Reading material from teachers and learners: theory, worked examples and questions that make you think. Some notes are made with AI, and they always say so.
Wave speed, interference and beats, standing waves on strings and in pipes, the resonance tube, and the Doppler effect. With the usual slips and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on Entropy, Gibbs Energy and Spontaneity: spontaneous change, the sign of delta S, the second and third laws, delta G and its four cases, and the link between delta G standard and K. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on Combinations: the formula for nCr and its link to nPr, the symmetry and Pascal's rule, counting lines, triangles and diagonals, and selections with conditions. With practice, a program and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on Chordates: Fishes to Mammals: the four chordate features, the three subphyla, and the seven classes of vertebrates with their hearts, skin and body temperature. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on Genetics by Computer: gametes as letters, sorted genotypes, Punnett squares with loops and Counter, two genes with itertools.product and the 9:3:3:1 ratio, the test cross, and simulated crosses with random.choice. With practice, a program and questions.
The Weather Project: the six steps of a data project, showing a month of weather, its centre, spread and chances, linked days, and an honest report with a limit. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions.
Relative velocity along a line, meeting and catching up, position-time graphs, and relative velocity in two dimensions with rain, rivers and wind. With the usual slips and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on Enthalpy and Hess's Law: enthalpy and calorimetry, standard enthalpies of formation, combustion and phase change, Hess's law and bond enthalpies. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on Permutations: arranging different objects, repeats allowed, objects that look alike, objects that must stay together or apart, numbers from digits and the rank of a word. With practice, a program and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on Animals Without a Backbone: the non-chordate phyla from the sponges to the hemichordates, the telling feature of each, and the examples to know. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on Growth and Populations by Computer: exponential growth, log axes, doubling time, logistic growth stepped in code, and fitting curves with polyfit and curve_fit. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on Chance: probability by counting, the chance that something does not happen, relative frequency and the long run, two events together, at least one, and taking without putting back. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions.
Photons and the photoelectric effect, the stopping potential and its graph, Bohr's levels of hydrogen and its spectral series, and the de Broglie wavelength of matter. With the usual slips and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on Systems, Heat, Work and the First Law: open, closed and isolated systems, state functions, internal energy, the sign convention, the first law, and the work of expansion. With a worked example, practice and a program.
A brief note on The Fundamental Principle of Counting: the multiplication principle with and without repetition, the addition principle for separate cases, filling places, and factorials with . With a worked example, practice, a program and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on How Animals Are Classified: levels of organisation, the gut and circulation, symmetry, germ layers, the body cavity, segmentation, the notochord and the key to the phyla. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on The Periodic Table as Data: the elements as a pandas table, selecting, sorting and filtering, computed columns, plots of the trends coloured by block, and groupby, corr and diff to find patterns and breaks. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on Spread: the range, quartiles and the IQR, box plots, the variance and the standard deviation, which measure to use, and what adding or multiplying does to the spread. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions.
Ohm's law, resistors in series and in parallel, Kirchhoff's rules, cells with internal resistance, the most power a battery can give, and the Wheatstone bridge. With the usual slips and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on Molecular Orbitals and Hydrogen Bonding: bonding and antibonding orbitals, the two energy orders, bond order and magnetism, the ions of oxygen, and the hydrogen bond. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on Special Angles and Trigonometric Identities: the table of 0°, 30°, 45°, 60° and 90°, why tan 90° is not defined, the three identities, writing every ratio from one, and how to prove an identity. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on How Traits Are Expressed, and Sex Determination: genes and proteins, chromosomes in pairs and gametes, and how sex is decided. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on Moles and Reactions by Computer: reading formulas into counts with a dictionary and re, molar mass and percent composition, the limiting reagent as a function, yield and gas volumes, and solutions in code. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on What Is Data?: tables of cases and variables, the four kinds of data, and how to choose a fair sample and ask a fair question. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions.
Electromagnetic induction and Fleming's right-hand rule, the AC and DC generator, frequency and the mains, and safe house wiring with fuses and the earth wire. With the usual slips and questions to check yourself.