LIST OF PHYSICS LABELLED DIAGRAMS REQUIRED FOR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE

Pupils are expected to draw and label these over and over again till they can memorise them:

  1. Velocity-time graph to illustrate terminal velocity.
  2. The simple barometer.
  3. Diagram to show how conduction takes place in a solid by molecular vibration and free electron diffusion (for metals).
  4. Diagram to show convection currents in fluid being heated.
  5. The laboratory thermometer.
  6. The clinical thermometer.
  7. The thermocouple thermometer.
  8. Diagrams to show arrangement and motion of the particles in the solid, liquid and gaseous states.
  9. Diagram to show the process of evaporation at the molecular level.
  10. The optical fibre transmitting a ray of light.
  11. A parallel beam of light passing through a converging lens.
  12. A parallel beam of light passing through a diverging lens.
  13. Ray diagrams to show the formation of images in the normal eye, a short-sighted eye and a long-sighted eye.
  14. Ray diagram to show the use of a converging lens as a camera.
  15. Ray diagram to show the use of a converging lens as a projector or photographic enlarger.
  16. Ray diagrams to show the correction of short-sight by a diverging lens.
  17. Ray diagrams to show the correction of long-sight by a converging lens.
  18. The main components of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  19. Magnetic field lines round a bar magnet.
  20. Diagram showing magnetic screening of the field lines produced by magnets.
  21. Magnetic field lines round a straight, current-carrying conductor.
  22. Magnetic field lines produced by a solenoid.
  23. The simple magnetic relay.
  24. The loudspeaker.
  25. Electric field lines round a small positive charge and round a small negative charge.
  26. Electric field pattern of two charged bodies placed near each other with opposite charges on them.
  27. Circuit symbols for cell, battery, a.c mains, switches (closed and open), resistors (fixed and variable), light dependent resistors, lamp, ammeters, voltmeters, magnetising coils, bells, fuses, relays, light-emitting diodes and rectifying diodes.
  28. Voltage-current graph for a resistor.
  29. Voltage-current graph for a filament lamp.
  30. Wiring in a mains plug.
  31. Field patterns due to two straight current-carrying wires with currents flowing in the same direction.
  32.  Field patterns due to two straight current-carrying wires with currents flowing in opposite directions.
  33. Structure of the d.c motor.
  34. Structure of the a.c generator.
  35. Output voltage with position of coil graph for an a.c generator.
  36. The simple iron-cored transformer.
  37. Basic structure of the cathode ray oscilloscope.
  38. Circuit showing the use of a thermistor as a temperature-operated alarm.
  39. Variable potential divider (potentiometer).
  40. Simple circuit showing the use of a diode to rectify an alternating current.
  41. Circuit showing the use of a capacitor in a time-delay circuit.
  42. The structure of a reed switch.
  43. Deflection of radioactive emissions in electric fields.
  44. Deflection of radioactive emissions in magnetic fields.