MrBadmusSpring First Half

Year 9 · Spring First Half

Physics

3 lessons from 2 units.

Unit P9 · lesson 3 of 3

Static electricity

Rubbing does not make charge — it moves electrons, and leaves two objects equally and oppositely charged. Follow that from a duster to the field that reaches across an empty gap.

Unit P10 · lessons 1 to 2 of 5

Magnetism and electromagnetism

A magnet does not have to touch anything to act on it — and only one of the things it does is proof that the other object is a magnet too. Follow that from two bars on a track to the field a current makes, and to the motor that field turns.

  1. 03Electric fieldsModelHow can one thing push or pull on another across a gap when nothing touches?Open this lesson
  2. 01Magnets and polesContrastWhat can a magnet tell you about whatever you hold it near?Open this lesson
  3. 02Magnetic fieldsInvestigationWhat is in the space around a magnet, and how can we see it?Open this lesson

Back to all three sciences this half term The whole KS3 Physics course