Course Outline - Adveti

COURSE OUTLINE - ADVETI

Course Title / Grade 10 Basic IGCSE Physics
Course Code / PHYSI1001-03
Duration (periods) / 144
Version Number / V3 Date: December 2012
Revision Date / 1 yr. Short review date: May/2013
3 yrs. In depth review date: May/2015
Industry Sector / Engineering, Aviation and Business
Linked Standards / IGCSE
Course Purpose / This course provides the learner with the unpinning Physics and applied science skills and knowledge needed for Engineering, Aviation and Business courses.
Context of delivery and assessment / This course is relevant to general physics for Engineering, Business and Aviation.Not all assessment criteria need to be met in one assessment task or activity.
Pre-Requisite/Co-Requisite
Assessment / Refer to ADVETI assessment policy
Teacher/Learner Resources / The teacher and student should have access to current industry relevant publications including but not restricted to:

• Physics Notes
• Internet access
• Software packages – Board works etc
• I-Pads

Physical resources / It is essential that assessment is conducted in an environment which reflects industry practices with access to suitable resources and equipment specifically:

• A standard classroom environment;
• Library facilities;
• I-Pads
• Smart board/Interactive whiteboard
• A data projector
• A laptop & calculators
• Access to Laboratory and workshops
• Hands-on materials: Calculators, rules, graph papers, simple card material for modelling, tins, rulers, graph paper, card, scissors, glue
• Measuring equipment: Scales, measuring tapes, thermometers, compasses and protractors

