Jacaranda Physics 2: VCE units 3 & 4

✍ Scribed by Dan O’Keeffe, Graeme Lofts, Peter Nelson, Peter Pentland, Ross Phillips

• Publisher: Jacaranda
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 394
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
About eBookPLUS and studyON
About this book
Acknowledgements
UNIT 3
CHAPTER 1 Forces in action
Describing motion
Graphical analysis of motion
Algebraic analysis of motion
Newton’s laws of motion
Feeling lighter — feeling heavier
Applying newton’s second law of motion
Projectile motion
Uniform circular motion
Non-uniform circular motion
CHAPTER 2 Collisions and other interactions
Impulse and momentum in a collision
Impulse from a graph
Momentum and impulse
Conservation of momentum
Modelling a collision
Work in energy transfers and transformations
Getting down to work
Gravitational potential energy
Strain potential energy and springs
Elastic and inelastic collisions
CHAPTER 3 Special relativity
What is relativity?
Electromagnetism brings new challenges
Time dilation
Length contraction
A note on seeing relativistic effects
The most famous equation: E = mc2
CHAPTER 4 Gravitation
Explaining the solar system
Astronauts and satellites in orbit
CHAPTER 5 Electric fields
The long road to Coulomb’s Law
Electric fields
Linking the concepts together
CHAPTER 6 Magnetic fields
Early ideas about magnetism
Magnetic effect of a current
Differences between magnetic fields
Explaining magnetism
Comparing gravitational, electric and magnetic fields
Magnetic force on an electric current
Magnetic propulsion
Meters
Magnetic force on charges
Crossed electric and magnetic fields
Overview
CHAPTER 7 Generating electricity
Making electricity
Faraday’s discovery of electromagnetic induction
Magnetic flux
Induced EMF
Producing a greater EMF
CHAPTER 8 Transmission of power
Electric power
Transformers
Power distribution and transmission line losses
UNIT 4
CHAPTER 9 Mechanical waves
Light and its properties
Waves — energy transfer without matter transfer
Properties of waves
Interference of waves
Diffraction
The Doppler effect
Resonance
CHAPTER 10 Light as a wave
Bending of light
Snell’s Law
Limitations of the ray model
Total internal reflection andcritical angle
Rainbows
Young’s experiment
Other interference experiments
Diffraction of light
Light as an electromagnetic wave
Polarisation
CHAPTER 11 The photoelectric effect
Physics before the observation of the photoelectric effect
A mysterious radiation
The photoelectric effect
The particle model and the photoelectric effect
What’s wrong with the wave model?
Great photoelectric effect results
A photon model for the photoelectric effect
CHAPTER 12 Matter — particles and waves
The particle model of matter unhinged
The discovery of electrons
Emission spectra — atoms emit photons
Absorption spectra — atoms absorb photons
Making light
Synchrotron radiation
The wave behaviour of electrons
Electrons, atoms and standing waves
Waves or particles?
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
Why classical laws of physics areunable to model motion at very small scales
CHAPTER 13 Practical investigations
What is the benefit to you?
What is involved?
Selecting a topic
Submitting a research proposal
Variables
Selecting your measuring instruments
Finding patterns
Other aspects of scientific measurement
Handling difficulties
Safety
Presenting your work for assessment
Topics
Appendix 1 Skill checks
Appendix 2 Periodic table of the elements
Appendix 3 Some useful as tronomical data
Appendix 4 Useful formulae
Glossary
Answers to numerical questions
Index