Year 1 Unit Notes

Notes from Year 1: IB Physics 1

These are the links to the notes we covered, and that were posted, last year.

Topic 1: Measurement and Uncertainties

NPR podcast: The Kilogram has a weight loss problem
1.1: Metric Conversions (ppt) Note: these were not covered directly in class. Use this as a reference should you need assistance with metrics! :)
1.1: Orders of Magnitude and Estimation (PPT)
Handout: OM Ranges for distance, energies, mass, and time (Word Doc)
1.1: Significant Figures rules (ppt)
1.2: Accuracy, Precision and Errors (ppt)
1.2: Uncertainties in Measurement (ppt)

Lab Resources:

1.3 Vectors and Vector Addition (ppt)
lab: Displacement Vector Addition

Topic 2: Mechanics

Intro: displacement, velocity, relative velocity (ppt)
Motion Graphing (post-lab presentation) (ppt)
Kinematics Equations (ppt)
Falling Bodies (PPT)
Projectile Motion (Ppt)
Projectile motion practice problems (ppt)
Forces and Newton's Laws (ppt)
Momentum and Impulse (ppt)

Semester 2 notes:

Collisions and Explosions (ppt)
Energy and Work (ppt)
Energy and Work--Notes worksheet (.docx)
Power and Efficiency (ppt)
WEP practice problems (KEY) (note: Question 13 has a missing part that deletes itself when I make the test...and I don't know why. The info you need to answer problem c is that the output power of the bus is 70.0 kW. The efficiency is 35%. The missing question asked you to calculate an input power to the bus, which is 200 kW)

Topic 3: Thermal Physics

Temperature and Thermal Energy Transfer (ppt)
Specific Heat Capacity and Calorimetry (ppt)
Calorimetry practice problems (ppt)
Latent Heat and Phase Changes (ppt)
Modelling a Gas (ppt)
Gas Laws (ppt)
Thermodynamics and Thermodynamic Processes (PPT)
Heat Engines and Heat Pumps (PPT)
Engines: examples and efficiency (PPT) (pdf)
Entropy and 2nd law of thermodynamics (PPT)

Worksheets:
Entropy (KEY)

Topic 8: Energy Production, part 1

Thermal Energy Transfer (ppt)
Albedo and Greenhouse Effect (ppt)

Topic 6: Circular Motion and Gravitation

Unit Notes

Circular motion--Intro and pre-lab (ppt)
law of gravitation (ppt)

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