As you can see by the lack of new content for some time I am no longer adding to this blog.
I have been pushed on to other duties and the course has finished.
Thanks for all the support and I hope that some of the content has been of assistance.
Thanks also to all the followers in Germany, Malaysia and the USA - it was a great thrill to see your hits.
I wish you all the best for your future.
PC

Electrical Theory Exam

The Electrical Theory Exam will be on Wednesday15th as discussed in class last week.

Those who pass it first time around won't need to come to electrical theory (Monday and Thursday mornings) for the rest of the semester. Those who don't make >=75% will need to keep coming and we will get into some serious revision prior to the resit attempts.

Remember you are permitted up to 3 attempts at a theory assessment. However if you don't turn up to an advertised exam - that is counted as a failed attempt.

Happy studying.

Making electricity

Today we looked at different ways of making electricity.
Heat uses the thermoelectric effect between two different metals.

The chemical method (used in batteries) utilizes the movement of ions through a liquid.
In this case we used potatoes.

Creative Summary Display

The way to show that we can work together as a team is to work together as a team.

So in teams of 3 or 4 we are putting together a summary of
one of the areas that we have learned about so far.
This not only achieves the above but also helps us
summarize our learning and really get to the essence of the subject.

HERE is a video of the above group planning out their summary.

Monday's Vector Experiment

Well the great vector experiment didn't go as planned.
I think that because of the 3-dimensional nature of it there must be another calculation that we need to add in as well.
However, the main point was that you cannot just add the vector quantities.

So here we are measuring vectors.

Go HERE  to see the small video of us doing it.

Go HERE for the Quantities Revision 2 answers that we did on the smart board.

Vectors

Here is a link to Thursday's lesson on vectors (in PDF)
I don't know about you guys but I enjoyed taking the class and I was impressed on how well you worked together.

Revision and Classwork

Revision and Classwork from the SmartBoard is now in Moodle and you can also get to them from these links:

• Revision Questions
• Revision Answers
• SBoard work on Work, Force, SHC etc.