Customisation required (Please specify) / Available in English only
General Comments / Alongside with the course students are to practice IGCSE past papers.
Essential Skills / The following skills must be assessed as part of this course:
Students ability to use the suitable measuring instrument and in the proper way to carry measurements for mass, volume, length, period of time, temperature and density. The ability to explain the difference between mass and weight. Define and use the formulae of pressure and be able to explain the liquid pressure standards and the factors that affect pressure. Build abilities to observe motion and use the kinematic tools and graphs to determine motion type and calculate quantities like distance, speed, acceleration and time. Be able to differentiate between vectors and scalars. Define the main cause of motion and study forces regarding their action, effects, and units. Be able to explain the conditions of equilibrium of bodies and explain some natural movements taking into consideration the centre of mass of the object. Dealing with risks and danger through investigations on seat belt and breaking cars, thinking distance that effect the driver making a car accident, braking forces and drag forces for the aerodynamic shape of cars and parachutists. Define energy work and power and investigate how energy resources are valuable and what make us in challenge with making these resources green and renuable. Here students are facing through detailed knowledge of energy transformation and sources the challenge that are facing to make use of sources of energy other than the chemical and nuclear. Then, the course will shift to the study of thermal effects and provide students with skills essential to their daily lives from explaining the simple phenomena of nature regarding water state change to the engineering of bridges and taking into consideration the thermal effects on building them. Then students are exposed to learn skills on fluid motion which help them understand many motions of fluids and introduce to them the importance of fluid movement which is important to general lives and especially to those who will study in the aviation section. Students will learn the ways of building and using a thermometer to measure temperature in different situations.
Essential Knowledge / The following knowledge must be assessed as part of this course:
General Physics:
Measurements and Units: Measure Length, volume, mass. Notion of Mass and weight. Pressure and density.
Kinematics: Study the kinematics and be able to describe the motion draw motion graphs, use the graphs and equations to calculate the speed, acceleration distance and time.
Forces: study the causes a force can do and determine the resultant of forces in action. Use the scaled diagrams. Study the effects of a force (Moment) and define the state of equilibrium to solve problems.
Energy: Types of energy, work is where energy transforms from one type to another. Define power and carry calculations on energy work and power. Energy resources and types.
Thermal Physics: molecular theory. States of matter. Evaporation, changes in pressure causes, thermal expansion and measuring temperature.
Elements / Performance Requirements
General Physics / 1 / Length and time / 1.1 / Core
Use and describe the use of rules and measuring cylinders to calculate a length or a volume.
1.2 / Use and describe the use of clocks and devices for measuring an interval of time
1.3 / Supplement
Use and describe the use of a mechanical method for the measurement of a small distance (including use of a micrometer screw gauge)
1.4 / Measure and describe how to measure a short interval of time (including the period of a pendulum)
2 / Mass and weight / 2.1 / Core
Show familiarity with the idea of the mass of a body.
2.2 / State that weight is a force.
2.3 / Demonstrate understanding that weights (and hence masses) may be compared using a balance.
2.4 / Supplement
Demonstrate an understanding that mass is a property that ‘resists’ change in motion.
2.5 / Describe, and use the concept of, weight as the effect of a gravitational field on a mass.
3 / Density / 3.1 / Core
Describe an experiment to determine the density of a liquid and of a regularly shaped solid.
3.2 / Perform the necessary calculations for determining the densities of both.
3.3 / Supplement
Describe the determination of the density of an irregularly shaped solid by the method of displacement, and make the necessary calculation.
4 / Pressure / 4.1 / Core
Relate (without calculation) pressure to force and area,with examples.
4.2 / Describe the simple mercury barometer and its use in measuring atmospheric pressure.
4.3 / Relate (without calculation) the pressure beneath a liquid surface to depth and to density, using appropriate examples.
4.4 / Use and describe the use of a manometer.
4.5 / Supplement
Recall and use the equation p = F/A.
4.6 / Recall and use the equation p = hρg.
General Physics / 5 / Speed, velocity and acceleration / 5.1 / Core
Define speed and calculate speed from / total distance
total time
5.2 / Supplement
Distinguish between speed and velocity.
5.3 / Demonstrate some understanding that acceleration is related to changing speed.
5.4 / Recognise linear motion for which the acceleration is constant and calculate the acceleration.
5.5 / State that the acceleration of free fall for a body near to the Earth is constant.
5.6 / Plot and interpret a speed/time graph or a distance/time graph.
5.7 / Recognise from the shape of a speed/time graph when a body is:
– at rest
– moving with constant speed
– moving with changing speed
5.8 / Calculate the area under a speed/time graph to work out the distance travelled for motion with constant acceleration.
6 / Forces / 6.1 / Core
Effects of forces / State that a force may produce a change in size and shape of a body.
6.2 / Describe the ways in which a force may change the motion of a body.
6.3 / Find the resultant of two or more forces acting along the same line.
6.4 / Plot extension/load graphs and describe iits experimental procedure.
6.5 / State Hooke’s Law and recall and use the expression F = k x.
6.6 / Supplement
Interpret extension/load graphs.
6.7 / Recognise the significance of the term ‘limit of proportionality’ for an extension/load graph.
6.8 / Recall and use the relation between force, mass and acceleration (including the direction).
6.9 / Recognise motion for which the acceleration is not constant.
6.10 / Describe qualitatively the motion of bodies falling in a uniform gravitational field with and without air resistance (including reference to terminal velocity).
6.11 / Describe qualitatively motion in a curved path due to a perpendicular forc (F = mv 2 /r is not required).
