[Morbo]

[UPDATE: Finished threads from 09/09/2005]

Physics Forum Contents Page
----------------------------

Have a look here to see if anyone else has had a similar problem to you before posting your problem.

Not many people like searching a forum before they post, so I would like to build a kind of contents page for the physics forum. It's basically a list of threads on various topics. I'd like the linked posts to contain good science as far as possible.

I've added as many links as I can right now (see the update at the top see where I'm up to), but if you find other threads that aren't here, post in this one and I'll add them to the list. (I've worked from the very start of the Physics forum, but it goes way back into Science...) Use the [ thread = xxx ] tags around a suitable title for the link so I can just copy and paste them in, and also tell me where they've come from.

Mods, feel free to edit this with any links you find as well. Try not to duplicate threads! It'd be useful if this was sticky as well, and perhaps could incorporate a few of the other (six!) stickies there already are cluttering up the top of the forum.

I've made categories off the top of my head, based on what I think might be useful, and sub-divided them into rough academic levels. Feel free to persuade me to change these categories.


Mechanics and Basic Forces
GCSE
Stopping distance
Deceleration of cyclist by resistant forces
Deceleration of a car
Moments: lifting a girder with a cable
Moments: uprooting a tree!
Centre of mass: adding mass
Measuring 'g' AND Measuring 'g' by free-fall
Terminal velocity: parachutist

A-level
Young's modulus: measurement of copper wire
Young's modulus measurement
Floating ice that melts
Equipotentials of gravitational field
Simple harmonic motion: defintion
Simple harmonic motion: equations
Simple harmonic motion: acceleration vs. velocity
Resonance experiment
Centripetal acceleration formula derivation


Electricity & Magnetism
GCSE
What is an oscilloscope?
Voltage/current in series/parallel
Potential divider
Bar magnet/iron bar - which is which?
Capacitors in series AND Earth's magnetic field lines
Solenoid - do the individiual coils attract each other?
AC current AND AC current continued
Electric force between two charged spheres
Relay/transistor - compare and contrast

A-level
Calibrating a Hall probe
Induction: wire through uniform magnetic field
Induction: bar magnet dropped through coil
Induction: aircraft flying through Earth's magnetic field
Magnetic flux and flux density
Magnetic flux, flux density and flux linkage
Charge on a capacitor
Q=CV: experiment to verify
The motor effect
Drift velocity
Lenz's law
Generator and motor principles


Thermodynamics
A-level
First law
Boltzmann distribution
Ideal gas at absolute zero


Atomic Physics
A-level
Line and absorption spectra
Line and band spectra
Emission and absoprtion spectra


Optics
GCSE
Refractive index: what it means

A-level
Refraction: transverse displacement of light through a sheet of glass


Waves
GCSE
Speed = Frequency x Wavelength
Musical instruments
Standing waves vs. travelling waves
Longitudinal vs. transverse waves
Seismic waves

A-level
Double slit formula
Radio waves: long wavelengths and diffraction
Stringed instrument: harmonics
Why is the sky blue? (Rayleigh Scattering)


Quantum Physics
A-level
Photoelectric effect: concepts
Photoelectric effect: laser incident on metal
Uncertainty principle
Wave-particle duality: light
Wave-particle duality: electrons
Stationary waves for atomic electrons


Nuclear/Particle Physics and Radioactivity
A-level
Feynmann diagram: W bosons
Closest approach of two protons
Rutherford's Scattering Experiment
Radius of calcium nucleus
Radioactive decay of a sample
Radioactive decay
Half life
Carbon dating principle
NMR/MRI scans
Nuclear reactor: construction and power


Astrophysics
A-level
Telescopes: magnifying power and angular magnification
Parallax: distance determination for a star
Cepheid variables: distance determination
Distance measurements
Temperature measurements
Stellar life cycles: diagrams
Stellar life cycles: death and white dwarfs


Generally Useful
Examination Advice
OCR Physics A - AS Forces+Motion/Electrons & Photons Revision

[F1 fanatic]

Good job!

Could I make a few suggestions for addition from ones that I remember:

line and band spectra

Double Slit Formula

[teachercol]

Excellent idea, W. Hopefully it will mean that the same questions dont come up time and time again.

This needs to be stickied.

[F1 fanatic]

Could I also suggest you alter the title to give it the sirens treatment, thereby making it impossible for anyone to miss it or ignore it.

[Morbo]

What does "sirens" treatment mean?

[F1 fanatic]

(Original post by Worzo)
What does "sirens" treatment mean?

oh, I dunno really, basically just making it really obvious even to someone completely new to the forum that they should look in here to find answers to common problems, before posting elsewhere. Maybe if you ask nicely you could even get a red title for it.

[Morbo]

(Original post by teachercol)
Excellent idea, W. Hopefully it will mean that the same questions dont come up time and time again.

