Year 11 HSC Physics

Learn.

• The scientific method

Module 1: Kinematics

• Distance vs displacement
• Velocity vs speed
• Acceleration
• Newtons 3 laws of motion
• What is force
• Net forces in 1 D
• Net force problems in 2 D

IQ: How is the motion of an object that changes its direction of movement on a plane
described?

• Relative motion of objects in two dimensions

Module 2: Dynamics

• Static vs dynamic friction
• Inclined planes
• Banked curve problems
• Force Impulse
• Collisions and momentum

Module 3: Waves and thermodynamics

Waves

IQ: What are the properties of all waves and wave motion?

• The mechanical wave model
• Simple harmonic motion

IQ: How do waves behave?

• Resonance
• Reflection, refraction, diffraction and super position

IQ: What evidence suggests sound is a mechanical wave?

• Standing waves in strings
• The Doppler Effect
• Beats
• Inverse square law for intensity of sound

Ray Model of Light

IQ: What properties can be demonstrated when using the ray model of light?

• Reflection of light
• Refraction of light
• Snell’s law
• Dispersion of light
• Refractive index of a medium
• Inverse square law for intensity of light

Module 4: Electricity and magnetism

IQ: How do charged objects interact with other charged objects and with neutral
objects?

• Electrostatic force
  • Process of how objects become electrically charged
  • Interactions between charged particles
• Electric field lines
  • simple point charges
  • pairs of charges
  • dipoles
  • parallel charged plates
• 𝐹 = 𝑞𝐸 and 𝐸 =𝑉𝑑 and 𝐹 =(1/4𝜋𝜀)*(𝑞1𝑞2/𝑟^2)

IQ: How do the processes of the transfer and the transformation of energy occur in
electric circuits?

IQ: How do magnetized and magnetic objects interact?

Master.

• Sample module exams
  • Module 2 & 3
  • Module 3
• Sample half yearly exams
• Sample end of year exams
  • Physics Preliminary Exam (70 marks)