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Physics: Motion, Waves & Electricity

Build a working picture of the physical world: describe how things move, how energy travels as waves, and how charge and current bring circuits to life. Every idea is grounded in everyday South African situations, from minibus journeys to load-shedding.

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What you'll learn

  • Distinguish vector from scalar quantities and calculate displacement, average velocity and acceleration in one dimension
  • Read and sketch position-time and velocity-time graphs and extract meaning from their slopes and areas
  • Relate the speed, frequency and wavelength of a transverse wave and describe pulses
  • Explain electrostatic charging and the two kinds of charge using conservation of charge
  • Define and use current as flow of charge and potential difference as energy per charge in a circuit

Before you start

  • Comfortable rearranging simple formulae and substituting units
  • Able to plot and read points on a set of axes
  • Familiar with basic ideas of energy and force

Course content

0/37 lessons
1. Motion, Waves & Electricity: The Core Toolkit3 lessons
  1. Vectors, Scalars & Motion in One DimensionLesson30 min
  2. Transverse Pulses & WavesLesson30 min
  3. Electrostatics & Electric CircuitsLesson30 min
2. Extended Study 18 lessons
  1. Vectors, Scalars & Motion in One Dimension: Concept MapLesson30 min
  2. Transverse Pulses & Waves: Concept MapLesson30 min
  3. Electrostatics & Electric Circuits: Concept MapLesson30 min
  4. Vectors, Scalars & Motion in One Dimension: MechanismLesson30 min
  5. Transverse Pulses & Waves: MechanismLesson30 min
  6. Electrostatics & Electric Circuits: MechanismLesson30 min
  7. Vectors, Scalars & Motion in One Dimension: RepresentationsLesson30 min
  8. Transverse Pulses & Waves: RepresentationsLesson30 min
3. Extended Study 28 lessons
  1. Electrostatics & Electric Circuits: RepresentationsLesson30 min
  2. Vectors, Scalars & Motion in One Dimension: Worked ReasoningLesson30 min
  3. Transverse Pulses & Waves: Worked ReasoningLesson30 min
  4. Electrostatics & Electric Circuits: Worked ReasoningLesson30 min
  5. Vectors, Scalars & Motion in One Dimension: Evidence and MeasurementLesson30 min
  6. Transverse Pulses & Waves: Evidence and MeasurementLesson30 min
  7. Electrostatics & Electric Circuits: Evidence and MeasurementLesson30 min
  8. Vectors, Scalars & Motion in One Dimension: Applied ScenarioLesson30 min
4. Extended Study 38 lessons
  1. Transverse Pulses & Waves: Applied ScenarioLesson30 min
  2. Electrostatics & Electric Circuits: Applied ScenarioLesson30 min
  3. Vectors, Scalars & Motion in One Dimension: MisconceptionsLesson30 min
  4. Transverse Pulses & Waves: MisconceptionsLesson30 min
  5. Electrostatics & Electric Circuits: MisconceptionsLesson30 min
  6. Vectors, Scalars & Motion in One Dimension: InvestigationLesson30 min
  7. Transverse Pulses & Waves: InvestigationLesson30 min
  8. Electrostatics & Electric Circuits: InvestigationLesson30 min
5. Extended Study 45 lessons
  1. Vectors, Scalars & Motion in One Dimension: SynthesisLesson30 min
  2. Transverse Pulses & Waves: SynthesisLesson30 min
  3. Electrostatics & Electric Circuits: SynthesisLesson30 min
  4. Vectors, Scalars & Motion in One Dimension: Assessment PracticeLesson30 min
  5. Transverse Pulses & Waves: Assessment PracticeLesson30 min
6. Framework Completion: Energy, Sound and Fields5 lessons
  1. Instantaneous Motion and GraphsLesson32 min
  2. Kinetic and Gravitational EnergyLesson32 min
  3. Longitudinal Waves and SoundLesson32 min
  4. Electromagnetic RadiationLesson32 min
  5. MagnetismLesson32 min