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VCE Physics 2016 - 2021
Course Information 2021
Transition
Unit 1 & 2 orientation outline
Unit 1 & 2 Orientation
Preparation and holiday homework
Unit 3 & 4 Orientation Program
Relative motion
Unit 3 & 4 Orientation
Unit 3 & 4 Orientation Holiday tasks
VCAA Question 1 - 4
VCAA question 9-11
Examiners report Q1
Examiners report Qs 9-11
Student Investigation report
Unit 3 & 4 Orientation
Year Timeline 2021
Unit 1
What is matter and how is it formed?
Matter overview
The origin of the atom
Matter Lesson 1
Matter lesson 2
Matter lesson 3
Matter lesson 4
Matter revision
Distance vs redshift
Doppler activity
Examining spectral shift
Hubble's Law Data analysis
The first 300 000 years
Particles and the Nucleus
L7 Isotopes and radioactivity
Matter lesson 10
Matter Lesson 10
Matter Lesson 5
Matter lesson 6
Matter lesson 8
Alpha decay
Background radiation
Beta decay
Half-life activity
Half-life experiment
Energy from the Nucleus
Energy from the nucleus 12
Matter lesson 5
Matter lesson 8
Matter lesson 9
Chain Reaction Dominoes
chain reactions with dominoes
Example calculation
Spectral Observations
Stable Nuclides
Units of the atom
Matter assessments
Discussion Forum assessment
Assessments: What is matter
U1 AOS1 Assessments
AOS1 revision
Discussion forum
Discussion forums details
What is matter revision
How can thermal effects be explained?
Thermodynamic Principles
Specific heat of fusion
Thermo & Climate 1: Radiation
Thermo L1 - Kinetic theory
Thermo L2 - Measuring temperature
Thermo Lesson 3: Methods of heat transfer
Thermodynamics Lesson 4 & 5
Thermodynamics Lesson 6
Thermodynamics Lesson 7&8
Cooling Paraffin wax
Heat transfer
Mixing water
The colour of temperature
Thermal equilibrium
Thermodynamic and climate science
Climate 03
Climate 01: The Earths Thermal Equilibrium
Climate 02: Greenhouse Gases
Simple model for a climate
Issue in Thermodynamics - Assessment
Thermo Assessment - Data Analysis task
Welcome
Getting to know your text
Holiday homework
Summarising
How do electric circuits work?
Circuits analysis
Electricity Lesson 10
Electricity Lesson 10
Electricity lesson 12
Electricity lesson 13
Electricity Lesson 8
Electricity Lesson 9
Student designed investigation
Data analysis problem
Designing an experiment
Examining a potentiometer
Investigating a thermistor
Investigating an LDR
Investigating voltage dividers
Prac: Resistors in parallel
Prac: Resistors in series
Testing Circuit Laws
Thermistor Questions
Writing a report
Current electicity
Electricity lesson 1
Electricity lesson 2 - Moving charge
Electricity lesson 4 - energy and power in a circuit
Electricity lesson 5
Electricity lesson 5
Electricity lesson 6
Lesson 3 Energy and Voltage
Build an electroscope
Conventional current
Determining the resistivity of graphite
Light globe filament resistance
Ohm's Law prac
Resistance activity
Use the Force
Using the Ammeter
Using the Voltmeter
What's going on?
Using electricity
Electricity lesson 12
Electricity lesson 13
Electricity lesson 17
Using electricity infographic
Unit 1 Exam revision
Unit 2
How can motion be described and explained?
Analysing Motion
L1 - Analysing Motion
L2 - Displacement time graphs
L3 - Velocity-time graphs
L4 & 5 - Constant acceleration
Forces in Action
L7 - What is a force?
L8 - Net force
L9 - Newton's first Law
L10 - Newton 2
L11 - Newton's third Law
L12 & 13 Combining forces
L14 - Momentum - impulse
L15 - Conservation of momentum
Mechanical Interactions
L15 - Static equilibrium
Lesson 15 - Static equilibrium
Motion lesson 17 - Torque
Motion Lesson 18 - Energy transfer
Motion Lesson 19 - Work
Motion Lesson 21 - Energy and power
Energy of a pendulum
Energy of a pendulum
Equilibrium systems
Investigating elastic potential.
