Physics 11
Nova Scotia · Grade 11 · Science — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Kinematics
Describing motion: frames of reference, vectors for position and velocity, vertical motion under gravity, and solving kinematics problems algebraically and graphically.
- Frames of reference
- Questions about motion
- Vectors for motion
- Vertical motion
- Solving kinematics problems
Unit 2: Dynamics
Why objects move as they do: Newton's laws, force vectors, experimental method for force and motion, and the science-society context of dynamics and momentum devices.
- Vectors for forces
- Newton's laws
- Analyzing dynamic systems
- Momentum-based devices
- Designing a dynamics experiment
- Selecting instruments and processes
- Carrying out procedures
- Collecting data accurately
- Displaying data
- Interpreting relationships
- Society and dynamics science
- Evaluating technological solutions
- Technology revising dynamics
- Scientific milestone in dynamics
Unit 3: Momentum and Energy
Conservation laws in action: momentum in collisions and explosions, work and power, mechanical energy and the work-energy theorem, efficiency, and applying conservation to real problems and technologies.
- Conservation of momentum (1D)
- Force, distance, and work
- Work, time, and power
- Efficiency of machines
- Percentage efficiency
- Mass, speed, and thermal energy
- Mechanical energy
- Empirical vs theoretical energy
- Mechanical energy in problems
- Work-energy theorem
- Conservation of energy experiment
- Choosing conservation laws
- Physics technology limits
- Technology from understanding
- Energy/momentum technologies over time
- Evaluating energy/momentum solutions
- Language for momentum and energy
Unit 4: Waves
Wave physics: mechanical waves, the universal wave equation, reflection, refraction, interference, diffraction, the Doppler effect, electromagnetic radiation versus sound, and the science-society context of wave technologies.
- Mechanical waves
- Universal wave equation
- Operational definitions (waves)
- Integrating wave information
- Reflection of waves
- Refraction of waves
- Wave phenomena
- Prediction and hypothesis (waves)
- Sampling and data reliability (waves)
- EM radiation vs sound
- Producing and transmitting energy waves
- Analyzing wave systems
- Risks and benefits of applying wave science
- Society and wave science
- Prototype a device
- Wave technology development
- Technology enhancing wave understanding
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