Download VCE Unit 2 - Vicphysics

VCE Unit 2
At PLC
Time allotments
Total time 65 periods
Movement: 25 periods
Electricity: 15 periods
Alternative sources of energy:15-20 periods
Revision: 5-10 periods
Total: 65 periods
Assessment tasks
• 3 major assessment tasks as set in study
guide
• Tests
• Exams
• Homework assignments
• Practical reports
• Presentations
Assessment in Movement
• Annotated folio of practical activities at
camp
• Response to media article: speed camera’s
and road safety
Assessment in Electricity
• Data analysis: Unknown non-ohmic device
• Summary report on practical activities
Assessment in Alternative
sources of energy
• Practical investigation
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Lamberts law
Power output
Power vs colour
Tracking vs fixed cells
Solar to hydrogen
Measuring solar flux
Solar battery charger
Extrapolating to household use
14
Practical: Coefficient of
friction
15
Weight forces vs Mass
Normal force
16
Force Survey
Application
of Newton's laws
17
Energy and Work
18
Force vs Distance graphs
19
Practical: Energy in a spring
20
Kinetic, and Potential
energies
21
Transfer of energy,
Conservation of Energy
22
Practical: Energy transfer
23
Power, Power Practical
24
25
Could use elevators here as a context.
Revision
Motion Test
Define work as the transfer of energy
through the application of force
including hooke's law
Spring/elastic band challenge
Power of a physics student
PLC Physics 2004
Unit 2 - Electricity
Context:
Time:
Lesson
DC devices,household
and car electricity
15 lessons.
TOPIC
Comments
1
Revise electrostatics Define
current,Voltage and
Resitance
Can use Hewitt's video. Just the basics.
V,I and R should be carried over from Yr
10
2
Simple circuits
Predicting bulb brightness
Building circuits
Use simple parallel and series circuits to
get the basics established. This should
also include POE with hands on circuit
building. Most of this should be revision
from yr 10
3
Using meters
Units of V and I
4
5
Measuring I and V in series and parallel
Resistance
How does it relate to V and I? Really I
relates to V and R!
Resistance
What does it depend on?
6
Resistance in plarallel and
series circuits
Relevant equations. Lots of practice
questions
7
Modeling electric circuits
Use crocodile clips to model simple
circuits.
8
Ohm's law
9
Ohmic and Non Ohmic
devices
10
Houshold and car electricity
11
Effects of electrical shock
12
13
Electric Power
Paying for electricity
14
Revision
15
Test
Practical: actual and/or model
Start with the V/I charateristic of a
lightbulb. Discuss v/I 's of diodes, LDR's
etc
Including Earth, fuses, circuit breakers.
Causes effects and treatments
P = VI (Important for DS 3.3)
Introduce kWh
Home work WORK DUE
PLC Physics 2004
VCE Physics:
Unit 2
Context:
Time frame:
Lesson
1
2
Investigation: Alternative
Energy Sources
Photo voltaic Electricity
15 lessons.
TOPIC
Energy transfer systems
Efficiency
Alternative energy systems
Comments
General principles
Difference between conventional and
alternative energy
3
Principles of solar energy
Including availability, Solar flux, problems
with practical systems
4
Potential of solar energy
Link availability to usage of power in our
society
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10
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13
Photovoltaic
Practical investigation on
solar cells.
Suggested topics:
-Lamberts Law
-Power output
-Power vs colour
-Tracking vs fixed solar cells Solar to Hydrogen
-Measuring Solar Flux
Solar battery charger
Extrapolating to household
power use by investigating
home power use.
14
Revision
15
Test
Basic principles.
Students to be supplied with
Solar cells, Multimeters,
rechargeable cells.
Quantitative investigation of
energy conversions at each
step in the process.
Extrapolation to larger energy
supply system for a home or
town.
Home work WORK DUE