Astrophysics general notes
I love finishing with this topic. There are ties in with a number of the other units (Topic 2, 4, 7, 8 in particular). It's also great to have the students thinking about how we know what we know about space and how much more there is that is unknown and can be explored.
Topic d.1 - Stellar quantities
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Formative Assessment:
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I use the freely available resources at ibdiploma.cambridge.org/books/phys6/4/planner for my formative assessments in this topic. You can find both subtopic questions and exam-style questions under the resources tab.
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Useful Videos:
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Veritasium - Misconceptions about the Universe
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- Using "stars" on the board as well as strings to demonstrate the use of parallax measure star distances
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Topic D.2 - Stellar Characteristics and Stellar evolution
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I use the freely available resources at ibdiploma.cambridge.org/books/phys6/4/planner for my formative assessments in this topic. You can find both subtopic questions and exam-style questions under the resources tab.
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Useful Videos:
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Minutephysics - Star Corpses
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Minutephysics - How we know black holes exist
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Kurzgesagt - Black Holes
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- Coming later
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Topic D.3 - cosmology
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I use the freely available resources at ibdiploma.cambridge.org/books/phys6/4/planner for my formative assessments in this topic. You can find both subtopic questions and exam-style questions under the resources tab.
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Useful Videos:
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- Minute Physics (You can ignore the religion pieces, but they do have historical context)
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Minute Physics - Seeing the past
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Practical Ideas:
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- Coming later
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Topic d.4 - stellar processes (AHL)
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I use the freely available resources at ibdiploma.cambridge.org/books/phys6/4/planner for my formative assessments in this topic. You can find both subtopic questions and exam-style questions under the resources tab.
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Useful Videos:
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- Coming later
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Practical Ideas:
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- Coming later
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Topic d.5 - Further cosmology
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I use the freely available resources at ibdiploma.cambridge.org/books/phys6/4/planner for my formative assessments in this topic. You can find both subtopic questions and exam-style questions under the resources tab.
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Physics Girl - Why the universe is flat
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Useful Videos:
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Kurzgesagt - Dark Matter and Dark Energy
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Gravitational Lensing
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Practical Ideas:
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- Coming later
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Astrophysics Formative Assessment
| astrophysics_sl_-_auto-test.pdf |
| astrophysics_hl_-_auto-test.pdf |