Nuffield Physics Background Book: Astronomy
This Nuffield Physics Background Book on astronomy uses a narrative to guide the reader through the development of theory in astronomy, from early ideas and Greek astronomy, through to the work of Kepler and Newton. Many hand-drawn diagrams are used to illustrate the concepts and suggestions for student activities are given –…
Interim Report: the Teaching of Modern Physics
The Teaching of Modern Physics was written by the Modern Physical Sciences Committee of the Science Masters Association. It includes demonstration and class experiments, and suggested equipment for teachers for the following topics: - Evidence for the particulate nature of matter - Experimental development of electrostatics - Particulate…
Radioactivity
This book on radioactivity covers detectors, the history of radioactivity, Rutherford and the nuclear model, half-life, nuclear decay, fission, and uses of radioisotopes. The text shows some cloud chamber photographs for alpha and beta tracks and how these tracks can be deflected in a magnetic field. The electroscope, spark counter…
Electromagnetism
This book on electromagnetism covers the electromagnet, meters, electric motor and dynamo, transformers, communication and the electrical system of a car. The text begins by looking at the historical experiments of Oersted and Faraday on current flow and electromagnetic induction. Diagrams for an electric bell, relay switch…
Planetary Astronomy
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 book, first published in 1969, was written to provide information and data which would enable students to trace the extraordinary story…
Pressures
This book was one in the Longman Physics Topics series. It was written to provide background material for the work on forces and pressures in the first two years of the Nuffield Physics course. The aim was to help students to appreciate the importance of pressure in everyday life. Emphasis was placed on the practical applications…
Heat
This book was one in the Longman Physics Topics series. It was written to provide background material for the work on heat in the second year of the Nuffield Physics course. The book explores the story of the atomic and molecular theory of matter with the aid of appropriate models. It adopts the energy transformation account of energy…
Forces
This book was one in the Longman Physics Topics series. It was written to provide background material for the work on forces mainly in the second year of the Nuffield Physics course. The aim was to help students to appreciate the importance of forces in everyday life and begin to explain how they come about, thus laying the foundation…
Materials
This book was one in the Longman Physics Topics series. It was written to provide background material for the work on materials in the first year of the Nuffield Physics course. The aim was to help students to appreciate the importance of the various materials in everyday life and begin to explain some of their properties, thus…
Crystals
This book was one in the Longman Physics Topics series. It was written to provide background material for the work on crystals in the first year of the Nuffield Physics course. The ideas introduced ranged well beyond those likely to have been touched on in class, and it was hoped that the questions raised would impel the students…
Nuffield Physics: Optical Instruments and Ray Diagrams
This Nuffield Physics booklet was intended to accompany the work on Optics in Year III of the Nuffield Physics course. The booklet was intended as a companion to the ray-streaks experiments. The first section of the booklet, entitled 'Seeing', covers briefly a suggested approach to teaching about lenses. The second section…
Nuffield Physics: Tests and Examinations
In Nuffield Physics constructive problems or questions that ask for active thinking largely took the place of pupils' reading in texts or background books. The first chapter in this book about tests and examinations provided guidance on the nature and purposes of the questions in the range of Question Books. The general objects…
3/5- Publication year: 1960 - 1969
- Assessment
Nuffield Physics: Guide to Apparatus
Nuffield Physics placed great emphasis on practical work by students. The projects devised many new approaches to practical work and introduced a wide range of new apparatus to schools. To help teachers, technicians and suppliers, the project published a detailed guide to all the apparatus needed for the course. The guide included…
Nuffield Physics: Questions Book V
In Nuffield Physics constructive problems or questions that ask for active thinking largely took the place of pupils' reading in texts or background books. The purpose and nature of these questions was explained in chapter 1 of Nuffield Physics Tests and Examinations. Contents Section 1: Introduction to circular motion Section…
Nuffield Physics: Guide to Experiments V
This Nuffield Physics Guide to Experiments was designed to supplement Teachers' Guide V by giving details of the class experiments and demonstrations to be done during the fifth year of the Nuffield O-level physics programme. A special feature of the guides was the very clear, three-dimensional diagrams of the apparatus…
