National 5

Here are the solutions to the dynamics and space past papers questions.

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Some of you asked for revision questions ahead of the unit assessment.  Down load these problems from older past papers.  I will add a secoond post with the answers shortly.

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Before the holidays, we performed a set of experiments to determine the latent heat of fusion and latent heat of vaporisation of water.  Next week, we’ll review that work and think about possible reasons why our results were not closer to the “book” values.

The attached pdf provides a summary of the topic.

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We’ve started looking at telescopes and this BBC programme from 2 years ago featured the replacement for Hubble, the James Webb Space Telescope.  The presenter, Maggie Aderin Pocock now hosts The Sky at Night on BBC4.

Please take some time to watch both parts of the film.  Maggie covers the basic idea of satellites, how we achieve geostationary orbit, looks at examples of Earth observation and the manufacture of the James Webb’s massive 6.5m mirror.  In part 1, around 17 minutes in, you’ll see satellite footage over the Highlands, can’t quite see Thurso though.

Satellites-part1 from mr mackenzie on Vimeo.

Satellites-part2 from mr mackenzie on Vimeo.

If you want to download a copy of the video to watch later, use the download link below.  Please be patient, the file is about 660MB in size.

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You can also use these notes to prepare for the test on Monday.  The test will cover everything up to page 46 in the attached file, but you can skip pages 39 & 40 on Newton’s third law.

Thanks to Mr Noble for sharing his notes.

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Use these materials to help you prepare for the assessment at the start of next week.  Studying up to page 7 of the attached file will cover the topics in the test.

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