Here is a vast collection of over 1200 vector-based .wmf files which were drawn by Ian Birrell for Adrian Watt’s Physics textbook New Higher Physics, first published in 1999 by Hodder & Stoughton Educational, Scotland, ISBN 0 340 72050 6. We are grateful to Adrian for granting permission for these to be made available to Scottish physics teachers. The zipped folder titles should correspond with the chapters in the book. Please note that some areas are no longer covered in the current curriculum and some equipment shown may no longer be available. To get the graphics click on any link e.g. Average speed :-
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Once you have extracted the files you can then drag and drop the graphics into Word or PowerPoint. If you can’t see the graphics as wmf file thumbnails in Windows 7, install this plug-in http://code.google.com/p/emfplugin/. You’ll need to restart your computer for the plug-in to take effect.
Editing files with PowerPoint – If want to tweak the files you have loaded into a PowerPoint page right-click the mouse button over the image then I. You are then asked if you want to convert it to a Microsoft drawing object. Click Yes. You should then be able to pick up the constituent bits of the image. Please note that the text can be picked out as single letter images but cannot be edited as ASCII text.
Note also you may come across some objects which have no apparent function. Try Ctrl-C then Ctrl-V on an object to see what its copy looks like e.g. A colourless fill in the shape of the object. Try adding colour fills now via Home then Shape Fill/Effects.
You should also be able to import these files into the free vector program Inkscape.
Zipped Higher Physics folders [Complete collection]
Absolute temperature and kinetic theory
Absorption spectra questions
Acceleration
Activity and half-life
Activity and half-life Q
Alternating current
Amplifiers
Analogue Electronics
Atomic Theory
Average speed
Background radiation and dose limits
Basic electricity questions
Basic electricity resistance questions
Basic electronics
Basic electronics questions
Bouncing ball
Bouncing ball graphs
Buoyancy and upthrust
Capacitance
Capacitor charging discharging questions
Capacitor questions
Capacitors and ac
Capacitors storing energy
Capacitors storing energy questions
Charging capacitors
Charles law
Conductors and Semiconductors
Conservation of Momentum
Correcting sight defects
Correcting sight defects Q
Current voltage and pd
Density
Density and upthrust questions
Difference amplifiers
Differential amp questions
Diffraction
Discharging capacitors
Displacement-Time graphs
Distance and displacement
Distance and Displacement questions
Electric fields and currents
Electrical energy and power
Electrical Principles
Electromagnetic spectrum
Electromagnetism
Electromagnetism questions
Electrons and Emission spectra
EMF and internal resistance
EMF and internal resistance questions
Equations of Motion
Field Effect
Forces
Forces questions
Gases questions
Graphs for a bouncing ball
Gratings prisms White light
Gratings prisms white light Q
Gratings prisms White lightQ
Handling large and small numbers
Handling numbers questions
Harnessing nuclear power
Heating materials
Heating water
Impulse and Momentum
Instantaneous Speed
Interference
Interference equations
Interference expts Q
Interference expts Q2
Internal resistance questions
Inverting amplifier questions
Inverting amplifiers
Ionisation
Kinematics Questions
Lasers
Lenses and image formation
Light on p-n junctions
Measuring internal resistance
Measuring Light
Microwave interference
Newtons Third Law
Nuclear Reactions
Nuclear Reactions questions
Op amp questions
Op-amp drive circuits
Op-amp drive circuits questions
Operational amplifiers
Opto Electronics and Semiconuctors questions
Opto-electronics and semiconductors questions
Oscillations
Photoelectric effect
Planck and Einstein
p-n junction
Pressure
Pressure and buoyancy questions
Pressure in gases
Pressure in liquids
Pressure questions
Projectiles
Projectiles questions
Projectiles questions2
Properties of Matter
Properties of Matter questions
Properties of Matter2 questions
Radiation
Radiation and dose
Radiation intensity
Radiation questions
Reflection
Refraction
Refraction equations
Refraction questions
Refraction questions2
Resistance
Scalars and Vectors
Sensors
Series and parallel circuits
Shielding and protection
Specific Heat Capacity
Static and moving charges
Storing charge
Total internal reflection
Transformer questions
Transformers
Transistors
Using inverting amplifiers
Using radiation safely
Using radiation safely Q
Velocity
Velocity Time graphs
Voltage dividers
Wavelength of laser light
Weight and mass
Weight and Mass questions
Wheatstone bridges
Wheatstone bridges and voltage dividers questions
