Physics, Grade 11, University Preparation
Ontario · Grade 11 · Science — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Investigation Skills and Careers
Careers related to the fields of physics under study and the education and training they require, and scientists — including Canadians — who have contributed to those fields. The scientific investigation skills of strand A1 are woven through every lab and inquiry in the content strands rather than taught here on their own.
- Careers in physics
- Scientists who contributed to physics
Unit 2: Kinematics
Uniform and non-uniform linear motion in one and two dimensions — distance, position, displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration — analysed with motion graphs, kinematic equations, vector diagrams, and projectile motion, plus analysing kinematics technologies and their societal and environmental impact.
- Analysing a kinematics technology
- Impact of a kinematics technology
- Kinematics terminology
- Motion graphs in one dimension
- Deriving the kinematic equations
- Inquiry into linear motion
- Distance, position, and displacement
- Inquiry into 1-D motion with vectors
- Linear motion problems in one and two dimensions
- Projectile motion problems
- Inquiry into projectile motion
- Constant, instantaneous, and average
- Scalar and vector quantities
- Characteristics of projectile motion
Unit 3: Forces
Dynamics and Newton's laws — net force, mass, acceleration, friction, gravity, and normal force — investigated with free-body diagrams, vector diagrams, and probeware, plus analysing and proposing improvements to force-based technologies and evaluating their societal and environmental impact.
- Analysing a Newton's-laws technology
- Improving a Newton's-laws technology
- Impact of force technologies
- Forces terminology
- Newton's laws inquiry with free-body diagrams
- Acceleration, net force, and mass inquiry
- Friction and forces in one dimension
- Inquiry into forces in one dimension
- Free fall and gravity
- Types of forces and their effects
- Galileo, Newton, and the study of forces
- Newton's laws
- Mass, gravitational field, and force of gravity
Unit 4: Energy and Society
Energy transformations and the law of conservation of energy — work, power, efficiency, gravitational potential and kinetic energy, thermal energy and heat transfer, and nuclear energy — investigated with calorimeters, pendulums, and heating curves, plus analysing energy technologies and assessing their societal and environmental impact.
- Analysing a thermal-energy technology
- Impact of nuclear and thermal energy technologies
- Energy terminology
- Work, force, and displacement
- Conservation of energy problems
- Investigating conservation of energy
- Power, energy, and time
- Power and work inquiry
- Efficiency of energy generation
- Mass–energy equivalence
- Specific heat capacity inquiry
- Temperature change and change of state
- Heating and cooling curves
- Energy transfers and transformations
- Energy, work, and power
- Thermal, kinetic, and potential energy concepts
- Efficiency and thermal-energy transfer
- Conditions for work to be done
- Nuclear fission and fusion
- Energy transfer in changes of state
- Conduction, convection, and radiation
- Structure of nuclear isotopes
- Alpha, beta, and gamma radiation
- Radioactive half-life
- Energy in a nuclear power plant
Unit 5: Waves and Sound
The properties of mechanical waves and sound — longitudinal and transverse waves, frequency, wavelength, superposition, interference, standing waves, resonance, and the Doppler effect — investigated through wave and sound inquiries, plus analysing how waves and sound affect technology and society and assessing ways to reduce their negative effects.
- Waves in the design of structures and devices
- Analysing the negative impact of waves and sound
- Assessing a noise-reduction technology
- Waves and sound terminology
- Investigating mechanical waves and interference
- Determining the speed of waves
- Wavelength, frequency, and speed
- The Doppler effect
- Predicting and testing resonance
- Analysing resonance and its uses
- Longitudinal and transverse waves
- Components and conditions of resonance
- Superposition, standing waves, and beats
- Properties of standing waves
- Speed of sound and the medium
- Natural phenomena and wave properties
Unit 6: Electricity and Magnetism
Magnetic fields and electric circuits — current, potential difference, resistance, Ohm's and Kirchhoff's laws, electromagnetic induction, and transformers — investigated by building circuits and mapping fields, plus analysing the impact of electrical energy production and electromagnetic technologies and proposing ways to improve sustainability.
- Impact of electromagnetism technologies
- Analysing electrical energy production
- Improving the sustainability of electrical energy production
- Electricity and magnetism terminology
- Ohm's and Kirchhoff's laws in circuits
- Building DC circuits
- Investigating magnetic fields
- Magnetic fields from currents
- Transformer problems
- Electromagnetic induction
- Building an electromagnetic device
- Properties of magnetic fields
- Right-hand rule for current fields
- Conventional current and electron flow
- Laws of electromagnetism
- Production and interaction of magnetic fields
- Electric motors and generators
- AC, DC, and transmission
- Step-up and step-down transformers
- Electrical safety precautions
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