Using accumulations and vectors to predict routes.
Classroom Activity 14-16
Here students get to see a process from a second point of view, moving with respect to the first, and so get practice in...
Although computer-mediated analysis may dominate your practical work, there is a case for a moderate amount of work close up...
Many students will probably be carrying a GPS with them embedded in a mobile phone or other electronic device. These can be...
Students can walk-out target graphs, and so obtain a real understanding of what the story behind the graph is. The translation...
These questions can be used to explore students' understandings of the connections between the quantities and the different...
Once again, it's helpful to think of this process in terms of physical, energy and pathway descriptions.
Teaching Guidance 14-16
You were born on a planet where acceleration is omnipresent–both in the natural and in the made world. Release a stone held...
Physics Narrative 14-16
So you can notice an acceleration, and the lurches of acceleration we've introduced. Examples we've picked so far might...
Velocity is a tricky thing to measure. One of the reasons it is tricky is that humans have no inbuilt velocity sensor. We do...
Acceleration, velocity and position have been introduced as descriptions of motion true at an instant. Questions such as When...
We've introduced the idea that looking out in space is looking back in time on several occasions throughout the SPT materials...
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