Edrolo VCE Physics Units 1&2 2020 Edition by Al Harkness, ISBN-13: 978-0648943334
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Language: English
527 pages
ISBN-10: 9780648943334
ISBN-13: 978-0648943334
Table of Contents:
USING THIS RESOURCE TO TEACH AND LEARN VI
FEATURES OF THIS BOOK VIII
01 Practical investigations 1
1A Asking questions, identifying variables, and making predictions 2
1B Scientific conventions 8
1C Collecting data 13
1D Representing and analysing data 21
1E Gradients of lines of best fit 28
Chapter 1 review 34
UNIT 1: WHAT IDEAS EXPLAIN THE PHYSICAL WORLD? 37
AREA OF STUDY 1: HOW CAN THERMAL EFFECTS BE EXPLAINED? 38
02 Thermodynamics principles 39
2A What is temperature? 40
2B How does thermal energy move? 47
2C How heat affects temperature 59
2D The Zeroth and First Laws of Thermodynamics 68
Chapter 2 review 74
03 Earth’s climate 77
3A The electromagnetic spectrum 78
3B Thermal radiation 83
3C Earth’s energy flow 93
3D The greenhouse effect 99
3E Modelling effects on the climate 105
3F Thermodynamic principles in housing and transportation 115
Chapter 3 review 127
Unit 1, AOS 1 review 129
AREA OF STUDY 2: HOW DO ELECTRIC CIRCUITS WORK? 134
04 Electricity and circuits 135
4A What is electricity? 136
4B Resistance and Ohm’s law 148
4C Series circuits 156
4D Parallel circuits 163
4E Combining series and parallel circuits 170
Chapter 4 review 177
05 Applied electricity 181
5A Applications of electric circuits 182
5B Household electricity 192
5C Electrical safety 200
Chapter 5 review 207
Unit 1, AOS 2 review 211
AREA OF STUDY 3: WHAT IS MATTER AND HOW IS IT FORMED? 216
06 Particles in the nucleus 217
6A The Standard Model 218
6B Nuclear stability and the fundamental forces 228
6C Radioactive half-life 234
6D Types of nuclear radiation 240
Chapter 6 review 248
07 The origin of atoms and their energy 251
7A Nuclear energy 252
7B Producing light 260
7C The origin of the Universe 267
Chapter 7 review 276
Unit 1, AOS 3 review 279
UNIT2: WHAT DO EXPERIMENTS REVEAL ABOUT THE PHYSICAL WORLD? 283
AREA OF STUDY 1: HOW CAN MOTION BE DESCRIBED AND EXPLAINED? 284
08 Kinematics 285
8A Describing motion 286
8B Graphing motion 298
8C The constant acceleration equations 309
Chapter 8 review 317
09 Forces and motion 321
9A Forces 322
9B Force vectors in two dimensions 331
9C Inclined planes and connected bodies 340
9D Torque 352
9E Equilibrium 361
Chapter 9 review 370
10 Conservation of momentum and energy 373
10A Momentum and impulse 374
10B Work and kinetic energy 385
10C Gravitational potential energy 394
10D Springs 402
Chapter 10 review 411
Unit 2, AOS 1 review 414
Answers 419
Concept discussion questions 504
GLOSSARY 510
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 515
FORMULAS IN THIS BOOK 516
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