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equation; constant velocity graph; constant acceleration graph; projectile motion; force as mass times acceleration.
Electricity; current; potential difference; resistance; emf; internal resistance; resistivity; electrical power;
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AS/A2 CORE: Momentum conservation; force as rate of change of momentum; work done by a force; energy
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waves.
A2 CORE: Motion in a circle; centripetal force.
Capacitance; discharge curve.
Atomic energy; Einstein’s equation; fission; fusion.
Oscillations; SHM; periodic wave; forced vibrations; damping; resonance.
Gravitational field; electric field; Newton’s law of gravitation; field of point mass; Coulomb’s law; field of
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linkage; Faraday’s law; Lenz’s law.
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convection;
Coulomb’s law;
current;
damping;
dc circuit;
diffraction;
discharge curve;
Einstein’s equation;
electrical energy;
electrical power;
electric charge;
electric field;
electricity;
electromagnetic waves;
emf;
energy conservation;
energy levels;
exponential decay;
Faraday’s law;
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field of point mass;
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flux linkage;
force as mass times acceleration;
force as rate of change of momentum;
force on moving charge;
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ideal gas law;
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motion in a circle;
Newton’s law of gravitation;
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path difference;
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phase;
photoelectric effect;
Planck’s law;
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radioactivity;
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standing waves;
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thermal conductivity;
thermal expansion;
uniform electric field;
vector addition;
waves;
work done by a force;
x-ray diffraction;
Young modulus;
PHYSICS REVIEW index
Title
The Antarctic ozone
hole
Getting things straight: I
Medical imaging
Phones on the move
The sodium street light
Speed and velocity
A glass of water
Why the sky is blue
(no title)
Issue Contents
1(1) Discovery and measurements of the ozone
hole
Mathskit
1(1) Straight line graphs
Feature
1(1) Radiology; tomography; MRI; nuclear
medicine; ultrasound
Roger Hanna
Feature
1(1) Simple pendulum formula applied to
different oscillators
Alistair Burr
Feature
1(1) Mobile phones; inverse square law
Oliver Heavens How it works 1(1) Electrical discharge; atomic spectrum
Robin Millar
Stop and think 1(1) Scalars and vectors
Liz Swinbank
Filler
1(1)
Carol Tear
I wonder why 1(1) Rayleigh scattering; colours of the sky
John Avison
Exam talkback 1(1) Acceleration; work; torque; elastic collision
Are we alone?
Barrie Jones
Clear as mud
John Szymanski Feature
Learning the minimum
Author
Jonathan
Shanklin
Jim Matthew
Roger Warren
Department
Feature
Feature
Computer
simulation
Exam talkback 1(2) radioactive decay; LC circuit
Quarks, leptons and the Peter Kalmus
universe
Science fiction and the Robert
Feature
Feature
Resonance; sound
oscillations; force as mass times
acceleration
ionising radiation; kinetic energy
motion in a circle
force as mass times acceleration;
work done by a force
diffraction
1(2) Search for extraterrestrial intelligence;
electromagnetic spectrum; resolution of a
telescope
1(2) Resistivity and magnetic surveying; ground resistivity; resistance
penetrating radar
1(2) Modelling air resistance; terminal velocity force as mass times acceleration
Motion of a skydiver / Peter Main
parachutist
Exponential decay in A- Ian Power
level physics
Going round in circles Robin Millar
Stop and think
Key words and phrases
exponential decay; capacitor;
discharge curve; half life
1(2) puzzling aspects of circular motion
motion in a circle; centripetal
force
1(2) Fundamental particles; evidence for quarks; Rutherford scattering; Planck’s
law
 = h/p; CERN; big bang
1(2) A-level physics in science fiction
conservation laws
Why everything is not
blue and frozen
Electric circuit
calculation
If in doubt log it
Making light of
communication
May the force be with
you!
The physics of the Solar
System: planets and
satellites
Can something be
stationary and still have
acceleration?
A toot on the flute
Why does water fall out
of an upturned glass?
Why is the sky dark at
night?
Centrifugal force
Putting the shot
Extreme ultraviolet
astronomy
Freezing hot
On the right lines
Particles and
interactions
Lambourne
Derek Jacobs
Derek Bodey
1(2) Planck’s radiation formula; Wien’s law;
black body; Stefan’s law; colour of stars
Exam talkback 1(3) Circuit contains a light-dependent resistor
I wonder why
Planck’s law
parallel circuit; dc circuit;
resistance
Jim Matthew
Mathskit
Oliver Heavens Feature
1(3) Log-log graphs; power laws
1(3) Optical fibres
Alan Yate
Feature
Michael
Woolfson
Feature
1(3) Forces which keep buildings up; cantilever; resolution of vectors; vector
cranes; bridges
addition
1(3) Structure of the Solar System; moons;
Newton’s law of gravitation
atmospheres; escape speed
Robin Millar
Stop and think
1(3) Oscillations; velocity-time graph
mechanics; constant acceleration
graph
Peter Main
Alan Heavens
How it works
I wonder why
1(3) modes of vibration; edge tones
1(3) Rayleigh-Taylor instability; a party trick
standing waves; resonance
Liz Swinbank
Feature
1(3) Olber’s paradox; Hubble’s law; Doppler
shift
1(4) Does it exist? Frames of reference
1(4) Modelling motion in 2D
Robin Millar
Peter Main
Stop and think
Computer
simulation
Martin Barstow Feature
John Lewis
Feature
Kenneth Spring I wonder why
Peter Kalmus
Feature
Refraction; refractive index
mechanics
1(4) Planck radiation formula; sky survey in euv;
plasma; absorption of radiation
1(4) Do hot things freeze faster than cold?
1(4) Wheels on rails; welded rails
Thermal expansion
1(4) Forces of nature; W and Z particles;
Feynman diagram; unification of forces;
quarks
The making of a silver
ring
Simple electric circuits
Sue Dale
Feature
1(4) Properties of materials; solder; annealing
Elizabeth Bird
and Fred
Archenhold
Sid Dunn
Exam talkback 1(4)
series circuit; dc circuit;
resistance; parallel circuit
Winding a special
transformer
How do you rate as an Carol Tear
experimental physicist?
Earth - a cosmic dustbin David Hughes
Feature
1(4) Calculations to design a transformer
flux linkage; Faraday’s law;
potential difference
Quiz
1(4) Treatment of errors; presentation of results
Feature
Getting things straight:
II
A material for all
seasons
The maximum power
transfer theorem
Physics for fusion
Jim Matthew
Mathskit
1(5) Meteorites; asteroid and comet fragments;
craters
1(5) Log-linear graphs
Ray diagrams
Seeing in the dark
John Avison
Ann Davis
From tachographs to
bouncy balls
Let’s weigh the earth
Is there a black hole at
the centre of the Milky
Way?
Who understands Ohm's
Law?
Colour
Robin Millar
David Newman Interview
1(5) Uses and properties of concrete
John Szymanski Feature
1(5) Equivalent circuits; power and efficiency;
circuit formulae
1(5) isotopes; plasma; tokamak
John Elliott
exponential decay
emf; internal resistance; series
circuit; resistance; dc circuit
Feature
fusion; nuclear transformation;
magnetic effects of currents
Exam talkback 1(5) Telescopes
refraction
How it works 1(5) Thermal imaging; Planck radiation formula; diffraction; energy levels;
greenhouse effect
Planck’s law
Stop and think 1(5) Velocity-time graphs
constant acceleration graph
Oliver Heavens Feature
Alan Heavens Feature
Denis Greig
Feature
Christopher
Rose-Innes
Feature
Newton’s law of gravitation
force as mass times acceleration;
Newton’s law of gravitation;
kinetic energy
2(1) Ohm’s experiments; electrical properties of dc circuit; resistivity
materials; departures from Ohm’s law;
2(1) Coloured light; colour TV; colour printing;
how the eye sees colour
1(5) Measuring G at Schiehallion
2(1) Escape velocity; Schwarzschild radius
Comprehension
questions
The Monte Carlo
method
Light pillars at night
What’s in a name?
A physicist’s alphabet
Seeing is believing
John
Skevington
Peter Main
Brian Bates
Computer
simulation
How it works
Filler
Filler
Feature
Ultrasonic pulses and
echoes
Asteroids, spheres and
the heights of mountains
Sending an elastic ball
into orbit
The laser - putting the
sun into the shade
Sixth-formers: ‘Making
light of networks’
Robert Chivers
Feature
Michael
Woolfson
Cyril Isenberg
Feature
Revenge of the
maximum power
transfer theorem
Photons and waves
John Szymanski Feature
Derek Bodey
Exam talkback 2(2) waves on a string; Young’s slits
The British Physics
Olympiad
Cyril Isenberg
Feature
2(2)
Liz Swinbank
John Smith
Stop and think
I wonder why
Feature
2(2)
2(2)
2(2)
Help design a ski lift
Why do stars twinkle?
What’s on top?
Cyril Isenberg
Peter Main
Exam talkback 2(1) A car in a wind tunnel
Feature
Oliver Heavens How it works
Alan Yate
Feature
2(1) Modelling a nuclear reactor shield
exponential decay
2(1) Reflections from a water surface
2(1)
2(1)
2(1) How the eye works; chromatic aberration;
resolution
2(1) Bats; non-destructive testing; sonar;
ultrasound in the body
2(2) Why are planets not cubes?
reflection
2(2) Mechanics of bouncing a column of balls;
Newton’s law of restitution
2(2) partially transparent mirror
mechanics; momentum
conservation; energy conservation
Planck’s law; energy levels;
coherence
Diffraction; refraction
Waves; sound
2(2) Results of a national competition; feedback
loop; wind speed indicator for yachts; star
tracking
2(2) Matching circuits
photoelectric effect; standing
waves
Description of Olympiad; sample questions; exponential decay; kinetic energy;
results
force on moving charge; motion
in a circle
Work; power
Earth’s atmosphere
refraction
Surface physics; electron scattering; Auger
spectroscopy
Presenting results in graphical form
Energy supply; energy losses; power station
efficiency; hydroelectric pumped storage
power station
Importance of supply rails in electronics;
Kirchhof’s laws
Liquid crystals; colour
Invention of the pendulum clock;
measurement of time at sea; longitude
Origin of the Solar System; angular
momentum
Data analysis
Energy conservation in
housing: I
Ian Power
John Sparkes
Exam talkback 2(3)
Feature
2(3)
Keeping on the rails
Michael
Brimicombe
Helen Gleeson
Peter Main
Stop and think
2(3)
Liquid crystal display
A moment in the
measurement of time
Physics of the Solar
Michael
System: The great
Woolfson
angular momentum
theory
Planetary radiation belts Andrew Chugg
How it works
Feature
2(3)
2(3)
Feature
2(3)
Feature
2(3) Lorentz force; Earth’s magnetic field;
magnetic mirror; solar wind
A star is born
Feature
2(3) interstellar dust; nebula
When tension mounts
Concept of efficiency
Energy conservation in
housing: II
Spot the fallacy
The green flash
Magnetism
Now you see it - now
you don't
Liz Swinbank
Richard
Marshall
John Sparkes
Gordon Best
Ken Dobson
Filler
Feature
2(3) Tension in a lift cable
2(4) Energy efficiency; energy quality; Carnot
cycle; energy conservation
Feature
2(4) Heat transfer; thermal resistance and
conductivity; double glazing
Puzzle
2(4)
Feature
2(4) What causes it; how to observe it
Exam talkback 2(4) Lines of force
Oliver Heavens Feature
2(4) Resolution of the eye
diffraction
electrical power
polarisation
oscillations; centripetal force
force on moving charge; motion
in a circle; resolution if vectors;
centripetal force; magnetic field
Newton’s law of gravitation;
fusion; potential energy; kinetic
energy
energy conservation
energy conservation
specific heat capacity
magnetic flux; magnetic effects of
currents; Faraday’s law; flux
linkage
The powerful steam
engine
Providing the world’s
energy
Sue Dale
Feature
George Cole
Feature
Double slit interference John Avison
Future world energy
options
Glass to the x-ray
department
Groovy gratings
David Elliott
Feature
Is there mathematics in
my graph?
The power of attraction Patrick Square
Mathskit
Sun screens
Why is glass
transparent?
Bernoulli’s equation
Carol Tear
Steve Tear
Feature
I wonder why
Steve
Widdowson
Colin Reid
Try this
Ken Winn
Feature
Size and mass of the
Earth
Galileo’s rolling ball
experiment revisited
ideal gas law; work done by a
force
2(4) Energy sources - solar, wind, wave, tidal,
geothermal, nuclear, biomass, fossil, water
cycle
Exam talkback 2(5) Constructive and destructive interference;
interference; coherence
coherence
Feature
2(5) Renewable energy – solar, wind, wave, tidal
Oliver Heavens Stop and think
Mike and Gill
Hutley
Jim Matthew
2(4) Power; efficiency; p-V diagram
Feature
Feature
2(5) Glass corrosion; non-destructive analysis;
X-ray fluorescence
2(5) Diffraction gratings; interference;
spectroscopy
2(5)
Planck’s law; kinetic energy;
energy levels; line spectrum
diffraction; interference;
superposition; waves
2(5) Magnetism; inverse square law; dipole
moment
2(5) Sun burn; sun protection; absorption
2(5) Rayleigh scattering; resonant scattering;
coloured glass
3(1) Experiments illustrating the Bernoulli
effect.
3(1) Eratosthenes’s measurement of Earth’s
radius; Cavendish measurement of G
3(1) A ball rolls down an inclined plane,
interfaced to a computer; displacement-time
and velocity-time graphs
3(1) Anti-reflection coating
Coulomb’s law; electrical charge;
magnetic flux
Planck’s law; energy levels
line spectrum; energy levels;
refractive index
energy conservation; potential
energy; kinetic energy
Newton’s law of gravitation
Why is your camera lens Oliver Heavens Feature
coloured?
Using graphs
John
Exam talkback 3(1)
Skevington
Life with the stars
Richard Wilson Interview
3(1) Work at the Royal Greenwich Observatory
mechanics
interference; superposition;
reflection; refractive index; lens
kinetic energy; photoelectric
effect
interference; superposition
Mains electricity
Jim Breithaupt
How it works
From op-amp to
John Avison
oscillator
Remote home electricity Bryan Milner
Feature
What would you say?
My grandfather’s clock
Filler
Feature
In your own time
Carol Tear
Keeping time
Light, dust and blue
skies
Safe domestic wiring
Robert
Lambourne
John Cronin
Steve
Widdowson
Jim Breithaupt
Science on show
Seeing the light
Sarah Marshall
Ken Winn
Stress and strain without Ian Power
mechanics?
Why are sundials
Derek Jacobs
usually wrong?
The time ... precisely
Liz Swinbank
Of forces and pressure
How hot is the sun?
Derek Bodey
David Hughes
How long is a piece of Nick Turner
string?
How to keep warm with Derek Jacobs
Feature
3(1) Power in an ac current; electrical safety;
potential drop
3(1) multivibrator; generation of a square wave.
Feature
3(1) A wind generator supplies electricity to a
house. How well does it function?
3(1) Misconceptions in electricity
3(2) Why did the grandfather clock stop?
Oscillations; resonance
3(2) Time; space; Einstein; relativity
Feature
Try this
3(2) Design of a pendulum clock
3(2) Rayleigh scattering
How it works
3(2) Electrical safety; earthing; residual current
circuit breaker
Interview
3(2) Work in a science museum
Feature
3(2) Experiments with a light sensor interfaced
to a computer
Exam talkback 3(2) Strength of materials
Feature
3(2) Equation of time; details of Earth’s orbit
electrical power; resistance;
potential difference
capacitor; potential divider;
oscillations
electrical energy; electrical
power; parallel circuit
oscillations; resonance
oscillations
path difference; interference;
diffraction; refraction
electrical power; potential
difference; resistance; emf
diffraction
vector addition
momentum conservation
3(2) Caesium clock; atomic clock; atomic energy Planck’s law; energy levels
levels; universal time; leap second
Exam talkback 3(3) Newton’s 3rd law; manometer
weightlessness
Feature
3(3) Laws of cooling; solar constant; Stefan’s
quantum physics
law; Planck radiation curve
Essay
3(3) A physicist at a party
Feature
How it works
3(3) Thermal conductivity of double glazing
Thermal conductivity
glass
‘Looking’ inside the
earth
The problem of too
much energy
Radon in the home
Colin Reid
Feature
Richard
Feature
Marshall
Denis Henshaw Feature
3(3) Waves produced by earthquakes propagate
through the earth
3(3) Thermal pollution; Stefan’s law; solar
constant
3(3) Measurement of radioactivity; geographical
distribution; health effects
3(3) Wind energy; storage batteries; photovoltaic
cells
waves
energy conservation
ionising radiation; half life;
radioactivity
electrical power; potential
difference; resistance; series
circuit
vector addition
Remote electricity
revisited
Bryan Milner
Feature
Up in the air
1993 The year in
physics
A home-made
electroscope
Making thin films
Penny Connew
Barrie Jones
Interview
Quiz
Nuclear physics
Ken Dobson
Exam talkback 3(4) decay chain
Physics in medicine
Alexander
Seifalian
Patrick Sherry
Interview
3(4) Work as a hospital physicist
Feature
3(4) Mass and weight; thermal, electrical and
elastic properties;
3(4) An A-level physics question that caused
much discussion
3(4) Pressures under a pile of neatly stacked
resolution of vectors; vector
spheres
addition
3(4) Quantum theory; light quanta; matter waves superposition; interference;
Physics of ghosts
Steve
Try this
Widdowson
Oliver Heavens Feature
A question of average
Ian Power
Feature
speed, distance and time
How to stack tomatoes Bob Collins and Feature
Derek Jacobs
Wave-particle duality
Alastair Rae
Feature
3(3) Working at the Meteorological Office
3(3) What’s new in physics in 1993?
3(4) Detection of static electricity
electric charge; electric field
3(4)
ionising radiation; half life;
radioactivity
nuclear physics; Einstein’s
equation; exponential decay; half
life; ionising radiation; fission;
fusion; nuclear transformation;
motion in a circle; force on a
moving charge; radioactivity
nuclear physics; half life; ionising
radiation
kinetic energy; work done by a
force; specific heat capacity
quantum physics; photoelectric
effect; Planck’s law; particle
diffraction
The write stuff
Alternating currents
John Szymanski Feature
3(4) Advice on how to write good English
and Irene
Szymanski
John Avison
Exam talkback 3(5)
Behind the information
revolution
Changing colours of
soap bubbles
John Tyndall
Chris Bissell
Feature
Cyril Isenberg
Feature
Charles Taylor
Feature
The maglev train
Sue Dale
Feature
On the road
Pepsi Max Big One
Stuart Lord
Carol Tear
Interview
Feature
3(5) The life of a Victorian physicist, best known
for his lecture demonstrations
3(5) Electromagnetic induction; linear induction
motor; control system
3(5) Work at the Ford Motor Company
3(5) g forces
Smoke detectors
Derek Jacobs
How it works
3(5)
Stretch of the
imagination
Ken Winn
Feature
3(5) Thermoelastic properties of rubber tubing
Zap this
Steve
Widdowson
Derek Jacobs
Try this
3(5) Experiments with a TV remote control unit
How it works
4(1) Gas discharge; UV; fluorescence
A fluorescent light
3(5) error correction; digital signal; information
theory
3(5) Interference patterns; Boys rainbow cup
dc cicuit; series circuit; phase;
potential difference; electrical
power; capacitance; resistance;
electrical power
interference
standing waves
Faraday’s law; Lenz’s law; emf;
magnetic effects of currents
motion in a circle; resolution of
vectors; potential energy; kinetic
energy; energy conservation;
centripetal force
ionising radiation; half life;
radioactivity
work done by a force; molecular
kinetic energy; potential energy;
specific heat capacity
waves
Planck’s law; Lenz’s law;
ionising radiation
Bridges
Eratosthenes revisited
Michael
Woolfson
Eyes right
Liz Swinbank
Investigations with force Ken Winn
- time graphs
Picture page
Feature
Feature
Feature
4(1) A look at the forces involved
4(1) Schools participate in measuring Earth’s
radius
4(1) The physics behind an eye test
4(1) A strain gauge interfaced to a computer
records time-varying forces; impulse;
momentum
4(1) Optical properties of a lens; optical
thickness; lens formulae
4(1) simple pendulum
Light through a lens
Brian Bates
Feature
Oscillations observed
Laurence
Rogers
Feature
SI units squared
Simple d.c. circuit
problems
John Szymanski Competition
4(1)
Ian Power
Exam talkback 4(1) Ohm’s law in series and parallel circuits
Superstrings
Steve
Widdowson
Derek Jacobs
Try this
4(1) Barton’s pendulums
How it works
4(2)
Ian Williams
Feature
4(2)
Gravitation before
Einstein
Hermann Bondi Feature
4(2)
Making tracks
Karl Gill
4(2)
Disposable battery
testers
The Geiger-Müller
counter
Interview
Out of this world
John Szymanski Feature
The physics of everyday Ken Winn
Feature
4(2)
4(2)
vector addition
Diffraction; lens; refraction
potential divider; parallel circuit;
force as mass times acceleration;
potential difference; mechanics
path difference; lens; refraction;
optics
oscillations; potential difference;
potential divider; force as mass
times acceleration; resolution of
vectors; SHM
dc circuit; series circuit; potential
difference; parallel circuit;
internal resistance; resistance
resonance; force as mass times
acceleration; oscillations
ionising radiation; photoelectric
effect; potentail difference;
electric field
Galileo; tidal forces; orbits; escape speed;
Newton’s law of gravitation;
weightlessness
Coulonb;s law; motion ina circle;
centripetal force; gravitational
field
Working on detectors of subatomic particles nuclear physics; force on a
moving charge; centripetal force
Physics in the sci-fi world of Mesklin
gravitational field; refraction
Force-time graphs for everyday activities
force as mass times acceleration
events
Radioactive decay
Rearranging equations
Ken Dobson
Carol Tear
Shrouded in mystery
Oliver Heavens Feature
Exam talkback 4(2) Radiocarbon dating
Mathskit
4(2)
Filler
exponential decay; half life
Newton’s law of gravitation;
capacitance; electric charge
4(2) Dating the Turin Shroud; mass spectrometer nuclear physics; exponential
decay; half life; centripetal force;
force on a moving charge; electric
field
4(2) A computer chip viewed right down to
atomic size
4(3)
Feature
4(3)
Picture page
4(3)
Derek Jacobs
Feature
4(3)
Fields in A-level
physics
John
Skevington
Exam talkback 4(3)
Forces: A Platonic
dialogue
Invisible frontiers
Richard Field
Feature
4(3)
Michael Barnett Feature
4(3)
To see a world in a grain
of sand
Bicycles are faster than Peter Main
cars
The bimetallic strip
Michael
Woolfson
The Crab Nebula
Picture page
Do it with phasors
The physics of medieval Gareth Rees
archery
Feature
4(3)
Stargazing
Try this
4(3)
Liz Swinbank
Thermal expansion
polarisation; force on a moving
charge; electric field
Calculation of interference patterns using
vector addition; superposition;
vectors
interference; phase; energy
conservation
uniform electric field; work done
by a force; kinetic energy;
potential difference; resolution of
vectors; gravitational field
A discussion on circular motion and special motion in a circle; force as mass
relativity
times acceleration
Electromagnetic spectrum; discovery of IR, waves; X-ray diffraction; ionising
radiation
UV, X-rays, -rays
Physics of the longbow; energy storage;
potential energy; kinetic energy;
properties of materials
work done by a force; projectile
motion
Black body radiation; nebula
Units
Carol Tear
A brief history of
gravity
Dynamics and the
motion of charged
particles in electric
fields
Einstein
Andrew Chugg Feature
Einstein and the Red
Shift
Get in line!
Hermann Bondi Feature
Ken Dobson
Mathskit
4(3) Working out physical dimensions on both
sides of an equation
4(4) General relativity; Copernicus; Galileo;
Kepler; Einstein
Exam talkback 4(4)
Picture page
4(4)
4(4) Interaction between gravity and light;
general relativity
4(4) The vernier scale
Michael
Woolfson
Ruth Cameron
Feature
Feature
4(4) Physical properties related to atomic and
molecular structure
Bryan Milner
Feature
4(4) Science is a search for patterns; linear
oscillator
Using astronomy to date
the life of Jesus
Why do physicists plot
graphs?
Accelerated motion
Richard
Marshall
Carol Tear
Feature
4(4) conjunction of planets; lunar eclipse
Mathskit
4(4) Relationships between physical quantities
John Avison
Exam talkback 4(5) Newton’s laws of motion
Electronic solutions
Graham Long
Feature
Microwaves
Michael Barnett Feature
Polymer physics: from
bread to bulletproof
vests
Predictability
4(5) Solving problems with photoelectronic
devices
4(5) Development of microwave technology;
mechanics; potentialenergy;
kinetic energy; magnetic effects
of currents; magnetic force on a
current
gravitational field; Newton’s law
of gravitation
force as mass times acceleration;
force as rate of change of
momentum; force on moving
charge; electric field; mechanics
photoelectric effect; Einstein’s
equation; Planck’s law
energy levels; energy
conservation
SHM; damping; exponential
decay; forced vibrations;
resonance
Newton’s law of gravitation
oscillations; resistance; resolution
of vectors
force as rate of change of
momentum; mechanics; constant
acceleration graph
waves; diffraction
Overhead power lines
Oliver Heavens Feature
SI united squared
Some straight talking
John Szymanski Competition
Carol Tear
Mathskit
radar
4(5) Magnetic field of a power cable; effects on
human body
4(5) Solution and results
4(5) Examples of straight-line graphs
Somewhere over the
rainbow
Sunshine
Baked Alaska
Derek Jacobs
4(5) How a rainbow is formed; dispersion
Maureen
Cooper
Cragside
Feature
Picture page
Feature
4(5)
5(1) Conventional cooking methods compared
with microwaves
Just visiting
5(1) Technological inventions of Sir William
Armstrong
Exam talkback 5(1) Mass on a spring; tension in a tow rope
Equilibrium and nonequilibrium
Helium
Steve
Widdowson
Hot air balloons
Magic vision
Music in physics
Michael
Feature
Brimicombe
Andrew Chugg Feature
Peter Main
Feature
On stream
Lucy Page
Interview
Powers of ten
Carol Tear
Mathskit
Springing a leak
Top quark
Steve
Try this
Widdowson
Christine Sutton Feature
Cooking the Christmas
Peter Main
Picture page
Feature
5(1)
electric field; magnetic effects of
currents; magnetic field
constant velocity graph; ideal gas
law; oscillations
refraction; reflection; refractive
index
nuclear physics; line spectrum
molecular kinetic energy
force as mass times acceleration;
mechanics; SHM
line spectrum; ionising radiation;
specific heat capacity
ideal gas law; exponential decay;
force as mass times acceleration
5(1) A simple explanation of why a hot air
balloon rises doesn’t work; upthrust
5(1) 3D images from patterns of dots
5(1) Discoveries of Pythagoras; rainbow; gravity waves; Newton’s law of
gravitation
5(1) Work at the National Physical Laboratory;
greenhouse effect
5(1) Dealing with very large and very small
numbers
5(1) Bernoulli’s equation; equation of motion
kinetic energy; work done by a
force; mechanics
5(1) Properties of quarks and leptons
nuclear physics; Einstein’s
equation
5(2) dimensional analysis
specific heat capacity; thermal
turkey
The diffraction grating
John Mitchell
How to empty space
Oliver Heavens Feature
Looking at atoms
Peter Main
Röntgen rays
Stephen Foulger Feature
Sound sense
Jacqueline
Interview
Lloyd
Ken Pounds and Feature
Andy Norton
Lynn Smith and Feature
Liz Swinbank
Picture page
5(2) Work on noise and vibration at the Health
and Safety Laboratory
5(2) ROSAT X-ray telescope
Peter Main
Peter Main
Peter Main
Stuart Malin
Filler
Filler
Filler
Feature
5(2)
5(2)
5(2)
5(3)
Edward Davis
Feature
Steve
Widdowson
Edward Davis
Jacqueline
Mitton
Colin McInnes
Try this
X-Ray astronomy
X-rays in medicine
X-Rays in the early
years
Naughty X-rays
Interview with Röntgen
A scientific hero
Earth's magnetic field
Britain's infinite
coastline
Floating, freezing,
melting
Fractals
Red supergiants and
white dwarfs
Setting sail for orbit
Exam talkback 5(2) Measuring optical wavelengths
Feature
Picture page
Feature
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5(2) Vacuum pumps and gauges; gas laws;
kinetic theory
5(2) The use of X-rays to determine crystal
structures
5(2) Discovery of X-rays; early experiments
5(2) Imaging; tomography; safety; therapy
5(2)
X-rays violate Victorian sensitivities
What Röntgen said about his discovery
What other people thought of Röntgen
Magnetic dip and declination; self-exciting
dynamo
5(3) Introduction to fractals; dimensionality of
fractal curves
5(3) Density; freezing water; melting ice
5(3) beautiful patterns
5(3) Colour and sizes of stars; inverse square
law; Planck; Wien; Stefan
5(3) Solar sailing; pressure of light
conductivity
diffraction; line spectrum; energy
levels; waves
ideal gas law; molecular kinetic
energy
ionising radiation; X-ray
diffraction; superposition
ionising radiation; Faraday’s law;
X-ray diffraction
waves; superposition; sound
ionising radiation; exponential
decay; gravitational field
ionising radiation; Planck’s law;
probing matter
ionising radiation
Faraday’s law; magnetic effects
of currents; magnetic field
Planck’s law; Einstein’s equation;
vector addition
‘Modern’ physics?
Ian Power
Exam talkback 5(3) nuclear fission and fusion
Volcanoes
Hazel Rymer
Feature
5(3) Plate tectonics; predicting an eruption
Star trekker
Interview
5(3) Research in astronomy
The bike problem
Bob Collins
Computer
simulation
Try this
What is chaos?
Peter Main
Feature
e for exponential
Light work
Carol Tear
Derek Jacobs
Mathskit
Feature
5(4) Five computer experiments with alpha
particles
5(4) In which direction does a bicycle move
when a backwards force is applied to the
lower pedal?
5(4) Introduction to chaos; the butterfly effect; a
fractal
5(4) Exponential growth and decay
5(4) Development of the electric light bulb;
Planck’s radiation curve; quartz-halogen
lamps
5(4) fission and fusion; atomic bomb; hydrogen
bomb
5(4) How does radiation damage living
materials?
5(4)
Shirin HaqueCopilah
Alpha-particle scattering Peter Main
The physics of nuclear Andrew Chugg Feature
weapons
Radiation: Why worry? David Sumner Feature
Radioactivity
Liz Swinbank
Picture page
Waves and interference Jim Breithaupt
Exam talkback 5(4) coloured fringes
A for 'orses, B for
mutton
Anti-lock braking
systems
Quiz
5(5) questions on large numbers
How it works
5(5) Rotation sensor; magnetic inductance
Roger
Partington
Derek Jacobs
photoelectric effect; nuclear
physics; quantum physics; energy
levels; line spectrum; Einstein’s
equation
Newton’s law of gravitation;
gravitational field
Rutherford scattering
mechanics
oscillations
exponential decay; half life
nuclear physics; Einstein’s
equation
ionising radiation
ionising radiation; nuclear
physics; radioactivity
waves; interference; coherence;
superposition; path difference;
sound
Faraday’s law; Lenz’s law; emf;
magnetic flux
Unpredictable physics
Peter Main
of chaos
Coils in magnetic fields John Avison
Feature
Monitoring the fetal
electrocardiogram
Galileo's other
experiment?
Lasers in medicine
Lightning and how not
to get struck by it
Log graphs
Malcolm
Woolfson
Michael
Brimicombe
Cate McGowan
David Grimes
Feature
Carol Tear
Mathskit
Natural light
Airbags
The art of estimation
Liz Swinbank
Derek Jacobs
Steve
Widdowson
Roger Tayler
Picture page
How it works
Mathskit
How old is our galaxy?
Internet or WWW?
Jodrell Bank
Uncle Albert and the
quantum quest
Paradoxes
Passage analysis
So you know all about
the pendulum?
5(5) Non-linear oscillator; period doubling;
strange attractor; unpredictability
Exam talkback 5(5) motor effect of an electric current
Try this
Feature
Feature
Feature
5(5) Medical physics; biomedical engineering;
signal processing
5(5) Dropping two elastic balls, one on top of the
other
5(5) Types of laser; surgery; dentistry
5(5) why lightning strikes
5(5) Turning an exponential into a straight line
graph
5(5) Light pillars; haloes; sun dogs
6(1) Accelerometer; sodium azide
6(1) Don’t always trust your calculator
6(1) Dating rocks; decay of uranium; evolution
of stars
John Szymanski Physics online 6(1) Starting point for getting information from
WWW
Just visiting
6(1) Radio astronomy; angular resolution;
MERLIN
Russell
Reading
6(1) Uncle Albert’s niece explains some
Stannard
around
quantum physics in a story that’s fun to read
Andrew Chugg Feature
6(1) 6 paradoxes that have made physicists think
Tim Akrill
Exam talkback 6(1) Help with the synoptic A-level exam;
comprehension
Ken Winn
Feature
6(1) Use of a computer datalogger gives a
tension-time graph; conservation of energy;
Newton’s 2nd law
oscillations; SHM; force as mass
times acceleration; series circuit
magnetic force on a current;
magnetic flux; magnetic field
probing matter
mechanics; kinetic energy;
momentum conservation
energy levels; superposition
electric field; electric charge
capacitor; discharge curve
diffraction
Newton’s law of gravitation
exponential decay; half life
diffraction
Einstein’s equation; nuclear
physics; Rutherford scattering
oscillations; force as mass times
acceleration; energy conservation;
potential energy; kinetic energy;
motion in a circle
Solar furnace
Stopping safely
Star dates
The secret of acoustics
Studio acoustics
Brunel’s big idea
Making light of dating
Michael
Brimicombe
Peter Main
Michael TalbotSmith
Michael
Brimicombe
Oliver Heavens
Picture page
Feature
Back page
Filler
Feature
Feature
Feature
Detecting particles
Physics in action
Eggs
Filler
John Szymanski Puzzle
Steve
Try this
Widdowson
The practical side of A- Ian Power
Exam talkback
level Physics
Vectors
Steve
Mathskit
Widdowson
A brief history of time Stephen
Reading
Hawking
around
A walk through time
John Szymanski Physics online
The world’s biggest
machine
Listening posts
Absolute zero!
Michael Lea
Back page
Feature
A useful barometer
Peter Main
Filler
Picture page
6(1) Stefan’s law; parabolic mirror
6(1) The stopping distances in the Highway
kinetic energy; mechanics
Code; reaction time; friction; skidding
6(1) A spiral galaxy; statistics on the Milky Way
6(2) A misconception in concert hall acoustics
6(2) reverberation
standing waves; resonance
6(2) How to design a transatlantic paddle
steamer; water resistance; scaling a model
6(2) Thermoluminescence dates archaeological
samples; light flux; trapped electrons
6(2) Design of a subatomic particle detector
6(2) How much tea do you get in your cup?
6(2) Test the strength of an egg shell
force as rate of change of
momentum
energy levels; half life
6(2) Advice on assessment of practical work
series circuit; potential difference
6(2) Velocity and acceleration
vector addition
6(2) A best-seller containing much A-level
physics
6(2) Water, mechanical, quartz and atomic
clocks
6(2) The large electron-positron collider at
CERN
6(2) 17th century acoustic bugging devices
6(3) Cooling atoms; quantum liquid; BoseEinstein condensate
Einstein’s equation; force on
moving charge; centripetal force
6(3) Several ways to determine the height of a
absolute temperature; ideal gas
law; molecular kinetic energy;
specific heat capacity
Errors and graphs
The longest day
Steve
Widdowson
Nigel Smith
Mathskit
building
6(3) When is a point not a point?
6(3) Life at the South Pole; experiments on
cosmic rays
Was there life on Mars? John Szymanski Physics online 6(3) A Martian meteorite; Planet Search; SETI
Module tests: mechanics John Mitchell
Exam talkback 6(3) Acceleration
and electricity
Feature
Physics on ice
Gareth Rees
Feature
Random-dot
stereograms
Surely you’re joking,
Mr Feynman!
Peter Main
Try this
6(3) Satellite observations reveal the behaviour
of glaciers; radar studies
6(3) A computer program to generate a 3D
picture
6(3) Delightful stories about a Nobel Prize
winner
Snow and ice
Richard
Reading
Feynman and
around
Ralph Leighton
Picture page
Superfluids
Liz Swinbank
Feature
Time by telegraph
Are you sure?
Peter Main
Steve
Widdowson
Richard Field
Filler
Mathskit
Steve
Widdowson
Stephen Moss
Exam talkback 6(4) flux density; rate of change of flux
Binary stars
Electromagnetic
induction
Georges Lemaître’s
Phoenix universe
resistance; electricity
Feature
Feature
6(3) Shape of ice crystals, snow flakes;
cryovolcanism
6(3) Nobel Prize; Pauli exclusion principle; de
Broglie wavelength
6(3) The Greenwich time signal before radio
6(4) Handling errors; combination of errors
6(4) Binary orbits; gravitation; centre of mass;
mass of a star; spectrum; Doppler shift
6(4) The work of a pioneer of the big bang
hypothesis; attitude of the Catholic Church;
COBE satellite
motion in a circle; centripetal
force; capacitance; force as mass
times acceleration; resolution of
vectors
gravitational field; centripetal
force; motion in a circle
molecular kinetic energy; particle
diffraction
motion in a circle; centripetal
force; Newton’s law of
gravitation; waves
Faraday’s law; emf; magnetic
field
Edwin Hubble
Hubble’s trouble over
Filler
Oliver Heavens Feature
Thermal images from
Meteosat
NASA on the Web
Polymer crystals in
everyday life
David Grimes
How old is the
universe?
Roger Tayler
Feature
200% of nothing
A.K.Dewdney
Reading
around
Back page
John Szymanski Physics online
Mary Hill
Feature
Europe at night
Areas and volumes
Seeing atoms
A circuit paradox
Picture page
Steve
Widdowson
Steve Tear
Mathskit
Greville
Bloodworth
Puzzle
Electron images
Feature
Picture page
Mr Tompkins in
paperback
George Gamov Reading
around
The discovery of the
electron
The electron
Electronic systems
Chris Berridge
Feature
John Szymanski Physics online
John Szymanski Feature
6(4) Brief biography of Hubble
6(4) Repair in space of the Hubble Space
Telescope; spherical aberration; parabolic
mirror
6(4) Geostationary orbit; cloud patterns
6(4) A guide to NASA’s home page
6(4) Atomic and molecular structure of
polymers; relationship with physical
properties
6(4) Hubble’s constant; expanding universe;
Cepheid variables; critical density; cosmic
repulsion
6(4) Misuse of numbers, charts and graphs
Newton’s law of gravitation;
motion in a circle
X-ray diffraction; particle
diffraction; probing matter
gravitational field; Newton’s law
of gravitation
6(4) Satellite image showing light pollution in
Europe
6(5) Units of length, area and volume
6(5) How a scanning tunelling microscope works
and what it can be used for
6(5) Two electric bulbs in series can be switched
on and off independently
6(5) Electron diffraction; electron gun; TV
screen
6(5) Mr Tompkins falls asleep during a
university lecture and dreams about physics
– a brilliant read
6(5) J.J.Thomson’s experiments on the electron;
measurement of e/m
6(5) A brief look at electron-related websites
6(5) How the electron has affected society
exponential decay; kinetic energy;
energy levels
series circuit
particle diffraction; probing
matter; line spectrum
force on moving charge;
centripetal force; electric field
potential difference; capacitance;
electric field; resistivity
No parallax ... What’s
real?
Sharp images from xray tubes
Thunder
Steve
Widdowson
John Avison
Try this
Exam talkback 6(5) Production and properties of x-rays
Planck’s law
Liz Swinbank
Feature
6(5) Sound waves in a gas; refraction of sound
A picture is worth a
thousand words
Environmental
radioactivity
Steve
Widdowson
Peter Main
Mathskit
7(1) Gradient of a graph
waves; kinetic energy; refraction;
sound
specific heat capacity
Feature
Loop the loop
Liz Swinbank
Feature
7(1) Concentration of natural radioactivity;
sources of radiation; potassium-40; radon;
oil platforms
7(1) resolving forces; could a sprinter loop the
loop?
Olympic winners need
physics
An optical puzzle
Simon Coleman Feature
The history of physics
and technology
Running on water
Standing waves
Greville
Puzzle
Bloodworth
John Szymanski Physics online
Richard
Marshall
Steve
Widdowson
Yellow light
The Young modulus
Making elements
Steve
Widdowson
Feature
6(5) Real and virtual images
7(1) Sports biomechanics, cycling; shot put;
trampolining
7(1) Forming an inverted image
half life; line spectrum;
radioactivity
motion in a circle; energy
conservation; centripetal force;
resolution of vectors
projectile motion; motion in a
circle
7(1) Pointers to specialist websites
7(1) Model of how basilisk lizards run across
water; Newton’s laws of motion; hydrostatic
pressure
Try this
7(1) Travelling waves on a rope; nodes;
antinodes; modes of vibration
Just a thought 7(1) Light from an electrical discharge and a
glowing filament is contrasted
Exam talkback 7(1) Draw a graph, interpret it and obtain its
slope
Picture page
7(1) Nuclear fusion; nuclear synthesis; binding
energy; supernova
force as rate of change of
momentum
standing waves; interference
Young modulus
kinetic energy
The five biggest ideas in Charles Winn
science
and Arthur
Wiggins
Cantering horses
Reading
around
7(1) Good diagrams and amusing cartoons
enliven this survey of important science
Back page
The Cassini Mission
Peter Main
Filler
Clockwise
The technology of the
internet
Concorde
Correcting long sight
Duxford
Just a thought
John Szymanski Physics online
7(1) The first photographs to show that a
cantering horse has all four legs off the
ground simultaneously
7(2) Spacecraft to Saturn; Huygens probe to
Titan
7(2) How was the direction of clockwise chosen?
7(2) How does the internet work?
John Szymanski Feature
7(2) Pressure; lift; friction; temperature; speed
John Avison
Exam talkback 7(2) Lens formula
Just visiting
7(2) Restoration of historic aircraft; aircraft
museum
The heart of the matter Robert
Feature
7(2) Continuous electron beam accelerator; the
Matthews
strong force; quarks
Heart start
Picture page
7(2) Portable defibrillator
Micromachines of the
David Tolfree
7(2) Making micromachines; X-ray lithography;
future
synchrotron radiation
Mobile robots – Mars or Peter Bateman Feature
7(2) Designing autonomous robots to explore
the High Street?
Mars or collect shopping
Running water
Julia Race
Feature
7(2) Thames Water Ring Main; hydrostatic
pressure; flow rate; pump characteristics
The world’s largest
Back page
7(2) The Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico
radio telescope
The physics of
Tim Akrill
Exam talkback 7(3) Discharge of a capacitor; measurement of
capacitance
capacitance; capacitors in series and in
parallel
Energy in capacitors
Greville
Puzzle
7(3) An electrical circuit in which energy is
Bloodworth
apparently not conserved
Lens; refraction
probing matter
photoelectric effect; capacitance;
diffraction; Planck’s law
discharge curve; series circuit;
emf; capacitance
capacitance
Comets
The Earth’s magnetic
field - insight from
satellites
The physics of
fireworks
Kathy Whaler
Picture page
Feature
Chris Pearce
Feature
Area under a graph
Ripples across the
cosmos - the search for
gravitational waves
Using spread sheet
software to model
physics situations
Trajectories
Carol Tear
Norna
Robertson
Mathskit
Feature
Ken Winn
Computer
simulation
CERN
Electron diffraction
Mark Benson
John Mitchell
Raising the Mary Rose
Christopher
Dobbs and Liz
Swinbank
Liz Swinbank
Optical molasses
Number quiz
Optical tweezers
Optics and glue
Physics of Star Trek
7(3) Halley’s comet; Earth collision simulation
7(3) Internal structure of the Earth; self-exciting
dynamo; MAGSAT satellite; crustal
magnetisation
7(3) Aerial shells; mines; rockets; Roman
candles; the dynamics of a set piece;
Newton’s laws
7(3) Velocity – time graphs
7(3) Sources and detection of gravitational
waves; Michelson interferometer; LISA
experiment
7(3) Simple example of using a spreadsheet;
modelling a simple pendulum
kinetic energy
Faraday’s law; magnetic flux;
magnetic field
force as rate of change of
momentum
constant velocity graph
waves; oscillations; Newton’s law
of gravitation; interference;
superposition
resolution of vectors; oscillations
7(3) Aristotle’s strange idea of the shape of a
trajectory
Just visiting
7(4) Particle physics; LEP; DELPHI experiment
Exam talkback 7(4) Wavelength; measurement of nuclear radii particle diffraction; kinetic
energy; potential difference;
probing matter
Feature
7(4) Sonar; buoyancy; surveying and
preservation
Back page
Miles Padgett
and Kishan
Dholakia
Carol Tear
Feature
Puzzle
Feature
Just a thought
Reading
around
7(4) Nobel Prize; Doppler cooling; waves,
photons and energy levels
7(4) recognising numbers
7(4) Using light to move objects
energy levels; molecular kinetic
energy; Planck’s law
7(4) The action of adhesives
7(4) Book by Lawrence M. Krauss
optics
SCUBA diving
Kerry Parker
Sharing information
What’s the matter?
John Szymanski Physics online
Mike Follows
Feature
Air pressure
7(4) Otto von Guericke’s demonstration at
Magdeburg
Lyn Branson
Exam talkback 7(5) Centre of mass; gravitational force; laws of Newton’s law of gravitation
motion
Gary Tonge
Feature
7(5) Digital compression; digital transmission
Neill Alexander Feature
7(5) Speed and footprints; how fast did dinosaurs
move? Froude number; stride length
Just a thought 7(5) Flow of air near a surface
Cosmology
Digital television
Dinosaur dynamics
Why fan blades stay
dirty
How does water get to
the top of the tree?
The Florence Museum
of the History of
Science
Mars update
Feature
ideal gas law
force on moving charge;
centripetal force; Einstein’s
equation; Newton’s law of
gravitation
Back page
Richard
Marshall
Just a thought
7(5) Evaporation; intermolecular attraction
Just visiting
7(5) Galileo’s thermometer
John Szymanski Physics online
In the kitchen
The Ozma problem
Mark Benson
Try this
Michael Daniel Feature
Proportionality
Steve
Widdowson
Mike Follows
Shooting sparrows in
the dark: a scheme for
7(4) Hydrostatic pressure; pressure and volume;
seeing under water; nitrogen narcosis
7(4) Electronic books
7(4) Properties of dark matter particles; the
forces of Nature; gravity and galaxies;
supersymmetry
Mathskit
Feature
potential energy; specific heat
capacity
7(5) Pathfinder mission; Mars rover, Sojourner;
Mars Global Surveyor; life on Mars
7(5) Viscous fluids
7(5) Difference between left and right; parity; - force on moving charge
decay of cobalt-60; mirror symmetry; weak
force
7(5) kinetic theory
Ideal gas law; Newton’s law of
gravitation
7(5) WIMP detector; evaporative cooling;
momentum conservation; kinetic
dilution refrigeration; elastic collision
energy; specific heat capacity
detecting dark matter
Bright star, dark star
Bright butterflies
First bite
Light from sound
Longitude
Physics on the Web
Peter Vukusic
Back page
Feature
Julian Vincent
Feature
Filler
Carol Tear
Reading
around
John Szymanski Physics online
Radians
Carol Tear and
Elizabeth
Swinbank
Simple as sand
Stop, look and listen
Thermal problems
Ultrasound in nature
Filler
Just a thought
Jonathan Allday Exam talkback
David Pye
Feature
Snap, crackle
Balls in flight
Peter Main
Big wind tunnels
The cattle prod
Electrical problems?
Mark Benson
Ian Power
Flights of history
Galileo’s firsts
Peter Main
Jumping to conclusions Carol Tear
Mathskit
7(5) Black hole sonnet (after Keats); supernova
8(1) wing structure; iridescence; thin film and
Interference; path difference
multilayer interference; colour production
8(1) Food textures; apple; crisps; potato hoops
8(1) Sonoluminescence
Sound; electromagnetic waves
8(1) Dava Sobel; Harrison’s marine chronometer
8(1) Where to start investigating physics on the
WWW
8(1) Degrees; arc length; sector area; simple
pendulum; gradient; rate of change
Force as mass times acceleration;
SHM
8(1)
8(1)
8(1)
8(1)
Waves
Specific heat capacity
Waves; superposition; sound
Back page
8(1)
Feature
8(2)
Back page
8(2)
How it works 8(2)
Exam talkback 8(2)
Picture page
Filler
Feature
Origin of strata in sandstone
Eyes and ears contrasted
Energy transfer
Bats; insect communication; inverse square
law; Doppler shift
Sound analysis using the Multimedia Sound
CD-rom
Stream-line and turbulent flow; Bernoulli
effect; Magnus effect; cricket; golf
Testing the aerodynamics of large aircraft
models
Inductance
Ohm’s law
8(2) Early attempts at flying
8(2) Achievements of the Galileo space probe
8(2) Archimedes’s experiment; possible
conclusions
sound
Parallel circuit; electrical energy
Potential difference; resistance;
parallel circuit; emf; dc circuit
Lami’s theorem
Overcoming resistance
Naomi
Al- Mathskit
Seffar
John Szymanski Feature
Physics is fun
Plane physics
John Szymanski Physics online
Mike Cohler
Feature
Why are bells made of
metal?
Exploring Mars
Just a thought
John Szymanski Feature
Mars Surveyor 98
At the velodrome
John Szymanski Physics online
Peter Main
Feature
Getting one over
Kepler and orbits
Simon Carson
Mathskit
Picture page
Ball games
David Neal
Project page
Twang
Elizabeth
Swinbank
Is your super alloy really Andrew
super?
Rayment
The bow-tie laser
Michael Grafton
Waves and photons
Tim Akrill
Sports projects
The physics of fiddles
Peter Main
Electromagnetic
Stuart Porter
Try This
Feature
8(2) Three forces in equilibrium
Vector addition
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numbers; scientific notation
12(1) Bullets, steel balls and axes smash into glass
12(2) Strategies for juggling 3, 5 and 7 balls;
juggling on a weak bridge
projectile motion; vector
addition; resolution of vectors;
constant acceleration equation;
gravitational field
12(2) Word processing with graphs and pictures
12(2) Mechanical properties of materials;
kinetic energy
elasticity; hardness; texture of food
Richard
Filler
12(2) Force-extension curve; composite material; work done by a force
Marshall
mechanical properties; Hooke’s law
Jonathan Allday Exam talkback 12(2) Ohm’s law; electrical power
internal resistance; current; emf
Picture page
Significant figures
Elizabeth
Swinbank
The Nobel Prize in 1902 Peter Main
Mathskit
Earthquakes
Feature
Allan Mann
Filler
12(2) Bridge for pedestrians and cyclists – the
largest stainless steel arch in the world
12(2) How many figures are significant;
insignificant figures from a calculator
12(2) Discoveries by Lorentz and Zeeman on
atomic structure and the nature of light
12(2) Seismic waves; Hooke’s law; design of
earthquake-resistant buildings
resonance; SHM; kinetic energy;
force as mass times acceleration
Swings and things
Peter Main
Feature
What do you care what
other people think?
H2O
12(2) A common pattern of oscillation is seen in
standing waves on a string and a simple
pendulum; a giant incense burner in
Santiago cathedral uses the same physics
12(2) Comments on Richard Feynman’s book
Peter Campbell Reading
around
John Szymanski Physics online 12(2) The most common chemical on Earth is
water; it comes in rivers, lakes and oceans
and in the form of ice, snow, rain and clouds
The model Danube
Back page
12(2) A 1:80 scale model of the Danube is used to
examine the effect of changing water levels
Raman, renaissance and Averil
Feature
12(3) Examination of textile pigments using
red lead
Macdonald
Raman spectroscopy; CCD detector
Physics and the dentist Susan Street
Feature
12(3) Properties of materials used in dentistry; Xrays; lasers
The electric toothbrush
Boiling an egg
And there’s another
language
Flight 100
Chladni’s plate
Susan Street
and Elizabeth
Swinbank
Peter Main
Ken Zetie
Peter Main
How it works
12(3) transformer; rectifier; AC and DC currents;
diode
Filler
Filler
12(3) Formula giving the time to boil an egg
12(3) The language of physics can be confusing
Picture page
Feature
12(3) History and development of aeroplanes
12(3) Examination of standing waves on square
and circular plates
12(3) empirical laws of physics cannot be proved;
Ohm’s law; Boyle’s law; Hooke’s law
12(3) Moral and political implications of the atom
bomb
12(3) Quantities and units; combination of units
Can we explain thermal Richard
Filler
conduction?
Marshall
Rutherford’s joke?
Peter Campbell Filler
Using units
Elizabeth
Swinbank
Mathskit
standing waves; oscillations
probing matter; line spectrum;
Planck’s law
quantum physics; Planck’s law;
specific heat capacity; Young
modulus; thermal conductivity;
thermal expansion
dc circuit
thermal conductivity
standing waves; resonance
thermal conductivity
atomic energy; nuclear physics;
radioactivity
Measuring acceleration
John Avison
Exam talkback 12(3) Synoptic exam questions on
electromagnetism and dynamics
Presenting data
The Leviathan of Birr
Castle
Terahertz dental
imaging
Science in science
fiction
Ken Zetie
Bernard Taylor
Compukit
Just visiting
Synoptic questions at
A2
Neutrons to the rescue
Mercury
Nuclear fusion
Nobel neutrinos
X-ray vision
Science sites
Styles
The Gateshead
millennium bridge
Flapping around Mars
Hitting a golf ball
12(3) Tables of data in a word processor
12(3) History and restoration of the 72-inch
telescope at Birr Castle, Irish Republic
Back page
12(3) Images formed using electromagnetic
radiation between infrared and microwaves
Jonathan Allday Feature
12(4) Exploration of physical principles in science
fiction; rotational motion; transporters,
phasers and photon torpedoes; geostationary
orbit; Heisenberg uncertainty
John Miller
Exam talkback 12(4) Kinetic theory; thermodynamics; speed of
sound
Max Thompson Feature
12(4) Detection of explosives and land mines;
and Roger
thermal neutron capture; gamma rays;
Rassool
isotopes; elastic collision
Peter Main
Filler
12(4) Mercury – a puzzling planet; ESA mission;
electrostatic engine; general relativity
Picture page
12(4) Tokomac devices
Elizabeth
Swinbank
Elizabeth
Swinbank
Carol Tear
Ken Zetie
John Johnson
Claire Davis
Feature
12(4) Nobel Prize-winning work on solar
neutrinos; fundamental particles
Feature
12(4) Nobel Prize-winning discoveries of cosmic
X-ray sources; X-ray astronomy
Physics online 12(4) Scientific places of interest
Compukit
12(4) Headings, subheadings, fonts and layout
Feature
12(4) The construction and operation of the
award-winning bridge across the Tyne
Back page
12(4) The Entomopter is a flying machine based
on insect flight
Feature
13(1) Elastic collision; hardness of materials;
Magnetic flux; flux linkage;
Lenz’s law; constant acceleration
equation
electromagnetic waves
energy conservation; quantum
physics; potential energy
stationary waves; resonance;
sound
momentum conservation; kinetic
energy; nuclear physics
Einstein’s equation; kinetic
energy; Coulomb’s law
nuclear transformation
Planck’s law
momentum conservation; kinetic
further
Wright stuff
coefficient of restitution
Ken Zetie
13(1) Lots of physics – complete with solution
and information on the answers
Physics online 13(1) Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the
Wright brothers first powered flight
Feature
13(1) The first transatlantic cables; mirror
galvanometer
Compukit
13(1) Formatting data; drawing graphs
Derek Jacobs
Mathskit
Susan Street
Picture page
Feature
Peter WadeWright
Carol Tear
Crossword
Transatlantic
communication
Dealing with
spreadsheets
Large and small
numbers
Medical imaging
Looking into the eye
Bernard Taylor
The perfect lens
Richard
What if?
Marshall
Jonathan Allday Exam talkback 13(1) Exam question on radioactive decay; decay
constant; units; random error
Andrew
Feature
13(1) Properties of materials used in a light bulb
Rayment
and a jet engine
Back page
13(1) Crystals of calcium carbonite form a
compound eye covering most of a brittlestar
Gren Ireson
Feature
13(2) The physics of skulling; improve your
sporting performance
Data analysis
Creep
Brittlestar microlenses
Row your boat
energy; energy conservation;
Young modulus
The Nobel prize 1903
Peter Main
Feature
Crossword
Galileo: man with a
Peter WadeWright
Susan Street
Feature
13(1) Calculating with large and small numbers;
scientific notation
13(1) X-ray; CT; MRI; PET; ultrasound
13(1) The physics of seeing; dealing with optical
defects of the eye; Snell’s law; career in
optometry
13(1) Negative refractive index
13(2) Discoveries by Bequerel, Pierre and Marie
Curie in radioactivity
13(2) Interesting facts about Archimedes, spirals,
the ocean floor and some elements
13(2) Galileo as astronomer and experimenter;
dc circuit; capacitance
nuclear physics
lens; refraction; optics
refractive index; refraction
exponential decay; half life;
radioactivity
Lens
Momentum conservation; energy
conservation; kinetic energy;
work done by a force
Radioactivity
Gravitational field; projectile
mission?
Formulae and functions Ken Zetie
Flight 50 1953-2003
Earth’s magnetic field
Bernard Taylor
Units of measurement
Derek Jacobs
Unstructured questions
Charlie
Milward
Using a digital
spectrometer
Space elevator
Small is beautiful
Nanotechnology
David Neal
Ground-based
telescopes better than
Hubble
A white LED
What time is it?
Advanced graphs:
adding trendlines
Rearranging equations
Supermassive black
John Trux
Carol Tear
laws of motion; heliocentric solar system.
motion
Compukit
13(2) Use of formulae and functions in a
computer spreadsheet
Picture page
13(2) The last 50 years of powered flight; Airbus;
Boeing 747; Concorde; stealth bomber
Feature
13(2) Behaviour of Earth’s magnetic field and
Magnetic field; electricity;
what causes it.
magnetic effects of currents;
Faraday’s law
Mathskit
13(2) Definitions of SI units and reasons behind
their choice
Exam talkback 13(2) Advice on how to tackle unstructured exam Gravitational field; centripetal
questions
force; motion in a circle; parallel
circuit; capacitance
Project page
13(2) Comparison of different light sources; black Electromagnetic waves
body radiation; Rayleigh scattering
Back page
13(2) Going 36000 km into space in an elevator
Feature
13(3) Nanotechnology; micromachines; nanotubes
Physics online 13(3) Nanotechnology research, politics and
controversy
Filler
13(3) Adaptive optics improves the performance
of ground-based telescopes
Peter Main
How it works
13(3) Doped semiconductors; fluorescence
Peter WadeWright
Crossword
13(3) Relative velocity; scale; radiation pressure
Filler
Compukit
13(3) GMT; GPS time; leap seconds
13(3) Lines of best fit in a spreadsheet; multiple
lines on one graph
13(3) Changing the subject of familiar formulae
13(3) Pictures and computer simulations of black
Ken Zetie
Derek Jacobs
Mathskit
Picture page
Electromagnetic waves; energy
levels; Planck’s law
Vector addition; force as mass
times acceleration
Gravitational field; magnetic
holes
Synoptic questions – as John Miller
easy as falling off an
asteroid
On the road
Susan Street
holes at the centre of galaxies; relativity
field; kinetic energy
Exam talkback 13(3) Answering exam questions on gravitational Gravitational field; potential
potential energy
energy
Physics in place
Skipping stones
Filler
Feature
Peter Main
Lightning strikes
upwards
Silicon jaws
Fantastic plastic
The Röntgen memorial
laboratory
Supercool
Bridges
Tips and tricks
Sunspots
Feature
Filler
Back page
Averil
Macdonald
Richard
Marshall
Elizabeth
Swinbank
Carol Tear
Ken Zetie
Comets
Peter Main
Ultrasound waves
Venus in transit
John Avison
Kevin Walsh
Food for thought:
dimensions
Physics in place
Derek Jacobs
13(3) A knowledge of physics may help you drive
more safely; acceleration; friction; cornering
13(3) The search for physics-related place names
13(3) How does a stone skip across water? How
do you maximize the number of bounces?
13(3) Lightning strikes from cloud to ionosphere
Mechanics; centripetal force;
motion in a circle
Force as rate of change of
momentum
13(3) A micromachine that grips single biological
cells
Feature
13(4) Physical properties and design of plastics;
plastic electronics and LEDs
Just visiting
13(4) Röntgen’s X-ray laboratory in Würzburg is
preserved as a memorial to him
Feature
13(4) The 2003 Nobel Prize for superconductivity Quantum physics; resistance;
and superfluidity; electromagnet
waves
Physics online 13(4) Historic, modern, record-breaking bridges
Compukit
13(4) Dates, formatting, useful functions in Excel
Picture page
13(4) Observation and causes of sunspots
Magnetic field; electromagnetic
waves
Feature
13(4) The ESA Rosetta space probe sent to land
Gravitational field
on a comet; gravity; escape velocity
Exam talkback 13(4) Exam question on the use of ultrasound
Waves; reflection
Feature
13(4) Jeremiah Horrocks’s observations on a
transit of Venus; solar system
Mathskit
13(4) Checking formulae and equations by
dimensional analysis
Filler
13(4) The search for physics-related place names
That awful equation
The roof of the world
Extreme diamonds
Derek Jacobs
The path of a light ray
John Avison
Peter WadeWright
Averil
Macdonald
Plastic: pollutant or
saviour?
Uses of lasers
Carol Tear
Filler
Back page
Feature
13(4) Resistors in parallel and series; capacitors
13(4) The Himalayas from space
14(1) Physical properties and formation of
diamonds; synthetic diamonds
Exam talkback 14(1) Snell’s law and total internal reflection
Crossword
14(1) Elements; equilibrium; radioactivity
Deadly dusts
Ian Longley
Researching a topic
Carol Tear
Writing presentations
Foucault’s pendulum
Ken Zetie
Peter Main
Angles and
approximations
Physics in place
Wearable central
heating
Hot times ahead?
Derek Jacobs
Eleanor
Highwood
14(1) Recycling plastics; biodegradable and
natural plastics; fuel cell
Picture page
14(1) Solid state, gas, semiconductor, dye and
excimer lasers; see correction in 14(4)
Feature
14(1) The hazards of dealing with radioactive
dust; Chernobyl
Physics online 14(1) Develop your web skill; how and where to
find information; spam and viruses
Compukit
14(1) Advice on preparing an oral presentation
Feature
14(1) Demonstration of Earth’s rotation using a
simple pendulum; Coriolis force
Mathskit
14(1) Dealing with small angles; solid angles;
why radians? Powers and roots.
Filler
14(1) More physics-related place names
Back page
14(1) Smart clothing that keeps the wearer at a
constant temperature using a phase change
Feature
14(2) Prediction of the Earth’s climate; Earth’s
energy balance; Earth’s surface temperature
DIY climate prediction
Sylvia Knight
Feature
How good is my
Derek Jacobs
measurement?
Particle physics and the Carol Tear
Feature
14(2) A computer model of the Earth’s climate;
energy flow through the atmosphere
Mathskit
14(2) Systematic and random errors; dealing with
small changes
Physics online 14(2) Find out about the work of high energy
Series circuit; parallel circuit
Refractive index; thermal
conductivity; energy levels
Refractive index; reflection
Polarisation; refraction;
mechanics
Electric charge
Energy levels; Planck’s law
Fission; half life; exponential
decay; ionizing radiation
Gravitational field; oscillations;
projectile motion
Convection; energy conservation;
heat radiation; electromagnetic
waves; Stefan’s law
Energy conservation; Stefan’s
law; electromagnetic waves
World Wide Web
Peter WadeWright
CERN at 50
Prize images
Picture page
Elizabeth
Swinbank
Using PowerPoint
animations
The Larderello
geothermal museum
Particle art
The photoelectric effect
Einstein’s physics @
t=100 years
Inkjet printing
Feature
14(2) Lord Rayleigh’s discovery of argon;
Ramsay’s discovery of inert gases; atomic
spectroscopy; density of gases
Jonathan Allday Exam talkback 14(2) Flight of a discus
The Nobel Prize in 1904 Peter Main
Using spreadsheets in
mechanics
Eurekas and Euphorias
Crossword
physics labs around the world; history of
WWW; standard model of particle physics
14(2) Geostationary satellite; ferromagnetic
materials
14(2) History of CERN; proton synchrotron; large
electron-positron collider; large hadron
collider; particle physics
14(2) The 2003 Nobel Prize; magnetic resonance
imaging
Feature
Richard
Marshall
Reading
around
Ken Zetie
Compukit
Richard
Marshall
Just visiting
Back page
Feature
Magnetism; gravitational field;
motion in a circle
Electromagnetic radiation
Magnetism; electromagnetic
radiation; resonance; Planck’s
law
Planck’s law; energy levels
Mechanics; resolution of vectors;
projectile motion
14(2) Review of Walter Gratzer’s book which
describes quirky behaviour leading to
important discoveries
14(2) Advice on how to use PowerPoint
animations; use of sound
14(2) Use of geothermal energy near Siena in Italy
14(2) Tracks of energetic charged particles
Peter Main
14(3) Einstein’s explanation of the photoelectric
effect establishes quantum theory as an
essential part of physics
Carol Tear
Physics online 14(3) Where to find Einstein’s work on Brownian
motion, special relativity, the photoelectric
effect, gravitational waves
Peter WadeCrossword
14(3) Puzzles in interesting physics; archery;
Wright
geology; mirror inversion
Guy Newcombe Feature
14(3) Different designs of inkjet printers and their
Nuclear physics
Electromagnetic waves; kinetic
energy; potential difference;
Planck’s law
Einstein’s equation
Electric field; force on a moving
GPS
Around the world in 90
minutes
Logarithms
Peter Main
Feature
Picture page
uses
14(3) GPS uses atomic clocks, special and general
relativity to determine latitude, longitude
and altitude.
14(3) Views from the International Space Station
Derek Jacobs
Mathskit
The Falkirk Wheel and
other locks
Susan Street
Feature
Using PowerPoint
master slides and
presenting a show
Computer games
physics: projectiles
Ken Zetie
Compukit
Stuart Porter
Feature
Motoring through
synoptic questions
John Miller
Exam talkback 14(3) Electromagnetism; electric motor
Sphaera Mundi
14(3) Definition, properties and uses of
logarithms; exponentials
14(3) Operation of the Falkirk Wheel, the
Anderton boat lift and locks on waterways;
buoyancy; torque; moments; levers
14(3) Advice on formatting slides, producing
handouts and making presentations
14(3) How physics is put into computer games to
make the action look realistic
Gravitational field; motion in a
circle; Planck’s law; energy levels
Mechanics; energy conservation;
potential energy; motion in a
circle
Projectile motion; constant
velocity equation; constant
acceleration equation;
gravitational field
Electricity; current; magnetic
field; magnetic effects of
currents; magnetic flux
Back page
Mountains on Mars
Richard
Marshall
Revision
Carol Tear
Building a bypass
Sue Street
Peter Wade-
14(3) Thirteenth century astronomy book Sphaera
Mundi – sphere of the world
Feature
14(4) Why mountains on Mars are higher than
those on Earth; modelling mountains in the
laboratory
Physics online 14(4) Identify your learning type; revision sites;
animations; tutorials
Feature
14(4) Soil science, density, strength and elasticity;
stress and strain
charge; potential difference
Electromagnetic waves;
gravitational field
Crossword
14(4) Inverse square law; conic sections;
Gravitational field; potential
energy; force as mass times
acceleration; energy conservation
Young modulus; resolution of
vectors; vector addition;
electromagnetic waves
Reflection; electricity;
More logs
Wright
Derek Jacobs
Mathskit
Hovercraft
Carol Tear
Picture page
Brownian motion
Peter Main
Feature
Drawing a conclusion
Ken Zetie
Compukit
Physics under siege
Bob Kibble
Feature
Physics models
Charlie
Milward
Richard
Marshall
Exam talkback 14(4) Use of a spreadsheet model
How to dunk a
doughnut: The science
of everyday life
Magnetic fields
The science of tennis
Reading
around
Elizabeth
Back page
Swinbank
Clare Davis and Feature
Elizabeth
Swinbank
Momentum
Peter WadeWright
Carol Tear
The smallest
electromagnet?
