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IB Physics SL (One Year) (2018-2019)
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We will have a quiz on Wednesday after Thanksgiving break. The quiz will cover work, energy and propagation of uncertainties.
Coming Up: A few days after returning from Thanksgiving break, I will assign "the mousetrap car project", in which you will need to design and build a small car powered by a single mousetrap. The project also includes a video recording of you explaining the physics behind the car's operation. Stay tuned! They're pretty fun to build and race! [project details] - video help
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finding the minimum and maximum gradients
with Logger Pro
Practice matching motion to graphs with this interactive.
Unit One-Page Overviews
1.1 Measurements in physics
1.2 Uncertainties and errors
1.3 Vectors and scalars
2.1 Motion
2.2 Forces
2.3 Work, Energy, and Power
2.4 Momentum
Energy and Momentum
January | 8 | 3.1 | Thermal Concepts | |
10 | 3.2 | Modelling a gas | ||
14 | 3.2 | |||
16 | 6.1 | Circular Motion | ||
18 | 6.1 | |||
23 | Quiz | |||
25 | 4.1 | Oscillations | ||
29 | 4.1 | IA Exploration rough draft due | ||
31 | 4.2 | Travelling waves | ||
February | 4 | 4.3 | Wave characteristics | |
6 | 4.4 | Wave behavior | ||
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8 | 4.5 | Standing waves | ||
12 | Quiz; IA Exploration final draft due | |||
14 | IA | |||
19 | IA | |||
21 | IA | |||
25 | 5.1 | Electric Fields; IA Analysis rough draft due | ||
27 | 5.2 | Heating effect of electric current | ||
March | 1 | 5.2 | ||
5 | 5.2 | |||
7 | 5.3 | Electric cells | ||
11 | 5.4 | Magnetic effects of electric currents | ||
13 | IA Analysis final draft due | |||
25 | 8.1 | Energy sources | ||
27 | 8.2 | Thermal energy transfer | ||
29 | IA final paper due | |||
April | 2 | 7.1 | Discrete energy and radioactivity | |
4 | 7.1 | |||
8 | 7.2 | Nuclear reactions | ||
10 | 7.3 | The structure of matter | ||
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16 | Option | |||
18 | Option | |||
24 | Option | |||
26 | Option | |||
30 | Option | |||
May | 2 | Option | ||
6 | Option; IB Testing begins | |||
8 | Option | |||
10 | Option | |||
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17 | Physics SL Paper 1 & 2 | |||
20 | Physics SL Paper 3 | |||
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Homework
1/8 - complete worksheet; read Unit 3.2
1/10 - watch video 1 and 2; worksheet
1/14 - watch video; read pp. 687-692 on IA; answer key for book problems
1/16 - finish Centripetal Force lab; complete worksheet on circular motion
1/18 - review for quiz; choose IA topic; do 6 IB Questions on handout; answer key for centripetal force worksheet
1/25 - read Unit 4.1; write IA Exploration (must include all Exploration components)
1/29 - PhET link; complete Oscillation packet (pp. 1-9)
1/31 - do waves handout, read Units 4.2 and 4.3; Oscillation packet key
2/4 - complete 3 worksheets (on intensity, superposition and chapter review); watch video on polarization and Malus's Law
2/6 - read Unit 4.4; watch videos on reflection and on Snell's Law
2/8 - standing waves sim; complete IA Exploration; optional: do pp.164-166 and #12 on p.168 in your book
2/14 - test corrections, due by 2/21
Unit One-Page Overviews
3.1 Thermal Concepts
3.2 Modelling a gas
6.1 Circular Motion
4.1 Oscillations
4.2 Travelling Waves