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This Unit is archived with an end date of 06/12/2022

Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-AW1-EXT-2022-ONGOING

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Enrolment rules

Enrolment in the Graduate Certificate in Education (Secondary Science 7-10) (C1139) or Graduate Certificate in Education (C1153)

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Describe and predict the motion of objects using the laws and models of physics.

2.

Describe and predict transfers and transformations of energy in a system.

3.

Mathematically solve problems related to the motion of objects and energy in a system.

4.

Communicate physics concepts, findings and solutions to problems using appropriate scientific language, symbols and representations.

5.

Plan and conduct appropriate laboratory experiments to investigate some physics phenomena.

6.

Collect and record reliable data from investigations and analyse these data to draw conclusions.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

1. Scientific method, ethics in science, SI units, scientific notation

2. Motion in one dimension with uniform acceleration

3. The causes of motion, action and reaction forces, Newton’s laws of motion, balanced and unbalanced forces, working with vectors

4. Transfers and transformations of energy, kinetic energy, gravitational potential energy, elastic potential energy, momentum, work, power, impulse, elastic and inelastic collisions

5. Gravity and gravitational fields, equations of motion and vectors applied to two-dimensional motion

6. Heating and cooling, temperature vs. thermal energy, conduction, convection, radiation, the laws of thermodynamics

7. Current, resistance, charge, electric fields, electric potential energy, voltage, electric power, series vs parallel circuits, conservation of charge

8. Transverse vs longitudinal waves, compressions, rarefactions, wave frequency, wave speed, wave amplitude, wavelength, electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic spectrum, reflection and refraction of light and sound