What are the concepts in Physics and Mathematics that students find difficult? In this blog I will post tutorial sheets that I hope will stimulate thinking and so broaden the knowledge and understanding of students allowing them to write thorough examination responses. Tutorial sheets, structured to assist student learning, will be posted on IB SL and HL Physics syllabus topics as well as the general HSC topics of relativity, electromagnetism, mechanics, thermodynamics, quantum physics and calculus. The overall purpose of these pages is to encourage and promote learning in Physics and Mathematics and so open new horizons in learning.
Physics and Mathematics Extension students are taught that, provided resistance forces are neglected, an object released from rest undergoes the same vertical displacement in the same time interval as an object projected horizontally. Now let resistance forces be included. Would it ever be possible for the horizontally projected object to have a greater vertical displacement in the same time interval than the object released from rest?
A common phrase often seen in textbooks is "Einstein's greatest blunder". Many Physics and Mathematics students are not aware of "Einstein's happiest thought". What was it?
“In 1907 Albert Einstein was sitting in his patent office in Bern Switzerland when he had what he later described as “the happiest moment of my life”-that a person who falls freely under gravity feels weightless.”
Welcome to Sydney Physics Tutor, my name is Stephen McAndrew. I have taught Physics and Mathematics in independent schools in Sydney and the UK for 38 years. I offer expert individual tutoring to allow students to fulfil their academic promise. I focus on the individual student and prepare structured work to address their particular deficiencies in knowledge and skills and develop these deficiencies into strengths. I use traditional methods of instruction where students write their answers in examination style format and are tested regularly to build their confidence and so develop a love of learning in Physics and Mathematics.
STEPHEN MCANDREW
MA, MSc, PhD, DipEd, CPhys, MInstP, MAIP, MAustMS, FRAS
Sydney Physics and Mathematics Tutor
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