The physics of Wallace
Ian Harding
Crossword
Wheatstone bridge
14(4) The use of logarithms in physics
14(4) History, development and workings of
hovercraft
14(4) Einstein’s theory of Brownian motion
provided the final proof of the existence of
atoms; random walks; Avogadro’s number
14(4) Charts and tables; straight-line graphs;
random and systematic errors
14(4) The physics of a trebuchet; levers
capacitance; resistance
Exponential decay; half life;
capacitance; radioactivity
Coulomb’s law
Energy conservation; projectile
motion; potential energy; kinetic
energy; constant acceleration
equation
dc circuit; resistance; potential
difference; electrical power
14(4) Review of Len Fisher’s book
14(4) Winning entries from the visions of science
photographic competition
15(1) Study of tensile strength and Young
modulus improves tennis racket
performance analysed by equations of
motion
15(1) Refractometer; opal; Hooke; europium
Magnetic field
Young modulus; momentum
conservation; mechanics
Photoelectric effect; refractive
index
Physics online 15(1) Collisions; car crumple zone; safety helmet; Momentum conservation
water rocket; seed dispersal
Filler
15(1) Carbon nanotubes
Magnetic effects of currents;
magnetic field; electricity
Feature
15(1) Newton’s laws of motion; Hooke’s law
Energy conservation; mechanics;
and Gromit
Generating your own
equations
Froghopper insects top
the jumping league
Lateral thinking
Optical fibres
Ken Zetie
Derek Jacobs
No more ether!
Derek Jacobs
Special relativity
Peter Main
Conduction
characteristics
The Millau viaduct
John Avison
Exoplanets
Frazer Pearce
Estimates
Ken Zetie
Charlie
Milward
Strong stuff: Nobel
Elizabeth
Prize 2004
Swinbank
The Nobel Prize in 1905 Peter Main
Frazer Pearce
Carol Tear
15(1) Dimensional analysis
15(1) Mechanism of jumping used by froghopper
insects
Mathskit
15(1) Wave analysis; Fourier synthesis; beats
Picture page
15(1) Total internal reflection; endoscope;
telecommunications
Feature
15(1) Michelson and Morley experiment to
determine the medium through which
electromagnetic waves travel
Feature
15(1) Einstein’s theory revolutionises the concept
of space and time; speed of light; time
dilation
Exam talkback 15(1) Ohm’s law
Force as mass times acceleration;
kinetic energy
Waves
Refractive index
Superposition; interference;
reflection; electromagnetic waves
Electromagnetic waves
Resistance; resistivity
15(1) 2.5 km long cable-stayed viaduct – the
highest bridge deck for vehicles in the world
Feature
15(2) Detection of extra-solar planets; orbits;
Newton’s law of gravitation;
Doppler effect; gravitational microlensing motion in a circle
Thinking
15(2) Number of atoms in a 1p coin; number of
physics
photons leaving a 60 W light bulb; number
of piano tuners in London
Exam talkback 15(2) Collisions; impulse
Momentum conservation; vector
addition
Feature
15(2) Particle physics; strong nuclear force;
quarks; gluons
Filler
15(2) Cathode rays
Photoelectric effect; quantum
physics
Picture page
15(2) Structure of the solar system; Kepler’s laws
How it works 15(2) Magnification; image resolution; size of
Electric field
atoms
Back page
Collision course
Solar system
The field-ion
microscope
Thinking
physics
Filler
momentum conservation
Newton’s law of gravitation
A brief history of atomic Fiona Auty
time
Motors and generators Carol Tear
Root mean what?
Feature
15(2) Atomic clock; time standards
Physics online 15(2) AC and DC motors; 3-phase generator
15(2) Ohm’s law; electrical energy and power;
alternating current
Peter Main
Feature
15(2) Gravitational and inertial mass; gravity
waves; black holes; gravitational lensing
Back page
15(2) An environmentally friendly car that runs on
compressed air.
Martin Barstow Feature
15(3) Spectroscopy; Doppler effect; Wien’s law; Electromagnetic waves; energy
wave-particle duality; white dwarfs
levels
Jonathan Allday Exam talkback 15(3) Single slit diffraction; diffraction grating
Interference; phase; diffraction
Derek Jacobs
Mathskit
Simon Singh
Feature
15(3) Big bang; cosmological constant
A short history of nearly Carol Tear
everything
Big G
Peter Main
Reading
around
Feature
15(3) Review of Bill Bryson’s book
Aurora
Picture page
Crossword
General relativity
The air car
Cosmic fingerprinting
Interference and
diffraction
Einstein: genius?
Explaining yourself
Energy levels; electromagnetic
waves; Planck’s law
Magnetic effects of currents;
magnetic field
Peter WadeWright
Ken Zetie
Kelvin: the man and the Susan Street
temperature scale
Catch a falling star
Elizabeth
Swinbank
Meteorites
Carol Tear
Newton’s law of gravitation;
force as mass times acceleration;
motion in a circle
Magnetic field; energy levels
Energy levels; potential energy;
Einstein’s equation
Temperature of an electrical heater; moving Electrical energy; mechanics
a baby’s pram; cutting cheese; aerodynamic
lift
Thermodynamics; heat; work; energy;
Absolute temperature
Joule-Thomson effect
Meteorite bombardment; terminal velocity; Energy conservation; kinetic
Stokes’s law
energy; potential energy
Meteors; meteorite impacts and craters
15(3) Determination of the mass of the Earth;
spacecraft navigation; early and modern
measurements of G.
15(3) Earth’s magnetic field; Earth’s atmosphere
15(3) Binding energy
Thinking
physics
15(3)
Feature
15(3)
Feature
15(3)
Physics online 15(3)
Einstein’s equation; gravitational
field
Slopes
Derek Jacobs
Lightning
Mathskit
15(3) Distance-time graphs;
Back page
Feature
Light from sound
Tony
Hargreaves
Peter Main
15(3) Lightning strike seen through a diffraction
grating identifies temperature, current and
magnetic field strength
15(4) Thunderstorm; lightning
Feature
15(4) Sonoluminescence; nuclear fusion
The iceman cometh
John Miller
Exam talkback 15(4) Radioactive decay of carbon-14; carbon
dating
Peter WadeWright
Ken Zetie
Crossword
15(4) Mathematical symbols; lead
Thinking
physics
Picture page
15(4) Car braking distance; finance; reflected
sound
15(4) Orbits; Boulby potash mine
Susan Street
Feature
15(4)
Derek Jacobs
Mathskit
15(4)
Antimatter: where is it? Mike Green
Feature
15(4)
Probing the fabric of
space
The world’s biggest
machine
Efficiency drive
Feature
15(4)
Back page
15(4)
Feature
16(1) Understanding energy transfers and using
equations of motion to calculate force and
work help you to become a more efficient
A bolt from the blue
Only calculations will
do
Dark matter
Measuring geological
time
More uses for graphs
William Tobin
Ian Longley
Constant velocity graph; constant
acceleration graph
Magnetic field; electricity;
diffraction
Electric charge; electric field;
capacitance
Standing waves; resonance;
energy levels
Radioactivity; nuclear
transformation; half life;
exponential decay
Newton’s law of gravitation;
motion in a circle; force as mass
times acceleration
Radiometric dating; radioactive series; mass Radioactivity; half life;
spectrometer
exponential decay; kinetic energy
Area under a graph; load-extension graph; Constant velocity graph; constant
Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
acceleration graph
Particle physics; quarks; leptons; atomic
Einstein’s equation
structure; mesons; BaBar experiment
Gyroscope; Foucault pendulum; general
theory of relativity; Gravity Probe B
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN
Energy conservation: constant
acceleration equation; constant
acceleration graph
Physics in place
Significant figures in
experiments and
calculations
Models of the world
H2O: a biography of
water
Earthquake waves
High-energy
communicator
Path of an ion in a
magnetic field
Radioactivity
Electrons: the Nobel
Prize 1906
Restless Earth
Making music
Peter WadeWright
Elizabeth
Swinbank
Bernard Taylor
Ian Lovat
Crossword
Ken Zetie
What is
modeling?
Reading
around
Feature
Mathskit
driver.
16(1) Accelerometer; impact and bounce; 3D
vision
16(1) Place names connected with physics. Hall
effect; tuned circuits; total internal
reflection; induction coil.
16(1) Accuracy; precision; significant figures;
scientific notation.
Radioactivity; reflection
16(1) Mathematical models and approximations;
equations of motion; reflection
Lorna Dougan
16(1) Philip Ball’s excellent book on water covers
a vast range of topics, a lot of it in AS and
A2 physics.
Picture page
16(1) Structure of the Earth; plate tectonics;
Waves
longitudinal and transverse waves.
Kate Bradshaw Working with 16(1) Kate describes her work at CERN as a
Magnetic field; probing matter
physics
science communicator and how she got
there. Particle accelerator.
John Avison
Exam talkback 16(1)
Magnetic field; motion in a circle;
force on moving charge; force as
mass times acceleration
Carol Tear
Physics online 16(1) Alpha, beta and gamma rays; radon;
Radioactivity; half life; ionizing
radioactive waste; carbon dating.
radiation.
Peter Main
Feature
16(1) J.J.Thomson’s discovery of the properties of Force on moving charge;
the electron.
magnetic field; electric field;
force as mass times acceleration;
kinetic energy
Back page
16(1) Structure of the Earth according to René
Descartes and plate tectonics according to
Alfred Wegener
Wendy Sadler Feature
16(2) Musical instruments and recording.
Standing waves; superposition.
Woodwind instruments
Peter WadeWright
Peter Main
Carry on juggling
Ken Zetie
Estimating quantities
Ian Lovat
New lamps for old
Round we go!
Our electricity supply
How to build a galaxy
Step by step
Space mission designer
Power surge for
England games
Glaciers
It’s not all as simple as
it looks
Resonance
Charlie
Milward
Carol Tear
Alan
McConnachie
Ken Zetie
Elizabeth
Seward
Chris Stokes
Peter WadeWright
Ken Zetie
Peter Main
Crossword
16(2) Pressure; hydraulic system; Euclid; Lord
Kelvin; the euro
Feature
16(2) Comparison of the flute, clarinet and oboe.
Bernoulli effect; modes of vibration.
Filler
16(2) Newton’s 3rd law; forces required to juggle
three masses.
Mathskit
16(2) How to estimate the mass of air in a room,
the flow rate of water required to generate
electricity for a village, the height of a tree.
Picture page
16(2) Black body spectrum; tungsten filament;
halogen lamp; LED; fluorescent tube.
Exam talkback 16(2) Newton’s 1st law; friction.
Physics online 16(2) Review of the state of our electricity supply
– use of oil, gas, nuclear, wind, coal, hydro
etc. How to save energy.
Feature
16(2) Evolution of the universe; modelling of
galaxies; dark matter.
What is
16(2) Solving equations of motion; air resistance;
modeling?
spreadsheet calculation; speed/time graph.
Working with 16(2) Elizabeth describes her job and how she got
physics
into it; heat pipe; geostationary orbit.
Back page
16(2) Planning for electrical power surges related
to TV programmes.
Feature
16(3) Mechanism of glacier flow; normal stress;
shear stress; albedo; global warming
Crossword
16(3) Thermodynamics; printing press; Fermi;
sound in a gas; geological time
What is
16(3) Chaos; logistic map; differential equation;
modelling?
spreadsheet calculations
Feature
16(3) Barton’s pendulums; tuned circuit; dragon
basin
Standing waves; resonance.
Planck’s law; energy levels.
Motion in a circle; centripetal
force.
Gravitational field.
Force as mass times acceleration.
Motion in a circle; centripetal
force.
Resolution of vectors; reflection;
heat radiation; conduction
Sound
SHM
Resonance; standing waves;
oscillations; forced vibrations
Dimensions, units and
equations
Steam power
The fingerprint of
fission
Hysteresis or why are
trains more efficient
than trucks?
Centripetal forces
Space weather
Ian Lovat
16(3) SI units; dimensionless constant; ratios;
dimensions in equations
Picture page
16(3) Newcommen; Watt; Rankine; Joule; work;
thermodynamics; heat engine; efficiency;
Susan Street
Feature
16(3) Nuclear power station; isotope; enrichment;
PWR reactor; critical mass; atomic number;
proton; neutron; radioactive waste
Ian Harding
Feature
16(3) Rubber tyres; squash balls; elastic bands;
Hooke’s law; Schmitt trigger; transformer;
force-extension graph; energy losses
Jonathan Allday Exam talkback 16(3) Gravitational forces; electrical force;
magnetic force
Carol Tear
3D mapping
Flight to the stars
Ian Crawford
Saving Huygens
Peter Main
Saturn’s magnetism
Nicholas
Achilleos
Simon Carson
Do you have the
Audacity to experiment
with sound?
Bubbles
Stefan Hutzler
Mathskit
Physics online 16(3) Coronal mass ejection; STEREO mission;
SOHO satellite; aurora; Sun; solar flares;
sunspots
Back page
16(3) Shuttle Radar Topography Mission; remote
sensing; San Andreas fault
Feature
16(4) Mass-energy conversion; antimatter; nuclear
fusion; light years
Feature
16(4) Communications; amplitude modulation;
frequency modulation; digital
communications; Doppler effect; Titan;
spacecraft trajectory
Feature
16(4) Orbital resonance; magnetosphere; gravity
assist
Physics online 16(4) Sound spectrum; frequency analysis; Fourier
analysis
Picture page
16(4) Soap films; surfactant molecules; Newton;
Hooke
Work done by a force; specific
heat capacity
Nuclear transformation; kinetic
energy; atomic energy; half life;
radioactivity; exponential decay
Kinetic energy
Motion in a circle; Newton’s law
of gravitation; Coulomb’s law;
force on a moving charge;
centripetal force
Electromagnetic waves
Nuclear physics; force on moving
charge; Einstein’s equation
Magnetic field; magnetic effects
of currents
Sound; waves; superposition
Interference
Silent sound
Snapping spaghetti
Fuzzy logic
Peter Main
Peter Main
Hazel Lucas
Logarithms
Ian Lovat
More complex models – Ken Zetie
it’s not all about motion
Why tesla?
Derek Jacobs
Answering at length
John Miller
Soap films
Stefan Hutzler
The Channel Tunnel
Susan Street
Technical support
engineer
Paul Smith
What an odd way …
Work done by forces
acting at angles
Podcasting
Derek Jacobs
John Avison
Large hadron collider
Carol Tear
Peter WadeWright
Filler
Filler
Feature
16(4) Infrasound; Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
16(4) Transverse waves; computer modeling
16(4) Binary logic; electronic control system;
exam revision
Mathskit
16(4) John Napier; straight line graph; logarithmic
scale; decay constant; base of logarithm;
orders of magnitude; natural logarithms
What is
16(4) Laplace equation; electric potential; finite
modelling?
element analysis; Mathematica; Matlab;
differential equation; difference equation
Filler
16(4) Alternating current; direct current; Nicola
Tesla; electrical transmission; polyphase
electricity
Exam talkback 16(4) Rockets in space; Newton’s laws;
radioactive decay chain
16(4) Beautiful coloured photographs of soap
films
Feature
17(1) The construction of the Channel Tunnel
made use of lasers, seismic profiling and the
properties of materials.
Working with 17(1) The job of an engineer at Rolls Royce;
physics
overhauling aircraft engines; temperature
measurement; black body radiation.
Filler
17(1) Angles of incidence and reflection.
Exam talkback 17(1) Find the component of the force in the
direction of the displacement.
Physics online 17(1) Getting started with podcasts; RSS feeds.
Crossword
17(1) Mill; hysteresis; Kepler; near Earth objects;
currant bun model of the atom
Picture page
17(1) Quarks; leptons; special relativity; particle
Half life
Electric field; gravitational field
Momentum conservation;
radioactivity; exponential decay;
force as rate of change of
momentum
Back page
Refraction; reflection; sound
Electromagnetic waves
Reflection
Work done by a force; resolution
of vectors.
Magnetic field; magnetic effects
of currents
Einstein’s equation; force on
Lethal dose
Rick Marshall
Feature
17(1)
The throw-in
Peter Main
Feature
17(1)
Sputnik
Peter Main
Feature
17(1)
Exponential changes
Ian Lovat
Mathskit
17(1)
Why are some lawns
stripy?
Derek Jacobs
Filler
17(1)
Back page
17(1)
Tunnel vision
Sailing to the stars
Ian Crawford
Feature
17(2)
Scalars and ectors
Ian Lovat
Mathskit
17(2)
Peter WadeWright
Carol Tear
Crossword
17(2)
Feature
17(2)
Peter Main
Feature
17(2)
Picture page
17(2)
Feature
17(2)
High Speed 1: The
London-Paris highspeed rail link
Nobel Prize in 1907
Big telescopes
Waves and particles
David Chisnall
creation; CMS detector; Atlas detector;
particle collision.
Radiation poisoning of Alexander
Litvinenko due to polonium-210.
A mathematical model of a throw-in uses
Newton’s laws of motion, air resistance and
the structure of the human body.
The launch of Sputnik 50 years ago and
some of its consequences; satellite orbit.
Equations and graph of exponential change,
number e; capacitor discharge.
Patterns on lawns are caused by light
reflecting from grass blades at different
angles.
Grotto of Pausilippo; dioptra; survey of
tunnel route.
Interstellar rockets; equations of motion;
nuclear fusion; antimatter
Resultant of vector addition; multiplying
vectors
Napier; Airy; SI base units; absorption;
formation of an image by a lens
Features of the London-Paris rail link;
engineering challenges; properties of
materials; forces on the track
Michelson interferometer; MichelsonMorley experiment
Resolution of an image; Very Large
Telescope; Overwhelmingly Large
Telescope; luminosity; Square Kilometer
Array
Wave-particle duality; Young’s slits;
moving charge; motion in a circle
Radioactivity; half life.
Projectile motion; resolution of
vectors.
Motion in a circle; gravitational
field.
Radioactivity; half life;
capacitance.
Reflection.
