Teaching Advanced Physics
The Teaching Advanced Physics collection gives ideas and resources for teaching physics to students aged 16 to 19 years old. It aims to help those new to teaching this age group and assumes only limited access to equipment, resources, and advice from experienced colleagues. It is not intended to constrain the development of other equally valid approaches. The resources may be downloaded and adapted according to your requirements.
The material on this site labelled "IOP TAP" is sponsored by Gatsby Technical Education Projects (GTEP) and is copyrighted. It may be used within educational establishments free of charge, but it may not be reproduced for profit by any other organisation.
Most resources have been migrated to this website - IOPSpark - from tap.iop.org, but if you find any mistakes or missing content, please let us know via [email protected].
Each of the following topics is subdivided into several episodes. An episode represents a coherent section of teaching – perhaps one or two lessons. Each episode contains links to several activities.
Teaching Electricity
- Electric current
- Electrical resistance
- Series and parallel circuits
- EMF and internal resistance
- Capacitors
Teaching Mechanics
- Statics
- Kinematics
- Drag forces
- Newton's Laws
- Work energy and power
- Momentum
- Circular motion
- Material
Teaching Vibrations and Waves
- Simple harmonic motion (SHM)
- Progressive waves
- Electromagnetic (EM) waves
- Reflection and refraction
- Superposition
Teaching Fields
Teaching Atoms and Nuclei
- Quantum physics
- Lasers
- Wave particle duality
- Radioactivity
- Accelerators and detectors
- Rutherford’s experiment
- Nuclear stability
- Nuclear fission
- X-ray and neutron diffraction
- Particles and antiparticles
- Quarks