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Basic guide for junior students on measuring R V and I - reminder for seniors !! 4 pages pdf Course notes pages focussing on the DT830 multimeters we use in our labs and quite common in NZ…

Course notes & exercises for NZ year 13 physics NCEA Level 3 Completed and 28 page booklet added 5 June 2025 Main topics covered, , , Momentum & conservation laws Impulse & change of momentum (1D & 2D) Mass & Centre of mass . . . lots of vector stuff!

Course notes & exercises Unit 1 of 4 for NCEA wave systems AS91523 Physics Demonstrate understanding of wave systems 20 pages.

Course notes & exercises Unit 3 of 4 for NCEA wave systems AS91523 Physics Demonstrate understanding of wave systems 12 page booklet

Course notes & exercises Unit 2 of 4 for NCEA wave systems AS91523 Physics Demonstrate understanding of wave systems 16 page booklet.

Course notes & exercises Unit 4 of 4 for NCEA wave systems AS91523 Physics Demonstrate understanding of wave systems 12 page booklet

Course notes & exercises for NZ year 13 physics NCEA Level 3 Completed and booklet added May 2025

Level 3 course-book extracts for Horizontal and vertical circular motion. Conical pendulum - banked tracks Gravity - Newton’s law of universal gravitation, Fc = Fg orbits and satellites. Uploaded April 29 2025 Booklet 28 pages

NZ Year 12 NCEA course material extracts . . .If you download it please review it! Contains Explaining how Scalars & Vectors differ. . . Defining distance/displacement speed/velocity Expressing directions as compass bearings - Describing & drawing force & velocity vector diagrams in 1 and 2 dimensions Difference between Free body diagram & force vector diagram Resolving a vector into horizontal & vertical components Vectors of balanced forces closed polygon vectors when in equilibrium Finding change of velocity by vector subtraction. Answers to questions

Updated version of 2023 course booklet - minor errors corrected. Covers: Charge, current, resistance voltage & power - Emf, current and internal resistance in cells. - Kirchhoff’s current & voltage laws - circuit loop calculations, Clip art supplied as MS powerpoint file

Teaching notes & resources for aspects of heat energy. Applicable for Year 11/level 1 NCEA in NZ. You might find some of the pages useful as A3 wall posters?? Work in progress. . . August - December 2024 Tweaks & corrections will be made during this period. files to be uploaded on. . . Heat & Heat transfer Temperature Heat Capacity Latent Heat / change of state Calorimetry if you find typos/errors etc notify me info@simplyphysics.org

all 4 units for our Level 3 waves course in one place!!

Pages from our course notes introducing angular measurement of displacement, velocity, acceleration, rotational kinematics, torque inertia etc. …

Overview/Revision of concepts and calculations with worked answers for projectile motion. Extract from our course notes.

Overview/revision/summary of Inertia momentum impulse and applications of Newton’s 3 laws of motion .

Notes and questions to increase confidence using equations of motion

Physics course notes and exercises booklet (31 pages) for Level 3 NCEA Electricity & Magnetism AS91526 Content covers . . . Intro to A.C. - generation of waveform - peak & RMS values - using phasors - Current Voltage Resistance Reactance Impedance - rectification - Capacitors in AC circuits - voltage phase shifts - Inductors in AC circuits - Resonance in RCL circuits Answers to exercises. This version (Oct '23) replaces previous edition which has had errors checked & corrected Additional Excel spreadsheet utility I use for RCL calculations & graphing. Clip Art Objects on separate PPTX file

Physics course notes and exercises booklet (23 pages) for Level 3 NCEA Electricity & Magnetism AS91526 Content covers . . . Electric Fields - voltage & potential work & energy - Capacitance - dielectrics - series & parallel capacitors - charging/discharging in DC circuit - R-C circuit & time constant - graphs - energy stored. Answers to numerical questions, This version (Oct '23) replaces previous edition which has had errors checked & corrected

Some visual reminders of rules for electromagnetism single sheet pdfs conventional current used.

A etymology table of some of the common greek & latin word roots used in science. intended to get students to realise that the origin of scientific terms give them meaning. Hopefully extends knowledge and vocabulary at the same time! May be a good “filler” activity or basis for quizzes and questioning.