MLC Resources for PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF NATURE
This page contains various resources for the University of Adelaide course "Physical Aspects of Nature" (PAN). To find out more about these courses, please search for them in the Course Information.
There are several mathematical skills that will be useful for your Physics study.The resources below can help you to learn more about them in various ways.
Online revision resource
The MLC's online resource, the MathsBridge has questions to test your understanding, as well as resources to help you learn more. You should focus on the following topics (in roughly this order):
Short revision worksheets
Short worksheets in PDF form are also available on the following topics:
- Scientific notation and rounding: scientific notation and rounding worksheet download.
- Index laws: index laws worksheet download.
- Logarithms: logarithms worksheet download.
- Quadratic equations: quadratic equations worksheet download.
- Basic trigonometry and radians: basic trigonometry and radians worksheet download.
- More trigonometry: more trigonometry worksheet download.
- Differentiation: differentiation worksheet download.
Revision Mini-textbooks
The MLC's bridging courses cover some of the above topics in much more detail. Click on the link below to go to the bridging course resources pages where you can download "mini-textbooks" with explnations and exercises to try.
MLC Drop-In Centre
If you have any questions about the above resources, or about any maths relating to physics at all, please do come visit the MLC's Drop-In Centre:
- Open 10am - 4pm, Monday to Friday
- Level 3, Hub Central, North Terrace Campus
- No need to make an appointment -- just drop in
- MLC Drop-In Centre page
