LAMP Topic Brief 10: Flight
This topic brief was published as part of the ASE’s LAMP Project. The brief was developed for third year pupils following a Nuffield Secondary Science course. It was later trialled in a variety of secondary schools with students of average and below average ability in the 13 to 16 age range. Aims 1. To develop an understanding…
Teacher's Handbook
The Advanced Physics Project for Independent Learning (APPIL) published this Teacher's Handbook to set out the overall picture of the APPIL project and explain its aims and objectives. It is a starting point for teachers and technicians who wish to adopt the course and gives the structure of the course and its relevance to the…
The Physics of Heat Capacity
Part of the Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences series, The Physics of Heat Capacity includes chapters on the heat capacities of gases and solids, and ideas for experimental projects. Chapter 1, on the heat capacities of gases looks at the kinetic theory of gases, thermodynamics and equipartition of energy. The chapter…
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…
Electrochemistry
Electrochemistry was one of five Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences that were published in the early 1970s. The topics discussed in the monograph were divided into two main groups: • Electrical conduction of electrolytes in aqueous solution • Electron transfer processes Contents 1. The conduction of electricity…
The Principles of Radiochemistry
The Principles of Radiochemistry was one of five Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences that were published in the early 1970s. The purpose of this book was to introduce the principles of radiochemistry to sixth form and first year university students. Emphasis was placed on the principles and the mathematics was been kept…
Relativity
Relativity was one of five Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences that were published in the early 1970s. The book was intended as an introduction to the subject both for sixth forms in schools and for university students. Exercises were included in the text to illuminate important points of the discussion. In addition the…
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…
Science Teaching For Rosla
In response to the raising of the school leaving age from 15 to 16 in 1972, Bath University and the British Petroleum Company collaborated with a group of experienced Heads of Department from comprehensive schools to produce this bank of ideas for investigations which would be suitable for the students affected by this change. It…
Mechanics and Properties of Matter
Mechanics and Properties of Matter is one of the titles in the series of ASE Lab Books that were published in the early 1970s for the Association for Science Education. Each title brought together the best of the teaching notes and experimental ideas from members of the association that had appeared in the ASE journal, School Science…
Light
Light is one of the titles in the series of ASE Lab Books that were published in the early 1970s for the Association for Science Education by John Murray. Each title covered one or two topics and brought together the best of the teaching notes and experimental ideas from members of the association that had appeared in the ASE journal,…
Heat
Heat is one of the titles in the series of ASE Lab Books that were published in the early 1970s for the Association for Science Education by John Murray. Each title covered one or two topics and brought together the best of the teaching notes and experimental ideas from members of the association that had appeared in the ASE journal,…
Physics and the Earth Sciences for Middle Schools
Physics and the Earth Sciences for Middle Schools is one of the titles in the series of ASE Lab Books that were published in the early 1970s for the Association for Science Education by John Murray. Each title covered one or two topics and brought together the best of the teaching notes and experimental ideas from members of the…
Nuffield Secondary Science: An Evaluation
The Schools Council initiated this evaluation of Nuffield Secondary Science at the point when school trials of the materials were largely complete. As a result the evaluation focussed on the early adoption of the project by schools. Three aspects, which were thought to be characteristic of the project were chosen for study. They…
Science for the Young School Leaver
Science for the Young School Leaver was one of a series of informal publications by the Schools Council. Schools Council Working Paper Number 1 started a series to make widely available information about curriculum development projects while still in their formative stages. Working Paper No. 1 was produced for the Nuffield Foundation…
Integrated Science Book 3
Integrated Science, from the Wreake Valley Academy, is a series of three books designed to support science teaching of students aged 11-14. They provided a balanced science curriculum that included biology, chemistry, physics and encouraged scientific investigation as a way of promoting scientific thinking and engagement in science. Book…
Integrated Science Book 2
Integrated Science, from the Wreake Valley Academy, is a series of three books designed to support science teaching of students aged 11-14. They provided a balanced science curriculum that included biology, chemistry, physics and encouraged scientific investigation as a way of promoting scientific thinking and engagement in science. Book…
Integrated Science Book 1
Integrated Science, from the Wreake Valley Academy, is a series of three books designed to support science teaching of students aged 11-14. They provided a balanced science curriculum that included biology, chemistry, physics and encouraged scientific investigation as a way of promoting scientific thinking and engagement in science. Book…
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…
Candles
The Teaching Primary Science book Candles uses the study of candles to illustrate how much science can come from the study of everyday objects. It describes a selection of the many investigations which start from candles and which give some idea of what science is. The first two chapters discuss matters of classroom organisation…
Musical Instruments
The Teaching Primary Science book Musical instruments uses instruments and other materials readily available in primary schools as the basis for investigations through which children can begin to understand and enjoy aspects of physics. The book aims to provide help for those teachers and student teachers who do not specialise in…
Mirrors and Magnifiers
The Teaching Primary Science book Mirrors and magnifiers describes activities which can be carried using these materials at any age. The book pays attention to problems such as holding mirrors upright and choosing and using hand lenses. Teaching methods are discussed and there is reference to learning objectives selected from those…