Topic Review: Thinking Quantitatively II – Statistics and Experimental Design
The Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Reviews for students were an integral part of the Advanced Biological Science materials, but each could be read on its own. Thus, students could use them for their current work or to pursue personal interests. In this Topic Review, six problems were selected to represent some of the most common…
Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Review: Metabolism
The Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Reviews for students were an integral part of the Advanced Biological Science materials, but each could be read on its own. Thus, students could use them for their current work or to pursue personal interests. This topic review explores the way that life depends on the appropriate juxtaposition…
Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Review: Interactions
The Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Reviews for students were an integral part of the Advanced Biological Science materials, but each could be read on its own. Thus, students could use them for their current work or to pursue personal interests. This topic review reviews evidence from investigations to study communities and populations…
Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Review: Circulation
The Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Reviews for students were an integral part of the Advanced Biological Science materials, but each could be read on its own. Thus, students could use them for their current work, or to pursue personal interests. This topic review describes the way that scientists have investigated blood circulation,…
Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Review: Control of Breathing
The Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Reviews for students were an integral part of the Advanced Biological Science materials, but each could be read on its own. Thus, students could use them for their current work, or to pursue personal interests. This topic review dealt in a general way with some aspects of the chemical and nervous…
Topic Review: Thinking Quantitatively I: Descriptions and Models
Published by the Nuffield Foundation, the Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Reviews for students were an integral part of the Advanced Biological Science materials, but each could be read on its own. Thus, students could use them for their current work, or to pursue personal interests. This topic review illustrated the use of mathematics…
Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Review: Photosynthesis
Published by the Nuffield Foundation, the Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Reviews for students were an integral part of the Advanced Biological Science materials, but each could be read on its own. Thus, students could use them for their current work, or to pursue personal interests. This topic review gave an account of the processes…
Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Review: Human Pregnancy and Birth
Published by the Nuffield Foundation, the Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Reviews for students were an integral part of the Advanced Biological Science materials, but each could be read on its own. Thus, students could use them for their current work, or to pursue personal interests. This topic review described the ovarian and…
Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Review: From Egg to Adult
Published by the Nuffield Foundation, the Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Reviews for students were an integral part of the Advanced Biological Science materials, but each could be read on its own. Thus, students could use them for their current work, or to pursue personal interests. This topic review explored the developmental…
Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Review: Biological Barriers
Published by the Nuffield Foundation, the Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Reviews for students were an integral part of the Advanced Biological Science materials, but each could be read on its own. Thus, students could use them for their current work, or to pursue personal interests. This topic review explored the structure and…
Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Review: The Artificial Kidney
Published by the Nuffield Foundation the Nuffield Advanced Biology Topic Reviews for students were an integral part of the Advanced Biological Science materials, but each could be read on its own. Thus, students could use them for their current work, or to pursue personal interests. This topic review explained how an artificial…
Nuffield Advanced Biology: Study Guide
The Nuffield Advanced Biology Study Guide explored evidence and deduction in the biological sciences. The book contained a varied collection of biological data, some derived from previous publications, some original, but all of them concerned with aspects of enquiry. It was intended that the investigations in the Guide should be…
Nuffield Advanced Biology: Teachers’ Guide to the Study Guide
Published by the Nuffield Foundation, the investigations in the Study guide were constructed from a varied collection of biological data. Each was intended to guide students to an understanding of certain basic concepts through a series of questions and, at the same time, to lead them to further studies involving reading, discussion,…
Unit 10: Waves, Particles and Atoms
This Nuffield Advanced Physics Unit offered an introduction to quantum theory presented in a single volume for teachers and students. The main work was theoretical. Many of the arguments were presented as a chain of questions. Contents • Introduction: the quantum revolution Part One: Photons Part Two: Electrons Part…
Unit 9: Change and Chance
This Nuffield Advanced Physics Unit was presented as a single volume for teachers and students. The aim was to make the ideas behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics intelligible to students at school. The approach was through the statistics of molecular chaos, because the authors felt that this was the best way to provided a first…
Unit 8: Electromagnetic Waves
