A multiple choice quiz on measurements, materials, forces and motion in A level physics.

Although it is written for OCR AS/A level ...

This STEAM activity allows pupils to design and build a moving model based on ‘The Spirit of Innovation Project’. Pupils will use their understanding of circuits to build their plane with at least one moving part and have working lights. This resource is part of a series of resources produced by Rolls Royce and...

From the Institute of Physics, this episode introduces (or revises) the equations of motion. During a practical task, students undertake direct measurements to ensure that they understand the basic physics of velocity, distance and time.

Activities help students to understand:
• scalars and vectors,...

This learning episode, from the Institute of Physics, looks at the independence of vertical and horizontal motion. The crucial concept is that vertical acceleration does not affect horizontal velocity. This explains all projectile motion. There are a range of activities which include: • demonstrating and discussing...

Through discussion and worked examples, this learning episode from the Institute of Physics, enables students to combine concepts of circular motion with Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation to understand the motion of satellites. It includes an explanation of Kepler’s third law.

The activities look at:...

• Using tried and tested ‘Cloud’ based software that simulates the setting up of a racing car, students, working in small teams, complete a series of STEM relevant tasks in an effort to produce the perfect car. This ‘virtual’ car is then entered into a competitive race in the hope of...

In this activity from the Nuffield Foundation, students match descriptions of a variety of real scenarios involving motion with the corresponding velocity–time and displacement–time graphs. Several issues will be discussed while completing this task and students will also have to consider how realistic or...

This resource requires problem solving using skills in both applying geometrical concepts and modelling a situation using functions.

Students investigate rolling cups of different shapes and dimensions. They use ideas of similarity to link together the wider diameter with narrow diameter, slant length, and...

From the Institute of Physics, this resource provides extensive teacher guidance and suggested classroom activities to support the teaching of:

* Speed
* Resultant force zero predicts constant speed
* Resultant non-zero - changes in speed

Each topic is explored from the following...

This sub-collection of materials from the dy/dan collection contains three resources that bring mathematical storytelling to the classroom in the context of ‘speed, acceleration, and motion’. Resources comprise:

• Act One: a video or photograph to provide a ‘hook’ to the problem

• Act...

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Identify pairs of forces that are balanced or unbalanced.

• Calculate the size and direction of the resultant force of two forces acting along the same straight line....

In this programme, from Teachers TV, David Richardson from the Institute of Physics demonstrate his physics experiments on...

These materials use the BLOODHOUND SSC land speed attempt as a context for teaching about forces, particularly forward thrust and frictional forces. The BLOODHOUND SuperSonic Car (SSC) land-speed attempt aims to reach a target speed of 1000 miles per hour.

A very large forward driving force is required to...