As regards post-16 examinations, the formal requirements laid down are modest, or non-existent, so that the level of treatment...

Teaching Guidance 16-19

Students will have a simple idea of electromagnetic radiation.

Teaching Guidance 16-19

Assess what your students already know; you may be able to move quickly through this material if you feel that your class is...

Teaching Guidance 16-19

The demonstration of refraction using a ripple tank is tricky, and it is a good idea to practise this.

Teaching Guidance 16-19

This topic has many mathematical aspects. However, you will also want your students to gain a feel for the characteristics of...

Teaching Guidance 16-19

Many demos are suggested using many different types of wave motion. The first time you set these up keep diagrams or exact...

Teaching Guidance 16-19

Demonstration: Students observe the spectrum produced when light falls obliquely on a CD.

Practical Activity 14-16

Class Practical: A diffraction pattern showing bands of colour produced from white light.

Practical Activity 14-16

Class demonstration: This demonstration shows that a beam of light is diffracted as it passes around a wire, highlighting the...

Practical Activity 14-16

Demonstration: This is a simple and economic demonstration of the diffraction of light by a narrow opening, from which the...

Practical Activity 14-16

Demonstration: A laser is used to illustrate how crystal geometry can be inferred from X-ray diffraction patterns.

Practical Activity 14-16

Class Practical: Observing a two-dimensional diffraction pattern.

Practical Activity 14-16