Practical Exams for Physics

[winstondarmawan]

Hello! Just want a quick run-down of the things that are asessible for a physics practical exam (the actual pracs themselves, or any skills), as well as any other tips and tricks.

[blasonduo]

Hello! Just want a quick run-down of the things that are asessible for a physics practical exam (the actual pracs themselves, or any skills), as well as any other tips and tricks.

Any experiment that is in the syllabus, ie any experiment you do in class can be assessable.

For example "perform an investigation and gather information to determine a value for acceleration due to gravity using
pendulum motion or computer-assisted technology and identify the reason for possible variations from the value 9.8 ms-2"

You should've done this in class.
Things you NEED to know for experiments.

1) Independent and dependant variables!
2) Controls and why to use them
3) Reliability, Validity and accuracy
4) Be able to interpret graphs from certain experiments
5) Be able to plot graphs with Independent variable on X-axis
6) The method. (ie how the experiment was conducted)
7) Safety precautions.
8.) Explain the importance of these results and how these could deepen scientific understanding

Hope this helps!