Test torque
Photo task
Optional Studies
2.1 What are stars?
What are stars? - Lesson 1
What are stars? - Lesson 2
What are stars? - Lesson 3
What are stars? - Lesson 4
What are stars? - Lesson 5
What are stars? - Lesson 6
What are stars? - Lesson 7
What are stars? - Lesson 8
What are stars? - Lesson 9
Colour of an incandescent element
Distance vs brightness
How can stars move?
Solar observations
Spectral Analysis
Wave properties
2.10 How do instruments make music?
Making music - Lesson 1
Making music - Lesson 2
Making music - Lesson 3
Making music - Lesson 4
Making music - Lesson 5
Making music - Lesson 6
Making music - Lesson 6
Making music - Lesson 8
Making music - Lesson 9
Frequency response test
Inverse square law
Resonance in a tube
Resonance in wind instruments
Resonances of different stringed instruments
Singing wine glasses
Sound Capture
Speed of a wave on a slinky
Standing waves and measuring the speed of waves on a spring
Standing Waves in springs
Try these problems
Wave Analysis using slinkies,
Wave interactions
Wave reflections
2.11 How can performance in ball sports be improved?
Air resistance and terminal velocity
Ball Sports L1-Collisions and momentum
Ball Sports L2-Oblique Collisions
Double pendulums
Drop test
Friction on an inclined plane
Inclined plane activity
Moment of inertia
Projected objects
Rolling friction
2.12 How does the human body use electricity?
Conductance
Human electricity
Human electricity -L4
Human electricity L2
Human electricity L4&5
Human electricity L5
Human electricity L6
Measure you resistance
RC Circuits
2.2 Is there life beyond Earth’s Solar System?
L7 - The search for intelligence
L5 - Methods to find Exoplanets
Life beyond the solar system - L8
Life beyond the solar system - Lesson 1
L1 - The nature of light
Life beyond the solar system - lesson 4
L6 - Conditions for life
Doppler effect to find the velocity of a source
Properties of waves
Radial velocity activity
Spectral Analysis
The dipole nature of water
2.3 How do forces act on the human body?
2.4 How can AC electricity charge a DC device?
2.5 How do heavy things fly?
Design, build and test a paper aerofoil
Flight - Lesson 1
Flight - Lesson 2
Flight - Lesson 3
Flight - Lesson 3
Flight - Lesson 5
Flight - Lesson 5
Flight - Lesson 6
Flight - Lesson 6
Flight - Lesson 9
Bernoulli effects
Investigating gliders
Paper glider
Turbulence
2.6 How do fusion and fission compare as viable nuclear energy power sources?
Fission and fusion - Lesson 1
Fission and fusion - Lesson 1
Fission and fusion - Lesson 2
Fission and fusion - Lesson 3
Fission and fusion - Lesson 4
Fission and fusion - Lesson 5
Fission and fusion - Lesson 7
Fission and fusion - Lesson 8
Chain reactions with dominoes
2.7 How is radiation used to maintain human health?
Medical imaging - Lesson 1
Medical imaging - Lesson 2
Medical imaging - Lesson 3
Medical imaging - Lesson 4
Medical imaging - Lesson 4&5
Medical imaging - Lesson 5
Medical imaging - Lesson 6
Medical imaging - Lesson 8
Doppler effect
Shadow investigation
Slinky experiment
2.8 How do particle accelerators work?
Particle accelerators L1
Particle accelerators L2
Particle accelerators L3
Particle accelerators L4
Particle accelerators L5
Particle accelerators L6
Particle accelerators L7
Particle accelerators L8
Build your own ball cyclotron
Dispersion of white light and laser light
Divergence of the ray box vs laser light.
Examining circular motion
Modelling Rutherford's gold foil experiment
2.9 How can human vision be enhanced?
Options Assessment
quantitative analysis
Human electricity
Life beyond Earth
Medical radiations
Medical Lesson 1
Medical Lesson 2
Medical Lesson 3
Medical Lesson 4
Medical Lesson 5
Medical Lesson 6
Medical Lesson 7
Medical Lesson 8
Sound & Music
Flight
Flight lesson 1
Flight lesson 2
Flight lesson 3
Flight lesson 4
Flight lesson 5
Lift and Drag
Practical Investigation
Creating a hypothesis and Question
Sample Questions
Variables
Data analysis
Poster sections
Topic selection & Introduction
Unti 2 Exam information
Unit 3
How are fields used to move electrical energy?
