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Theme A: Space, time, and motion
How do objects move and interact in space and time? Kinematics is the study of displacement, velocity, acceleration and time. How do objects interact? A study of Newton's laws, momentum, collisions and...
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A1 Kinematics
Kinematics is the study of displacement, velocity, acceleration and time. Interactive eBook pages If you look up distance in a dictionary, you will find it has many different meanings. It's the same...
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Teach pages Free
Broken down by sub-topic (displacement and velocity, etc), these pages aim to provide teachers with the insight and resources needed to teach the IB Physics curriculum. This is where you can find our...
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Tests
An overview of tests available on the site. Available tests The interactive eBook includes subtopic and topic tests that can be assigned for students. A year 1 exam that can be assigned to students....
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SL/HL Core tests
Here is a set of topic tests from the 2016-2015 curriculum. Links See the list of links in the menu on the left side of this page....
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Unit planners
Broken down by topic (A.1 Kinematics, etc), these unit planners address guiding questions, understandings, links to IB essentials and other topics, and discuss approaches to teaching the topic. Overview...
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Practical work
DP Physics students should experience 240 hours of class time (150 at SL), of which 60 hours (40 at SL) are spent in the experimental programme. With the Internal Assessment and Collaborative Sciences...
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A1 interactive: Displacement and velocity
If you look up distance in a dictionary, you will find it has many different meanings. It's the same for displacement. In physics, words mean one thing and one thing only; the meaning is specified clearly...
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Teach Theme A Free
Teach pages for topics A.1 to A.5 Topic A.1 This is usually the first unit. We introduce distance, displacement, speed, and velocity. An emphasis is placed on the difference between scalars and vectors,...
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Theme A practicals
Practicals for topics A.1 to A.5 Topic A.1 Kinematics In this practical the motion of a ball rolling off the end of a ramp will be analysed using video. The video can either be taken with a camera or...