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Worksheet 5.1
Case study: Isaac Newton

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Worksheet 5.1A
Case study: Isaac Newton
Read the case study about Isaac Newton.
1 Link the words in bold type with their meanings. One has been done as an example.

Servant A force that pulls objects towards the Earth.

Scholarship Used evidence to make a decision.

Downwards The path taken by a body in space around a bigger body.

Attracted Somebody who looks after another person for payment.

Gravity An instrument which allows you to see things much bigger

than with the naked eye.

Concluded A direction towards the centre of the Earth.

Orbit Caused objects to move in a certain way.

Telescope Payment of fees for attending university.

2 Which university did Newton go to?

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3 List three important things that Newton discovered or invented.

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4 What caused the apple fall to the ground?

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Worksheet 5.1B
Case study: Isaac Newton
Read the case study about Isaac Newton.
1 What evidence made Newton suggest the idea of gravity?

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2 a How did Newton explain gravity ?

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b What units do we use to measure the force of gravity?

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3 How did Newton explain the fact that the Moon does not fall down to Earth?

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4 How did Newton manage to observe the Moon and planets in space?

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5 How old was Newton when he died?

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Worksheet 5.1C
Case study: Isaac Newton
Read the case study about Isaac Newton.
1 Why is Newton famous as a mathematician, a physicist and an astronomer?

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2 Explain how the apple falling from the tree led to Newton’s theory of gravity.

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3 Newton did a lot of important thinking when the university closed and he was forced
to go home for two years during the Great Plague.
Do some research to find out what the Great Plague was – what caused it,
how many people it affected and what finally stopped it.

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Worksheet 5.4
Planning lamps and switches for a flat
Imagine you are planning the electric lighting for a small flat.
There is a lounge with a kitchen area, a bedroom and a bathroom.

You need 12 V to supply the electricity.

The lounge, the kitchen area, the bedroom and the bathroom each need a lamp.
Each lamp needs its own switch.
1 List the components you need.

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2 Will you use a series circuit or a parallel circuit? Explain why.

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3 Why does each lamp need its own switch?

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4 Draw a circuit diagram to show your plan.

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Help sheet
1 List the components you need.
• How many lamps do you need?
• How many switches do you need?
• How many 3V batteries would you need? How many 1.5 V cells would you need?
• What do you need to join all the components together?
2 Why does each lamp need its own switch?
Think about this – if you are going to bed, which room would you prefer to be in when you switch
the bedroom light off?

3 Will you use a series circuit or a parallel circuit? Explain why.

Remember that a series circuit is a circuit where the electric current only has one pathway.
A parallel circuit is a circuit where there is more than one pathway and each pathway
receives the full circuit voltage.
If you switch on one lamp do you want all the lamps to come on?
And when you switch off a lamp do you want all the lamps to switch off?

4 Draw a circuit diagram to show your plan.

Now that you have decided which components you need and whether it is a series
or a parallel circuit, you should be able to draw your circuit diagram.

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Stretch question
Think about where you would put the lamps and the switches in the flat in the
most convenient places.
Draw the symbols for the lights and switches on the plan of the flat below.
Draw red lines to show how you would connect the lamps and switches to the
battery using the type of circuit you used in answers 3 and 4.

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