Researchers have found that the way in which large kangaroos move has an interesting feature — the metabolic cost of the...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

Food scientists study the mechanical properties of food and have calculated the Young’s moduli of a range of foods.

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