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Physics (New Syllabus)
IB DP Category 2
Berlin, Germany, 23 - 25 August 2024
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Physics (New Syllabus)
IB DP Category 1
Online (IB Approved), 25 - 27 October 2024
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The InThinking Physics site has been a life saver. Chris's explanations of syllabus content and assessment criteria have helped enormously with planning and programming. The inclusion of marked IAs in particular was really beneficial when I started teaching...
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The Friends School (Australia)
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I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.
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Students seem generally upbeat about the last set of May examinations for the 'legacy' Subject Guide.A glance at Paper 1 suggests that all is...
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I recently had the great privilege of being selected to speak at an event hosted by some of my students: TEDxUWCRCN.This was special because...
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- Hi Pauline, you are absolutely right. They are no longer explicitly referred to in the Guide. Saying this, when writing the textbook Chris and I had an IB reviewer (in addition to our publisher review) and were permitted to refer to the underlying...
- Done! You are right about not needing to remember the factor (at least, I don't require it) but in my experience students do appreciate having some clarity about these things.
- Hi Benson, regarding Q2, I guess you've hit upon a nice Nature of Science discussion for your class! Regarding Q5, I don't think it would appear as an exam question, but I think it's good if students learn how we can hear conversations in the...
- Hi Benson, do you mean that when the number of slits exceeds two we go from double-slit 'mode' into diffraction grating 'mode'? I don't think so; the phrase "secondary maxima" doesn't appear in the Guide (even though "intensity patterns" does).