Physics, Grade 12, College Preparation
Ontario · Grade 12 · 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 applied physics fields 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 hands-on build in the content strands rather than taught here on their own.
- Careers in applied physics and the trades
- Scientists who contributed to physics
Unit 2: Motion and Its Applications
Uniform and non-uniform linear motion and its everyday applications — distance, speed, acceleration, and net force — measured with distance–time and speed–time graphs and simple equations, plus analysing transportation and motion-tracking technologies and evaluating their impact.
- Analysing a transportation technology
- Evaluating a transportation technology's impact
- Motion-tracking technologies
- Motion terminology
- Measuring distance and speed
- Measuring acceleration
- Distance–time graphs
- Speed–time graphs
- Average-speed problems
- Average-acceleration problems
- Net force and acceleration inquiry
- Free-body diagrams and net force
- Measuring gravitational acceleration
- Constant, instantaneous, and average speed
- Speed, distance, and time relationship
- Acceleration, speed change, and time relationship
- Newton's laws applied to motion
- Acceleration and net unbalanced force
Unit 3: Mechanical Systems
Mechanical systems that use friction and applied forces — torque, work, coefficients of friction, simple and compound machines, and mechanical advantage — investigated by building and measuring machines, plus analysing friction in real systems and evaluating a mechanical system's effectiveness.
- Friction in mechanical systems
- Effectiveness of a mechanical system
- Mechanical systems terminology
- Forces and resulting motion
- Coefficient of friction inquiry
- Force, distance, and torque in levers
- Torque and lever problems
- Machines and mechanical advantage
- Building a machine
- Simple machines
- Compound machines and biomechanical systems
- Conditions for work
- Mechanical advantage
Unit 4: Electricity and Magnetism
The basic principles of electricity and magnetism — DC circuits, Ohm's and Kirchhoff's laws, magnetic fields, the motor principle, and the DC motor — investigated by building circuits and devices, plus analysing electrical and electromagnetic technologies and evaluating their impact, with workplace electrical safety.
- Impact of an electrical technology
- Benefit of an electromagnetic technology
- Electricity and magnetism terminology
- Building DC circuits to test Kirchhoff's laws
- Analysing DC circuits
- Mapping magnetic fields
- Direction of a magnetic field
- Force on a current-carrying conductor
- Building an electric device
- Series, parallel, and mixed circuits
- Ohm's and Kirchhoff's laws
- Electrical safety
- Fields of magnets and electromagnets
- Law of magnetic poles
- Conventional current and electron flow
- Oersted's principle and the right-hand rule
- The motor principle and the right-hand rule
- The DC electric motor
- Direct and alternating current
Unit 5: Energy Transformations
Diverse forms of energy, energy transformations, and efficiency — investigated by building energy-transforming devices and applying the law of conservation of energy — plus analysing an energy-transformation technology, evaluating its impact, and proposing ways to improve its sustainability.
- Analysing an energy-transformation technology
- Evaluating an energy technology's impact
- Improving energy sustainability
- Energy terminology
- Conservation of energy problems
- Simple energy-transformation device
- Complex energy-transformation device
- Investigating a simple energy transformation
- Types of energy and transformations
- Energy transformations in a system
- Operation of energy technologies
- Efficiency of electricity-producing systems
- Renewable and non-renewable energy
Unit 6: Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems
Fluid statics and dynamics and simple hydraulic and pneumatic systems — density, pressure, Pascal's and Bernoulli's principles, and fluid components — investigated by building fluid systems and testing the principles, plus analysing the development of hydraulic and pneumatic applications and assessing their effects.
- Development of a hydraulic or pneumatic system
- Consequences of robotic systems
- Fluid systems terminology
- Drawing fluid circuits
- Static pressure head inquiry
- Demonstrating Pascal's principle
- Force, pressure, and volume inquiry
- Hydraulic and pneumatic problems
- Building a fluid system
- Demonstrating Bernoulli's principle
- Static pressure head
- Pascal's principle
- Components of fluid systems
- Laminar flow and design
- Bernoulli's principle
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