standard grade revision
Standard Grade Physics contains the following units;
- Telecommunications
- Using Electricity
- Health Physics
- Electronics
- Transport
- Energy Matters
- Space Physics
The sections below contain links to revision summary notes, PowerPoint slides and extra questions to test your readiness for the exams on each of the areas listed above. If you need help to view a PowerPoint file, click here.
In the summary notes for each section you will find some boxes where the background is grey instead of white. These grey sections contain material that applies to the Credit paper only. If you are working towards a General level award you can skip the grey sections.
Some of the pdf files have been created by converting PowerPoint files. In places where the original slide is animated, you will need to read several pages in a row to see the full slide contents.
You will be given a copy of the SQA Physics Data Booklet for the exam. It’s a good idea to know what it looks like before you arrive at the exam room. You can download a copy here as a pdf file.
If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment for me on this page. I will do my best to answer you quickly. Please read the note at the bottom of this page if you have problems opening the files. Leave a comment on this page if you still can’t get the files to open and I’ll see if I can help you.
Telecommunications
Remember that there are only really two triangles you need to know for this unit;
- speed/distance/time
- speed/frequency/wavelength
Make sure that you put everything into the correct unit before using these equations, e.g. change kHz into Hz.You will also need to know the speed of light in air (300,000,000m/s) and the speed of sound in air (340m/s).
These files might help.
telecommunications-summary-notes.pdf
telcommunication revision slides
Telecommunications learning statements and extra questions
how TV works
Using Electricity
This unit contains more equations but remember that the booklet you are given during the exam will have these, so don’t panic if you forget one of them.
AC and DC Electricity
electrical appliances - power rating and safety features
electrical safety - this is really meant for Standard Grade Science but I include it here because the descriptions of each safety measure are really good.
resistance and graphs of current-voltage
current and voltage
electricity summary notes
electricity summary slides
electricity learning statements and extra questions
who wants to be a millionaire - electricity quiz - don’t click through too quickly or you might show the correct answers before you have had a chance to think about the question.
Health Physics
health physics summary notes
health physics revision
health physics learning statements and extra questions
Electronics
comparison of LEDs and bulbs
electronics summary notes
electronics revision powerpoint slides
electronics learning statements and extra questions
transistors capacitors and time delay circuits
Transport
transport summary notes
speed time graphs revision slides
acceleration revision slides
transport learning statements and extra questions
forces
work, power and energy
potential energy examples
kinetic energy examples
conservation of energy in a roadrunner cartoon (youtube clip)
Energy
ban the lightbulb (BBC News article)
energy matters - learning outcomes and homework questions
how solar panels are made (youtube)
wave power trials near Orkney (youtube)
hydroelectric power - how it works (youtube)
hydroelectric power plant animation (click for full size)
using fossil fuels to produce electricity (youtube)
how nuclear power works (youtube)
nuclear reactor simulator - free download for windows pcs
simple electricity generator (java applet simulation)
transformer interactive animation
electricity transmission - National Grid card sort activity
who wants to be a millionaire - energy matters quiz (powerpoint)
transformer law (powerpoint)
heat summary with worked examples
heat and temperature are not the same thing - a site to help you understand the difference between heat and temperature
Space Physics
space physics pupil pack (contains list of learning outcomes for the unit and additinal homework questions)
colour temperature line spectra summary of the information we can get from the light received from any star (surface temperature of the star, what the start is made of, etc.)
orbits and gravity (animation showing planets in our solar system with some gravity information)
Note:You will need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader if you don’t have it on your home computer already.
If you don’t have Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, please go to this page on the school website and follow the links to download FREE Microsoft viewer software to let you read the files on your web browser.
Alternatively, why not download the free OpenOffice.org office suite? It opens PowerPoint, Excel & Word files. You can also create your own files and save them so that you can open them in school with Microsoft programs, clever or what?
Comments»
this website is absolutely brilliant
i am very impressed and i will consider to use it again in the future
it is very helpful but it would be better if we had more summary notes for the rest of the topics which will be coming up for the real standard grade exam.
-thanking u!
Hi Deepthi,
I have added some note for Unit 6 - Energy Matters. More material to cover Unit 7 (Space Physics) will follow shortly.
Have you concidered a forum?
Hello Bruce,
Yes, I have considered one.
Hi i was wondering if you have any similar information about the Space Physics Topic that they are now teaching. Anything would be much appreceiated. Thanks.
Hmmmm.
Mr Mackenzie. Good website with great resources but I still haven’t forgot the incident with you and Mrs. Glasgow in Dunkeld - therefore I’ll say you’ve got a lot of rubbish up here!!
Superb site, far better than bitesize anyway.
Summary notes are excellent and dead clear.
Came across this site as I left all my notes jotters in school today, and my exam is tommorow. You’ve probably just saved my ass though, I’ll let you know how I do though, haha.
Thanks.
=D Yehh Rather Lacking In Notes Atm With All The Exams God Knows Where Half Of Them Have Gone … Proved Very Useful And Organised Thanks!