Physics, Grade 12, University 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 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: Dynamics
The dynamics of motion in a plane — two-dimensional forces, friction on inclines, systems of objects, and uniform circular motion with centripetal force — investigated with free-body diagrams, vector components, and inquiries, plus analysing dynamics technologies and assessing their impact.
- Analysing a dynamics technology
- Impact of motion devices
- Dynamics terminology
- Two-dimensional motion problems
- Friction and forces on inclines
- Forces on systems of objects
- Motion of a system and its forces
- Uniform circular motion forces
- Investigating circular motion
- Inertial and non-inertial frames
- Static and kinetic friction
- Deriving circular-motion equations
Unit 3: Energy and Momentum
Work, energy, and momentum and their conservation laws in one and two dimensions — the work–energy theorem, gravitational, kinetic, and elastic potential energy, impulse, elastic and inelastic collisions, Hooke's law, and simple harmonic motion — investigated with air tables, pendulums, and collisions, plus analysing and proposing improvements to energy-and-momentum technologies and assessing their impact.
- Analysing an energy-and-momentum technology
- Improving an energy-and-momentum technology
- Impact of energy-and-momentum technologies
- Energy and momentum terminology
- Work–energy theorem
- Analysing energy in one and two dimensions
- Testing conservation of energy
- Momentum and impulse
- Elastic and inelastic collisions
- Investigating collisions and explosions
- Hooke's law and elastic potential energy
- Simple harmonic motion
- Elastic versus inelastic collisions
- Conservation laws in mechanical systems
- Conservation laws and the neutrino
Unit 4: Gravitational, Electric, and Magnetic Fields
The three fundamental fields — gravitational, electric, and magnetic — their forces, potentials, and interactions with matter, including Newton's law of universal gravitation, Coulomb's law, and the force on moving charges, investigated with field diagrams and particle-in-a-field experiments, plus analysing field technologies and assessing their impact.
- Analysing a field technology
- Impact of field technologies
- Fields terminology
- Universal gravitation and orbits
- Electric force, field, and potential
- Force on moving charges
- Investigating a particle in a field
- Fundamental forces
- Comparing the three fields
- Field diagrams
Unit 5: The Wave Nature of Light
The wave nature of light — diffraction, refraction, interference, and polarization — investigated with ripple tanks, lasers, and double-slit experiments, plus analysing technologies that use the wave nature of light and assessing their impact.
- Analysing a wave-of-light technology
- Impact of wave-of-light technologies
- Wave nature of light terminology
- Diffraction and interference of waves
- Investigating light waves
- Analysing interference and solving problems
- Diffraction and interference of water waves
- Wave behaviours of light
- Separation of light into colours
- Electromagnetic radiation from a dipole
Unit 6: Revolutions in Modern Physics: Quantum Mechanics and Special Relativity
The two revolutions of modern physics — quantum mechanics and special relativity — including the photoelectric and Compton effects, matter waves, time dilation, mass–energy transformation, and the standard model, investigated with emission spectra and simulations, plus analysing how new models change scientific thought and assessing their technological importance.
- Analysing the modern-physics revolutions
- How the revolutions changed scientific thought
- Importance of relativity and quantum mechanics to technology
- Quantum and relativity terminology
- Photoelectric, Compton, and matter waves
- Special relativity problems
- Investigating modern-physics theories
- Evidence for the particle model of light
- Evidence for the wave model of matter
- Postulates of special relativity
- The standard model
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