Physics INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE Physics allows us to understand why things happen and allow us to make useful predictions using our understanding. It is a way of investigating and understanding the world around us. We have found the experience that our girls bring into the classroom from music, sport and robotics enables them to extend their understanding of how physics is applied in the real world.
YEAR 11 MODULES
Kinematics
Dynamics
Waves and Thermodynamics
Electricity and Magnetism
How do we describe and measure motion mathematically, visually and graphically?
What is a force and what types of forces are there?
How is energy transferred using waves and heat?
What is electricity?
What happens when a force acts?
Why does light and sound behave like it does?
Why do things react as they do to forces?
How can we use or manipulate the behaviour of light, heat and sound?
Why might we want to?
What is energy and what can it do?
How can we use and control electricity? What is magnetism and where does it come from?
How can momentum be use to predict the outcome of collisions?
HSC MODULES
Advanced Mechanics
Electromagnetism
Nature of Light
How can we use our understanding and knowledge of forces and motion to predict the motion of objects on Earth and explain motion in the Solar System and beyond?
What happens when electricity and magnets interact?
What is the true nature of light? A particle or a wave?
How can we use this interaction to develop new technologies?
How can we use our understanding of light to better understand matter and the Universe? What happens when light doesn’t do what you expect?
From Universe to the Atom How can we use our understanding of Physics to explain the Universe? How can we look inside an atom? How is it possible to get energy out of the nucleus? What happens when particles behave like waves? What is the fundamental makeup of matter?