Free worksheet and solutions · AQA AS · 7407
AQA AS Physics Potential Dividers: Museum Display Worksheet
AQA AS potential divider worksheet with answers: LDR and thermistor sensors, output voltage, trigger settings, variable resistors and loading in a museum display.
What is covered
Questions and skills covered
The worksheet contains 5 pages of printable questions. A separate 6-page solutions PDF makes it easy to mark, review or share answers after the activity.
- Calculating unloaded divider outputs and selecting sensor thresholds
- Using LDR and NTC thermistor data to protect a museum exhibit
- Comparing a three-terminal variable divider with a rheostat
- Analysing input loading, branch currents and revised switching thresholds
Specification fit
AQA AS Physics Worksheets
7407 · 3.5.1.3, 3.5.1.4, 3.5.1.5
Choose the correct pathway: AQA AS 7407 and shared first-year A Level 7408 content. Sensor-divider design and supplied controller input-resistance models; no operational-amplifier or transistor theory is required.
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