Physics 2204
Newfoundland and Labrador · Grade 11 · Science — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Kinematics
Describing motion with vectors — displacement, velocity, and acceleration — analyzing horizontal and vertical motion, and choosing a frame of reference. STSE and inquiry skills woven through.
- Vectors for displacement, velocity, and acceleration
- Analyzing 1-D motion quantitatively
- Frames of reference
Unit 2: Dynamics
The causes of motion — force and acceleration vectors, Newton's laws, impulse and momentum, a design challenge, and conservation of momentum in 1-D. STSE and inquiry skills woven through.
- Vectors for force and acceleration
- Newton's laws of motion
- Impulse and momentum
- Egg-drop design challenge
- Conservation of momentum in 1-D
Unit 3: Work and Energy
Work, kinetic and potential energy, the work-energy theorem, conservation of energy, efficiency, power, springs, simple harmonic motion, elastic/inelastic collisions, and an introduction to radioactivity and nuclear energy. STSE and inquiry skills woven through.
- Force, distance, and work
- Energy, mass, height, and speed
- The work-energy theorem
- Mechanical energy
- Kinematics and dynamics via mechanical energy
- Conservation of energy with heat
- Efficiency of energy transformations
- Work, time, and power
- Force, displacement, and spring constants
- Simple harmonic motion kinematics
- Energy in simple harmonic motion
- Choosing conservation laws for collisions
- Radioactive decay and radiation
- Sources of radioactivity
- Mass-energy equivalence
- Nuclear fission and fusion
Unit 4: Waves
Wave behaviour — longitudinal and transverse waves, the wave equation, sound, interference and reflection, electromagnetic radiation, diffraction, the Doppler effect, and refraction. STSE and inquiry skills woven through.
- Longitudinal and transverse waves
- The wave equation
- How sound is produced and transmitted
- Interference and reflection of sound
- Electromagnetic radiation and sound
- Interference and diffraction of light
- The Doppler-Fizeau effect
- Wave refraction
- Laws of reflection and refraction
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