The Physics Teaching Podcast

Tag: GCSE required practical

  • Density Required Practical, Accuracy and Precision (Two Dense Objects)

    Density Required Practical, Accuracy and Precision (Two Dense Objects)

    Summary Thomas and Robin chat about another required practical in UK GCSEs, measuring the density of regular and irregular objects. They run down the rabbit hole of accuracy vs precision before chatting about crazy ways of measuring everyday values. Physics in the news this week is the recent close up photograph of the surface of […]

  • Specific Heat Capacity (GCSE Required Practical)

    Specific Heat Capacity (GCSE Required Practical)

    Happy Christmas! In the last full podcast of 2019, Thomas and Robin chat about one of the core GCSE Practicals: Measuring Specific Heat Capacity. Also, stealth physics in “fun” Christmas lessons. Timestamps Bikes follow up @ 00:54 Stealth Physics “fun” lessons @ 02:10 Chatting about measuring Specific Heat Capacity @ 15:50 Summary Thomas doesn’t like […]