Physics 11

Unit 1: Kinematics: Describing Motion

Vectors versus scalars, adding vectors graphically and resolving them with right-angle trigonometry, uniform and accelerated motion, the three projectile-motion cases, and the graphical-methods toolkit used to read motion off graphs.

• Vectors and scalars: graphical addition and subtraction

• Vector components with right-angle trigonometry

• Horizontal uniform and accelerated motion

• Vertical-launch projectile motion (1D)

• Horizontal-launch projectile motion

• Angled-launch (full 2D) projectile motion

• Graphical methods: slope and lines of best fit

• Graphical methods: interpolation, extrapolation and area under the curve

Unit 2: Forces & Newton's Laws

Contact forces and what changes them, mass versus weight and apparent weight, Newton's three laws, drawing free-body diagrams, and analyzing balanced versus unbalanced force systems.

• Contact forces and their factors

• Mass, force of gravity, and apparent weight

• Newton's First Law: inertia and equilibrium
• Newton's Second Law: net force and F = ma
• Newton's Third Law: action-reaction pairs

• Free-body diagrams and net force

• Balanced and unbalanced forces in flat and connected systems

• Inclined-plane and angled-force component analysis

Unit 3: Energy, Work, Power & Circuits

Conservation of energy and the work-energy principle, power and efficiency, simple machines and mechanical advantage (including First Peoples applications), DC circuits with Ohm's and Kirchhoff's laws, and thermal equilibrium.

• Conservation of energy and the work-energy principle

• Power and efficiency

• Simple machines and mechanical advantage

• Applications of simple machines by First Peoples

• DC circuits: Ohm's law, series and parallel

• Kirchhoff's laws, EMF and terminal voltage

• Thermal equilibrium and specific heat capacity

Unit 4: Mechanical Waves & Sound

How mechanical waves are generated and propagate, the properties of waves versus the medium they travel through, wave behaviours at boundaries, interference and standing waves, and sound as a special case with resonance.

• Generation and propagation of waves

• Properties of waves versus properties of the medium

• Wave behaviours: reflection, refraction, transmission, diffraction

• Interference, standing waves and the Doppler shift

• Characteristics of sound

• Resonance and frequency of sound

Unit 5: Lab Numeracy: Accuracy and Precision

The one Curricular Competency taught directly in this course (grain-memo CC-TEACH exception): significant figures and rounding rules, then measurement uncertainty and scientific notation — separately-quizzable lab-numeracy skills a physics teacher front-loads before the kinematics, forces, and circuits labs that use them.

• Significant figures and rounding rules

• Measurement uncertainty and scientific notation