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Experiments can sharpen students' powers of observation, stimulate questions, and help develop new understanding and vocabulary.
This website is for teachers of physics, enabling them to share their skills and experience of making experiments work in the classroom. We appreciate that some students also use the site, but we cannot provide answers to student questions. For more on our aims, see 'about the site'.
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Featured Experiment : The inverse square law with light
Observe the behaviour of light from a point source. Develop the idea of an inverse square relationship and then consider Newton's gravitational law.
Top Hits
Check out some of our most popular experiments
Oscillation of a pendulum
Stretching and compressing materials
Van de Graaff generator
Physicists at play
Paul Gluck describes 28 attention-grabbing demonstrations, suitable for physics open days, physics club evenings, teacher meetings or road shows.
Schemes of work
Planning a series of physics lessons? Simply ‘copy’ the information printed at the bottom of each experiment, then ‘paste’ it into your scheme of work.
schoolphysics
This website offers definitions, explanations, diagrams, experiments and problems. All free, courtesy of Keith Gibbs.
Teaching Advanced Physics
If you teach A-level Physics in England or Wales, or Advanced Higher Physics in Scotland, take a look at these resources from the IoP.
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