PHYSICS FOR QUEENSLAND UNITS
Table of contents
1. Physics Toolkit
1.1 Studying QCE Physics
1.2 Considering First Nations perspectives in Physics
1.3 Understanding the scientific method
1.4 Planning investigations
1.5 Considering safety and ethics
1.6 Collecting data
1.7 Processing and analysing data
1.8 Evaluating evidence
1.9 Communicating scientifically
1.10 Preparing for your data test
1.11 Conducting your student experiment
1.12 Conducting your research investigation
1.13 Preparing for your exams
1.14 Review: Physics toolkit
Unit 3: Gravity and electromagnetism
Topic 1: Gravity and motion
2. Vectors and projectile motion
draft
2.1 Working with vectors
2.2 Horizontal projection
2.3 Projection at an angle
2.4 Angled projection and distance
2.5 Review: Vectors and projectile motion
3. Incline planes
3.1 Forces due to gravity
3.2 Applied forces: friction and tension
3.3 Forces on an inclined plane
3.4 The parallel component of the weight of an object
on an inclined plane
3.5 Review: Inclined planes
4. Circular motion
4.1 Uniform circular motion
4.2 Objects undergoing uniform circular motion
4.3 Centripetal acceleration and force
4.4 Centripetal forces on an object undergoing horizontal circular motion
4.5 Review: Circular motion
5. Orbital mechanics
5.1 What is gravity?
5.2 Newton’s law of universal gravitation
5.3 Gravitational fields
5.4 The three laws of planetary motion (Kepler’s laws)
5.5 Investigating orbital radius and mass using a simulation
5.6 Review: Orbital mechanics
Unit 3 Topic 1 Review
Topic 2: Electromagnetism
6. Electrostatics
6.1 Coulomb’s law
6.2 Electric fields and field strength
6.3 The effects of electrostatic charge on various materials
6.4 Electrical potential energy
6.5 Review: Electrostatics
7. Magnetic fields
7.1 Magnetic fields
7.2 Magnetic fields around current-carrying wires
7.3 Strength of a magnet at various distances
7.4 Strength of a magnetic field at various distances from a current-carrying wire
7.5 Magnetic fields in solenoids
7.6 Magnetic forces on moving charges
7.7 Forces on current-carrying wires
7.8 Force acting on a conductor in a magnetic field
7.9 Review: Magnetic fields
8.
Electromagnetic induction and radiation
8.1 Magnetic flux
8.2 Electromagnetic induction and Faraday’s law
8.3 Induction of an electric current using a magnet and coil
8.4 Lenz’s law
8.5 Transformers
8.6 Transformers: induced EMF from an AC generator
8.7 Electromagnetic radiation
8.8 Review: Electromagnetic induction and radiation
Unit 3 Topic 2 Review
Unit 3 Review
Unit 4: Revolutions in modern physics
Topic 1: Special relativity
9.
Special relativity: time and motion
9.1 Special relativity
10.3 Paradoxical scenarios
10.4 Review: Special relativity: length, momentum and energy
Unit 4 Topic 1 Review
Topic 2: Quantum theory
11.
Quantum theory and light
11.1 The wave model of light
draft
9.2 Relative motion
9.3 Simultaneity
9.4 Relativity of time
9.5 Review: Special relativity: time and motion
10.
The history toolkit
10.1 Length contraction
10.2 Rest mass and relativistic momentum
11.2 Black-body radiation
11.3 The particle model of light
11.4 The photoelectric effect
11.5 Investigating the photoelectric effect
11.6 Review: Quantum theory and light
12. Quantum theory and atoms
12.1 The Rutherford model of the atom
12.2 Bohr model of the atom
12.3 Wave-particle duality
12.4 Review: Quantum theory and atoms
Unit 4 Topic 2 Review
Topic : The Standard Model
13. The Standard Model
13.1 Matter and antimatter
13.2 Gauge bosons – the force carriers
13.3 Review: The Standard Model
14. Particle interactions
14.1 Conservation in interactions
14.2 Feynman diagrams
14.3 Symmetry in particle interactions
14.4 Review: Particle interactions
Unit 4 Topic 3 Review
Unit 4 Review
2.4 Angled projection and distance
3.4 The parallel component of the weight of an object on an inclined plane
4.4 Centripetal forces on an object undergoing horizontal circular motion
5.5 Investigating orbital radius and mass using a simulation
6.3 The effects of electrostatic charge on various materials
7.3 Strength of a magnet at various distances
7.4 Strength of a magnetic field at various distances from a current-carrying wire
7.8 Force acting on a conductor in a magnetic field
8.3 Induction of an electric current using a magnet and coil
8.6 Transformers: induced EMF from an AC generator
11.5 Investigating the photoelectric effect
