Many resources for teaching Mechanics can be found on my A Level teaching resources page, this post highlights just some of the useful Mechanics examples and notes.
- Notes and Examples
- Knowledge Organisers
- Erica’s Errors – Mechanics
- Dr Frost Maths – Mechanics
- Dr Austin Maths A Level
- PhET Simulations
- Mechanics Calculators
- Edexcel Scheme of work and use of Technology
- Further Maths – Dimensional Analysis
Notes and Examples
From the excellent MathsBox site, see: A Level Maths Mechanics Revision Notes. The notes have a very comprehensive set of clear and well-explained examples.
Also available are Pure and Statistics notes.
Mathsbox has many free samples to try, easily one of the best value subscription sites around in my opinion.
Resources for Mechanics from mathcentre.
Forces and Newton’s Laws of Motion
Hodder My Revision Notes
You might find these free Hodder Revision Resources useful; questions and fully worked solutions for each section of the book are provided, and whilst the documents refer to the books, they are complete in themselves. The free document pdf file) has questions with fully worked answers.
Hodder – My Revision Notes series
- AQA A Level Maths (Pure)
- AQA A Level Maths (Applied)
- Edexcel A Level Maths (Pure)
- Edexcel A Level Maths (Applied)
- OCR B (MEI) A Level Mathematics (Pure)
- OCR B (MEI) A Level Mathematics (Applied)
- OCR (A) A Level Mathematics (Applied)
From CIMT, the A Level Mathematics course material includes a section on Mechanics. These topics are mostly aimed at the Mechanics found in Further Maths specifications.
A Level Knowledge Organisers
This page includes a set of knowledge organisers from Lucyjc. These resources are available free on TES Resources: Mechanics. All include Key Words and Definitions and What Do I Need to Know sections.
From an absolute favourite resource Author – Andy Lutwyche, (search his resources by newest on TES). Have a look at his excellent Erica’s Errors series which included Mechanics.
Dr Frost Maths – Key Skills
You will find an excellent collection of practice questions – try these key skills for Mechanics.
Select All Skills, and see the Mechanics menu. The resources for each section include key skills.
Dr Frost Teaching resources (see Mechanics index)
Select All Skills, and see the Mechanics menu. The resources for each section include teaching resources.
The latest resources are so good. Look at this PowePoint on Displacement-Time & Velocity-Time Graphs, for example. Animations help to explain the concepts.
There is now an A Level section on Dr Austin Maths with a growing collection of resources. We see some useful introductory resources for Mechanics.
PhET Simulations
PhET Sims Forces and Motion: Basics
From PhET Interactive Simulations, see
PhET Balancing Act working nicely on my phone!
Staying with Mechanics, one of my favourites available in the HTML5 collection: Projectile Motion.
Calculators
Elastic Collisions Calculators, Projectiles, Periodic Motion
Projectile Motion Calculator from Mr Mont.com
Edexcel’s latest Scheme of Work document now includes many links for the use of technology as well as all the very useful notes for teachers. A link from the Mechanics notes led to these CG50 Mechanics resources.
Edexcel’s GeoGebra resources include a small number for Mechanics at A level, and more for Further Maths.
It is good to see all the GeoGebra resources for Further Mathematics, for example, check Explore toppling and sliding using GeoGebra.
Dimensional Analysis
AQA: Optional application 1 – mechanics Assessed at AS and A Level
My post on Dimensional Analysis for Further Maths includes many resources for teaching this topic.