Introduction - Chemistry - French - Physics
The projects on this page are currently what I did for my 'A' levels (Chemistry, French, Maths, and Physics). In case you are unfamiliar with the British Education System, 'A' levels are what many 16-18 year old students take after compulsory education. (For more details, try my old school's home page). Naturally I don't promote the idea that you copy my projects straight off, but please feel free to use them as research material!
When I start having to do written work for my Physics Degree, it will also be available here.
I write all my projects in HTML. For my graphics I used either
JPEGs, GIFs, or PNGs. My spreadsheet application was Quattro Pro 6.1
(extension .wb2), and my DTP package of choice was
PagePlus 5.0 (extension .ppp). However,
I am now turning to gnuplot for my graphs, and have
stopped doing DTP work (I don't need DTP anymore: all my work is
online, meaning I hardly ever need to print posters and leaflets
anymore).
If there are are problems, e-mail me. I'm no psychic. I can't guess! Note: The links are not colour coded in these projects.
Many of the crib sheets are incomplete. This is because I used them as scratch books to revise with, and did not need to ever submit the work. If you wish to use them, be aware that you will need to finish them first! And if you do, please send me the completed version!
Projects marked [HTML4] rely on support for cutting edge
technology :-) developed by the World Wide Web
Consortium, namely
HTML4
and CSS2.
This means non-compliant browsers (including all versions of Netscape
and Opera) will not display them properly. Furthermore, since IE4
doesn't (correctly) support the full "HTML Named entities for
symbols, mathematical symbols, and Greek letters" found in the HTML4
Recommendation I do not use named entities for greek symbols like
θ. For these I use <SPAN CLASS=GREEK>q</SPAN>,
and have defined [class~="GREEK"] as having {font-family:
"Symbol", "Greek"} in my style sheet. This forces
the Latin letters to be mapped (in Windows) to the greek characters.
What IE4 should do with fonts which do not support the full UNICODE character
set is map any unsupported characters to a font which does, eg
"Symbol". It doesn't. This is why while I do use entities
like ± and ÷, I don't use θ.
Projects marked [CWRK] have been (or soon will be) submitted, and are pieces of coursework which will count towards my final certification.
I followed the course set out in the "NUFFIELD ADVANCED SCIENCE CHEMISTRY STUDENTS BOOK" (3rd Edition).
The first three were practice
essays. The last four are my actual final submitted exam pieces (when
I say the last four
, I am referring to the last
two pages, which both contain two essays a piece). I am very unlikely
to produce any more french work, since I have now finished my french
'A' level, and do not intend to follow any further french courses.
Examinez l'importance de la situation
et le relief de la région que vous avez étudiée
pour sa prosperité. My region of choice is La
Suisse Romande. Links for more information will be available in
the comments
section.Note. An essay on torsional pendulums was removed to save disk space. If you need it do not hesitate to e-mail me.
Here are the projects that I have did in year two:
Many of the "HTML4-only" pages render reasonably well on older browsers too, but some errors may show (for example, greek letters not showing).
The marks ([HTML4] and [CWRK]) are not-a-gifs (tm). Thanks to Sue Sims for inventing the term.