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Grade 11 Physics: Mechanics, Waves and Electricity
CAPS-aligned Grade 11 Physical Sciences physics support: vectors and Newton's laws, waves and optics, electrostatics, circuits and electromagnetism.
≈ 25 h 36 min6 sections · 32 lessonsNo ratings yet
What you'll learn
- Resolve two-dimensional vectors and communicate resultant magnitude, direction and uncertainty
- Apply Newton's laws with correct systems, free-body diagrams, graphs and evidence
- Use wavefront, refraction and diffraction models with calculations and ray diagrams
- Calculate and explain electrostatic force, electric fields, circuits, power and electromagnetic effects
- Read and construct exam-style diagrams, graphs and multi-step quantitative solutions
Before you start
- Grade 10 Physical Sciences foundations
- Linear equations, trigonometry, scientific notation and SI units
Course content
0/32 lessons
1. Vectors, Forces and Light3 lessons
- Vectors, direction and perpendicular componentsLesson48 min
- Newton's laws, net force and system choiceLesson48 min
- Refraction, refractive index and ray pathsLesson48 min
2. Waves, Charges and Circuits3 lessons
- Wavefronts, diffraction and Huygens' principleLesson48 min
- Charge, Coulomb's law and electric-field evidenceLesson48 min
- Circuits, current and electromagnetismLesson48 min
3. Extended Study 18 lessons
- Vector addition and scale diagramsLesson48 min
- Free-body diagrams and interaction pairsLesson48 min
- Snell's law, refraction and critical angleLesson48 min
- Wavelength, frequency and wavefront representationsLesson48 min
- Electric field lines, force direction and strengthLesson48 min
- Ohm's law and circuit quantitiesLesson48 min
- Resolving forces into componentsLesson48 min
- Net force, acceleration and Newton's third lawLesson48 min
4. Extended Study 28 lessons
- Why light bends: speed, medium and the normalLesson48 min
- Aperture size, wavefront construction and diffractionLesson48 min
- Coulomb's inverse-square law and superpositionLesson48 min
- Series and parallel circuit analysisLesson48 min
- Vector graphs, scale and measurement uncertaintyLesson48 min
- Motion graphs, force graphs and accelerationLesson48 min
- Ray diagrams, total internal reflection and optical communicationLesson48 min
- Reading wavefront diagrams and diffraction patternsLesson48 min
5. Extended Study 38 lessons
- Electrostatic data, signs and field superpositionLesson48 min
- Electric power, energy and home-circuit reasoningLesson48 min
- Two-dimensional resultant problem clinicLesson48 min
- Force-and-motion problem clinicLesson48 min
- Snell's-law and total-internal-reflection clinicLesson48 min
- Wavefront and diffraction problem clinicLesson48 min
- Coulomb's-law and field problem clinicLesson48 min
- Circuit and electromagnetism problem clinicLesson48 min
6. Extended Study 42 lessons
- Vector measurement, uncertainty and communicationLesson48 min
- Investigating F = ma and evaluating evidenceLesson48 min