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A1PHY
In this unit, students
- Investigate energy production by considering heating processes, radioactivity and nuclear reactions, and investigate energy transfer and transformation in electrical circuits.
- understand how the kinetic particle model and thermodynamics concepts describe and explain heating processes
- understand how the nuclear model of the atom explains radioactivity, fission, fusion and the properties of radioactive nuclides
- understand how scientific models and theories have developed and are applied to improve existing and develop new, technologies
- use science inquiry skills to design, conduct and analyse safe and effective investigations into heating processes, nuclear physics and electrical circuits, and to communicate methods and findings
A2PHY
In this unit, students
- Describe, explain and predict linear motion, and investigate the application of wave models to sound phenomena.
- understand that Newton’s Laws of Motion describe the relationship between the forces acting on an object and its motion
- understand how scientific models and theories have developed and are applied to improve existing and develop new, technologies
- use science inquiry skills to design, conduct and analyse safe and effective investigations into linear motion and wave phenomena, and to communicate methods and findings
- use algebra and graphical representations to calculate, analyse and predict measurable quantities associated with linear and wave motion
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