Grade 9 Physics (Long) Lessons for Autumn 2024 KEY CONCEPTS HERE
Additional sheets useful for studying for the tests
Test date:
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| Go through T&C for year Lodestone Demo magnets Difference between magnets and magnetic materials Earth’s magnetic field - compasses Aurorae | Sheet: Terms and conditions History of magnetism video Permanent magnets video Earth's magnetic field videoBar magnet and compass simulation lesson PPT Lesson notes: Wednesday group | Read the sheet from the lesson and complete this form |
| 34 | Introducing static electricity | Charging objects Conductors and insulators Van de Graaff generator Electrical safety | What is plasma? How the auroras form video | No homework this week |
| 35 | Applications of static electricity | Theory and notes about static | lesson notes Worksheet from the lesson Solutions to the worksheet | Complete the sheet from the lesson, and then this optional, possibly life saving extra: read this important information website about the dangers of lightning, and the next time a storm is brewing up, check this site |
| 36 | Portable electricity | Batteries and how they work. Introducing voltage and current | PPT Shock and Awe - capturing lightning 10 mins History of batteries 7 mins How does a mobile phone battery work - compared to lead acid (3 mins) Lesson notes: Wednesday Thursday | Watch this video as preparation for next lesson. There is no written task with this homework. |
| 37 | Resistance | Basics of circuits. Ohm's law and its applications Series circuits | PPT . '* Circuit simulation Click the download arrow on the left (under the title) ans then open the download Wednesday lesson notes Thursday lesson notes Megasheet of series questions Megasheet of series circuits answers Solutions video for Series Megasheet | Grade 9: No homework - I made a mess up with the link! |
| 38 | Parallel circuits | Applying Ohm's Law to solving parallel circuit problems | Parallel circuit megasheet Solutions sheet for the Megasheet Solutions for Parallel Megasheet video Wednesday lesson notes Thursday lesson notes | the first 6 problems on the parallel circuit sheet -including showing your working |
| 39 | Parallel circuits | Simulator Some practice sheets from previous years Practice sheet 1 Solution for Practice sheet 1 Second problem sheet: Practice calculation sheet 2 Solutions to practice calculations sheet 2 Lesson notes Wednesday Thursday | Optional homework: Practice sheet 1 | |
| 40 | Domestic electricity Cost of electricity and monitoring demand | Cost of electricity: Fingrid Energy consumption data for Europe Recent wholesale electricity costs. European energy costs Sample electricity bill Sample electricity costs Helen (other providers are available) Paying for electricity sheet TV pick up 2020 Electricity demand Electricity prices in Europe data Wednesday lesson notes Thursday lesson notes | Find out how much your family pays per unit of electricity (kWh) at home. If it is a spot price contract, use the price now to calculate how much it costs each time to use your sauna. If you do not know the power of the sauna, assume it is 3 kW. If you do not use a sauna, assume 3 kW and it takes 2 hours! Show all your working, including the estimate of the time spent heating and using the sauna. | |
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| 44 | Electromagnetism Generating Electricity | The link between electricity and magnetism The motor effect The generator effect Household electricity supplies - alternating current PPT link Wednesday lesson notes Thursday lesson notes Simple (and decent quality) video explaining what is inside a simple DC motor If you want more info (than you need!) on motors and generators, I recommend the BBC Bitesize site starting here You'll learn all about working out directions of movement and current in high school so do not worry if you do not get this! | Get your notes sorted, ready for the test | |
| 45 | Delivering electricity | Electrical transmission grids. Transformers Thursday lesson notes Wednesday lesson notes Static map of Finnish energy grid Live map of electrical distribution map The world at night - image from space Video: How electricity gets to you Video: How to fix clean energy's storage problem Video: The Huge Weird Batteries of the Future PPT link | For homework this week make sure you have all your notes in your notebook, and you understand them. In next week's lessons we may have time to go through any problems you have or topics you do not understand - so bring questions to the lesson! | |
| 46 | Study for the test | Lesson notes Wednesday Thursday How a transformer works video | ALL CLASSES: Study for the test. Make sure you have ALL the notes. Try to understand all that we have covered in class. | |
| 47 | TEST | |||
| 48 | Battery investigation | Instruction sheet Help sheet for writing the report Writing frame (pdf) Writing frame as google doc - please save a copy or download it - do not edit the original file. ChatGPT's attempts! | Complete the first two pages of the investigation sheet (up to the safety part) | |
| 49 | Instructions for your investigation: I need all your work by the end of term, but with disruption/absences etc. everyone will be at a different stage. So at the end of this week's lesson please do the following: Write me an email message (karin DOT parker AT eduouka DOT fi) 1. Add a link in the email to your written report 2. Add a link in the document to your spreadsheet of results - each person in the group must send me the results DO NOT just share the links with me, please copy/paste them into the email. This will make grading and keeping up with your progress next week much easier, and I can take into account absences etc. If you are not here next week, then I can simply grade what you have done now For info, this might be useful: Help sheet for data recording and graphs on google sheets. Your final deadline is December 19 at 20.00 | |||
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