Planck’s law; force as rate of
change of momentum; diffraction
Vector addition; resolution of
vectors
Planck’s law
Centripetal force
Interference
Diffraction
Photoelectric effect; diffraction;
Microscopy
Carol Tear
Physics online 17(2)
Capacitors and their
equations
Pluto the icy dwarf
Charlie
Milward
Susan Street
Exam talkback 17(2)
Out of sight
Feature
17(2)
Back page
17(2)
17(3)
Physics in films
Peter Zezulka
Feature
Something to think
about
Sound synthesis
Ken Zetie
Thinking
physics
Feature
David Howard
Graphs
Ian Lovat
Computer games engine Dinesh
programmer
Mahathevan
Trick of the light
What is an alpha
particle?
Derek Jacobs
Alpha particles and
helium
Carol Tear
Compton scattering; Bohr atom; de Broglie
wavelength; QED
Light microscopy; transmission electron
microscopy; scanning electron microscopy;
scanning tunnelling microscopy; podcasts
Charge and discharge of a capacitor; time
constant; energy stored in capacitor
Newton’s laws of motion; Kepler’s laws of
planetary motion; gravitation; orbital
motion; New horizons space probe
Invention of the telescope and microscope;
Galileo; Leeuwenhoek; Hooke; Schwann
Equations of motion; Newton’s laws;
Speed; Armageddon; Eraser
17(3) Laws of motion; diverging lens; converging
lens
17(3) Music synthesis; speech synthesis; acoustic
modeling; vibrations; pitch; vowels;
frequency
Mathskit
17(3) Straight lines; errors; sketching graphs
Working with 17(3) Collisions; video games
physics
Picture page
17(3) Colour; butterfly wing; iridescence;
photonic crystal; opal
Feature
17(3) Rutherford’s experiments to determine the
nature of alpha particles; electroscope;
radon; radium; helium
Physics online 17(3) Rutherford’s Nobel Prize; liquefaction of
helium by Kammerlingh-Onnes; helium
supply; thermoelectric generator; smoke
coherence; Planck’s law;
electromagnetic waves
Capacitance; exponential decay
Energy conservation; momentum
conservation; kinetic energy;
projectile motion;
Sound; superposition; standing
waves
Exponential decay
projectile motion; reflection;
Superposition; reflection
Radioactivity; magnetic field;
electric field; line spectrum;
electric charge; force on a moving
charge
Maximum power
Out of this world
Practical examination
detector; podcasts
Derek Jacobs
Feature
17(3) Transfer of electrical power from source to
load; alternating current; direct current
Ian Crawford
Feature
17(3) Travel to the stars; special relativity;
Jonathan Allday Exam talkback 17(3) Experiments in electricity
Rogue waves
Electrical power;
Electricity; potential difference;
resistance; emf
Back page
Fission power
Mike Leddy
Nuclear fusion
Carol Tear
Ice cores
Peter WadeWright
Chris Stokes
Standard form and
Ian Lovat
powers of ten
Something else to think Ken Zetie
about
Wembley Stadium
Compact fluorescent
lamps
Pioneers of
electromagetism
John Miller
Neuroimaging centre
science manager
Sam Johnson
Bernard Taylor
17(3) Satellite observations confirm tales of giant
ocean waves 30m high.
Feature
17(4) Energy from fission; chain reaction; fast
Einstein’s equation; nuclear
neutron; thermal neutron; reactor design
physics; nuclear transformation
Physics online 17(4) Joint European torus; JET; International
Fusion
Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor;
ITER; sun; podcast
Crossword
17(4) Napier’s bones; Doppler; Ceres; BoseEinstein condensate
Feature
17(4) Isotopes; electrical measurement; ice age;
electrical conductivity
Mathskit
17(4) Prefixes; significant figures; standard form
Thinking
physics
Picture page
17(4) Friction; centre of gravity
17(4) Retractable roof; longest single-span roof
structure
Exam talkback 17(4) Spectrum; photon energy; power
consumption
Feature
17(4) Law of electromagnetic induction; Michael
Faraday; William Armstrong; dynamo;
transformer; Cragside
Working with 17(4) Magnetic resonance imaging; MRI;
physics
electromagnetic induction; frequency
Motion in a circle; centripetal
force
Planck’s law
Magnetic field; magnetic flux
Magnetic field; magnetic effects
of currents; emf; Planck’s law
Ice
Glass evidence
Hazel Lucas
Back page
Feature
Mirrors: how flat is flat? Derek Jacobs
Filler
Artificial hips
How far away is the
Moon?
Feature
Feature
David Hukins
Peter Main
Tides
Mechanics
Picture page
Refractive index; interference;
phase; refraction; reflection
Waves; reflection; interference
Force as mass times acceleration
Refractive index; gravitational
field; refraction
Gravitational field; centripetal
force
Carol Tear
Physics online 18(1) Speed; velocity; acceleration; Newton’s
laws; power; torque; energy; podcast
Peter WadeWright
Ian Lovat
Crossword
18(1) Bohr; Kirchhoff; sprite; electric eel
Force as rate of change of
momentum; momentum
conservation; kinetic energy
Electric field
Mathskit
18(1) Sine; cosine; tangent; radians; degrees
phase
Measuring and using
angles
Journey to the centre of Susan Street
the Earth
The photoelectric effect John Avison
Earthquake
Clouds
17(4) Robert Hooke; Micrographia; snow crystal
18(1) Forensic examination of glass; Snell’s law;
straight-line graph; phase contrast
microscopy
18(1) Telescope mirror; Rayleigh criterion;
wavelength
18(1) Friction; properties of materials; torque
18(1) Corner cube reflector; retroreflector; tides;
tidal braking; torque; Apache Point
Observatory; general theory of relativity
18(1) Circular motion; inverse square law
Sylvia Knight
Feature
18(1) Traveling wave; density; melting point;
elastic modulus; structure of Earth’s
interior; P and S waves; seismograph;
Snell’s law; Inge Lehmann; temperature;
pressure; diamond anvil
Exam talkback 18(1) Photon energy; work function; power;
intensity; ultraviolet radiation
Back page
18(1) Market Rasen; British Geological Survey;
Richter scale
Feature
18(2) Gas laws; climate; cloud formation; dew
point; latent heat; thermodynamics; weather
Standing wave
Planck’s law; electromagnetic
waves; kinetic energy
Motion in a circle
Snowflakes
Physics for future
presidents
Peter WadeCrossword
Wright
Peter Main
Filler
Richard Muller Filler
18(2)
18(2)
18(2)
front; Coriolis effect
Benjamin Franklin; A. V. Roe; cavitation;
steradian; rope; twine; tensile strength
Crystal growth; ice; temperature; humidity
Essential general knowledge for decision
making; spy satellite; radiation dose; energy
density; critical mass; carbon dioxide;
optical fibre
Lippershey; Galileo; refracting telescope;
reflecting telescope; Hubble telescope;
Aricebo; Jodrell Bank; podcast
Gauss; Humboldt; Earth’s magnetic field;
dip needle
X-rays
Telescopes
Carol Tear
Physics online 18(2)
Measuring the
world
Risk and benefit
questions
Biometric data
Susan Street
Feature
18(2)
Carol Tear
How science
works
Picture page
18(2)
The 1908 Nobel
prize
Rates of change
Peter Main
Filler
Ian Lovat
Mathskit
Simple harmonic
motion
Charlie
Milward
Selling gold
Ken Zetie
Exam talkback 18(2) Displacement; velocity; acceleration;
amplitude; frequency; period; bungee
jumper
Filler
18(2) Mass; weight
Christina Line
Back page
Feature
In the swing
Is anyone out
there?
18(2) Finger prints; speech recognition; DNA
analysis; iris recognition; face recognition;
hand geometry
18(2) Lippmann; Marie Sklodowska; colour
photography
18(2) Straight line graph; gradient of a graph
18(2) Galileo; pendulum clock
18(3) Astronomical distances; light year; parsec;
neighboring stars; Drake equation;
extraterrestrial life
Electrical energy; radioactivity
Lens; refraction; reflection
Magnetic field; magnetic flux
Ionising radiation
interference
Electric field; potential
difference; radioactivity
Oscillations; resonance
Gravitational field; force as mass
times acceleration; centripetal
force
SHM
The tentative
nature of scientific
knowledge
Radiation
protection at
CERN
Particle
accelerators and
detectors
MRI
Uncertainty
Handling data
With a trace
Ready for the chop
Look inside
Deep water
The scientific
community
The cold fusion
story
Carol Tear
How science
works
Sophie Mallows Working with
physics
18(3) Scientific theories change as more
knowledge is gained; models of the atom;
global warming
18(3) Radiation dose
Physics online 18(3) Cloud chamber; bubble chamber; LHC;
CERN; SLAC; ISIS; Fermilab; Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory
Aoife O’Brien Picture page
18(3) Larmor precession; electromagnetic
induction
Jonathan Allday Exam talkback 18(3) Experimental physics; Ohm’s law
Ian Lovat
Mathskit
18(3) Standard deviation; simple pendulum;
combining uncertainties
Sarah Hall and Feature
18(3) Detection of drugs and explosives;
Chris Mayhew
radioactive decay; ion mobility
spectrometer; drift tube; ionization; drag
force; terminal speed
Peter WadeCrossword
18(3) Balanced beam; moment of a force; variable
Wright
star; constellation; RRLyrae star; animony;
Lambert; Franklin; electrical bridge
Elizabeth
Feature
18(3) Speed of sound in solids; density
Swinbank
Back page
18(3) X-ray images
Susan Street
Feature
18(4) Pulse-echo technique to measure sea level;
role of oceans in global warming; expansion
of oceans; black-body radiation
Carol Tear
How science
18(4) Role of scientific community in validating
works
new knowledge; conferences; journals; peer
review
Carol Tear
Feature
18(4) Nuclear fusion; deuterium; tritium;
Fleischmann; Pons; high temperature
Radioactivity; half life
Carol Tear
Magnetic field; resonance
Resistance; current
Radioactivity; electric field
Waves; sound; Young modulus
fusion
Information from
graphs
Data projector
Counting particles
Medical imaging
Ian Lovat
Mathskit
Alastair Reid
Derek Jacobs
Carol Tear
Picture page
18(4)
Feature
18(4)
Physics online 18(4)
Bad hips, hammers
and chips
Stretch and
challenge
Andrew
Rayment
John Miller
Feature
Peter WadeWright
Crossword
18(4)
Back page
18(4)
Sun
18(4)
18(4)
Exam talkback 18(4)
Wave power
AS/A-level courses
Peter Main
Carol Tear
Feature
19(1)
Physics online 19(1)
Safety first
Derek Jacobs
Feature
New power
supplies for a small
village
Colour
John Avison
Exam talkback 19(1)
Carrying out
experimental and
investigative
Carol Tear
Picture page
19(1)
superconductivity
Displacement-time graph; velocity-time
graph; work; area; equations
Colour mixing; spectrum; dichroic filter
Alpha particle; Rutherford; Geiger
PET; SPECT; MRI; CT; ultrasound;
podcast
Stress; force; energy; hip replacement;
force-extension curve
Magnetic fields of planets; emf; current;
energy; capacity of battery
Sunspot; Maunder minimum; infrared
radiation; Herschel; Henry; von Neumann;
astatine; osmium
Structure of the Sun; Sun worship; Mayan
civilisation; Aztec-Mexica civilization;
nuclear fusion
Pelamis wave energy converter.
Exam board websites; AQA; OCR; Edexel;
SHAP; WJEC; podcast on gravitational
lensing.
Residual current device; bimetallic strip;
electromagnetic induction; heating effect of
current; electric circuit; electrical fuse.
Wind turbine; solar cells.
Flux linkage; emf
Interference
Electric field
Faraday’s law
Magnetic field
Fusion
Resonance; work; energy; power.
Electric charge
Series circuit; parallel circuit;
electrical power
19(1) Dispersion; prism; diffraction grating; black Photoelectric effect; refraction;
body radiation; cone cells
diffraction; Planck’s law
How science 19(1) Risks and precautions; safety goggles;
works
vernier calipers; experimental error; parallax
activities
Arithmetic on a
calculator
Mission to Saturn
Peter WadeWright
Crossword
19(1) Etalon; mica; permittivity;
mammoth;leather.
Ian Lovat
Mathskit
19(1) Significant figures; standard form; prefixes.
David Jenkins
Feature
19(1) Inverse square law; flux; Cassini-Huygens
mission; nuclear fission; plutonium
thermonuclear generator.
19(1) Satellite measurements; atmospheric
temperature; UV radiation
19(1) Speed of electric current; Giovanni Aldini;
drift velocity; electric battery.
19(2) Cloud formation; mountain waves; latent
heat; Coriolis effect; planetary waves;
Morning Glory.
19(2) Hardness; Brinell number; material
properties; stress; strain.
Systematic errors
via satellite
Current thinking
Filler
Back page
Waves and weather
Sylvia Knight
Feature
Teeth, temperature,
tests and
techniques
Space exploration
Andrew
Rayment
Feature
Electrostatic
experiments
Water waves
Electromagnetic
induction
The Nobel Prize in
Carol Tear
Physics online 19(2) Sputnik; escape velocity; rocket engine;
Apollo missions; space suit; podcasts
Bernard Taylor Feature
19(2) Versorium; Leyden jar; electrophorus;
Benjamin Franklin; amber.
Picture page
19(2) Ripple tank; breaking wave; transverse
wave; longitudinal wave; speed of wave.
Peter WadeCrossword
19(2) Earth’s magnetic field; Earth’s internal
Wright
structure; bar magnet; Faraday disc;
Feynman diagram; thermal insulation; Lev
Landau
Jonathan Allday Exam talkback 19(2) Faraday’s laws; electromagnetic induction
Peter Main
Filler
19(2) Marconi; Braun; radio communication;
Interference; diffraction; energy
levels; Planck’s law; thermal
conductivity.
Half life; radioactivity
SHM; ideal gas
Young modulus
Gravitational field; momentum;
Newton’s laws
Electric charge; capacitance;
electric current
Refraction
Magnetic field
Magnetic field; emf; magnetic
flux; Lenz’s law; electric field
Electromagnetic waves;
1909
ionosphere; Poldhu Point; cathode-ray
oscilloscope
Aristotle; Galileo; Newton; Einstein; Ohm’s
law; Apollo 15;
Powers; percentages; logarithms; square
roots; reciprocals
William Gilbert; magnetic domains.
Land speed record; Bloodhound SSC;
equations of motion; acceleration; fluid
flow; drag force; properties of materials.
Car suspension; centre of mass; reduced
mass.
Particle accelerator; LHC; mass;
momentum; energy; Paul Dirac.
Equations; reciprocals; substitution.
Theories and models
Carol Tear
Feature
19(2)
Ratios and percentages
on a calculator
Magnetic Earth
1000 mph
Ian Lovat
Mathskit
19(2)
Back page
Feature
19(2)
19(3)
Springs for a smooth
ride
Faster than light?
Derek Jacobs
Feature
19(3)
Chris ones
Feature
19(3)
Using algebra
Ian Lovat
Mathskit
19(3)
Picture page
19(3) Viscosity; laminar flow; Stokes’s law;
upthrust; drag force.
19(3) Bubbles; cracks; screw dislocation; knots;
Wentworth Thompson.
19(3) Electromagnetic induction; capacitor.
Elizabeth
Swinbank
Flow
Communicating ideas
Gravity in context
Radioactivity
Systematic errors
Automobile
Saving lives
Peter WadeWright
Carol Tear
Crossword
Lawrence
Herklots
Gareth Tear
Exam talkback 19(3) Equipotential lines.
How science
works
resonance.
Radioactivity
Magnetic field.
Momentum conservation; motion
in a circle; centripetal force; force
as rate of change of momentum.
SHM; momentum conservation.
Einstein’s equation.
Centripetal force; Newton’s law
of gravitation.
Magnetic field; momentum
conservation; emf; potential
difference; flux linkage.
Gravitational field; Newton’s law
of gravitation; centripetal force.
Radioactivity; exponential decay;
Physics online 19(3) Becquerel; decay chain; radiation
monitoring; podcast
Rick Marshall Feature
19(3) Experimental design; experimental error;
sea surface temperature; satellite
measurements.
Back page
19(3) Leonardo da Vinci; clockwork car; Cugnot
Christina Biggs Feature
19(4) Atmospheric pressure; water pump; turning Specific heat capacity.
moment; lever; equilibrium; radiation flux;
latent heat; solar heating.
Scientific questions
Carol Tear
Space weather
Peter Main
Shapes and angles
Ian Lovat
Peter WadeWright
Lasers
Measuring cells with
light
The web
Magnetoresistance
Using resistivity
Biocavity laser
ET mobile phones
Graphs, intercepts and
gradients
Telescopes: then and
now
Ocean waves
Carbon
How science
works
Feature
Mathskit
Crossword
19(4)
19(4) Van Allen radiation belts; solar wind;
Carrington event; coronal mass ejection;
solar flare.
Photoelectric effect; Planck’s
law.
Magnetic field; magnetic effects
of currents; magnetic force on a
current; Faraday’s law; Einstein’s
equation
19(4) Area; volume; triangle; trapezium; cylinder.
19(4) Réaumur; prism; Leslie’s cube; polymer;
terbium
Picture page
19(4) Population inversion; Boltzmann factor.
Energy levels; phase; periodic
wave.
Pietro Cicuta
Feature
19(4) Photons; optical trap; radiation pressure;
Momentum conservation.
