Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Welcome!

    • Important updates

    • Downloads (Updated 22/02/2020)

    • Suggested Timeline for AP Physics Grade 11 and 12
  • 2

    Chapter 1. Analytical Skills

    • Acknowledgments

    • Section Requirements

    • Section 1 Resources - Downloads (Updated 17/02/2020)

    • A. SI Units (Updated 17/02/2020)

    • Exercise 1

    • Homogeneity of Physical Equations: (Updated 17/02/2020)

    • Exercise 2

    • Uncertainties and Significant Figures (Updated 17/02/2020)

    • Significant figures Additional Resource

    • Random and Systematic Errors (uncertainties) in Measurements (Updated 17/02/2020)

    • Precision and Accuracy Additional Resource

    • Exercise 3

    • Calculations using uncertainties (Updated 17/02/2020)

    • Exercise 4 (Updated 17/02/2020)

    • Graph Analysis - Downloads

    • Graphing

    • Uncertainty as Error Bars

    • Exercise 5

    • Determining the Gradient and intercepts of a straight line graph

    • Exercise 6

    • Analysing the Gradient and y-intercept of a straight line graph

    • Exercise 7

    • Uncertainties in the gradient and intercepts

    • Exercise 8

    • Solutions for Exercises 1-8

    • End of chapter exercise

    • Practical Lab 1
  • 3

    Chapter 2: Thermal Physics

    • Chapter 2 - Section Requirements and instructions

    • Chapter 2 Resources - Downloads

    • Lesson 1 – Temperature and Internal Energy – 120 minutes

    • Lesson 2 - The Kinetic model of matter – 30 minutes

    • Lesson 3 - Thermal Expansion – 120 minutes

    • Lesson 4 – Energy and Phase Changes – 30 min

    • Lesson 5 - Quantifying Energy Change During Heating and Cooling (without phase change) – 90 min

    • Lesson 6 – Experimental Determination of Specific Heat Capacity – Graphical Method – 30 min

    • Lesson 7 - Quantifying Energy Changes during Phase Changes – 60 min

    • Lesson 8 – Examples Involving Phase Changes And Temperature Changes – 30 min

    • Further Practice
  • 4

    Chapter 3: Modern Physics Section A -THE STRUCTURE OF MATTER

    • OBJECTIVES addressed in section A

    • Lesson 1 – Introduction to Particle Physics & the Standard Model

    • Worksheet 1: Quarks and leptons

    • Lesson 2 – Particle interactions

    • Worksheet 2: Particle interactions

    • Lesson 3 – The fundamental forces and exchange particles

    • Worksheet 3: The fundamental forces and exchange particles

    • Answer sheets for Worksheets 1-3
  • 5

    Chapter 4: NUCLEAR PHYSICS

    • Chapter Download

    • Learning Objectives

    • Lesson 1: NUCLEAR STRUCTURE

    • Lesson 2: ENERGY AND MASS

    • Lesson 3: NUCLEAR REACTIONS

    • Lesson 4: RADIOACTIVE DECAY

    • End of section Questions
  • 6

    Chapter 5: Astrophysics and Cosmology

    • Chapter Download

    • Learning outcomes: Learners should be able to:

    • Lesson 1: Introduction

    • Lesson 2: Stellar processes and evolution
  • 7

    Chapter 6: Mechanics

    • Chapter Download

    • Projectile Motion Overview

    • LESSON 1: REVISION OF 1-DIMENSIONAL MOTION

    • PRACTICE PROBLEMS: 1-DIMENSIONAL MOTION

    • LESSON 2: 2-DIMENSIONAL MOTION

    • LESSON 3: EQUATIONS OF MOTION IN TWO DIMENTIONS

    • PRACTICE PROBLEMS: TWO-DIMENSIONAL MOTION

    • Exercises and Memo's

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