Grade 11 Physics (SPH3U)

The Ontario Grade 11 university-preparation course Physics (SPH3U) has six strands, from investigation skills to electricity and magnetism. The museum maps four of them, through the scholars, machines and instruments of the Islamic world.

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Strand A: Scientific Investigation Skills and Career Exploration

Investigation skills, careers, and the contributions of scientists (expectations A1 and A2). The museum maps two lessons, on a career and on what scientists contributed.

  1. Careers in physics Which careers the fields of physics lead to, and what education and training they need (A2.1). Careers
  2. What did scientists contribute? What scientists contributed to the fields of physics under study, and how to tell a contribution from a claim (A2.2). ScholarInvention × 2

Strand B: Kinematics

Technologies, investigations and concepts of linear motion (expectations B1 to B3). The museum maps one lesson, on a projectile's motion.

  1. What happens to a thrown object? How a thrown object moves upward, downward and across, and how people have reasoned about it (B3.3). Reflection

Strand C: Forces

Technologies, investigations and concepts of force and motion (expectations C1 to C3). The museum maps one lesson, on examples of forces.

  1. What pulls, and what holds? An example of a force, the Earth's attraction of objects as one medieval author explained it, and what forces do to motion (C3.1). Invention

Strand D: Energy and Society

Energy transformations, work, power and their technologies (expectations D1 to D3). The museum maps one lesson, on energy transfers in machines.

  1. Where does a machine's energy come from? Energy transfers and transformations in machines, and how the law of conservation of energy explains them (D3.1). Invention × 3

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