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.
A brief note on Beats, Resonance and the Doppler Effect: the beat frequency, the resonance tube and its end correction, and the Doppler rule for sound, with practice and a program.
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.
A brief note on Superposition and Standing Waves: adding waves, interference, reflection at fixed and free ends, standing waves, the modes of a string and of open and closed pipes. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions.
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.
A brief note on Travelling Waves and Wave Speed: transverse and longitudinal waves, the equation of a travelling wave, the wave speed against the particle speed, and the speed on a string and in a gas. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions.
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.
A brief note on The Simple Pendulum, Damping and Resonance: the period of a pendulum and what changes it, other oscillators, damping and resonance, with practice and a program.
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.
A brief note on Force Law, Springs and Energy in SHM: the force law and the period, hanging springs, springs in series and in parallel, and the energy of an oscillator. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions.