ASUnit2_2008_09

= AS Unit 2 : PHYA2 : Mechanics, Materials and Waves =

This page supports the lessons for the second unit of the year 12 AS qualification:


 * **Lesson** || **Date** || **Notes** || **Resources & Links** ||
 * **0** || **0** || **Prerequisites**

The following links and videos will help to refresh the skills you will need during this unit:

[|Rearranging Equations] [|Rearranging Formulae 1] [|Basic Trigonometry] ||  || Mechanics Mindmap : 10 rules for numerical problems : Course book : || Question Sheet 01 :
 * 1 || 08/09/2008 || Unit introduction and revision || Unit 2 Mindmap : [[file:PHYA2.pdf]]
 * ? || ? || lesson(s) on basic speed calculations, acceleration calculations, distance/time and speed(velocity)/time graphs **appear not to be required** ||  ||
 * 2 || 12/09/2008 || SUVAT Equations Introduction || Lesson PowerPoint :[[file:L02_AS2_2008_09_SUVAT.ppt]]

Workings Out : || Question Sheet 02 : || [|TrolleyVelocityTimeGraph.jpg] ||
 * 3 || 15/09/2008 || SUVAT Equations Derived from Velocity/Time Graphs || Lesson PowerPoint : [[file:L03_AS2_2008_09_SUVAT.ppt]] ||
 * 4 || 16/09/2008 || Cover Lesson : [[file:Cover20080916_P1.doc]] || Question Sheet 03 : [[file:EquationsOfMotion03.doc]]
 * 5 || 18/09/2008 || Ticker Tape practical (Building Velocity Time Graphs) || Sample velocity time graph:
 * 6 || 26/09/2008 || Projectiles lesson 1 Links to YouTube videos:

[|Bouncing Football] [|Freeze Frame parabolic motion] [|Bomb Dropping] || Lesson PowerPoint : Questions Sheet Projectiles 01 : || Questions Sheet Projectiles 02 : ||
 * 7 || 29/09/2008 || Projectiles lesson 2 || Lesson PowerPoint : [[file:L07_AS2_2008_09_ProjectileMotion2.ppt]]
 * 8 || 30/09/2008 || Vector Addition by Scale Drawing

[|Vector Addition Link 1] [|Vector Addition Link 2]

For those of you who were trying to do scale drawing without any drawing, or scale for that matter, and preferred to do the sums.. there is a video here showing how the cosine and sine rules can be employed to do the sums:

[|Cosine & Sine Rule] || Lesson PowerPoint :

Question Sheet ||
 * 9 || 02/10/2008 || Cover Lesson (Open Book Exam)[[file:Cover20081002_P2.doc]] || [[file:OpenBookTest.doc]] ||
 * 10 || 06/10/2008 || Calculating Resultant Vectors and Resolving vectors into components

The Links below contain alternative video explanations of vector addition:

[|Vector Addition Video 1 (fizzicsorg)] [|Vectors 1 (from PhyzWizz see Vectors 2 below)]

The Links below contain alternative video explanations of resolving vectors into perpendicular components

[|Resolving Vectors a beginner's guide (fizzicsorg)] [|Vectors 2 (from PhyzWizz see Vectors 1 above)] || Questions Sheet : ||
 * 11 || 10/10/2008 || Balanced Forces, (Forces in Equilibrium)

There are three [|short video tutorials here], which will help refresh what was covered during this lesson. It is worth watching: //"Scalars", "Vectors" and "Resolving Vectors"// || Lesson PowerPoint: Questions Sheet : || Question Sheet : || Question Sheet : || [|Centre of gravity (cartoon drawing)] [|Centre of Mass for a SUV 4x4] [|Julius Sumner Miller Centre of Gravity 1] ||  || Question Sheet : || [|Tilting an old London Bus] [|Tilting a modern Chinese bus] [|Do Try This At Home (CoG)] || Lesson PowerPoint: || Question Sheet : Worked answers from L16 || Glossary : || [|Force is directly proportional to acceleration from Cabinteely Community School]
 * 12 || 13/10/2008 || Forces in Equilibrium, Resultants, & Resolving Revisited || Lesson PowerPoint: [[file:L12_AS2_2008_09_BalancedForces.ppt]]
 * 13 || 20/10/2008 || Moments || Lesson PowerPoint:
 * 13 || 03/11/2008 || Exam ||  ||
 * 14 || 04/11/2008 || Mark & basic moments experiment ||  ||
 * 15 || 06/11/2008 || Centre of Mass experiments
 * 16 || 10/11/2008 || Moments 2 || Lesson PowerPoint:
 * 17 || 14/11/2008 || Couples, Torques and Stability
 * 18 || 17/11/2008 || Toppling & Toppling on a slope || Lesson PowerPoint: [[file:L18_AS2_2008_09_Moments.ppt]]
 * 19 || 18/11/2008 || Car Safety Intro || Lesson PowerPoint:[[file:L19_AS2_2008_09_CarSafety.ppt]]
 * 20 || 20/11/2008 || F=ma lab ||  ||
 * 21 || 24/11/2008 || Force, Acceleration and Mass

