Nuffield Chemistry Book of Data
This Nuffield Chemistry Data Book contains the following sections: Section 1: Basic information Table 1.1 Selected symbols and abbreviations Table 1.2 Values of selected physical measurements Table 1.3 The elements Section 2: Masses, volumes, shapes, and sizes Table 2.1 Masses and volumes of 1 g-atom of elements at 25°C…
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 Chemistry (Fourth Edition): Teachers' Guide
The Teachers’ Guide for the Fourth Edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry took the form of a loose-leaf file. The contents provided all the information needed by teachers and technicians. Each Topic started with a summary of content, estimates of the teaching time needed, and teaching objectives based on the examination specification.…
Nuffield Advanced Chemistry (Fourth Edition): Materials Science
The Materials Science Special Study was revised and updated for the Fourth Edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry. All the theory was explained in the Students’ Book. The experiments were described in a separate file. The Teachers’ and Technicians’ Guide provided the technical information for setting up the practical…
Nuffield Advanced Chemistry (Fourth Edition): Food Science
The popular Food Science Special Study was revised and updated for the Fourth Edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry. All the instructions for experiments, theory and questions were included in the Students’ Book. The Teachers’ and Technicians’ Guide provided the technical information for setting up the practical…
Nuffield Advanced Chemistry (Fourth Edition): Chemical Engineering
The Chemical Engineering Special Study was revised and updated for the Fourth Edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry. All the theory was explained in the Students’ Book. The experiments were described in a separate file. The Teachers’ and Technicians’ Guide provided the technical information for setting up the practical…
Nuffield Advanced Chemistry (Fourth Edition): Biochemistry
The popular Biochemistry Special Study was revised and updated for the Fourth Edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry. All the instructions for experiments, theory and questions were included in the Students’ Book. The Teachers’ and Technicians’ Guide provided the technical information for setting up the practical…
Nuffield Advanced Chemistry (Third Edition): Mineral Process Chemistry
The Mineral Process Chemistry special study was originally published by the Mineral Industry Manpower and Careers Unit (MIMCU) in 1980 as a supplement to the studies published earlier by the Nuffield Foundation. In the first revision of the course, in 1984, this title was incorporated into the project’s list of special studies.…
Nuffield Advanced Chemistry (Third Edition): Materials Science
Since the publication of the first edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry in 1970, the importance of metals relative to other materials had diminished. This was been reflected in the development of the special study as the title had changed from ‘Metallurgy’, first to ‘Metals as materials’ and then, for the…
Nuffield Advanced Chemistry (Third Edition): Food Science
The popular food science special study was revised and updated for the third edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry. The food science special study had been in existence since 1971, and was extensively revised in 1984. The changes in this edition continued to reflect the shift to mass marketing of foods and the corresponding changes…
Nuffield Advanced Chemistry (Third Edition): Biochemistry
The popular biochemistry special study was revised and updated for the third edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry. Biochemistry was first published as a special study in 1970, in a book of 166 pages with seven pages on DNA. Even in the second edition, published in 1984, the experimental work on RNA was optional. But knowledge of…
Nuffield Advanced Chemistry (Third Edition): Teachers’ Guide
In the third edition of the teachers’ guide for Nuffield Advanced Chemistry, each topic started with a summary of content, estimates of the teaching time needed, and teaching objectives. Most sections of topics also included a suggested treatment which was a guide to teaching the material, and there were answers to questions…
Nuffield Advanced Chemistry (Third Edition): Students’ Book
Like its predecessors, the students' book of the third edition of Nuffield Advanced Chemistry contained instructions for practical work, interpretations of the experiments, background reading, and questions to help students develop their understanding of chemical ideas. All topics had several features in common that are used…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: Surface Chemistry
This was one of the six Special Studies to feature in the Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry course. Each student was expected to work through one of the studies in about four weeks. The aim was to show students how chemistry is applied in agriculture, industry, and medicine, and to help them to appreciate that the social and economic…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: Mineral Process Chemistry
This was one of the six Special Studies to feature in the Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry course. Each student was expected to work through one of the studies in about four weeks. The aim was to show students how chemistry is applied in agriculture, industry, and medicine, and to help them to appreciate that the social and economic…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: Metals as Materials
This was one of the six Special Studies to feature in the Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry course. Each student was expected to work through one of the studies in about four weeks. The aim was to show students how chemistry is applied in agriculture, industry, and medicine, and to help them to appreciate that the social and economic…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: Food Science
This was one of the six Special Studies to feature in the Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry course. Each student was expected to work through one of the studies in about four weeks. The aim was to show students how chemistry is applied in agriculture, industry, and medicine, and to help them to appreciate that the social and economic…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: Chemical Engineering
This was one of the six Special Studies to feature in the Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry course. Each student was expected to work through one of the studies in about four weeks. The aim was to show students how chemistry is applied in agriculture, industry, and medicine, and to help them to appreciate that the social and economic…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: Biochemistry
This was one of the six Special Studies to feature in the Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry course. Each student was expected to work through one of the studies in about four weeks. The aim was to show students how chemistry is applied in agriculture, industry and medicine, and to help them to appreciate that the social and economic…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: Overhead Projection Originals
The Overhead projection originals were prepared to support the teaching of Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry. During the revision, the data on the originals was made consistent with the revised Book of Data, an extensive range of infra-red spectra was included, and there are new diagrams relating to structures and energetics. The…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: Topics 12-18
Teachers’ Guide II and Students’ Book II of Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry covered the seven topics which constituted the work suggested for the second year of the course. Students were also expected to work though one Special Study. Contents of Teachers’ Guide II Introduction Topic 12: Equilibria: gaseous…
Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry: Topics 1-11
Teachers’ Guide I and Students’ Book I of Revised Nuffield Advanced Chemistry covered the eleven topics which constituted the work suggested for the first year of the course. Contents Topic 1: The Periodic Table 1: an introduction Topic 2: The Periodic Table 2: the elements of Groups I and II Topic 3: The properties…
Periodicity and Atomic Structure
This booklet was written to support the Periodicity and Atomic Structure option in the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme Stage III: A Course of Options. The booklet starts with an account of atomic structure which is then related to the periodic table and leads on to a discussion of the periodicity of properties of the elements. Contents Part…
Nuffield Advanced Science: Book of Data (Second Edition)
The revised edition of the Nuffield Advanced Science Book of Data was based on the first edition. However there were many changes because of feedback from users, changes in syllabuses, and the availability of better sources of data. The content was changed. Conversion tables and tables of mathematical functions were no longer…
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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 •…