Support for Practical Activities in Higher and Advanced Higher Physics

The course will be extremely beneficial to those new to teaching higher and advanced higher physics. All activities will be linked to the ‘mandatory content’ and ‘suggested activities’ as described in the SQA H & AH physics course specification documents. It will also be of interest to those with more experience teaching higher and advanced higher.

We will look at a wide selection of over forty experiments (many of which can be done cheaply, with very simple equipment) across the areas of rotational motion, waves and electromagnetism to include:

• The compound pendulum, 
• Resonance, 
• SHM,
• Water stream experiment, 
• Capacitor and inductor experiments, 
• Air cell experiment, 
• Newton’s rings /air fringes experiment 
• Magnetic field strength experiment.

During your two days at SSERC, there will be time to collect data from each experiment. We will provide a 200-page experiment guide, typical results, where to source suitable resources and where appropriate, spreadsheets for analysing the collected results as well as different ways to analyse the data. We will also look at some of the theories exemplified by each experiment.