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mrmackenzie Here is the first of the uncertainty documents to help you with your investigations.
The final page will help you to quantify some of the calbration uncertainties in instruments. If you use these values, remember to reference Learning & Teaching Scotland as the original source of the booklet.
Here are your summary notes for the Nat4 unit on electricity and energy. Remember that the end of unit test will be on Monday 3rd November. Ask me next week if you have any questions.
There are revision materials for this unit on BBC Bitesize.
Here are the diagrams you will need for your report. Cick on each link and then save the large image that opens up. You can rezise them once they have been imported into your report.
We’re going to the library for the next few periods. Download the instructions using the link below. Use your own LO3 data instead of the numbers I have provided.
By the end of this activity you will be able to;
Here are the solutions to the electricity and energy questions.
Here are the exam-style questions to cover the electricity and energy unit. I have included a copy of the relationships (equation) sheet and some data tables that you may need to attempt all the questions. Apologies for the larger file size, it’s due to all the circuit diagrams.
Use the link below to download your own copy.
The attached pdf contains solutions to the Dynamics & Space exam questions. Download your copy using the link below.
Here are the exam questions for the Dynamics and Space. I have included a copy of the data sheet inside the front cover, you might need it for some of these questions. A set of solutions will follow shortly.
“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” – President John F. Kennedy (12th September, 1962)
It’s 45 years since the success of Apollo 11 and nobody has tried to send a person further away than the Moon. Why is that?
It turns out there are many challenges to be overcome if we want to send astronauts to another planet, e.g. Mars. Earlier this year, the BBC Horizon programme looked at the issues. Here is the episode. I have split the film into three parts.
mission to Mars – part1 from mr mackenzie on Vimeo.
mission to Mars – part2 from mr mackenzie on Vimeo.
mission to Mars – part3 from mr mackenzie on Vimeo.
Use the link at the end of this post if you want to download a copy to watch later.
