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…
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…
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…
Nuffield Advanced Physics: Foundation Unit
Published by the Nuffield Foundation, the Advanced Physics Foundation Unit was designed to help students progress from GCSE science to the Nuffield course as it was in the 1990s. The physics ideas, questions and checklists in chapters four and five were included to deal with the physics of four of the first-year units: Unit A: Materials…
Nuffield Advanced Physics: Handbook for Teachers
The Nuffield Advanced Physics Handbook for Teachers was published by the Nuffield Foundation in 1994 to help teachers manage the redrafted version of the Nuffield Advanced Physics syllabus examined for the first time in 1996. It showed teachers how to use the publications for Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics to teach the amended…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics: Physics in Engineering and Technology
Published by the Nuffield Foundation, this Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics reader was compiled to illustrate the wider applications of physics in engineering and technology. Contents • Design and construction of the Humber bridge • Systems • Building bridges and wind • Electromechanical similarities •…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics: Particles, Imaging and Nuclei
Published by the Nuffield Foundation, the articles in this Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics reader are extended concepts covered in the course and examined developments in physics taking place in the 1980s. Contents • The particles and forces of nature • Radioisotopes • Lasers probe the atomic nucleus •…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics: Microcomputer Circuits and Processes
This Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics reader explained how microcomputers worked in the 1980s. It did not refer to any one type of computer. All ideas discussed were relevant to any computer. Contents Prologue Chapter 1: A history of the microprocessor Chapter 2: The electronics of a microcomputer Chapter 3: Running a simple…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics: Energy Sources: Data, References, and Readings
This booklet was compiled to support Unit G 'Energy Sources' in the Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics course. It included a limited number of tables of data. It also gave guidance on where to look for more data in the era before the Internet. Contents • Introduction Part 1: Data and information Part 2: Sources…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics: Energy Options
Published by the Nuffield Foundation, this background reader was compiled to support Unit G 'Energy sources' in the Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics course. This book contained a collection of articles related to energy options. The articles were not written specially for the course but were selected from a range of sources.…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics: Dynamic Modelling Handbooks
These booklets of guidance were designed to help teachers or students set up models in the Dynamic Modelling System on different types of microcomputer available in schools at the time that Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics was published. Contents 1. Introduction to Dynamic Modelling 2. Using the system 3. An exercise in using…
4/5- Publication year: 1980 - 1989
- Information sheet
Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics: Dynamic Modelling System: Models
The notes in this booklet described the models on the models disk designed for use with the Dynamic Modelling System, in the Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics course. Most of the models described were relevant to any advanced level physics course at the time. At the time of the revision the system was devised to work on the BBC,…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics Examinations and Investigations
In the Nuffield Advanced Physics course, published by the Nuffield Foundation, the original authors were keenly aware of the need to design an end-of-course examination that was not only technically 'reliable' but was also 'valid', in that it tested the stated aims of the course. This book was written as a guide…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics Teachers’ Guide 2: Units H to L
Published by the Nuffield Foundation, the Revised Advanced Nuffield Physics included a plan summarising the relationship of the work to topics covered earlier for each of the units. The guidance offered many teaching suggestions, including details of the suggested experiments and demonstrations. There were references to other resources,…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics Students’ Guide 2: Units H to L
Published by the Nuffield Foundation the Revised Nuffield Physics Students Guides were not textbooks. They included for each unit: • Summaries - very short accounts giving the most important ideas of each part of the course. • Readings - short passages which depend on the ideas developed in the unit with questions…
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- Publication year: 1980 - 1989
- Open-ended task
Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics Teachers’ Guide 1: Units A to G
The Revised Advanced Nuffield Physics included a plan summarising the relationship of the work to topics covered earlier for each of the units. The guidance offered many teaching suggestions, including details of the suggested experiments and demonstrations. There were references to other resources, for example, books, videos, and…
- 5/5
- Publication year: 1980 - 1989
- Teacher guidance
Revised Nuffield Advanced Physics Students’ Guide 1: Units A to G
The Revised Nuffield Physics Students Guides were not textbooks. They included for each unit: • Summaries - very short accounts giving the most important ideas of each part of the course. • Readings - short passages which depend on the ideas developed in the unit with questions to help students develop the skill of reading…
- 5/5
- Publication year: 1980 - 1989
- Open-ended task
Nuffield Advanced Science: Book of Data (First Edition)
This Nuffield Advanced Science Book of Data was a compilation of basic physical data in SI units for use during the Nuffield Advanced courses in Physics, Physical Science, and Chemistry. The book included all the data required specifically for the Nuffield programmes but the book was deliberately not tied too closely to the requirements…
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- Publication year: 1970 - 1979
- Data set