This Nuffield Advanced Physics Unit was about light as a wave motion. It represented the culmination of one line of thought in the course as a whole, for in it, earlier work on waves, on electric fields, and on magnetic fields came together in a (simplified) description of what an electromagnetic wave might be thought to be like.…
Unit 7: Magnetic Fields
This Nuffield Advanced Physics Unit was designed to be directly about engineering problems and their solution. The authors pointed out that ‘reluctance’, like feedback in Unit 6, is a concept of more use to an engineer than to a physicist. The authors said that they made no apology for abandoning the physicist's…
Unit 6: Electronics and Reactive Circuits
The authors of Nuffield Advanced Physics decided to include electronics in the course for two reasons. 1. It could be useful in the future. Students could expect to find themselves using electronic devices in many courses of further education, and in a very wide variety of future careers, including medicine and jobs directly to…
Unit 5: Atomic Structure
This Nuffield Advanced Physics Unit provides some of the key ideas for one of the major theme of the course which is the attempt to explain large-scale things in terms of small-scale things. The Unit draws together ideas about electric charge and fields from Unit 3 into new patterns to explain new things. The central idea for the…
Unit 4: Waves and Oscillations
This Nuffield Advanced Physics Unit covered topic of about waves and oscillations. In the form and order suggested, it was intended to suit students who have been through the work on waves in the Nuffield O-level Physics course, or equivalent work in other courses. In particular, the ripple tank studies suggested in Nuffield O-level…
Unit 3: Field and Potential
This Nuffield Advanced Physics unit was concerned with the ideas of field and potential, developed for the electric and the gravitational fields. A main aim was to suggest that ideas about field and potential are rather general and so very useful. Their generality and usefulness were brought out in the unit by switching attention…
Unit 2: Electricity, Electrons, and Energy Levels
This Nuffield Advanced Physics Unit explored the topic of electricity and matter. It sought to develop basic ideas about current, potential difference, and charge, and to show some of the electrical properties of materials. These ideas were then used to understand evidence for the existence of electrons within atoms and also evidence…
Unit 1: Materials and Structure
This Nuffield Advanced Physics Unit was designed as an introduction to the course. The authors wanted to capture the students' imagination right from the beginning, and so they chose for the first Unit a relatively complex topic of considerable practical importance but treated it relatively simply. The hope was that there would…
Nuffield Advanced Physics: Physics and the Engineer
This Nuffield Advanced Physics book contained reprints of articles that had appeared in Science Journal. By the time that the Nuffield project was published, this journal had been discontinued and so reprints of its articles were no longer available. The articles were of the kind written so that a scientifically informed reader could…
Nuffield Advanced Physics: Students’ Laboratory Book
The authors of Nuffield Advanced Physics produced this book to give students support during their laboratory work. Part one of the book contained short notes on the use of some of the important equipment and apparatus which students would be using quite often in physics. Part two contained detailed notes on some difficult and lengthy…
Nuffield Advanced Physics: Teachers’ Guide to Supplementary Mathematics
This Guide was intended to assist teachers of the Nuffield Advanced Physics course who had students who were not studying a post-16 course in mathematics. The Guide was written in a sequence which followed the needs of the Nuffield Advanced Physics course. The methods suggested were also chosen to fit closely with the particular…
Nuffield Advanced Physics: Physics Apparatus Construction Drawings
The Nuffield Advanced Physics course introduced new practical work based on novel apparatus. Many of the recommended items of apparatus could be built in schools, with consequent substantial saving in cost. This book was published to provides enough information for a teacher working with a laboratory technician to make these items.…
Nuffield Advanced Physics: Teachers’ Handbook
The Nuffield Advanced Physics Teachers’ Handbook was intended to give teachers an overall view of the Physics course, to assist them in planning their work and in making provision for such things as apparatus, books, and methods of assessment. It also offered suggestions about how the course might be taught so as to achieve…
Nuffield Physical Science: Sourcebook
The Nuffield Physical Science Sourcebook was designed to give students further information on various parts of the course, to inspire them to read as widely as possible, and to provide them with practice in comprehending scientific prose. It consisted of articles about many topics related to the themes of the course; most of these…
Nuffield Physical Science: the Options
The Nuffield Physical Science course featured two types of options. These introduced an element of choice for students and teachers. General options The general options were introduced into the course to meet the needs of students planning to progress to higher education in specialist areas such as medicine and engineering. Each…
Nuffield Physical Science: Sections 8-14
The second Student Workbook for Nuffield Physical Science began with an extensive introduction to this novel course for students. The Workbook was not designed as a textbook. The content of each section was arranged on the same plan, and each contained four types of material: 'Introduction', passages of 'General information',…
Nuffield Physical Science: Sections 1-7
The first Student Workbook for Nuffield Physical Science began with an extensive introduction to this novel course for students. The Workbook was not designed as a textbook. The content of each section was arranged on the same plan, and each contained four types of material: 'Introduction', passages of 'General information',…