Physics

Course summary

Course Content Year 12 1. Quantities and units 2. Practical skills 3. Rectilinear motion 4. Linear momentum 5. Forces 6. Work, energy and power 7. Charge and current 8. Potential difference and electromotive force 9. Current – potential difference relationships 10. Series and parallel circuit and potential dividers 11. Fluids 12. Solid materials 13. Nature of waves 14. Transmission and reflection of waves 16. Superposition of waves 17. Particle nature of light Course Content Year 13 18. Momentum and energy 19. Motion in a circle 20. Electric fields 21. Capacitance 22. Magnetic fields 23. Electrons and nuclei 24. Particle physics 25. Nuclear decay 26. Specific heat capacity 27. Internal energy, absolute zero and change of state 28. Gas Laws and kinetic theory 29. Universal gravitation 30. Astrophysics 31. Cosmology 32. Oscillations