Archive for October 2009
Secrets of the Van der Graff
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: October 20, 2009
The philosopher of science Michael Polyani referred to it as ‘personal knowledge’, sociologist of science Harry Collins called it ‘tacit knowledge’ and your local gardener would simply know it as ‘green fingers’. It is the knowledge which we possess as experts in any given field but which is difficult to articulate. A certain ‘je ne [...]
Physics notes – now with a full set of solutions
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: October 12, 2009
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I may have mentioned that puting together the Junior Cert notes took rather a long time. Well it wasn’t much compared to how long it took to update the Leaving Cert notes. For these I took all the exam papers from 2002 to 2009 at both higher level and ordinary level and broke up each [...]
Nice resources for atomic bonding
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: October 6, 2009
A rather unorthodox approach to revising atomic bonding: It dovetails nicely with one of the many free resources from absorblearning – in this case an animation of an oxygen atom bonding (covalently) with two hydrogen atoms to form a water molecule. There are over 100 other free resources like this from the same site [...]
Annnnnd we’re back
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: October 1, 2009
- In: evolution | junior cert | notes
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It’s taken a while (actually all Summer) but thephysicsteacher.ie now contains student notes on all topics on the Junior Cert Science syllabus. Each chapter contains a copy of the relevant points from the syllabus at the beginning. This gives the student an overview of what the chapter is about and also acts as a check [...]
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