Physics In Focus Year 12

Prelims
Title page
Imprint page
Contents
Introduction
Author and reviewer team
Acknowledgements
Using physics in focus
Outcome grid
Chapter 01: Working scientifically and depth studies
1.1: Physics knowledge and understanding
1.2: Solving scientific problems: depth studies
1.3: Planning your depth study
1.4: Implementation and collecting data
1.5: Analysing and interpreting your results
1.6: Communicating your understanding
Module five: Advanced mechanics
Chapter 2: Projectile motion
2.1: Projectile motion
2.2: The trajectory of a projectile
2.3: Investigating projectile motion
2.4: Modelling projectile motion
Chapter summary
Chapter review questions
Chapter 3: Circular motion
3.1: Uniform circular motion
3.2: Applications of the uniform circular motion model
3.3: Energy and work in uniform circular motion
3.4: Rotation and torque
Chapter summary
Chapter review questions
Chapter 4: Motion in gravitational fields
4.1: The gravitational force and the gravitational field
4.2: The orbits of planets and satellites
4.3: Kepler’s laws
4.4: Energy in gravitational fields
Chapter summary
Chapter review questions
Module SIX: Electromagnetism
Chapter 5: Charged particles, conductors and electric and magnetic fields
5.1: Charged particles in uniform electric fields
5.2: The trajectory of a charged particle in a uniform electric field
5.3: Charged particles in uniform magnetic fields
5.4: The gravitational, electric and magnetic fields
Chapter summary
Chapter review questions
Chapter 6: The motor effect
6.1: Current-carrying wires in magnetic fields
6.2: Forces on parallel current-carrying wires
Chapter summary
Chapter review questions
Chapter 7: Electromagnetic induction
7.1: Magnetic flux
7.2: Electromagnetic induction
7.3: Transformers
Chapter summary
Chapter review questions
Chapter 8: Applications of the motor effect
8.1: DC motors
8.2: Generators and AC induction motors
8.3: Lenz’s Law and conservation of energy
Chapter summary
Chapter review questions
Module seven: The nature of light
Chapter 9: Electromagnetic spectrum
9.1: Maxwell’s contributions to the theory of electromagnetism
9.2: The production and propagation of electromagnetic waves
9.3: Determining the speed of light
9.4: The electromagnetic spectrum
9.5: Astronomical applications of spectroscopy
Chapter summary
Chapter review questions
Chapter 10: Light: wave model
10.1: Competing models
10.2: Diffraction patterns and interference
10.3: Polarisation
Chapter summary
Chapter review questions
Chapter 11: Light: quantum model
11.1: Black body radiation
11.2: Investigating the photoelectric effect
11.3: Analysing the photoelectric effect
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  Chapter review questions
Chapter 12: Light and special relativity
12.1: Frames of reference and relativity
12.2: The aether and problems with classical relativity
12.3: Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity
12.4: Experimental evidence for relativity
12.5: Relativistic mass and momentum
12.6: Einstein’s mass–energy equivalence relationship: E = mc2
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  Chapter review questions
Module Eight: From the Universe to the atom
Chapter 13: Origins of the elements
13.1: Radiation transforms into matter
13.2: The expanding Universe
13.3: The production of spectra
13.4:  Features of stellar spectra – classifying stars
13.5: The Hertzsprung–Russell diagram
13.6: Einstein’s equivalence of mass and energy
13.7:  Nucleosynthesis in stars
Chapter summary
Chapter review questions
Chapter 14: Structure of the atom
14.1: The electron
14.2: Thomson’s charge-to-mass ratio experiment
14.3: Millikan’s oil drop experiment
14.4:  The nucleus
14.5: Chadwick’s discovery of neutrons
  Chapter summary
  Chapter review questions
Chapter 15: Quantum mechanical nature of the atom
15.1: Bohr’s atomic model
15.2: Spectra
15.3: Energy, frequency, wavelength and the hydrogen spectrum
15.4: de Broglie’s matter waves
15.5: Modern quantum mechanics
  Chapter summary
  Chapter review questions
Chapter 16: Properties of the nucleus
16.1: Spontaneous decay of unstable nuclei
16.2: Properties of alpha, beta and gamma radiation
16.3: Decay and half-life
16.4: Energy from the nucleus
16.5: Nuclear fusion
Chapter summary
Chapter review questions
Chapter 17: Deep inside the atom
17.1: Are protons and neutrons fundamental particles?
17.2: Further evidence for fundamental particles
17.3: The Standard Model of matter
  Chapter summary
  Chapter review questions
Appendices
Numerical Answers