Advanced Higher Physics

This page contains notes for Advanced Higher Physics workshops run by the Department of Physics at the University of Aberdeen. The format is pdf and you can click here if you need an up-to-date Adobe pdf file reader.

Past workshops

Pupils' workshops

• Wave-particle duality day (pdf file, 20 pages)
• Practical optics workshop (pdf file, 45 pages)

  Teachers' workshops

  • Electricity and Magnetism
    • Programme and Talks (17 pages)
      • Our Invisible Enviroment slides (24 pages); summary pages (4 pages) (notes are in talks pages)
    • Electricity and Magnetism Lab (11 pages)
  • Mechanics
    • Special Relativity Talk (~40 pages); summary pages (7 pages)
    • General Relativity Talk (21 pages); summary pages (4 pages); notes pages (9 pages)
    • Chaos Talk (46 pages); summary pages (8 pages)
    • Mechanics Lab (details to come)
    • Additional Links
      • Why we believe in special relativity
      • Centenary short talk on Albert Einstein

  Assessment aids

  We offer a number of administrative assessment aids for the Advanced Higher learning outcomes and investigation that have been prepared by Stuart Leadstone and found to be useful.

  • Advice for students
  • Learning outcomes 1 & 2
  • Learning outcome 3
  • Investigation record of assessment
  • Investigation course assessment checklist

Occasional links

• Of interest to many might be these virtual science and engineering labs from Johns Hopkins University.
• Finally, but not least, access to the Health & Safety Executive (always abbreviated HSE) pages.