Secondary 5 Physics
📘 This page is a collection of resources for Secondary 5 Physics (203-001-05).
General Resources
🌟 Booster Course:
<a href="https://vanier.moodle.decclic.qc.ca/course/view.php?id=3225" target="_blank">GIS: Exploration Sec 4 & Sec 5 | Vanier Moodle</a>
Students can self-enroll with their Office365 account.
📖 Reference Textbook:
Physics 006 – Lecture Notes by Harris Benson
Math Review
🎥 Videos
- Khan Academy: Basic Trigonometry
- Solving a system (Sharp EL-W516X)
- Solving a system (Sharp EL-520X)
- Solving a system (Casio fx-991ES)
- Solving with WolframAlpha
🧪 Simulation
🛠 Tools
📝 Practice
Measurements
🎥 Videos
📖 Readings
1D Kinematics
🎥 Videos
- Example: Graphs
- Distance → Velocity Graphs
- Equations for motion with constant acceleration
- Free Fall Example
- Kinematics Review (AP Physics 1)
- Explore: Smartphone Accelerometer
📖 Readings
- OpenStax: Intro to 1D Kinematics
- OpenStax: Displacement
- OpenStax: Vectors, Scalars, Systems
- OpenStax: Time, Velocity, Speed
- OpenStax: Acceleration
- OpenStax: Graphical Analysis of Motion
- OpenStax: Equations for Constant Acceleration
- OpenStax: Problem-Solving Basics
- OpenStax: Falling Objects
- OpenStax: Intro to 2D Kinematics
- OpenStax: Kinematics in 2D
🧪 Simulation
📝 Practice
Vectors
Newton's Laws
Videos
- Video: Introduction to Newton's Laws of Motion
- Video: Newton's 2nd Law of Motion
- Video: Newton's 3rd Law of Motion
- Video: Free Body Diagrams
- Video: Normal Forces Part 1
- Video: Normal Forces Part 2
- Video: Tension Force
- Video: Step by Step example with Newton's 1st Law of Motion
- Video: Step by Step example with Newton's 2nd Law of Motion
- Video: Two-body example using Newton's 3rd Law of Motion
- Video: Neil deGrasse Tyson: Einstein vs Newton - Who Was Right?
Readings
- OpenStax: Introduction to Dynamics: Newton’s Laws of Motion
- OpenStax: Development of Force Concept
- OpenStax: Newton’s First Law of Motion: Inertia
- OpenStax: Newton’s Second Law of Motion: Concept of a System
- OpenStax: Newton’s Third Law of Motion: Symmetry in Forces
- OpenStax: Normal, Tension, and Other Examples of Forces
- OpenStax: Problem-Solving Strategies
- OpenStax: Further Applications of Newton’s Laws of Motion
Simulations
Energy
Videos
- Video: Introduction to Laws of Conservation (Conservation of Energy)
- Video: Conservation of Energy in Mechanics
- Video: Mechanical Work
- Video: Work required to lift an object (Discovery of Potential Energy)
- Video: Work required to accelerate an object to velocity v (Discovery of Kinetic Energy)
Readings
- OpenStax: Introduction to Work, Energy, and Energy Resources
- OpenStax: Work: The Scientific Definition
- OpenStax: Kinetic Energy and the Work-Energy Theorem
- OpenStax: Gravitational Potential Energy
- OpenStax: Conservative Forces and Potential Energy
- OpenStax: Nonconservative Forces
- OpenStax: Conservation of Energy
- OpenStax: Nonconservative Forces
Reflection and Refraction
Videos
- Video: Finding the mirror-image of an object
- Video: Finding the angle of refraction geometrically
- Video: Images of curved mirrors: Concave mirror (converging)
- Video: Images of curved mirrors: Convex Mirror (diverging)
Readings
- OpenStax: Introduction to Geometric Optics
- OpenStax: The Ray Aspect of Light
- OpenStax: The Law of Reflection
- OpenStax: Total Internal Reflection
- OpenStax: Dispersion: The Rainbow and Prisms
- OpenStax: Image Formation by Mirrors
Simulation
Thin Lenses
Videos
- Video: Converging and Diverging Lenses
- Video: Finding the images of thin lenses using ray tracing
- Video: Using the thin lens equation
- Video: Calculating the diopters of glasses for Myopia
- Video: Calculating the diopters of reading glasses
Readings
- OpenStax: Image Formation by Lenses
- OpenStax: Introduction to Vision and Optical Instruments
- OpenStax: Physics of the Eye
- OpenStax: Vision Correction