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A2 salters-horners physics
in our school, we start our A2 projects as of today. however, i'm confused as to what to do it on. could someone please outline the topics i would be covering in A2 (since i could base my project on one of these)?
Transport on track:
Medium is the message:
Probing the heart of matter:
Build or Bust:
Reach for the Stars:
Thats about everything, I suggest looking at TRA and BLD for projects, they usually provide the best sorts of topics, electromagnetism and oscillations provide hundreds of different sorts of topics you could do.
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Momentum/Impulse etc.
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Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
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Electromagnetism (Force in a wire, induced current etc.)
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Magnetic fields
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Transformers
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Capacitors and exponential decay
Medium is the message:
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Digital sampling and waves
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Amplitude and Frequency Modulation (AM and FM)
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Multiplexing (Frequency and Time Division)
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Optical Fibres/Coaxial Cables
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Attenuation and exponential decay
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More capacitors
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Electric Fields
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Force on a charged particle in a magnetic field
Probing the heart of matter:
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Particle Physics
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Standard model/GUTs
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Alpha scattering
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Point charges/Coulombs law
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More electric fields and electrostatics
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Wave-Patricle duality
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Bits on relativistic effects
Build or Bust:
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Simple harmonic motion
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Speed of sound in solids
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Free/froced/damped oscillations
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Resonance
Reach for the Stars:
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Flux and Luminosity
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Radioactive decay
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Kinetic theory and gases
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Gravitation
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Red shift/Doppler effect
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HR diagrams
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Energy and mass relationships
Thats about everything, I suggest looking at TRA and BLD for projects, they usually provide the best sorts of topics, electromagnetism and oscillations provide hundreds of different sorts of topics you could do.
did anyone do this project for psa5(i) as we to are starting today and i haven't a clue what to do mine on
any ideas??
any ideas??
Just think of something that you'll enjoy doing for 2 weeks, can get lots of numerical data from (and can plot graphs) and can related lots of physics concepts to. If you enjoy what you're doing and take an interest in it, you're likely to do well. The more mechanical ones seem to be good to me, stuff like catapults.
madima
in our school, we start our A2 projects as of today. however, i'm confused as to what to do it on. could someone please outline the topics i would be covering in A2 (since i could base my project on one of these)?
are you a first year that has just finished their AS exams? i am and we haven't been told anything about projects yet?
MathematicalMind
are you a first year that has just finished their AS exams? i am and we haven't been told anything about projects yet?
i just finished AS exams. anyway, the project is 20% of your A2 grade (10% of your overall A-level grade). it's basically like the AS ones except for bring MUCH longer and you have something called a "rationale" and you actually have to write a bibliography. that's it -- project title is up to you.
Doing the coursework was one of the most fun parts of the year - I just spent two weeks playing with my equipment. Somewhere along the line I also took some results. 
Take some time to think what you could do successfully - modelling interests (e.g. sports, hobbies) on a small scale and investigating the physics in it was done by a few people - but I just chose something I knew would be fun to play with and made up a deep fascination for it in my rationale.
I spent so much time worrying about it as our teachers made it seem like such a big deal - in the end it went by so quickly. And I agree with Belowpar - get lots of numerical results, in the end I collected over 700 (though each one took about one second to get) and then I took loads of averages which I could then comment on in my evaluation.
You don't need to get something directly from the syllabus - the most successful project in my class took something he was interested in and looked for related physics - I'm pretty sure most of it was beyond the scope of the syllabus but it was still physics.
Take some time to think what you could do successfully - modelling interests (e.g. sports, hobbies) on a small scale and investigating the physics in it was done by a few people - but I just chose something I knew would be fun to play with and made up a deep fascination for it in my rationale.
I spent so much time worrying about it as our teachers made it seem like such a big deal - in the end it went by so quickly. And I agree with Belowpar - get lots of numerical results, in the end I collected over 700 (though each one took about one second to get) and then I took loads of averages which I could then comment on in my evaluation.
You don't need to get something directly from the syllabus - the most successful project in my class took something he was interested in and looked for related physics - I'm pretty sure most of it was beyond the scope of the syllabus but it was still physics.
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