Cambridge IGCSEâ„¢ Physics Practical Workbook

Cambridge IGCSEâ„¢ Physics Practical Workbook

2nd Edition
Gillian Nightingale
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9781316611074

This edition of our successful series to support the Cambridge IGCSE Physics syllabus (0625) is fully updated for the revised syllabus for first examination from 2016. Written by an experienced teacher who is passionate about practical skills, the Cambridge IGCSEâ„¢ Physics Digital Practical Workbook makes it easier to incorporate practical work into lessons. This workbook provides interesting and varied practical investigations for students to carry out safely, with guided exercises designed to develop the essential skills of handling data, planning investigations, analysis and evaluation. Exam-style questions for each topic offer novel scenarios for students to apply their knowledge and understanding, and to help them prepare for their practical and alternative to practical examinations.

    Written by an experienced teacher who is passionate about practical skills, the Cambridge IGCSEâ„¢ Physics Digital Practical Workbook makes it easier to incorporate practical work into lessons. This workbook provides interesting and varied practical investigations for students to carry out safely, with guided exercises designed to develop the essential skills of handling data, planning investigations, analysis and evaluation. Exam-style questions for each topic offer novel scenarios for students to apply their knowledge and understanding, and to help them prepare for their practical and alternative to practical examinations.

    Features

    • The practical workbook focuses on the most essential practical experiments in the syllabus, to help to build students' skills in handling data, analysis and evaluation – the requirements for Assessment Objective 3.
    • The practical workbook includes scaffolded guidance for undertaking practicals with necessary safety advice, information about equipment, opportunities to record results and questions to develop skills of analysis and evaluation.
    • Suitable for the Cambridge IGCSEâ„¢ Physics syllabus (0625) for examination from 2016. Ideal for both Paper 5 and Paper 6 (practical test and alternative to practical)
    • Endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Examinations.
    • The practical workbook helps to save teachers' time by providing pre-devised investigations with questions as well as answers to aid with marking.
    • The practical workbook helps to build students' confidence with practical skills by encouraging active involvement in practical experiments.

    Table of Contents

    • Table of contents
    • Introduction
    • Quick skills guide
    • Safety guidance
    • 1. Making measurements
    • 2. Describing motion
    • 3. Forces and motion
    • 4. Turning effects of forces
    • 5. Forces and matter
    • 6. Energy transformations and energy transfers
    • 7. Energy resources
    • 8. Work and power
    • 9. The kinetic model of matter
    • 10. Thermal properties of matter
    • 11. Thermal (heat) energy transfers
    • 12. Sound
    • 13. Light
    • 14. Properties of waves
    • 15. Spectra
    • 16. Magnetism
    • 17. Static electricity
    • 18. Electrical quantities
    • 19. Electric circuits
    • 20. Electromagnetic forces
    • 21. Electromagnetic induction
    • 22. The nuclear atom
    • 23. Radioactivity

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