Resources

States of matter - reducing aircraft contrails

Contrails occur when water vapour from jet engines condenses – only when the temperature and humidity conditions of the air is right. Contrails act like greenhouse gases. Marc Stettler from Imperial College, London is interested in guiding aircraft to fly where conditions are right, reducing contrail formation....

A self contained, sealed, acrylic enclosure measuring 180 × 180 × 40mm containing polystyrene spheres. When lightly rubbed with a cloth, the static charge developed causes the spheres to jump around inside the unit. A convenient and dramatic demonstration of charged particle attraction.

Static Electricity

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Identify when an electrostatic force is acting in familiar situations. 
• Describe how objects with a positive or negative charge attract or repel other charged objects.
• ...

Static electricity experiment

This STEM activity gives pupils the opportunity to investigate the effects of static electricity. Pupils will rub a balloon against their jumper and use the build-up of static charge to make tissue paper cat shapes pounce onto and stick to the balloon. They will then be encouraged to discuss and explain the outcome...

This book aims at providing an elementary look on the part of Dynamics which may be considered suitable for the non-specialist in mathematics.

Statics: Forces at a Point

This series of interactive excel sheets look systems in static equilibrium.

The first sheet looks at two forces acting on a point. A new question can be generated by clicking “new diagram” in which the angle and value...

Stationary points

This resource is part of a collection of Nuffield Maths resources exploring Calculus. The demand is roughly equivalent to that in GCE A level.

This stationary points activity shows students how to use differentiation to find stationary points on the curves of polynomial functions. It includes the use of the...

Stationery

Dotty grids, square grids, different types of graph paper and axes and number grids in different orientations make up this collection of printable resources from Subtangent.

A book with a focus on statistical inference rather than statistical description.

Statistical Calculations

These nine instant maths ideas explore a variety of statistical calculations. The first task asks students to discuss a spider diagram depicting descriptive statistics. Other tasks explore misconceptions when calculating different averages and consider which average is the most appropriate to use in different...