Longman Physics Topics for 14-16 Year Olds
The books in this set from the Longman Physics Topics series were written for students in the two years leading to qualifications at the age of 16. The authors aimed to write books that were easy to read and copiously illustrated and show how the principles studied in school were applied in the outside world. The books were not intended to be textbooks.
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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 •…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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