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 Buffers, Salt Hydrolysis and Solubility: which salt solutions are acidic or basic, the hydrolysis formulas, the common ion effect, buffers and Henderson-Hasselbalch, the solubility product and precipitation. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on Geometric Progressions and the AM-GM Inequality: the nth term, the sum of n terms, the sum to infinity, recurring decimals, geometric means and the AM-GM inequality. With practice, a program and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on Mitochondria, Plastids and the Nucleus: mitochondria and plastids, ribosomes, the cytoskeleton, cilia and centrioles, and the nucleus with its chromosomes. 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 Acids, Bases and pH: the three ideas of acids and bases, conjugate pairs, the ionic product of water, the pH scale, and weak acids and bases. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on Sequences, Series and Arithmetic Progressions: sequences from a formula or a rule, sigma notation and partial sums, the nth term and the sum of an AP, its properties, and arithmetic means. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on The Cell Membrane, Wall and Endomembrane System: the fluid mosaic membrane and transport across it, the plant cell wall, and the ER, Golgi, lysosomes and vacuoles. 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 The Equilibrium Constant: dynamic equilibrium, Kc and Kp, heterogeneous equilibria, the reaction quotient, ICE tables, K and Gibbs energy, and Le Chatelier's principle. With a worked example, practice and a program.
A brief note on Probability with Coins, Dice and Cards: listing outcomes for coins and dice, the pack of cards, balls in a bag, discs and spinners, and working back from a probability. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on Cell Theory, Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes: the people behind the cell theory, the two kinds of cell, sizes and shapes, and the parts of a prokaryotic cell. 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 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 Probability: Equally Likely Outcomes: experiments, outcomes and events, equally likely outcomes, P(E) as favourable over total, impossible and sure events, and the complement. With a worked example, practice, a program and questions to check yourself.
A brief note on Our Impact on the Environment: the ozone layer and CFCs, biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste, and reducing, sorting and composting our garbage. 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.