[|Harcourt School Force, Mass and Acceleration animation] || Lesson PowerPoint : Virtual Physics Lab results and graphs Ticker Tape Graphs Questions : || Questions : || [|Speed Skydiving & falcon] [|Hammer & Feather] [|Feather & Ballbearing in a vacuum] [|Toyota Prius] || Lesson PowerPoint : Video Questions : Super Car Top speeds : Parachute cardsort : ||
 * 22 || 28/11/2008 || F=ma in Practise || Lesson PowerPoint : [[file:L22_AS2_2008_09_FEqualsMA.ppt]]
 * 23 || 01/12/2008 || [|Bad Day to Freefall]
 * 24 || 02/12/2008 || Terminal Velocity Practical & Exam Questions

[|Skydive.swf] [|Terminal Velocity (SkyDiver) Animation] || Exam Paper : Mark Scheme : Terminal Velocity Graph : ||
 * 25 || 04/12/2008 || Work Done (and Practical)

[|Eureka! episode 8 Work] || Lesson PowerPoint : Questions : Practical Results : || Questions : ||
 * 26 || 08/12/2008 || Power || Lesson PowerPoint : [[file:L26_AS2_2008_09_Power.ppt]]
 * 27 || 12/12/2008 || Car Safety Presentations 1 ||  ||
 * 28 || 15/12/2008 || Car Safety Presentations 2 ||  ||
 * 29 || 16/12/2008 || Kinetic Energy, Gravitational Potential Energy and Efficiency

[|Brainiac Do Conservation of Energy] [|Riding a Roller Coaster] || Lesson PowerPoint : Questions : Answers : || Stopping Distance Question Sheet : Answers for Stopping distance : ||
 * 30 || 18/12/2008 || Mechanics Wrap up : Stopping Distances & Renewable Energy. **Remember** : renewable energy does NOT appear to be on the syllabus, but it has a double page spread in the course book. || [[file:CarSafetyPresentationFeedback.ppt]]
 * ||  || Past Questions : Note **ONLY** the mechanics questions are relevant at this stage :



Also ignore questions related to momentum and collisions this is now in Y13 ||  || Mind Map for Materials : HW Question : || HW Question : || Questions : HW Question : || HW Question : || HW Question : || Mechanics end of module model answers || HW Question : || HW Question : || HW Question : || HW Question : || Classwork Questions : HW Question : || HW Question : Half-Term openbook test : ||
 * 31 || 05/01/2009 || Density || Lesson PowerPoint :
 * 32 || 09/01/2009 || Density 2 || Lesson PowerPoint : [[file:L32_AS2_2008_09_Density2.ppt]]
 * 33 || 12/01/2009 || Elasticity & Hooke's law || Lesson PowerPoint : [[file:L33_AS2_2008_09_Elasticity.ppt]]
 * 34 || 12/01/2009 || Hooke's law practical || HW Question : [[file:PastQuestion004.pdf]] ||
 * 35 || 13/01/2009 || Young's Modulus || Lesson PowerPoint :[[file:L35_AS2_2008_09_YM.ppt]]
 * 36 || 19/01/2009 || Loading & Unloading : Bulk properties of solids || Lesson PowerPoint : [[file:L36_AS2_2008_09_LoadingUnloading.ppt]]
 * 37 || 23/01/2009 || Mechanics End of Topic Test || Mechanics end of module test paper [[file:EndOfModuleMechanicsExam.pdf]] ||
 * 38 || 26/01/2009 || Exam Post-Mortem || Mechanics end of module mark scheme [[file:MS_EndOfModuleMechanicsExam.pdf]]
 * 39 || 27/01/2009 || Waves : An Introduction || Lesson PowerPoint : [[file:L39_AS2_2008_09_WaveProperties.ppt]]
 * 40 || 29/01/2009 || Wave Properites 2 (wave speed derivation, interference and superposition) || Lesson PowerPoint : [[file:L40_AS2_2008_09_WaveProperties.ppt]]
 * || 03/02/2009 || Snow Day ||  ||
 * 41 || 06/02/2009 || Standing Waves 1 || Lesson PowerPoint : [[file:L41_AS2_2008_09_StandingWaves.ppt]]
 * 42 || 09/02/2009 || Standing Waves 2 || Lesson PowerPoint : [[file:L42_AS2_2008_09_StandingWaves.ppt]]
 * 43 || 10/02/2009 || Refraction through a glass block practical || No Powerpoint!
 * 44 || 12/02/2009 || Standing wave demostration and Refraction theory || Lesson PowerPoint : [[file:L44_AS2_2008_09_Refraction.ppt]]
 * 45 ||  ||   || Lesson PowerPoint : [[file:L45_AS2_2008_09_TIR.ppt]] ||
 * 46 ||  ||   || Lesson PowerPoint : [[file:L46_AS2_2008_09_Refraction3.ppt]] ||
 * 47 ||  ||   || Lesson PowerPoint : [[file:L47_AS2_2008_09_DoubleSlit.ppt]] ||
 * 48 ||  ||   || Lesson PowerPoint : [[file:L48_AS2_2008_09_WavesCatchup.ppt]] ||
 * 49 ||  ||   || Lesson PowerPoint : [[file:L49_AS2_2008_09_WavesCatchup.ppt]] ||
 * 50 ||  ||   || Lesson PowerPoint : [[file:L50_AS2_2008_09_DiffractionGrating.ppt]] ||
 * 51 ||  ||   || Lesson PowerPoint : [[file:L51_AS2_2008_09_ExperimentalMethod.ppt]] ||
 * 52 ||  ||   || Lesson PowerPoint : [[file:L52_AS2_2008_09_Phy3PostMortem.ppt]] ||