Good start to the practical – make sure you have a good range of values covering about a metre. And plenty of replicates…
Credits really inspire you people to work, and I was impressed with the work you are producing for this pendulum experiment. I suggest this weekend you do some revision for the mock exams coming up, and finish all the writing that you can for the oscillation length experiment… The more you get done in the weekend the more feedback I can give you in class.
Well its been a while since I wrote here. We are doing this whole pendulum thing, and I know it is Not Very Exciting, but try to keep in mind that by doing the practices and following the feedback you get on your practice runs, the chances that you are going to get four credits out of the actual test is Really High. And although we have a few people in the class that have already got their NCEA Level 1, most of the rest of you won’t mind getting a few more credits.When you are doing your practice runs you need to write the method as though you are explaining what to do to a third former. They know what the various pieces of equipment are, but they don’t know what you want to do with it. So explain carefully and thoroughly, because they won’t be able to ask you questions when they don’t understand. Diagrams are very helpful, but you must label them.