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
- Intro to Newton's Laws
- Newton's 2nd Law
- Newton's 3rd Law
- Free Body Diagrams
- Normal Forces (Part 1)
- Normal Forces (Part 2)
- Tension Force
- Example with Newton's 1st Law
- Example with Newton's 2nd Law
- Two-body 3rd Law Example
- Neil deGrasse Tyson: Einstein vs Newton
📖 Readings
- OpenStax: Intro to Dynamics
- OpenStax: Force Concept
- OpenStax: Newton’s First Law
- OpenStax: Newton’s Second Law
- OpenStax: Newton’s Third Law
- OpenStax: Normal & Tension
- OpenStax: Problem-Solving Strategies
- OpenStax: Further Applications
🧪 Simulations
Energy
🎥 Videos
- Intro to Conservation of Energy
- Conservation of Energy in Mechanics
- Mechanical Work
- Work & Potential Energy
- Work & Kinetic Energy
📖 Readings
- OpenStax: Work & Energy Resources
- OpenStax: Work – Scientific Definition
- OpenStax: Kinetic Energy & Work-Energy Theorem
- OpenStax: Gravitational Potential Energy
- OpenStax: Conservative Forces
- OpenStax: Nonconservative Forces
- OpenStax: Conservation of Energy
Reflection & Refraction
🎥 Videos
📖 Readings
- OpenStax: Intro to Geometric Optics
- OpenStax: The Ray Aspect of Light
- OpenStax: Law of Reflection
- OpenStax: Total Internal Reflection
- OpenStax: Dispersion & Rainbows
- OpenStax: Image Formation by Mirrors
🧪 Simulation
Thin Lenses
🎥 Videos
- Converging & Diverging Lenses
- Ray Tracing with Lenses
- Thin Lens Equation
- Glasses for Myopia
- Glasses for Reading
📖 Readings
- OpenStax: Image Formation by Lenses
- OpenStax: Vision & Optical Instruments
- OpenStax: Physics of the Eye
- OpenStax: Vision Correction