Nuffield Physics: Teachers’ Guide V
Year V of Nuffield Physics was planned as the culmination of the five-year programme by linking important experiments and ideas. The year called for more imaginative thinking, more reasoning, and new experimenting. The aim was to develop some taste for theory and to explore further in 'atomic physics', in both experiment…
Nuffield Physics: Questions Book IV
In Nuffield Physics constructive problems or questions that ask for active thinking largely took the place of pupils' reading in texts or background books. The purpose and nature of these questions was explained in chapter 1 of Nuffield Physics Tests and Examinations. Contents Section 1: Multiflash pictures Section 2:…
Nuffield Physics: Guide to Experiments IV
This Nuffield Physics Guide to Experiments was designed to supplement Teachers' Guide IV by giving details of the class experiments and demonstrations to be done during the fourth year of the Nuffield O-level physics programme. A special feature of the guides was the very clear, three-dimensional diagrams of the apparatus…
Nuffield Physics: Teachers’ Guide IV
Year IV of Nuffield Physics was to be presented as a much more logical and closely knit programme than that of earlier years. The authors assumed that if previous work had been satisfactory, the students would have had sufficient experience and enjoyment to wish to undertake the work, and would continually ask questions -calling…
Nuffield Physics: Questions Book III
In Nuffield Physics, constructive problems or questions that ask for active thinking largely took the place of pupils' reading in texts or background books. The purpose and nature of these questions was explained in chapter 1 of Nuffield Physics Tests and Examinations. Contents Section 1: Introduction to waves Section 2:…
Nuffield Physics: Guide to Experiments III
This Nuffield Physics Guide to Experiments was designed to supplement Teachers' Guide III by giving details of the class experiments and demonstrations to be done during the third year of the Nuffield O-level physics programme. A special feature of the guides was the very clear, three-dimensional diagrams of the apparatus…
Nuffield Physics: Teachers’ Guide III
Some students were expected to start the Nuffield Physics course in the third year and so Teachers’ Guide III starts with the same General Introductions that was included in Teachers’ Guide I. This was followed by general and specific guidance about the third year of the course. The course for this year was concerned…
Nuffield Physics: Questions Book II
In Nuffield Physics constructive problems or questions that ask for active thinking largely took the place of pupils' reading in texts or background books. The purpose and nature of these questions was explained in chapter 1 of Nuffield Physics Tests and Examinations. Contents Section 1. More about forces Section 2. Electric…
Nuffield Physics: Guide to Experiments II
This Nuffield Physics Guide to Experiments was designed to supplement Teachers' Guide II by giving details of the class experiments and demonstrations to be done during the second year of the Nuffield O-level physics programme. A special feature of the guides was the very clear, three-dimensional diagrams of the apparatus…
Nuffield Physics: Teachers’ Guide II
The second year of the Nuffield Physics programme, like the first, put great emphasis on providing students with hands-on experiences so they would delight in learning through their own experiments. Teachers were asked to think of themselves as leading strangers in the land of physics and reminded to make the general topography obvious. Contents Preface…
Nuffield Physics: Questions Book I
In Nuffield Physics, constructive problems or questions that ask for active thinking largely took the place of pupils' reading in texts or background books. The purpose and nature of these questions was explained in chapter 1 of Nuffield Physics Tests and Examinations. Contents Section 1: Discovering the variety of things. Section…
Nuffield Physics: Guide to Experiments I
This Nuffield Physics guide to experiments was designed to supplement Teachers' Guide I by giving details of the class experiments and demonstrations to be done during the first year of the Nuffield O-level physics programme. A special feature of the guides was the very clear, three-dimensional diagrams of the apparatus to…
Nuffield Physics: Teachers’ Guide I
Nuffield Physics Teachers’ Guide I included a general introduction to the course as a whole followed by specific guidance on the first year of the programme. The authors were very concerned to explain the spirit in which the course should be taught. They asked teachers to consider that they were encouraging young scientists…
- 3/5
- Publication year: 1960 - 1969
- Teacher guidance
Autumn into Winter
This book was written by the Nuffield Junior Science project to show teachers how seasonal materials offer children many opportunities to carry out simple investigations. The aim was to help children to build up, over the years, a picture of the continuity and wholeness of the natural world which the more traditional teaching of…