General Physics / 7 / Turning effect / 7.1 / Core
Describe the moment of a force as a measure of its turning effect and give everyday examples.
7.2 / Describe qualitatively the balancing of a beam about a pivot.
7.3 / Supplement
Perform and describe an experiment (involving vertical forces) to show that there is no net moment on a body in equilibrium.
7.4 / Apply the idea of opposing moments to simple systems in equilibrium.
8 / Conditions for equilibrium / 8.1 / Core
State that, when there is no resultant force and no resultant turning effect, a system is in equilibrium.
9 / Centre of mass / 9.1 / Core
Perform and describe an experiment to determine the position of the centre of mass of a plane lamina.
9.2 / Describe qualitatively the effect of the position of the centre of mass on the stability of simple objects.
10 / Scalars and vectors / 10.1 / Supplement
Demonstrate an understanding of the difference between scalars and vectors and give common examples.
10.2 / Add vectors by graphical representation to determine a resultant.
10.3 / Determine graphically the resultant of two vectors.
General Physics / 11 / Energy / 11.1 / Core
1.6a.1 Demonstrate an understanding that an object may have energy due to its motion or its position, and that energy may be transferred and stored.
11.2 / 1.6a.2 Give examples of energy in different forms, including kinetic, gravitational, chemical, strain, nuclear, internal, electrical, light and sound.
11.3 / 1.6a.3 Give examples of the conversion of energy from one form to another, and of its transfer from one place to another.
11.4 / 1.6a.4 Apply the principle of energy conservation to simple examples.
11.5 / Supplement
1.6a.5 Recall and use the expressions k.e. = ½ mv 2 and p.e. = mgh.
12 / Energy resources / 12.1 / Core
1.6b.1 Distinguish between renewable and non-renewable sources of energy.
12.2 / 1.6b.2 Describe how electricity or other useful forms of energy may be obtained:
– from chemical energy stored in fuel
– from water, including the energy stored in waves, in tides, and in water behind hydroelectric dams
– from geothermal resources
– from nuclear fission
– from heat and light from the Sun (solar cells and panels)
12.3 / 1.6b.3 Give advantages and disadvantages of each method in terms of cost, reliability, scale and environmental impact.
12.4 / 1.6b.4 Show a qualitative understanding of efficiency.
12.5 / Supplement
1.6b.5 Show that energy is released by nuclear fusion in the Sun.
12.6 / 1.6b.6 Recall and use the equation: useful energy output; efficiency = energy input × 100%
13 / Work / 13.1 / Core
1.6c.1 Relate (without calculation) work done to the magnitude of a force and the distance moved.
13.2 / Supplement
1.6c.2 Describe energy changes in terms of work done.
13.3 / 1.6c.3 Recall and use ∆W = Fd = ∆E.
14 / Power / 14.1 / Core
1.6d.1 Relate (without calculation) power to work done and time taken, using appropriate examples.
14.2 / Supplement
1.6d.2 Recall and use the equation P = E/t in simple systems.
Thermal Physics / 15 / States of matter / 15.1 / Core
2.1a.1 State the distinguishing properties of solids, liquids and gases.
16 / Molecular model / 16.1 / 2.1b.1 Describe qualitatively the molecular structure of solids, liquids and gases.
16.2 / 2.1b.2 Interpret the temperature of a gas in terms of the motion of its molecules.
16.3 / 2.1b.3 Describe qualitatively the pressure of a gas in terms of the motion of its molecules.
16.4 / 2.1b.4 Describe qualitatively the effect of a change of temperature on the pressure of a gas at constant volume.
16.5 / 2.1b.5 Show an understanding of the random motion of particles in a suspension as evidence for the kinetic molecular model of matter.
16.6 / 2.1b.6 Describe this motion (sometimes known as Brownian motion) in terms of random molecular bombardment.
16.7 / Supplement
2.1b.7 Relate the properties of solids, liquids and gases to the forces and distances between molecules and to the motion of the molecules.
16.8 / 2.1b.8 Show an appreciation that massive particles may be moved by light, fast- moving molecules.
17 / Evaporation / 17.1 / Core
2.1c.1 Describe evaporation in terms of the escape of more-energetic molecules from the surface of a liquid.
17.2 / 2.1c.2 Relate evaporation to the consequent cooling.
17.3 / Supplement
2.1c.3 Demonstrate an understanding of how temperature, surface area and draught over a surface influence evaporation.
18 / Pressure changes / 18.1 / Core
2.1d.1 Relate the change in volume of a gas to change in pressure applied to the gas at constant temperature.
18.2 / Supplement
2.1d.2 Recall and use the equation pV = constant at constant temperature.
19 / Thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases / 19.1 / Core
2.2a.1 Describe qualitatively the thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases.
19.2 / 2.2a.2 Identify and explain some of the everyday applications and consequences of thermal expansion.
19.3 / 2.2a.3 Describe qualitatively the effect of a change of temperature on the volume of a gas at constant pressure.
19.4 / Supplement
2.2a.4 Show an appreciation of the relative order of magnitude of the expansion of solids, liquids and gases.
Thermal Physics / 20 / Measurement of temperature / 20.1 / Core
2.2b.1 Appreciate how a physical property that varies with temperature may be used for the measurement of temperature,and state examples of such properties
20.2 / 2.2b.2 Recognise the need for and identify fixed points.
20.3 / 2.2b.3 Describe the structure and action of liquid-in-glass thermometers.
20.4 / Supplement
2.2b.4 Demonstrate understanding of sensitivity, range and linearity.
20.5 / 2.2b.5 Describe the structure of a thermocouple and show understanding of its use for measuring high temperatures and those that vary rapidly.
Conditions / 1. / May be on the job or in the ADVETI campus.
Assessment Guidelines per course per 3terms ( year) / Assessment Name / Assessment Type / Weighting
Portfolio Tasks / 15 Activities (Major Assessment) / 20%
Investigation/Project / 3 Investigation (Minor Assessment) / 20%
CA Task / 6 Summative Tests (Minor Assessment) / 20%
Major Test / 3Exam (Major Assessment) / 40%
Workplace Health & Safety / Students should be aware of relevant health and safety issues in all situations, and demonstrate safe working practices at all times. Any serious omission will necessitate repeating the Course (or part thereof).
The workplace must comply with current workplace health and safety legislation.
Teacher Experience /  Appropriate teaching experience
Teachers must be able to demonstrate current technical competence at the level of the course being delivered and assessed. Ideally the teacher should have at least 3 years current relevant teaching experience.

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