Electric Currents
This book, from the Longman Physics series, looks at electric currents. The contents include: • the heating effects of current, with examples such as electric bar fires and hot plates • the history of electric lighting and types of filament lamps • the magnetic effects of current flow • the chemical…
Nuffield Maths: Bronto Books Set D
Nuffield Foundation provide these resources from the Nuffield Maths 5-11 project, which allow students the opportunity to practice using and reading simple mathematical vocabulary. They support, as well as extend, the basic mathematical concepts introduced to young children. The image of Bronto at the foot of some pages provides…
Nuffield Maths: Bronto Books Set C
Nuffield Foundation provide these resources from the Nuffield Maths 5-11 project, which allow students the opportunity to practice using and reading simple mathematical vocabulary. They support, as well as extend, the basic mathematical concepts introduced to young children. The image of Bronto at the foot of some pages provides…
Nuffield Maths: Bronto Books Set B
Nuffield Foundation provide these resources from the Nuffield Maths 5-11 project, which allow students the opportunity to practice using and reading simple mathematical vocabulary. They support, as well as extend, the basic mathematical concepts introduced to young children. The image of Bronto at the foot of some pages provides…
Nuffield Maths: Bronto Books Set A
Nuffield Foundation provide these resources from the Nuffield Maths 5-11 project, which allow students the opportunity to practice using and reading simple mathematical vocabulary. They support, as well as extend, the basic mathematical concepts introduced to young children. The image of Bronto at the foot of some pages provides…
Supersonic Flight
This book looks at supersonic flight. The shock boundary caused by the abrupt change in pressure is explained with the aid of a diagram. The development of supersonic aircraft is explored, with a look at the overall efficiency of supersonic flight compared to subsonic flight. The effect of kinetic heating from air molecules…
Nuffield Maths 2: Worksheets and Copymasters
This resource, from Nuffield Foundation, is a collection of worksheets from the Nuffield Maths 5-11 project. Practical experiences are used to introduce students to the early stages of subtraction and place value. The worksheets were designed to be used in conjunction with the Nuffield Maths 2 Teachers' Handbook and provide…
Nuffield Maths 2: Teacher's Handbook
This resource, from Nuffield Foundation, provides clear guidance on the content, methods and timing appropriate at each stage of the Nuffield Maths 5 - 11 project, which was developed to promote students' understanding of the concepts, as well as proficiency in the basic skills of mathematics. The chapters in this handbook…
Nuffield Maths 1: Teacher's Handbook
This resource, from Nuffield Foundation, provides clear guidance on the content, methods and timing appropriate at each stage of the Nuffield Maths 5 - 11 project, which was developed to promote students' understanding of the concepts, as well as proficiency in the basic skills of mathematics. The chapters in this handbook…
The Four Rules Of...
This series by K A Hesse, published by Longman, was written at the time of decimalisation. The series consists of five books. Each book contains a large number of routine exercises. There is some brief explanation where required. The books are aimed at Key Stage Two students but could be appropriate for routine revision and practice…
Teaching Primary Science
Teaching Primary Science was written mainly for primary teachers in developing countries where resources are limited. Published by Longman in 1979, it was written when the author, Beverley Young, was British Council lecturer in Nigeria. It is a practical guide, well illustrated by line drawings and some photographs, to teaching science…
Ideas and Discoveries in Physics
This book was one in the Longman Physics Topics series. Exceptionally it was written by the distinguished scientist, Sir Lawrence Bragg who also contributed to the series of Nuffield Chemistry Background Books. In this book the author took an historical approach to the development of ideas in physics up to the end of the 1930s. Contents •…
From Darkness to Light
This book was one in the Longman Physics Topics series. It was written to provide background material for the work on ideas in cosmology in the fifth year of the Nuffield Physics course. This historical reader traces the development of ideas about the Universe from early times to Galileo while touching on the origins of other important…
Electrons and Atoms
This book was one in the Longman Physics Topics series. It was written to provide background material for the work on electrons and atoms in the fifth year of the Nuffield Physics course. The book aimed to bring together topics discussed earlier in the physics course and to show how they were relevant to the model of the atom which…
Rutherford and the Nuclear Atom
This book was one in the Longman Physics Topics series. It was written to provide background material for the work on atomic structure in the fifth year of the Nuffield Physics course. This book set out to describe the work of the outstanding experimental physicist as he himself saw it at the time he carried it out. The text features…
Waves or Particles
This book was one in the Longman Physics Topics series. It was written to provide background material for the work on light and other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum in the fifth year of the Nuffield Physics course. It was expected that the book would also be of interest to students taking more advanced physics courses because…