Generating electricity
Electric power lesson 5
Electric power lesson 6
Electric power lesson 7
Electric power lesson 8
Modelling a generator
Bouncing magnets
Faraday's Experiment
Observing a generated signal
SAC3 - AOS 2 - Assessment
Transmission of power
Electric power lesson 10
Electric power lesson 9
Power loss in transmission
Transformers
Make your own transformer
Power loss in transmission
How do things move without contact?
A comparison between fields
Electric fields
Fields lesson 4 - Electric charge and Coulomb's law
Fields lesson 5 - Drawing electric fields
Uniform Fields - Lesson 6
Electric Fields
Electric fields demo
Examining electric fields
Line of equipotential
Gravitational fields
Fields lesson 1
Fields lesson 2 & 3
Fields lesson 4
Motion lesson 14
Motion lesson 15
Magnetism - fields and forces
Electric power - lesson 1
Electric power - lesson 1
Electric power - lesson 2
Electric power - lesson 3
Build a simple motor
Current carrying wires
Investigating a DC motor
Investigating a magnetic field.
Investigating the Earths magnetic field
Magnetic swings
Making a magnet
Making and electromagnet
Try these
Try these questions
Media Analysis Task
How fast can things go?
Describing motion
Motion lesson 3
Motion lesson 4
Motion lesson 5
Is bigger better?
List of possible topics
Monty python - experimental design
Hints for "Is bigger better?"
Force, energy and mass in collisions and other interactions
Energy of a bouncing spring
Motion lesson 6
Motion lesson 7
Motion lesson 8
Motion lesson 9
Conservation of Energy
Conservation of momentum - Explosions
Consider the 2017 exam questions..
Conversion of PE to KE - Pendulum
Energy of a Spring
Jelly snake investigation
Newton's Laws of Motion
Extended Practical Investigation
L7 Projectile Motion
L8 Projectile Motion
Model of circular motion
Motion lesson 1
Motion lesson 2
Motion lesson 6
Motion lesson 7
2D model of projectile motion
Aeroplane problem
Angled projectile motion
EPI Assessment Criteria
Excel model of projectile
Graphical analysis
Hot wheels test
Inclined plane activity
Lady bug motion
Spinning bob
Terminal velocity
Testing the model
Vectors in 2D
Solving the vectors
Special relativity
Motion L14 - Time Dilation
Motion L15
Motion lesson 11
Motion lesson 12
Motion lesson 14
Measuring relative motion
Special relativity in strips
Welcome back to Physics
Summarising (U3)
Unit 4
How can waves explain the behaviour of light?
Mechanical waves
L1 - Wave properties
L2 - Doppler effect
L3 - Diffraction
L4 - Waves Interactions
L5 - Standing waves & resonance
L6 - Two source interference
Light as a wave
L7 - Light as a wave
L8 Dispersion and the speed of light
L9 - Total internal reflection
L10 - Diffraction
L11&12 Young's experiment
L12 - What is light?
How are light and matter similar?
Matter - Particles and Waves
L 5a Making light
Light and matter Lesson 5
Light and matter lesson 6
Light and matter Lesson 6
Light and matter Lesson 7
Measuring Planck's constant V2
Measuring Planck's constant with LEDs
Photoelectric effect
Lesson 5 - Limitations of the wave model
Light and matter Lesson 1
Light and matter Lesson 2 & 3
Light and matter Lesson 4
Lenard's experiment
How does the colour (frequency) effect the the flow of current and stopping voltage?
How does the intensity of light affect the flow of current?
Is the effect the same for different metals?
What would happen if the potential difference at the collection plate is changed?
Practical Investigation
Analysis 101
More from A-Level Physics
PI Introduction
Continuous independent variables
Scientific poster
Variables
Preliminary research
Preliminary research
Trial exams
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