Teach Theme D
Teach pages for topics D.1 to D.4
Teach: Gravitation and orbits
AimstextConsiderationsIt's worth mentioning before starting how we have 2 ways that mass impacts on the universe, it defines the acceleration and weight, two apparently totally different things, Inertial...
Teach: Electric fields
AimstextConsiderationsElectrostatics demos are notoriously problematic, you ask the class whether two objects you just charge oppositely have the same charge or different, the class all says "the same",...
Teach: Magnetic fields
AimstextConsiderationsStudents will be familiar with magnets as things that stick objects to fridge doors but might not know that two magnets repel ech other. I would have thought that every 16 year old...
Teach: Electric potential
AimstextConsiderationsSome of this is AHL but there's no harm in going into a bit more detail than necessary with SL students. It helps if students have done integration in maths but not essential. Maybe...
Teach: Forces and currents in B fields
AimstextConsiderationsMy name is Hamper not Amper.The whole thing about the Ampere being the fundamental unit of electricity is interesting. Why isn't it charge? In the early days it was difficult to...