Slide Preview for P5 Space for Reflection

Powerpoint Description:

Use this slideshow to help you teach the OCR Gateway triple science P5 unit. It covers: the Earth's orbit, gravity, centripetal force and orbits, natural and artificial satellites, comets and their orbit, uses of artificial satellites, speed vs velocity, relative speed, circular motion, vector and scalar quantities, adding vectors, equations of motion, projectile motion, using projectile motion in sport, trajectories, Newton's third law, action and reaction, momentum, conservation of momentum, particle motion in gases and how it causes gas pressure, gas pressure in rockets, diffraction of waves, sending signals to artificial satellites, digital signals, sending radio waves through the atmosphere, diffraction of radio waves, constructive and destructive interference, interference in sound waves, path difference, phase difference, coherence, how light travels, interference patterns from single and double slits, polarisation, particle theory vs wave theory, refraction of light through a glass block, refractive index, dispersion of light, critical angles, uses of total internal reflection, converging lenses, ray diagrams for converging lenses, using lenses in cameras and magnifying glasses, magnification.