STANDARD GRADE PHYSICS

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STANDARD GRADE PHYSICS

• Course outline

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• Waves
• Speed of sound
• Speed of light
• Communicating by wires
• Telegraphy

• Morse code
• Telephones
• Radio
• Television
• Satellites
• Geostationary satellites

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ELECTRICITY 1

• Household electrics
• Plug wiring
• Fuses
• Earth wire
• AC / DC
• Ring circuit

• Electromagnet
• Electric bell
• Relay
• Electric motor

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Space physics

• Solar system
• Stars and galaxies
• Lenses
• Telescopes
• Electromagnetic spectrum

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HEALTH PHYSICS

• Thermometers
• Sound
• Stethoscopes
• Ultrasound
• Lenses and the eye
• Sight defects and glasses

• Optical fibres
• Lasers
• X-rays
• Infra red and ultra violet
• radioactivity

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ELECTRICITY 2

• Current
• Resistance
• Voltage
• Ohms law
• Series circuits

• Parallel circuits
• Energy and power
• Resistors
• Circuit faults

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ELECTRONICS

• Input, process and output
• Analogue and digital
• Output devices
• Input devices
• Capacitors
• Voltage dividers
• transistors

• AND, OR and NOT gates
• Clock pulses
• Decision making circuits
• Amplifiers

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TRANSPORT

• Instantaneous speed
• Average speed
• Speed time graphs
• Acceleration
• Forces
• Newtons laws of motion

• Work, energy and power
• Kinetic energy
• Potential energy
• Rocket motion
• Gravity and projectiles

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ENERGY

• Renewable energy
• Non-renewable energy
• Nuclear fission
• Power stations
• Efficiency
• Generators

• Transformers
• Electrical transmission
• Heat in the home
• Specific heat capacity
• Specific latent heat