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Related resources for spreadsheets

These resources, covering a range of applications, are just some of the resources that have been developed by the Centre for Learning Innovation. Each uses spreadsheet functions differently according to the analysis and output required.

The resources can be easily modified to suit a range of context areas. For some of these you may need to select ‘Enable macros’ from the security options.

Excel 2007 users: To see all the sheets available you will need to maximise the window.

Projectile motion

Revise the components of projectile motion (Stage 6 Physics):

Interact with graphs to show the effect of changing variables in projectile motion:

Forces between parallel conductors

This shows one solution for a particular problem with electric current flowing between two horizontal conductors:

Radioactivity

These are basic templates to process radiation counts obtained from radioactive sources passing through different materials:

Sunspots image viewer

Here, a spreadsheet is used to display images of the sun showing sunspot activity for each month. Each image can be supplemented by a description through a text box or cell note if the user wishes:

Motion

Find the acceleration due to gravity for a pendulum using this template, which calculates the period and then graphs it to obtain ‘g’:

Conversion of quantities

Spreadsheets can be modified to convert a wide range of measurements. See the second sheet of the following resource for conversion factors: