Here are the specimen solutions to the 2001 Advanced Higher Physics paper.
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AH past paper – 2001
Here is the 2001 Advanced Higher Physics paper.
This paper is reproduced to support SQA qualifications on a non-commercial basis according to SQA conditions of use.
AH unit 2 summary notes
These are the Armadale Academy notes for unit 2 Electrical Phenomena.
AH unit 1 summary notes
Here are the summary notes for unit 1 from Armadale Academy’s site. I’ll post more revision notes and a selection of past papers over the next two weeks.
bad particle physics
The Large Hadron Collider never seems to be out of the news for long, so it makes sense for someone to provide something for non-physicists to help them understand some of the language of particle physics.
Well done to Reuters, who published a short article called Factbox: Glossary of particle physics terms last week. Unfortunately, it’s not entirely correct. Follow the link above and use your knowledge of particle physics from unit 2 of the AH Physics course to correct the errors. It’s always possible that Reuters might pull the article due to the errors so I have attached a pdf of the page below, no excuses!
Thanks to Zapperz for his original post about the article.
AH investigation report – handling uncertainties
I’ve been asked several questions on uncertainties recently. Many of these have been about graphs and I have discussed the linest function in Excel. However, not everyone uses a spreadsheet and so I thought the attached file from Learning & Teaching Scotland might be useful, especially if you are drawing graphs by hand.
AH investigation report guidelines
You should all be well underway with the writing phase of your investigation now. I have attached some guidance from the SQA that is designed to help you with this. Check pages 5-9 of the attached pdf document for detailed information on what is required of you in the final report. Note the word limits and detailed specification of what the marker will be looking for in each section.
Remember that detailed feedback from me will only be possible if I receive your draft report by 3.30pm on Friday. The deadline for submission is the end of the first week back at school after the Easter holiday.
Did you think quantum tunnelling was just a useless theory?
There’s a nice item on quantum tunnelling on the BBC News site.
Scientists at Peratech have developed “spikey” particles for use in the touchscreen of smartphones. The breakthrough is that the quantum tunneling effect means that the screen is pressure sensitive.
I found this video on quantum tunneling on youtube.
wave-particle duality electron experiment
I found this video on youtube. It is a good demonstration of electrons behaving like waves or particles, depending on their energy. Can you explain why the electron energy is important here?
There is a second video explaining how the electrons are produced if you are interested. Watch it here.
Centripetal acceleration and Isaac Newton
It’s a few months since we looked at centripetal acceleration in class but I thought I would share this article I found. I wonder how many people would dare to “co-write” a physics paper with Isaac Newton? The article is worth a read and I have attached a download link below.
While we’re talking about centripetal acceleration, Rhett Allain’s blog post that led me to the article is also very interesting.