Time
This book, in the Longman Physics Topics series, was designed to achieve two aims. In the first place, the measurement of short time intervals by a number of methods was a feature of many courses in physics, as well as the Nuffield programme at the time of publication in 1973. Since almost none of the techniques that had recently…
Energy
This book was one in the Longman Physics Topics series. It was written to provide background material for the work on energy throughout the Nuffield Physics course. The book begins with a simple introduction based on 'doing jobs' but goes on to emphasise the concepts of energy conservation and transformation, first through…
Mass in Motion
This book was one in the Longman Physics Topics series. It was written to provide background material for the work on forces and motion in the Nuffield Physics course. This book was published in 1970 and so some of the laboratory equipment, applications and illustrations are dated. The Nuffield course used ticker timers to track…
Using Light
This book was one in the Longman Physics Topics series. It was written to provide background material for the work on ray optics in the third year of the Nuffield Physics course. In the ray optics section of the course, students investigated in the laboratory the basic principles behind telescopes and microscopes. This book was written…
Waves
This book was one in the Longman Physics Topics series. It was written to provide background material for the work on waves and ripple tanks in the third year of the Nuffield Physics course. The book emphasises the importance of waves in communication and covers both light and sound waves. The book was first published in 1972…
Magnetism
This book was one in the Longman Physics Topics series. It was written to provide background material for the work on magnetism in the third year of the Nuffield Physics course. This book presupposed little previous knowledge and thus could be useful for any student as an introduction to the subject. The inclusion of some more advanced…
Working with Ratios
This unit from the Continuing Mathematics Project is designed to enable students to cope confidently with expressions of the type A/B= C/D, where A, B, C and D, may be integers or algebraic products like mv2 or functions like log x, or sin y. So equipped, students will be able to solve simple equations, change the subject of a…
Using Logarithms to Determine Relationships
This unit from the Continuing Mathematics Project goes into detail on how logarithms can be used to determine the laws which connect two variables on which experimental data has been collected. The unit follows naturally from the unit entitled The Theory of Logarithms. The objectives of the unit are that students: (i) understand…
Transformation of Formulae
Transformation of Formulae from the Continuing Mathematics Project builds on the work covered in the unit entitled Working with Ratios. The objectives of this unit are to enable students to acquire the skills necessary to transform formulae which involve algebraical fractions, brackets, and roots, as well as formulae in which…
The X2 Test
The unit from the Continuing Mathematics Project focuses on the x2 test as it is one of the most widely used statistical techniques. It is employed to compare theory with practice in biology, geography and the social sciences. This unit is concerned with the practicalities of using the x2 test; stating a suitable hypothesis;…
The Trigonometry of the Right Angled Triangle
This unit from the Continuing Mathematics Project is concerned with the calculation of the sides and angles of triangles and how this is used by the surveyor, the navigator, and the cartographer. The development of the television, the light and the road have all relied on trigonometry. The objectives of the unit are that students…
The Theory of Logarithms: Part Two
This is the second part of the unit on The Theory of Logarithms from the Continuing Mathematics Project. It assumes that the user has completed the first part of the unit. The objectives of the unit are to enable students to: (i) acquire the concept of a logarithm as an extension of the concepts of a 'power' and of…
The Theory of Logarithms: Part One
These two units from the Continuing Mathematics Project assumes that the word 'logarithm' will be familiar to students using it, and that they will have used tables of logarithms to reduce the labour of working out expressions by arithmetic methods. The units assume that students are interested in knowing why logarithms…
Probability
This resource from the Continuing Mathematics Project has three units covering probability. Introducing Probability is the first unit and its objectives are that students will learn that a probability can be from intuitive considerations or actual experimental results; the meaning of 'outcomes', 'sample space',…
Positive and Negative Numbers
This unit from the Continuing Mathematics Project assumes that students have met and used directed numbers, but that their use has become rusty. The unit briefly justifies the rules by which the four operations (+, -, x and ÷) can be accurately carried out. In this sense the unit could be said to form an introduction to the…
Mathematics in Geography 4: The Gravity Model
For students to benefit from this Mathematics in Geography 4 unit from the Continuing Mathematics Project they should be familiar with simple ratios and square roots, and with algebraic symbolism and quadratic equations. A fair amount of arithmetic is involved in the unit. The objectives of the unit are; (i) to introduce students…