Standard Grade Physics

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Standard Grade Physics
Girvan Academy
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Why study Physics ?

• Physics is amazing beautiful
• Physics teaches you to think
• Physics gives you an appreciation of the world
  around you.
• Physics is extremely useful when you leave school
• Physics is FUN !!

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More on Why study Physics !!
Physics is very useful when you leave school
because employers know ... Physics is
difficult so you must have studies hard You
must be good at understanding complicated ideas
You must be good at problem solving
Lots of jobs use physics.. Radiographers,
astronomers, geologists, pilots, medical
researchers weather forecasters, satellite and
television engineers, electricians car
mechanics, electronic engineers and
...many, many more
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WOW !!
Physicists have discovered , invented and been
involved in..
How to make electricity
Video Recorders
The light bulb
Television sets
Computers
The motor car
Aircraft and Radar
Rockets
Digital Cameras
Fibre-Optic communications
CD players
DVD players
Fibre-Optics in medicine
CAT scanners
Satellites
The search for Extra-terrestial life
Infra-Red cameras
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SGrade Physics

• Telecommunications
• Using Electricity
• Electronics
• Health Physics
• Transport
• Energy matters
• Space Physics

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Telecommunications

• Waves
• Radio
• Television
• Fibre Optics
• Satellites

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Using Electricity

• Current, Voltage and Resistance
• Voltage Dividers
• Electromagnetism
• Electricity in the Home

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Electronics

• Analogue and Digital
• Systems ( Input gt Process gt Output)
• Voltage Dividers as Input devices
• Logic Gates
• Counters and Displays

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Health Physics

• Temperature
• The Eye and Lenses
• Radiation

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Transport

• Speed
• Acceleration
• v-t graphs
• Forces and Newtons Laws
• Work, Energy and Power

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Energy Matters

• Sources of Energy
• Heat
• Transformers
• Generating Electricity

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Space Physics

• Galaxies, stars, planets and Moons
• Gravity
• Projectiles
• Space travel

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