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...

Classroom Activity 14-16

Although computer-mediated analysis may dominate your practical work, there is a case for a moderate amount of work close up...

Classroom Activity 14-16

Many students will probably be carrying a GPS with them embedded in a mobile phone or other electronic device. These can be...

Classroom Activity 14-16

Students can walk-out target graphs, and so obtain a real understanding of what the story behind the graph is. The translation...

Classroom Activity 14-16

These questions can be used to explore students' understandings of the connections between the quantities and the different...

Classroom Activity 14-16

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...

Physics Narrative 14-16

Velocity is a tricky thing to measure. One of the reasons it is tricky is that humans have no inbuilt velocity sensor. We do...

Physics Narrative 14-16

Acceleration, velocity and position have been introduced as descriptions of motion true at an instant. Questions such as When...

Physics Narrative 14-16

We've introduced the idea that looking out in space is looking back in time on several occasions throughout the SPT materials...

Physics Narrative 14-16