Hooke’s law; red blood cells.
Gareth Tear
Physics online 19(4) Podcast; Tim Berners-Lee; Wikipedia; html
Gareth Tear
Feature
19(4) Electron spin; AMR; GMR; combining
Resistance; magnetic field;
resistances; computer hard disc; spintronics.
Richard Laird
Exam talkback 19(4) Strain gauge.
Resistivity; resistance.
Back page
19(4) Smart scalpel; laser.
Electromagnetic waves;
resonance.
Kevin Mosedale Feature
20(1) Karl Jansky; radio telescope; Jodrell Bank; Electromagnetic waves
bandwidth; flux density
Ian Lovat
Mathskit
20(1) Gradient of a graph
Internal resistance; oscillations;
gravitational field
Peter Main
Feature
20(1) Galileo; Newton; Parsons; Hooker; Hale;
Lens
spherical mirror; parabolic mirror; reflecting
telescope; chromatic aberration; Birr Castle
Tony Butt
Feature
20(1) Linear growth; exponential growth;
Waves
feedback; streamlines
Picture page
20(1) Diamond; graphite; graphene; nanotube;
amorphous; Buckminster fullerene; coal;
Animations
Carol Tear
soot; Harry Kroto; Andre Geim; allotropes
Physics online 20(1) AC generator
Capacitors
Richard Laird
Exam talkback 20(1) Time constant; spreadsheet
Peter WadeWright
Crossword
Why DC?
Derek Jacobs
Feature
The Royal Society
Carol Tear
How science
works
Back page
Feature
20(1) Eddy current; ocean current; turbulence;
tidal bulge; drum; Fizeau; arsenic; Robert
Hare; Marie Curie; density
20(1) Alternating current; inversion
SHM; half life; oscillations;
projectile motion; waves; energy
levels; circular motion
Discharge curve; potential
difference; electric charge
dc circuit; electrical power;
current; resistance
20(1) Fellow of the Royal Society; Newton;
Hooke; Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Moon phases
20(1) Galileo
The ultimate high
Susan Street
20(2) Parachute; falling body; drag force; terminal Force as mass times acceleration
velocity; Newton’s laws; sky diver; base
jumping; glide ratio
‘Wordy’ questions and Jonathan Allday Exam talkback 20(2) Photons; Einstein; Planck; Millikan
Quantum physics; kinetic energy;
deep physics
photoelectric effect; Planck’s law
Graphs, areas and
Ian Lovat
Mathskit
20(2) Hooke’s law; gradient; spring constant;
Work done by a force;
straight lines
gravitational energy; equation of a line; area gravitational field; simple
under a graph
pendulum
Cauldrons in the cosmos David Jenkins Feature
20(2) Nuclear fusion; big bang; isotopes; star
Nuclear physics; Coulomb’s law;
formation; nucleosynthesis; fusion power
resonance
Gas pressure
Picture page
20(2) Boyle’s law; Charles’ law; absolute zero;
Absolute temperature; ideal gas
gas laws; molecular kinetic theory; hot-air law
balloon
Telescopes for today
Peter Main
Feature
20(2) Bolshoi; Keck; Large Binocular Telescope; Refraction; interference
and tomorrow
LBT; active optics; adaptive optics
Peter WadeCrossword
20(2) Chladni; nomogram; pie chart; Greenwich; Resonance
Wright
canal; leech
The winter sky
Carol Tear
Physics online 20(2) Leonid meteor shower; Geminid meteor
Ethical issues
Carol Tear
How science
works
20(2)
Understanding fluids:
Nobel Prize, 1910
Under pressure
Peter Main
Feature
20(2)
Back page
20(2)
Rutherford’s nuclear
atom: 100 years old
What is a ring circuit?
Ian Francis
Feature
20(3)
Derek Jacobs
Feature
20(3)
Electricity
Gareth Tear
Physics online 20(3)
Examining basic ideas
in physics
Going round in circles
Lawrence
Herklots
Exam talkback 20(3)
Chaos and weather
forecasting
Exponential changes
Spreadsheets
Electrical experiments
Picture page
20(3)
Laura Wilcox
Feature
20(3)
Ian Lovat
Mathskit
20(3)
Peter WadeWright
Carol Tear
Crossword
20(3)
How science
works
20(3)
Back page
20(3)
shower; sky chart; lunar eclipse; Doppler
shift; parallax; Hubble; Jodrell Bank
Rights; duties; Marie Curie; radium; TAT;
Chernobyl; Gulf of Mexico oil spill;
Manhattan project; Joseph Rotblat
Van der Waals equation; phase diagram;
gecko; Teflon
Robert Boyle; density; atmospheric
pressure; barometer
Alpha particle scattering; nuclear size
Ideal gas law
Nuclear physics; Coulomb’s law;
energy conservation
Resistors in parallel
Current; resistance; resistivity;
electrical power; magnetic effects
of currents
Electromagnetic induction; static electricity; Capacitance
electromagnetism; tesla coil
Ideal gas
Force as rate of change of
momentum
Circular motion
Centripetal force; Coulomb’s law;
Newton’s law of gravitation;
force on moving charge
Exponential growth; gas laws; Boyle’s law;
Charles’s law; butterfly effect
Differential equation
Radioactivity; half life; discharge
curve; exponential decay
Dip-needle; alum; radium; Babinet;
Centripetal force; motion in a
Newton’s laws of motion
circle
Nuclear fusion; Newton’s cradle
Nuclear physics; exponential
decay; kinetic energy; momentum
conservation
Amber; van de Graaff generator; static
electricity; von Guericke
An asteroid called
Apophis
Exploding stars in the
lab
Interpreting data
Peter Main
Feature
Peter WadeWright
Nigel Woolsey
Crossword
Carol Tear
Spider silk
Young modulus and
written communication
Faster than the wind
Making estimates of
quantities
Revision
Biomimetics
Perfecting the pole vault
Forces and vectors
Physics blogs
The coolest use of
lasers?
Measuring temperature
Enceladus: geysers,
Gavin Reeder
20(4) Orbit; Barringer crater; gravity tractor
Gravitational field; conservation
of energy; Newton’s law of
gravitation
Polarisation
20(4) Biot; Vogel; Bohr; Fermat; Doppler effect;
parallax; transit of Venus
Feature
20(4) Supernova; states of matter; units; plasma; Kinetic energy
power; intensity; energy density; pressure
How science
20(4) Boyle’s law; Avogadro’s law; kinetic theory Ideal gas law
works
of gases
Picture page
20(4) Stress; strain
Young modulus; work done by a
force
Exam talkback 20(4) Mark scheme; graphs
Young modulus
20(4) Energy; power; Newton’s laws of motion
20(4) Triangulation; trigonometry; density; rate of Magnetic flux
change
Carol Tear
Physics online 20(4) Circular motion; study guide
Capacitance; electric field
Back page
20(4) Shark skin; golf ball; swimsuit fabric
Peter Main
Feature
21(1) Material properties
Energy conservation; potential
energy; kinetic energy
Ian Harding
Mathskit
21(1) Parallelogram of forces; components;
Vector addition
caving; rope technique; equilibrium;
trigonometry
Mary
Physics online 21(1) Risk; CERN; Fukushima nuclear reactor;
Whitehouse
Mr Reid; Jon Butterworth
Kevin Mosedale Feature
21(1) Frequency; wavelength; photons; laser
Absolute temperature; kinetic
cooling; Doppler cooling; electromagnetic energy; momentum conservation;
radiation; Bose-Einstein condensate
energy levels
At a glance
21(1) Bimetallic strip; Galileo thermometer;
Thermal expansion; kinetic
molecular kinetic energy; electrical
energy; ideal gas law
resistance; thermal radiation
Daniel Went
Feature
21(1) Infrared radiation; Wien’s law; solar system; Gravitational field
Peter Main
Ian Lovat
Feature
Mathskit
oceans and life
Peter WadeWright
Refraction to the rescue Peter Main
Crossword
21(1)
Feature
21(1)
Transformers
Exam talkback 21(1)
Lawrence
Herklots
Tesla
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21(1)
Helium
Susan Street
Feature
21(2)
Magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI)
Adam Ismail
Feature
21(2)
Vectors in motion
Radiating bodies: the
1911 Nobel prize
Radioactivity
Ian Harding
Peter Main
Mathskit
Feature
The  of A-level
physics
Volcanic ash clouds
Moments and
motorbikes
Why capacitors?
Volcano
escape velocity; Saturn; Cassini; thermal
radiation; tides
Galen; Gay-Lussac; Avogadro; Raman;
rotation; high voltage; emission spectra
Snell’s law; total internal reflection; optical
fibre; inverse square law; SOFAR;
underwater acoustics; deep sound channel
Electromagnetism; flux density; induced
emf; frequency; eddy currents
Electromagnetism; alternating current;
Faraday’s law; direct current
Superconductivity; BCS theory; Cooper
pairs; electromagnet; isotopes; superfluid
Precession, Lamor frequency;
superconducting magnet
21(2) Components; parabola; symmetry
21(2) Black body; Wien’s law; thermal radiation;
colour temperature
At a glance
21(2) Becquerel; Marie Curie; decay rate; gamma
camera
Susan Street
Filler
21(2) Alpha particles; beta particles; gamma rays;
electric permittivity; viscosity; wavelength;
electrical conductivity
Carol Tear
Physics online 21(2) Volcano; LIDAR
Jonathan Allday Exam talkback 21(2) Moment of force; equilibrium
Planck’s law
Optics; refraction
Flux linkage
Electricity
Absolute temperature;
radioactivity
Resonance; magnetic field;
energy levels; magnetic flux;
Planck’s law
Projectile motion
Radioactivity; half life; Einstein’s
equation; magnetic field
Half life; resistivity; magnetic
flux; resistance
Work done by a force
Derek Jacobs
Feature
Peter WadeWright
Crossword
21(2) Energy; charge; resistor; electric
Capacitance; potential divider; dc
permittivity; alternating current; impedance circuit; exponential decay
21(2) Optical lever; Galileo; Bethe; Crookes tube Fusion; Einstein’s equation
Back page
21(2) Magma
Projectile motion
Superstorm
Susan Street
Feature
Tracking particles
Richard Laird
Feature
The Nobel Prize in
physics
Carol Tear
Going nuclear
Carol Tear
Physics online 21(3) Röntgen; Thomson; de Broglie; Davisson;
electron; X-ray; Ig Nobel Prize; Geim;
Berry
Feature
21(3) Global warming; nuclear power;
Fukushima; radioactive waste; uranium;
plutonium
At a glance
21(3) Faraday; ferrofluid
Mathskit
21(3) Precision; accuracy; average value;
uncertainty; error
Crossword
21(3) Gilbert; Voltaic cell; Pitot tube; Bernoulli’s
equation
Magnetic fields
Uncertainty
Ian Harding
Peter WadeWright
Gauging the strain
Andrew
Rayment
Analysing the motion of Gurinder
a skydiver
Chadha
Matter and antimatter
Wind and sea turbines Derek Jacobs
Nuclear astrophysics
research and Outreach
X-ray diffraction
The Olympic games
2012
21(3) Sunspot; aurora; plasma; Herschel; corona;
Kirchhoff; Carrington; space weather
21(3) Bubble chamber; Donald Glaser
Feature
21(3) Stress; strain; plastic deformation;
Wheatstone bridge
Exam talkback 21(3) Drag force; skydiver; air resistance
Back page
Feature
21(3) Anderson; positron
21(4) Power; density; efficiency; rotational
energy; Strangford Lough; SeaGen
Yvette Hancock Working with 21(4) Charged particles; particle accelerator;
physics
nuclear fusion; nucleosynthesis
Peter Main
Feature
21(4) Crystal structure; Bragg; von Laue;
Moseley; Bragg’s law; atomic number;
spectroscopy
Carol Tear
Physics online 21(4) Sports science; infrared spectroscopy; sports
engineering; photo finish
Magnetic field; line spectrum
Magnetic field; momentum
conservation; energy
conservation; force on moving
charge; Einstein’s equation
Nuclear physics; radioactivity;
fission; Einstein’s equation
Magnetic field; magnetic flux
Magnetic field; electric field;
Coulomb’s law; Newton’s law of
gravitation
Young modulus; resistance;
resistivity
Kinetic energy; energy
conservation
Magnetic field; force on moving
charge
Electromagnetic waves; path
difference; interference; Planck’s
law; energy levels
Forces; levers
Forces at the Olympic
Park
Dating teeth
Identifying and
explaining physics ideas
Logarithmic graphs
At a glance
21(4) Equilibrium; moments; truss; tension;
compression
Susan Street
Feature
21(4) Isotopes; mass spectrometry; circular
motion; decay constant; archaeological
science
Andrea Gostick Exam talkback 21(4) Velocity-time graph; inelastic collision
Resolution of vectors; vector
addition
Force on moving charge;
magnetic field; exponential
decay; half life; radioactivity
Electric field; potential difference
Peter WadeWright
Ian Harding
Young modulus
Diffraction
Crossword
Mathskit
Back page
1777 variables + 100
years
Ian Francis
Feature
Measuring molecular
forces
Wet sand
Lorna Dougan
Feature
Peter Main
Filler
The number e
Ian Harding
Mathskit
Electric charge and
current
A bright idea: lumens,
light bulbs and
illuminance
Do NOT try this at
home: the Leidenfrost
effect
At a glance
Susan Street
Feature
Peter Main
Feature
21(4) Thomas Young; energy; Rosetta Stone;
cipher
21(4) Powers; logs; bases; decibels; log-linear
graph; log-log graph
21(4) Thomas Young; double slit experiment;
iridescence
22(1) Cepheid variable; inverse square law;
astronomical distance; logarithmic graph;
luminosity; standard candle
22(1) Hooke’s law; atomic force microscope;
piezoelectric crystal; protein structure
22(1) Total internal reflection; Snell’s law; critical
angle
22(1) Logarithmic spiral; polar coordinates; loglinear graph; radioactive decay; gradient;
differential equation
22(1) Amber; voltaic pile; Geissler tube; J. J.
Thomson; plasma; ionic liquid; Alessandro
Volta; Benjamin Franklin
22(1) Temperature; inverse square law; lowenergy bulb; photometry; solid angle;
illuminance
22(1) Molten lead; liquid nitrogen
Electromagnetic waves
Refraction; refractive index
Radioactivity; half life
Electric charge
Conduction; heat radiation;
convection
The sound of music
Radioactive decay
Carol Tear
Peter WadeWright
Lawrence
Herklots
Robert Hooke
The Milky Way: A
rough guide
Little Boy: The atomic
bomb that destroyed
Hiroshima
Getting lucky: the
Boltzman factor f =
exp(-/kT)
Classifying galaxies
Physics online 22(1) Chladni plate; violin string; transverse wave
Crossword
22(1) Riprap; Morse code; chromatic aberration;
diverging lens; seismograph
Exam talkback 22(1) Potassium 40; seivert; anti-neutrino
Back page
Kevin Mosedale Feature
Richard Lees
Feature
Jon Ogborn
Feature
22(1) Elasticity; Chladni plate; louse; microscope;
Hooke’s law; Micrographia
22(2) Wien’s law; Doppler shift; spiral galaxy;
temperature; Galileo Galilei
22(2) Chain reaction; mass deficit; Enola Gay;
binding energy; nuclear fission; strong
nuclear force; critical mass
22(2) Brownian motion; thermodynamics;
activation energy
22(2) Hubble; elliptical galaxy; spiral galaxy;
Andromeda galaxy; lenticular galaxy
Solar events
Carol Tear
Physics online 22(2) Sunspot cycle; space weather; eclipse;
aurora borealis; solar flare; geomagnetic
storm
The Nobel Prize in 1912 Peter Main
Filler
22(2) Sun valve; acetylene; Dalen; AGA cooker
Equations of motion:
Ian Harding
Mathskit
22(2) Differentiation; speed; velocity;
introducing differential
acceleration; integration; differential
equations
equation; derivative
Cells and internal
Jonathan Allday Exam talkback 22(2) Car battery
resistance
Peter WadeCrossword
22(2) Sirius; Egyptian calendar; gravitational red
Wright
shift; symmetry
Extraterrestrial life?
