Physics Content and Contexts: Units 2A and 2B

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✦ Synopsis

Heinemann Education, 2008 - 343 p.

Heinemann Physics - Content and Contexts Units 2A & 2B is the most up-to-date and complete package for the Physics Course of Study in Western Australia. Physics is presented in meaningful contexts, and the unique structure offers teachers the flexibility to address the content in the way that suits the needs and interests of their students.

Content

Unit 2A
Aerospace physics
Medical physics: atoms in action
Measurement and data
Measurement and units
Data
Graphicalanalysis of data
Chapter review
Describing motion
Describing motion in a straight line
Speed, velocity and acceleration
Graphing motion: position, velocity and acceleration
Equations of motion
Chapter review
Forces and their effects
Force as a vector
Vector techniques
Newton’s first law of motion
Newton’s second law of motion
Newton’s third law of motion
Chapter review
Energy and momentum
The relationship between momentum and force
Conservation of momentum
Work
Mechanical energy
Energy transformation and power
Elastic and inelastic collisions
Chapter review
Nuclear energy
Atoms, isotopes and radioisotopes
Alpha, beta and gamma radiation
Properties of alpha, beta and gamma radiation
Half-life and activity of radioisotopes
Splitting the atom: nuclear fission
Nuclear fission weapons
Nuclear reactors
Chapter review
Unit 2B
Controlling our environment
Electricity at home
Heating and cooling
Heat: a historical perspective
Kinetic theory
Heat and temperature
Specific heat capacity
Latent heat
Evaporation: heat energy in context
Conduction and convection
Radiation
Chapter review
Electricity
Electrical charge
Electric forces and fields
Electric current, EMF and electric potential
Resistance, ohmic and non-ohmic conductors
Electrical energy and power
Simple electric circuits
Circuit elements in parallel
Cells, batteries and other sources of EMF
Chapter review
Appendix
Answers
Index

✦ Subjects

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