The purpose of this web-app is to produce calculation problems with worked examples covering all equations found in the IB and (AQA) A-Level physics course, with full worked solutions to help you understand them. It will also produce printable worksheets with answers keys.
Instructions:
1. Create questions and review their workings:
Click the New question button to generate a new question and the Previous question button to return to a past question.
Click the Next step button to work through the solution one step at a time, click Show answer to go straight to the answer with all workings, and Previous step to remove a stage of working.
2. Select a course
Use the Course drop-down menu; this will determine the question bank available to you. You can choose from IB Physics (HL or SL), A-Level Physics (currently just AQA) or leave it on All to see all available questions.
3. Select the type of questions asked:
Select a topic for the current course using the Topic drop-down.
Select a question style from the Question style drop-down, you can choose between:
Derivation – Algebraic questions that require you to derive expressions for quantities by combining two or more equations.
Equation – Questions that test your ability to select and rearrange a single equation to calculate an unknown quantity.
Graph – Questions that require you to calculate an answer by interpreting a graph. This may include drawing lines of best fit, tangents and calculating gradients.
Problem – Multi-step problems that require you to combine two or more equations to reach a solution.
Select an option from the Question type drop-down to choose the particular specific equation or type of problem you want to practise.
If the question style is set to Equation, you can also choose an option from the Question variable drop-down to generate questions requiring a specific variable to be calculated. Leaving this on Any will randomly select the question variable.
Toggle Random mode to On to be presented with a random question each time (useful for revision practice).
Click Select options to narrow down the range of questions that appear in random mode.
4. Set question options:
Toggle Include unit conversions on to generate questions requiring unit conversions.
Toggle Coloured workings on to colour-code the workings which can make it easier to follow how values are used during a calculation.
5. Analyse graphs:
Click on graphs to expand them to full-screen, click on them again to reduce them to their original size.
When a graph question is visible, you will have access to some or all of these tools:
Toggle Interpret graph to On, then hover the mouse over the graph’s line (or tap it on a touchscreen) to view the x- and y-values at that point on the graph.
Note: If a line of best fit has been drawn, this tool will snap to the line of best fit, if a tangent has been drawn, the tool will snap to the tangent in preference to other lines.
If only data points are shown with no line drawn, add a line of best fit by toggling the Line of best fit toggle to Straight or Curved.
Straight – Click on either end of the line to position the end where you want it, click elsewhere on the line to drag the whole line.
Curved – Click on either end of the line to position the end where you want it, click on the tab in the middle of the curve to adjust where the apex of the curve will be, and click and drag on the Bezier curve handles that appear on clicking the central tab to adjust the sharpness and angle of the curve. Click elsewhere on the line to drag the whole line.
Some questions require you to add a tangent to a curve; to do this toggle Add tangent to On then click on either end of the line to position the end where you want it, click elsewhere on the line to drag the whole line. Use the Interpret graph tool to read the tangent if needed.
6. Create worksheets:
Click the Create button.
Select question types:
Choose options from the Topic, Style and Type drop-downs, then enter a number of questions under Questions. A worksheet can contain up to 100 questions.
Click Close once you are happy with your selection.
Set the worksheet options:
Worksheet title: Give the worksheet a title.
Question arrangement: Toggle between Ordered for questions to appear in the order chosen or Random to randomly arrange them (useful for training students to choose their method).
Answer key: Toggle between Integrated for the answers to appear at the end of the worksheet and Separate for them to be included on a separate document.
Include space for name: Toggle to On to do as suggested.
Include space for answers: Toggle to On to do as suggested.
Generate the worksheet:
Click the Generate and preview button to generate a set of questions matching your options and to view a preview of them (Note: if you subsequently change any of the options, you will need to re-click this button).
Click the Regenerate button if you don’t like the current set of questions and want to create a new set.
Click the Download PDF button to download the worksheet as a PDF.
Click the Download RTF button to download the worksheet as an editable RTF file.
Note: If Answer key is set to Separate, you may get a browser dialogue asking you to enable multiple file downloads because two files need to be downloaded at once, click Allow if you are happy to proceed.