Physics Teachers Forum

Welcome to all who are interested in teaching physics. This blog has been established as a response to the many questions that physics teachers have about the NSW year 11 and 12 syllabuses. It is a forum where help can be obtained or the wisdom of your experience can be given. It is hoped that this help can also take the form of documents and other material that can be shared between teachers in support of their teaching.

To start, your comments are invited on, say, what you would like to see on this website, or perhaps you had a question or advice about some part of the year 11 and 12 syllabuses.

There is a slowly growing number of categories on the right hand panel of this page on which you can comment. If you don't find a category that is relevant to your comment then you can comment here. If the category was created after you posted here, then I'll copy your comment into that category.

If you have some material you want to share with teachers, I can place it on this website for it to be downloaded. First get in touch with me on the "Contact the author" link on the right hand side of this page and I'll be able to put it up for you.

I hope to hear from you.

Joe Khachan

I'm chasing an old book that has English translations of the original papers of scientists like Hertz. Someone showed me this once and these are useful to go back to and find out what he actually did. Although I think there was still some ambiguity once I read the paper.

Cheers,
Jeff

Posted by: Jeff Stanger | April 9, 2009 06:53 PM

Comments welcome about Ideas to Implementation that are not covered by the subcategories.

Comments welcome about the NSW year 12 physics HSC syllabus that are not covered by the subcategories.

Comments welcome about the Astrophysics syllabus.

Comments about the Geophysics syllabus of the NSW HSC are welcome.

Comments about the Blackbody radiation are welcome.

Comments about superconductivity are welcome.

Comments about the medical physics NSW HSC syllabus are welcome.

Comments about the NSW HSC Space syllabus are welcome.

Comments about the Age of Silicon are welcome.

Download this file for some insights into superconductivity

Your comments about this document and improvements to it are welcome.

This comment could be about anything to the author. It generally won't be published on this blog.

I have seen many science teachers argue furiously over accuracy, validity, reliability and precision. Does anyone have some definitions that are universally accepted? I thought this might be a good topic for discussion.

Cheers,
Jeff

Posted by: Jeff Stanger | April 9, 2009 06:57 PM

Hi All,

I am wondering if anyone has found a good example of a scientific journal article that was badly reported in the media? I'd like to find a journal article and text from the media where the findings of the article are incorrectly conveyed. This is one of the outcomes of the HSC course and I have not found any excellent examples that fall within a core topic. I found one in astrophysics but it wasn't the best example.

Cheers,
Jeff

Posted by: Jeff Stanger | April 10, 2009 11:36 AM

Useful resources matched directly to dot points

I have a question about the formulae sheets they use in the HSC. Do universities provide formulae sheets in physics exams? (I don't mean data sheets, I just want to know if our kids should be memorising equations even if it's not needed at school.)

Posted by: Ingrid Mendes | May 8, 2009 08:07 AM

The shape of the emf as a bar magnet passes through a solenoid.

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