Galashiels Academy
Physics Department

 

Whole course

Radiations
Telecommunications
Electricity
Movement
Electronics
Sound & Music

Useful links, animations and games to help you through Int 1 Physics.

Some links will not play on the school internet but have been included for you to use at home.

If you find and more good weblinks email then to Mrs. Pritchard at galashiels.physics@googlemail.com

Animations videos games quizzes summaries

Whole Course

- BBC Bitesize -
- SQA Website -
- SQA Past Papers -
- SQA Data Booklet -
- SG Physics - Glossary -
- Dictionary -
- Help my Physics -
- Revision World -
- Fizzics Fizzle-

 

- Mini Topic Tests -
- Revision Questions -
- Revision Tips -
- Physics Units Quiz -
- Physics Equations -
- Physics Equations Game -
- Units Wordsearch -
- Units Pairs Game -
- Units Matching Game -

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Light
- Lasers -
- Laser Eye surgery -
- Inside Story - Endoscope -

X-rays
- X-rays -

Gamma Rays
- Alpha, Beta and Gamma radiation -
- Alpha, Beta, gamma Game -
- Inside Story - Radiotherapy -

UV and IR
- Ultra Violet -
- Infra Red -

Radio and TV
- Radio Receiver -
- Radio crossword -
- Radio Block Diagrams -
- Radio Transmission -
- Speed of Radio waves -
- Radio waves -
- Television -
- How your TV works Sci-cast -
- Colour mixing -
- Colour mixing game -

Satellites
- Satellites -
- Satellites (click mouse on pic) -
- Satellite Game -

Optical Fibres
- Reflection -
- Law of Reflection -
- Reflection - BBC -
- Reflection - Mirror -
- Total internal Reflection -

The Telephone
- Telephone -
- Microphone -
- Loudspeaker -

Electrical Circuits
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- Static - Shock John Travolta -
- Circuit Symbols -
- Current, Charge and Time -
- Q = It Quiz -
- Energy, Power and Time -
- Voltage -
- Using a Voltmeter -
- Voltage in a series circuit -
- Voltage in a parallel circuit -
- Current -
- Using an ammeter -
- Current in a series circuit -
- Current in a parallel circuit -

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Resistance
- Resistance -
- Resistors and Voltage -
- Series Circuit -
- Ohm's Law calculations -
- Variable Resistor -
- Ohm's Law -
- Ohm's Law Quiz - -

Household Electrics
- Household Electrics - Bitesize -
- Plugs -
- Plugs Quiz -
- Wiring a plug - video -
- Fuses -
- Electricity Bills Quiz -

Speed, distance, acceleration
- Key Words Wordsearch -
- Key words pairs game -
- Speed distance and time -
- Speed-time graph Quiz -
- Average Speed -
- Acceleration -
- Acceleration Quiz -
- Acceleration equation -
- Measuring Acceleration -
- Stopping Distances -
- Save the Bunny -

 

1. 
   Forces
   - Keywords Wordsearch -
   - Keywords Pairs Game -
   - Newton Balance Mass on a Spring -
   - Gravity Scicast -
   - Weight -
   - Your weight on other Planets -
   - Weight vs Gravity Game -
   - Forces and Weight Quiz -
   - Gravity Game -
   - Friction -
   - Bungee Jump Game -
   - Parachute Game -
   - Balanced Forces Scicast

Electronics

Whole Course
- Revision Quiz -
- Keyword Game -

Output Devices
- Binary Converter -
- 7 segment display -
- Components Quiz -
- Components Crossword -

 

Input Devices
- Voltage Dividers -
- Light Dependant Resistor -
- LDR and Transistor -

Logic Gates
- Logic Gates -
- Logic Gates - Decision board -
- Logic Gate Game -

Sound
- Sound -
- Sound Waves -
- Sound Sci-cast -
- Sound and Pitch (BBC) -
- The Ear -
- Key Words - Sound -
- How we hear -
- Sound and Light animations -
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