Back page
22(2) Pioneer spacecraft
A physics teacher in
Roussel de
Feature
22(3) Windchill; ultraviolet radiation; sunscreen;
Antarctica
Carvalho
photon energy; insulation; ozone hole
Standing wave
Magnetic effects of currents;
refraction
Einstein’s equation; half life;
kinetic energy
Line spectrum; energy levels
Nuclear physics; Einstein’s
equation; Coulomb’s law
Kinetic energy
At a glance
Thermal expansion
Potential difference; electricity;
internal resistance; emf
Planck’s law
How not to do a tensile Andrew
test
Rayment
Shining Diamond Light Mark Hodson
on the environment
Atoms
Feature
Feature
22(3) Stress-strain graph; tensile strength; strain
22(3) Particle accelerator; electron; synchrotron;
X-rays
At a glance
22(3) Atomic structure; Democritus; Dalton;
Chadwick; Bohr; Becquerel; Thomson;
Einstein; Rutherford; STM
Interference and
Gareth Tear
Physics online 22(3) Wave-particle duality; Young’s double slits;
diffraction
DNA structure; de Broglie wavelength
Crystal physics
Christina Biggs Feature
22(3) Quartz; zeolite; crystal lattice; symmetry;
minerals; radioactive waste
Arithmetic without a
Ian Harding
Mathskit
22(3) Approximation; binomial expansion;
calculator
squaring
Peter WadeCrossword
22(3) Pencil; parity; particle spin; utopia
Wright
The photoelectric effect Andrea Gostick Exam talkback 22(3) Electroscope; ultraviolet radiation; photon
energy; work function
Ice
Back page
22(3) Igloo; Inuit village; ice hotel
Ohm’s law on a volcano Gillian Turner Feature
22(4) Ohm’s law; volcano; crater lake; tephra
and Malcolm
Ingham
Electricity and circuits Carol Tear
Physics online 22(4) Richard Feynman
Time to move on
Susan Street
Feature
Space elevator
Peter Main
Feature
Bohr’s atomic model
At a glance
Electromagnetic waves; kinetic
energy
Waves; superposition; X-ray
diffraction
Photoelectric effect; Planck’s law
Resistivity; resistance; probing
matter
Potential difference; emf;
potential divider; internal
resistance
22(4) Time zone; GMT; GPS; atomic clock;
Oscillations; energy levels;
caesium; leap second; solar day
Planck’s law
22(4) Circular motion; geostationary orbit; carbon Gravitational field; centripetal
nanotube; equilibrium
force; Newton’s law of
gravitation; energy conservation;
kinetic energy
22(4) Bohr; Rutherford; Planck constant; atomic Energy level
spectra; photon; de Broglie; quantum
Examining capacitors
The Higgs boson: a big
day for physics
Using trigonometry
Ohm
Physics in forensics
Taking physics further:
a university student’s
view
Who wins in a tug of
war?
Algebra
mechanics; angular momentum
Exam talkback 22(4) Capacitor; capacitance; time constant
Gurinder
Chadha
Jonathan Allday Feature
Ian Harding
Mathskit
Peter WadeWright
Crossword
Tony
Hargreaves
Charlotte Boig
Ken Zetie
Ian Harding
Diffraction
How hard?
Temperature
Andrew
Rayment
Carol Tear
Peter WadeWright
Understanding velocity- Gurinder
Back page
Feature
Feature
22(4) LHC; CERN; particle physics; data analysis;
Higgs boson; standard model; fermion;
quark; lepton; symmetry breaking; ATLAS;
CMS; gluon; graviton; photon
22(4) Trig point; triangle; sine rule; Pythagoras’s
theorem: cosine rule; tangent; hypotenuse
22(4) Ogam; conservation law; symmetry; parity
Resistance; exponential decay
Einstein’s equation
Resolution of vectors; force on
moving charge
Einstein’s equation
22(4) Ohm’s law; circuit equations
23(1) Microscopy; de Broglie wavelength; X-ray
emission
23(1) Experience of physics; choosing physics
Feature
23(1) Force diagram; free body diagram; friction;
Newton’s laws of motion; vector resolution
Mathskit
23(1) Equations; Ohm’s law; work function;
stopping potential
At a glance
23(1) Electron diffraction; Bragg; Laue; Young’s
slits
Feature
23(1) Stress; hardness; yield strength; stainless
steel
Physics online 23(1) Kelvin; Joule; Rumford; negative
temperature
Crossword
23(1) Dr. Who; Carl Sagan; jet stream; James
Jeans; angular momentum; moment of
inertia; special relativity; twin paradox;
logic
Exam talkback 23(1) Acceleration; gradient
dc circuit; photoelectric effect;
Planck’s law; internal resistance
X-ray diffraction; waves; phase;
coherence
Kinetic energy
Gravitational field; kinetic energy
Force as mass times acceleration
time graphs
Chadha
Algebra, astronomy,
alchemy
Roche de los
Carol Tear
Muchachos Observatory
Graphene
Bloodhound SSC
Revised
Carol Tear
Ian Galloway
How do microphones
work?
Sound
Jez Wells
The Nobel Prize in
1913: superconductivity
Explaining
electromagnetic
induction
Radians
Peter Main
Lawrence
Herklots
Back page
23(1) Al-Khwarizmi, al-Sufi, Jabir ibn Hayyan,
Orion
Feature
23(2) Cassegrain reflecting telescope; William
Herschel telescope; spectrum; spectrograph;
adaptive optics; Whirlpool galaxy
Physics online 23(2) Andre Geim; manipulating atoms
Feature
23(2) Supersonic speed; Mach number; power;
sound barrier; shock wave; velocity;
acceleration; temperature; speed of sound
Feature
23(2) Pressure microphone; pressure gradient
microphone; phase difference
At a glance
23(2) Longitudinal wave; pitch; frequency;
spectrogram; harmonics
Feature
23(2) Temperature; Heike Kamerlingh Onnes;
interatomic potential
Exam talkback 23(2) Induced emf;
Ian Harding
Mathskit
Peter WadeWright
Crossword
Aerogel
An introduction to
fusion energy
Nigel Woolsey
Platinum
Fracking
Susan Street
Carol Tear
Defining the kilogram
Susan Street
Back page
Feature
23(2) Angular measurement; equilateral triangle;
Babylonians; arc; chord; angle
23(2) Periodic table; Mayer; Leo Minor; Boolean
algebra; universal time; Earth precession
23(2) Density; graphene; carbon nanotube
23(3) Binding energy; sustainable power source;
plasma; deuterium; tritium
Feature
23(3) Thermoelectric effect; thermocouple
Physics online 23(3) Hydraulic fracturing; shale gas; geological
survey
Feature
23(3) Electromagnetic force; watt balance
Reflection; diffraction;
interference; optics
Work done by a force
Waves; sound; phase
Waves
Ideal gas law; potential energy
Magnetic flux; flux linkage
SHM
Thermal conductivity
Nuclear physics; fusion; nuclear
transformation; Einstein’s
equation
Thermal conductivity; resistivity
Planck’s law; magnetic effects of
currents; magnetic field
The Sun
At a glance
Rollercoasters
Jessie Durk
Feature
Simple harmonic
motion
Rick Marshall
Mathskit
Timing
Stars and atoms
The long jump
All torque
Force and torque
Ratios
The Herschel family
Warming the young
Earth
Cosmology
Fundamental particles
Meteorite impact
23(3) Hertzsprung-Russel diagram; black body
radiation; sunspot; Fraunhofer lines; solar
eclipse; solar corona
23(3) Circular motion; g-force
23(3) Circular motion; angular frequency;
dimensional analysis
Peter WadeCrossword
23(3) Centre of gravity; centre of percussion;
Wright
Segrè; sidereal time
Jonathan Allday Exam talkback 23(3) Log-log plot; gradient of graph; outlier
Back page
23(3) Eddington; general relativity; stellar
structure
Peter Main
Feature
23(4) Momentum; centre of mass; equation of
motion; impulse
Andrew
Feature
23(4) Torsion, optical extensometer
Rayment
Filler
23(4) Strain; couple; compression; extension;
rotational dynamics; equilibrium; torsion
Ian Harding
Mathskit
23(4) Stress; strain; proportion; paper size
At a glance
23(4) Saturn; Uranus; infra-red radiation;
fingerprint
Susan Street
Feature
23(4) Reflectivity; greenhouse effect; drag force;
atmosphere; albedo; raindrops
Jan Hatherell
Exam talkback 23(4) Hubble constant; red shift; age of the
universe; galaxies
Carol Tear
Physics online 23(4) Quarks; Higgs boson; leptons; Gell-Mann;
CERN; ATLAS; CMS
Peter WadeCrossword
23(4) Airy; gelignite; Hall effect; pictogram;
Wright
transistor; logic circuit
Back page
23(4) Chelyabinsk meteoroid; impact crater
Elecromagnetic waves; magnetic
field
Energy conservation; kinetic
energy; potential energy;
centripetal force; force as mass
times acceleration
Oscillations
Projectile motion; resolution of
vectors
Young modulus
Electromagnetic waves
Kinetic energy
Q is for quasar
Ian Francis
Feature
Energy recovery in
Formula One
Finding answers
Vectors in action
The Forth Road Bridge
Building bridges
Ken Zetie and
Tom Weller
Carol Tear
Ian Harding
Feature
24(1) Red shift; spectrum; black hole; Hubble’s
law; Big Bang; Steady State
24(1) Power; acceleration; thermodynamics; kers
Physics online
Mathskit
At a glance
Crossword
24(1)
24(1)
24(1)
24(1)
Fermi problems
24(1) Enrico Fermi; estimation; order of
magnitude; exoplanets
Kevin Mosedale Feature
24(1) Chain reaction; nuclear fission; uranium;
radioactive waste; reaction cross-section;
thermal neutron; isotope
Gurinder
Exam talkback 24(1) Energy of electron
Chadha
Thorium: the way
forward for nuclear
fission?
Motion of electrons in
electric and magnetic
fields
Nuclear transport
Peter WadeWright
Andy Connelly Feature
Back page
Cosmic microwaves
Peter Main
BICEP2
Jonathan Allday Feature
Vectors in flight
Ian Harding
Physics on a tightrope
Andy Connelly Feature
Seeing the light
Feature
Mathskit
At a glance
Units; definitions; WolframAlpha; graphs
Trigonometry; mechanical advantage
Suspension bridge;
Catenary; arch; cement; rift valley
24(1) Thorium-powered car; nuclear-powered
ship; nuclear-powered rocket
24(2) Big Bang; temperature of space; Wien’s
displacement law; theory of radiation;
COBE; WMAP; CMB; evolution of the
universe; Planck’s theory of radiation
24(2) Expansion of the universe; CMB; cosmic
inflation; gravity waves
24(2) Quadratic equation
Energy conservation; kinetic
energy
Resolution of vectors
Nuclear physics; nuclear
transformation; fission
Electric field; magnetic field;
force on moving charge
Electromagnetic waves; Plank’s
law
Polarisation; electromagnetic
waves
Projectile motion; resolution of
vectors; force as mass times
acceleration
24(2) Newton’s laws of motion; centre of gravity;
angular momentum; moment of inertia;
rotational motion
24(2) William Herschel; Hertz; Einstein;
Photoelectric effect;
The Nobel prize in
Peter Main
1914: Diffraction of Xrays
Fibres, fluids and Fermi Peter WadeWright
Digging the dirt with
Mark Hodson
diffraction
Feature
Seeing inside the body
Carol Tear
Physics online
A2 radioactivity
Internal reflections
kB: the Boltzmann
constant
Acceleration: where
does it all end?
Large and small
numbers
Richard Feynman
Jonathan Allday Exam talkback
Back page
Susan Street
Feature
Crossword
Feature
Derek Jacobs
Feature
Ian Harding
Mathskit
Carol Tear
Physics online
Richard Feynman’s
legacy
Forces and particles
Rick Marshall
Feature
Analogue computing
Ian Harding
Feature
Circular motion
Jan Hatherell
Exam talkback
Nuclear physics and
Peter Wade-
Crossword
At a glance
Maxwell; Thomas Young; Newton;
electromagnetic spectrum
24(2) Max von Laue; relativity; Fizeau; Nobel
prize gold medal
electromagnetic waves;
diffraction
X-ray diffraction; electromagnetic
waves
24(2) Hygrometer; gold; relative humidity;
Maxwell; viscoelastic material
24(2) Huygen’s construction; diffraction grating; X-ray diffraction; path difference;
Bragg’s law; earthworms; contaminated soil phase; waves; superposition;
interference
24(2) X-ray photograph; CT scan; PET scan;
X-ray diffraction
SPECT; barium meal; MRI; ultrasound
24(2) Decay constant; carbon 14
Half life; exponential decay
24(2) Total internal reflection; optical fibre
Refraction
24(3) Gas laws; temperature; Maxwell-Boltzmann Molecular kinetic energy;
distribution; Avogadro constant; SI units
absolute temperature
24(3) Acceleration; jerk; slope of graph;
Constant velocity graph
centripetal acceleration
24(3) Scientific notation; exponent; place value;
photon energy; joule; eV
24(3) Nobel Prize; Challenger disaster; double slit Newton’s law of gravitation
experiment; Feynman diagram
24(3) Feynman diagram; Challenger disaster;
Quantum physics
nanotechnology; QED; Nobel Prize
24(3) Intermolecular forces; latent heat; surface
Work done by a force
tension; pond skater
24(3) Equation of motion; operational amplifier; Dc circuit; resistance;
feedback; harmonic oscillator
capacitance; SHM
24(3) Normal contact force; Newton’s laws of
Centripetal force
motion; free body force diagram; London
Eye;
24(3) Pythagoras; Ohm; Hahn; natural scale;
Nuclear physics
natural laws
Rings
Wright
golden ratio; pentagram
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24(3) Saturn’s rings; Cassini spacecraft; ring
nebula; Voyager spacecraft, orbital motion
The world of exoplanets Andrew Proctor Feature
24(4) Centre of mass; radial velocity; orbital
motion; transit; spectrum; Kepler mission;
Doppler shift
Worldly wobbles
Peter Main
Feature
24(4) Rotational motion; precession; moment of
inertia; nutation; Chandler wobble; Earth
orientation; length of day
Wave superposition
Lawrence
Exam talkback 24(4)
Herklots
Going large
Peter WadeCrossword
24(4) Imhotep; pyramid; programming language;
Wright
tree diagram; cellulose; lignin; transpiration;
capillarity
Orders of magnitude
Carol Tear
Physics online 24(4) Fermi problems; scale of the universe;
powers of ten; estimation
Lightening
At a glance
24(4) Charge separation; point discharge; shock
wave
Going further: electrical Ken Zetie
Feature
24(4) Chemical energy; electrical cell; octane;
versus fuel-powered
cathode; anode; air battery
vehicles
Testing tough
Andrew
Feature
24(4) Potential energy; pendulum; materials
Rayment
science; Charpy impact test; brittle fracture
James Prescott Joule
Who were
24(4) Mechanical equivalence of heat; energy;
1818-89
they?
heating effect of electric current
Graphs
Ian Harding
Mathskit
24(4) Scale of graph; slope of graph; HertzsprungRussell diagram; best-fit line
Fractals
Back page
24(4) Fractal dimension; Mandelbrot set; brittle
fracture
The case of the dodgy
Michael
Feature
25(1) Radiation pressure; inverse square law;
bomb detectors
Sutherland
probability; ADE-651
Gravitational field
Standing waves; waves; node;
antinode; wavelength
Potential difference; current;
electric field
Potential energy
Energy conservation
Electromagnetic waves; Planck’s
law; force as rate of change of
momentum
Supersonic skydive
Peter Main
Feature
Numbers count
Derek Jacobs
Skillset
Rail stress
David Bean
Feature
Supporting structures,
improbability and
nuclear physicists
25 years on
Peter WadeWright
Crossword
Silver
Carol Tear
Georg Simon Ohm
1789-1854
Tackling an unfamiliar
electrical question
Trojan asteroids
Gurinder
Chadha
Susan Street
25(1) Archimedes’ principle; float height;
equation of motion; computer simulation;
spreadsheet calculation; helium balloon
25(1) Practical physics; timing errors; fractional
error
25(1) Stress; strain; continuously welded rail
thermal stress
25(1) Stress; buttress; probability;
thermodynamics; nerve impulse
25(1) Communications; astronomy; particle
physics; X-ray emission; ozone layer
Physics online 25(1) Electrical conductivity; touch screen;
geology; photovoltaic cell; photography
Who were
25(1) Ohm’s law
they?
Exam talkback 25(1) Drift velocity; number density
Ideal gas law
Thermal expansion; Young
modulus
At a glance
Feature
Logarithms
Ian Harding
25 years of PHYSICS
REVIEW
Tsunami: what gives the Peter Main
waves their power?
The Rosetta space
Jonathan Allday
mission
Mathskit
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Metals, machines and
models
Experiments with light
Crossword
Peter WadeWright
Ian Harding
Feature
Feature
Skillset
25(1) Lagrangian points; planetary orbit; solar
system
25(1) Power law; log-log graph
25(1) Medical imaging; mobile communications
25(2) Conservation of energy; power; subduction
zone; water wave; earthquake
25(2) Solar system; comet; inverse square law;
isotopes; Philae; Oort cloud; Kuiper belt;
slingshot
25(2) Neptunium; tellurium; gold; Carnot cycle;
adiabatic expansion; isothermal expansion
25(2) Double slit; wave-particle duality;
incoherence
Photoelectric effect
Resistance; resistivity; electrical
power
Newton’s law of gravitation;
circular motion
Waves; kinetic energy
Diffraction; interference; phase;
path difference
The Hubble space
telescope
Looking through
telescopes
Carol Tear
Helium-3
Ken Zetie
At a glance
Fusion, fission and
Jan Hatherell
radioactivity
Max Planck 1858-1947
Using natural
logarithms
The Nobel Prize in
1915: X-ray
crystallography
Helium
Physics online 25(2) Westerlund
Feature
25(2) Galileo, Whirlpool galaxy, Mount Wilson,
Orion nebula, Cerro Tololo, deep field,
James Webb
25(2) Nuclear fusion; isotope; deuterium; energy
Exam talkback 25(2)
Nuclear physics; ideal gas law;
radioactivity
Nuclear fusion; deuterium; tritium; mass
Einstein’s equation; radioactivity;
deficit; conservation of momentum; plasma kinetic energy; half life
Quantum theory; electromagnetic radiation;
max Planck Institute
Log-linear graph; radioactive decay;
Half life
capacitor; gradient
Bragg’s law; crystal structure; spectrometer; Planck’s law; diffraction
characteristic radiation
25(2)
Ian Harding
Who were
they?
Mathskit
Peter Main
Feature
25(2)
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25(2) Radioactive decay
25(2)
Line spectrum