Nottingham High School

YEAR 10

DESCRIBING MOVEMENT

A java applet called The Moving Man looks at distance, velocity and acceleration time graphs.

An applet to help you with acceleration.

ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM

PGM recommends Andy Darvill's site for general information for GCSE level.

The Blackbody Spectrum looks at radiation emitted by hot bodies at different temperatures.

OSCILLATIONS AND WAVES

The Masses on a Spring experiment can be found on this site.

A model of a Transverse Wave, another model of a Transverse Wave.

Try the virtual ripple tank on this site.

Try the University of Southampton Site for diffraction of sound waves.

EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE

Try the NASA Imagine the Universe site or the WMAP Universe section.

Wikipaedia, as always, contains lots of information. Try Big Bang.

IDEAL GAS MOLECULES

An excellent applet showing how moving molecules lead to the gas laws.

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

The University of Southampton site contains lots of information on this topic and on Radio Waves also.

EARTH'S LAYERED STRUCTURE

Data on British Earthquakes.

An excellent simulation showing seismic waves passing through the Earth.

REVISION GUIDE FOR SUMMER EXAMINATIONS

See attachment at the bottom of the page.

Attached Documents

List of Revision Topics for Summer Examinations (54.5 KB)

Energy changes (53.3 KB)

Energy, power and time (106 KB)

Stopping Distance has two parts (485 KB)

A more visual approach may help you (637 KB)

year 10 revision (45 KB)

Sam Moult's revision sheet (58.5 KB)