Given some radiation, how can one tell whether or not it has wave properties? Superposition experiments offer an answer. Radio...

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In water whose depth is large compared to the wavelength, the wave speed expression contains two terms, one for gravity...

Teaching Guidance 11-14 14-16

Distinguishing–eliciting–connecting. How to:

Teaching Guidance 11-14

Teaching and learning about light involves using familiar words in specialist ways. For example: source means where light...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

Some pupils entering high school are likely to have little idea of light being something that travels in the space between its...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

We're sure you'll find a story like this one to share with your class.

Teaching Guidance 11-14

For these pupils there is no sense of light travelling and entering the eye.

Teaching Guidance 5-11 11-14

Angela, a year 7 pupil, came out of the darkroom and was asked whether she was able to see her hand in front of her nose. No...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

If there is no light available to reflect from the surface of an object, then you will not be able to detect (see) it. The...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

We'd suggest that it pays to emphasise that laser light is reflected from the rough surface of the wall in all directions...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

The speed of light, in metres per second, is one of those huge numbers that is occasionally thrown up in science and that can...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

Pupils are invariably fascinated by the links which can be made from the speed of light to distances across space, and travel...

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