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- Scientific investigation
- Criteria
- Originality, collaboration and AI
- Preparation tasks: Design Labs
- Plasticine
- Balloons
- Hanging beam
- Ruler
- Slinky
- Springs
- Potty Putty
- Jelly
- Coils and magnets
- Battery Drill
- Solar powered car
- ICT and IB physics
- Developing a research question
- Googling IA ideas for IB physics
- Ideas for investigations
- 10 IA ideas using a balloon
- 10 IA ideas using a ruler
- 10 IA ideas using a slinky
- 10 IA ideas using toilet paper
- Some ready made IA ideas
- Optional Practical: Acceleration of a Ferrari
- Optional Practical: B field inside a coil
- Optional Practical: Ball in a tube
- Optional Practical: Boomwhackers
- Optional Practical: Diffraction from a CD
- Optional Practical: Electric fields simulation (GeoGebra)
- Optional Practical: Falling cotton reel
- Optional Practical: Falling magnet
- Optional Practical: Flux density
- Optional Practical: Hand hot
- Optional Practical: Helium spectrum
- Optional Practical: Loop the loop
- Optional Practical: Range of a rubber band
- Optional Practical: Resistivity of Play Doh
- Optional Practical: Resonance in a bucket
- Optional Practical: Skipping rope
- Optional Practical: Sliding whistle
- Optional Practical: Spinning stopper
- Optional Practical: Standing waves in a slinky
- Optional Practical: The conical pendulum
- Optional Practical: Uniform electric field
- Optional Practical: Variable power heater
- Everything in moderation...
- How to mark IAs
- Exemplar marking comments
- Exemplar student work and marks
- Not-so-simple pendulum (unmarked)
- Pasta strength (low scoring)
- Absorption of beta radiation by jelly (medium scoring)
- Balloon trajectory - comments (high scoring)
- Rolling cylinders (medium scoring)
- Landslide and tsunami (high scoring)
- Aperture size and depth of field (high scoring)
- Lensmaker's equation - comments (high scoring)
- Measuring charge to mass ratio - comments (high scoring)
- Tests
- SL/HL Core tests
- Measurement test
- Resistor combinations test
- Uncertainties test
- Vectors and scalars test
- Displacement and velocity test
- Acceleration and suvat test
- Graphs of motion test
- Projectiles test
- Forces test
- Newton's 1st law test
- Newton's 2nd law test
- Newton's 3rd law test
- Work and energy test
- Energy and Power test
- Particles and moles test
- Heat transfer test
- Temperature and heat test
- Specific heat capacity test
- Gases test
- Gas laws test
- Circular motion test
- Gravitational field test
- Gravitational potential test
- Orbits test
- Oscillations test
- SHM test
- Waves 1 test
- Waves 2 test
- Water wave test
- Sound test
- Doppler test
- Diffraction test
- Resolution test
- Two slit interference test
- Thin films test
- Electric fields test
- Electric potential test
- Electric potential (AHL) test
- Ohm's law test
- Electrical circuits 1 test
- Kirchoff's test
- Measuring V and I test
- Charges in B field test
- Magnetic field test
- Lenz's Law test
- Faraday's law test
- Transformer test
- Capacitors test
- Rectification test
- Atomic models test
- Electron energy levels test
- Binding energy test
- Nucleus test
- Alpha decay test
- Beta decay test
- Exponential decay test
- Photoelectric test
- Wave nature of matter test
- Atomic models test
- Fission and fusion test
- Particle interactions test
- Fundamental particles test
- Fuels and energy test
- Generation of electricity test
- Renewable energy test
- Nuclear power test
- Fusion test
- EM radiation and matter test
- Green house effect test
- External assessment
- Mock Examinations (2026-27)
- Mock Examinations (2025-26)
- Comments on exams - May 2025
- Grade boundaries - May 2025
- Extended Essay
- What's new?
- Interdisciplinary pathway
- Being a supervisor
- Introductory talk
- Research question
- Assisting practical work
- EE reflection meetings and reflective statement
- Commenting on the draft
- Viva voce
- Supervisors report
- Predicted grade
- Tips for supervisors
- EE assessment (2025)
- EE exemplars
- Chris' essay