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Alternating Current
Electricity and Magnetism PRACTICAL PHYISCS

Explaining rms voltage and current

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

Teaching Guidance 14-16

Alternating Current
Electricity and Magnetism PRACTICAL PHYISCS

Why teach about AC?

It would be easy to leave AC as a slightly mysterious version of the direct currents that you deal with in simple DC...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

Alternating Current
Electricity and Magnetism PRACTICAL PHYISCS

Operating instructions for a simple oscilloscope

A CRO (cathode ray oscilloscope) is a good voltmeter. The electron stream from the electron gun obeys instructions to move up...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

IOP DOMAINS Physics CPD programme

Electricity CPD videos

Our new set of videos gives teachers and coaches of physics a preview of the training we offer ahead of this term's live support sessions.

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