This needs to be stickied.

Also to increase the number of people who benefit from our hard efforts to explain the concepts. There's many many answers buried in this forum. Different explanations make sense to different people, so it's good to have them all accessible I think.

[Swinely]

Great idea, should be quite useful for everyone. Really needs to be a sticky though!

[Mohit_C]

Good job Worzo!

[hessajee]

Is this only used as a resource to certain topics? What about there is something we read in one of the threads that we need clarification on? Do we reply to them or do we start a new thread linking to the original thread? Thanks.

[Bunbury]

Excellent thread. Thanks a lot.

[hessajee]

I think this needs to be added here, or if not, then to the Wiki:

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/show...tes#post669487

Thanks.

[shorty.loves.angels]

(Original post by Morbo)
[UPDATE: Finished threads from 09/09/2005]

Physics Forum Contents Page
----------------------------

Have a look here to see if anyone else has had a similar problem to you before posting your problem.

Not many people like searching a forum before they post, so I would like to build a kind of contents page for the physics forum. It's basically a list of threads on various topics. I'd like the linked posts to contain good science as far as possible.

I've added as many links as I can right now (see the update at the top see where I'm up to), but if you find other threads that aren't here, post in this one and I'll add them to the list. (I've worked from the very start of the Physics forum, but it goes way back into Science...) Use the [ thread = xxx ] tags around a suitable title for the link so I can just copy and paste them in, and also tell me where they've come from.

Mods, feel free to edit this with any links you find as well. Try not to duplicate threads! It'd be useful if this was sticky as well, and perhaps could incorporate a few of the other (six!) stickies there already are cluttering up the top of the forum.

I've made categories off the top of my head, based on what I think might be useful, and sub-divided them into rough academic levels. Feel free to persuade me to change these categories.


Mechanics and Basic Forces
GCSE
Stopping distance
Deceleration of cyclist by resistant forces
Deceleration of a car
Moments: lifting a girder with a cable
Moments: uprooting a tree!
Centre of mass: adding mass
Measuring 'g' AND Measuring 'g' by free-fall
Terminal velocity: parachutist

A-level
Young's modulus: measurement of copper wire
Young's modulus measurement
Floating ice that melts
Equipotentials of gravitational field
Simple harmonic motion: defintion
Simple harmonic motion: equations
Simple harmonic motion: acceleration vs. velocity
Resonance experiment
Centripetal acceleration formula derivation


Electricity & Magnetism
GCSE
What is an oscilloscope?
Voltage/current in series/parallel
Potential divider
Bar magnet/iron bar - which is which?
Capacitors in series AND Earth's magnetic field lines
Solenoid - do the individiual coils attract each other?
AC current AND AC current continued
Electric force between two charged spheres
Relay/transistor - compare and contrast

A-level
Calibrating a Hall probe
Induction: wire through uniform magnetic field
Induction: bar magnet dropped through coil
Induction: aircraft flying through Earth's magnetic field
Magnetic flux and flux density
Magnetic flux, flux density and flux linkage
Charge on a capacitor
Q=CV: experiment to verify
The motor effect
Drift velocity
Lenz's law
Generator and motor principles


Thermodynamics
A-level
First law
Boltzmann distribution
Ideal gas at absolute zero


Atomic Physics
A-level
Line and absorption spectra
Line and band spectra
Emission and absoprtion spectra


Optics
GCSE
Refractive index: what it means

A-level
Refraction: transverse displacement of light through a sheet of glass


Waves
GCSE
Speed = Frequency x Wavelength
Musical instruments
Standing waves vs. travelling waves
Longitudinal vs. transverse waves
Seismic waves

A-level
Double slit formula
Radio waves: long wavelengths and diffraction
Stringed instrument: harmonics
Why is the sky blue? (Rayleigh Scattering)


Quantum Physics
A-level
Photoelectric effect: concepts
Photoelectric effect: laser incident on metal
Uncertainty principle
Wave-particle duality: light
Wave-particle duality: electrons
Stationary waves for atomic electrons


Nuclear/Particle Physics and Radioactivity
A-level
Feynmann diagram: W bosons
Closest approach of two protons
Rutherford's Scattering Experiment
Radius of calcium nucleus
Radioactive decay of a sample
Radioactive decay
Half life
Carbon dating principle
NMR/MRI scans
Nuclear reactor: construction and power


Astrophysics
A-level
Telescopes: magnifying power and angular magnification
Parallax: distance determination for a star
Cepheid variables: distance determination
Distance measurements
Temperature measurements
Stellar life cycles: diagrams
Stellar life cycles: death and white dwarfs


Generally Useful
Examination Advice
OCR Physics A - AS Forces+Motion/Electrons & Photons Revision

Just noticed this... thought it was something else, but had a nosey in spare time.

Helpful, cheers.