This page provides the links to my videos on this site and are arranged according to the NSW curriculum in terms of modules and inquiry questions.

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

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Year 12

This videos gives you an overview of the HSC course.
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Module 5 
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IQ1: How can models that are used to explain projectile motion be used to analyse and make predictions?

•  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

IQ2: Why do objects move in circles?

• 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

IQ3: How does the force of gravity determine the motion of planets and satellites?

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

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Module 6
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​IQ1: What happens to stationary and moving charged particles when they interact with an electric or magnetic field?

• Charge behaviour  in E field EG, WS
• Charge behaviour in B field EG, WS​

IQ2: Under what circumstances is a force produced on a current carrying conductor in a magnetic field?? ​

• 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​

IQ3 :How are electric and magnetic fields related?

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

IQ4: How has knowledge about the Motor Effect been applied to technological advances?

• DC Motor explained
• Motors and Generators explained
• Back EMF explained
• AC and Induction Motor explained​

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Module 7

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IQ1: What is light?

• James Clerk Maxwell and EMR
• An intro to Spectroscopy
• How spectroscopy is used in astronomy
• Determining the speed of Light
  
  • Early measurements
    
  • Essen's measuring the speed. of light
    
  • ​Why is the speed of light set?

IQ2: What evidence supports the classical wave model of light and what predictions can be made using this model?

• Light as seen by Newton and Huijgens
• Young’s Double slit experiment EG
• includes Diffraction Grating Explained
• What is polarisation? EG
• The Reason Behind Dispersion

IQ3: What evidence supports the particle model of light and what are the implications of this evidence for the development of the quantum model of light?

• Wien’s Law Explained EG
• Black Bodies Explained with Planck
• Photoelectric Effect Explained. EG - includes a couple of other videos that demonstrate the photoelectric effect

​IQ4: How does the behaviour of light affect concepts of time, space and matter?

• 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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Module 8 
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IQ1 What evidence is there for the origins of the elements?

• What is the Big Bang?
• Olber’s Paradox
• Stellar parallax
• Star Magnitude
• Star Temperature
• The HR Diagram
• Star energy - the proton-proton cycle (see Nuclear Fusion)
• Star energy - the CNO cycle

IQ2: How is it known that atoms are made up of protons, neutrons and electrons?

• Thomson’s discovery of electron WS
• includes Thomson’s experiment demonstrated
• Millikan’s oil drop experiment
• Rutherford’s model (Geiger Marsden exp). 
  Includes a video on ​Modeling Rutherford's model
• Chadwick’s discovery of the neutron

IQ3: How is it known that classical physics cannot explain the properties of the atom?

• Bohr’s understanding of the atom
• The De Broglie model
• Schrodinger’s model

IQ4: How can the energy of the atomic nucleus be harnessed?

• 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

IQ5: How is it known that human understanding of matter is still incomplete?

• What is the electron volt EG
• the eV as a unit of mass EG
• Standard model explained
  includes evidence for quark
• particle accelerators explained
  • ​​​the synchrotron , the cyclotron (2 videos)​