This page provides the links to my videos on this site and are arranged according to the QLD curriculum in terms of units  and topics.

Those with an EG have an associated worked out sample.
Those with an WS have sample  problems.

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Foundations/Skills

• Dimensions and Units
• Mathematical Skills - Prefixes , Scientific Notation, Significant Figures, Orders of Magnitude and Estimation
• Graphing - choosing the right graph, linearising data​
• Validity, Reliability and Accuracy in First Hand Investigations
• Validity, Reliability and Accuracy in Second Hand Investigations (Research)

 

Unit 1: Thermal, nuclear and electrical physics

Topic 1: Heating processes 
Temperature and specific heat capacity ​​

• Temperature vs Heat 
• Specific Heat Capacity EG 
• Latent Heat Explained
• Energy transfer - conduction, convection, radiation 

Topic 2: Ionising radiation and nuclear reactions​​

• the atomic mass unit
• Intro to Radioactivity
• Half life explained. EG
• Understanding Binding energy
• Understanding Strong Force
• Fission explained EG
  includes How a reactor works
• Fusion explained​

​​Topic 3: Electrical circuits​

• Intro to electric charge 
  • inc How an electroscope works
• Electric Fields Explained 
• Coulomb’s Law Explained 
• Understanding voltage​
• Ohm’s Law and its limitations
• Series and parallel circuits explained 
• inc Series and parallel circuits - mathematics EG WS
• Power in electrical circuits
  • inc What is a kilowatt hour?

​Unit 2: Linear motion and waves

Topic 1: Linear motion and force ​
Vectors

• Understanding Vectors  WS
•  Relative motion EG WS

Linear Motion

• What is Mechanics?
• Kinematics foundations
• What is acceleration?
•  Motion Graphs Explained EG WS
•  Equations of motion  EG WS
• RUDE - a way of solving mathematical problems

Forces

• What are Newton's Laws? WS
•  Forces in equilibrium EG WS
• Understanding the Normal Force 
• Friction explained   WS
•  Inclines analysis with 2nd Law  EG WS​
• Momentum
  ​includes
  • What is Impulse? EG, WS
  • Conservation of Momentum EG x 3 , WS​

Energy​

• What is work and Work-Energy Theorem? WS
  includes
  • Conservation of Energy Explained
  • Conservation of Energy and Collisions WS
  • Work and Power EG

Topic 2: Waves​
Wave Properties

• Transverse Waves explained WS
  • and Longitudinal Waves explained
• Superposition explained (one dimensional) 
  • inc Superposition using Desmos
• Interference (no maths)​
• Resonance explained - with demonstration

Sound

•  Understanding Standing Waves  EG 
•  Standing waves in Closed Pipes EG
• Doppler Effect EG WS​
• Beats explained

Light

• Refraction explained  EG WS
  • inc Total Internal Reflection explained 
• Inverse square law EG WS
• ​What is polarisation? EG
• The Reason Behind Dispersion

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Unit 3: Gravity and electromagnetism​

Topic 1: Gravity and motion
Projectile Motion  Projectile Motion Explained EGx2, WS

• incudes
  • Why 45° has maximum range
  • ​Real life projectiles are not parabolas. 
  • How well do you know projectile motion Quiz WS

​Inclined Planes

• Understanding the Normal Force ​
•  Inclines analysis with 2nd Law  EG WS

​Circular Motion

• Circular Motion Explained EGx3, WS
• *The Conical Pendulum and banking explained EGx2, WS
• including 
  • The physics of rollercoasters
  • ​Graphical analysis of  looped track 
• Intro to angular motion
• Torque Explained EG

Gravitational force and fields ​

• Law of Gravitation EG, WS

Orbits

• Orbital Velocity EG WS
• Gravitational Energy 
  • potential energy
  • includes gravity variation
  • Understanding Energy of Satellites EG
• Kepler’s Laws Explained EG WS​

Topic 2: Electromagnetism​
​Electrostatics

• Intro to electric charge 
  • inc How an electroscope works
• Electric Fields Explained 
• Coulomb’s Law Explained 
• Understanding voltage
• Charge behaviour  in E field EG, WS

Magnetic Fields

• Magnetic Field around a wire demonstrated 
  includes Solenoids Explained 
• Charge behaviour in B field EG, WS
• Hand rules explained
• Motor effect explained EG WS
  ​includes
  • ​Motor effect demonstration
  • The current balance - testing the motor effect
  • Force between current bearing wires EG
  • Motor effect applications - (not in current syllabus. Nonetheless a useful application to be aware of)
    • the galvanometer
    • the speaker​

Electromagnetic Induction

• Flux explained
• Faraday’s Law EG
• lenz law explained 
   includes
  • pipe example
  • electromagnetic braking
  • ​Lenz Law demonstrations
• Understanding Transformers, EG WS - ​

Electromagnetic Radiation​​

• James Clerk Maxwell and EMR​​

Unit 4: Revolutions in modern physics

Topic 1: Special relativity​

• Understanding Frames of Reference
• Special relativity - an intro
• ​Special Relativity - the cause and evidence - time dilation EG
• Michelson-Morley Explained (not directly referred to in syllabus but an important experiment in the context of relativity)

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Topic 2: Quantum Theory
Quantum Theory

• Young’s Double slit experiment EG
  includes Diffraction Grating Explained
• ​​Wien’s Law Explained EG
• Black Bodies Explained with Planck
• Photoelectric Effect Explained. EG - includes a couple of other videos that demosncate the photoelectric effect​
• Rutherford’s model (Geiger Marsden exp). 
• ​​Bohr’s understanding of the atom
  • ​​An intro to Spectroscopy
• The De Broglie model

Topic 3: The Standard Model​​​​

• Standard model explained
  includes evidence for quark
• particle accelerators explained
  • ​​​the synchrotron , the cyclotron (2 videos)

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