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Physics (New Syllabus)
IB DP Category 2
Paris, France, 21 - 23 February 2025
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Physics: A focus on internal assessment
IB DP Category 3
Online (IB Approved), 21 - 23 March 2025
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Physics (New Syllabus)
IB DP Category 1
Berlin, Germany, 3 - 5 October 2025
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Unit plans and sequence
A1 plan: Kinematics
Big picture Guiding questions The physics course will commence (for most of us) with the idea of motion - both qualitative and quantitative - and we are prompted through the guiding questions to discuss...
Unit plans and sequence
Unit plans and sequence
This is where you will find what you need to teach the new course with general commentaries on programmes of study, conceptual understanding, linking questions and assessments. You will also find a unit...
Unit plans and sequence
A2 plan: Forces and momentum
Big picture Guiding questions With students (probably) already having some ideas about vectors from their study of motion quantities, it will follow quite naturally that forces too can be represented...
Physics course: students
A2 Forces and momentum
The aims of this activity are to learn how to define a force, to add forces as vectors, to draw free body diagrams and to balance forces.Need to knowFlashcardsTopics: force as a vector n2kLevels: SL/HLNumber......
Physics course: students
A1 Kinematics
The filing system might have changed, but kinematics remains a combination of displacement, velocity, acceleration and time. In this activity on Distance and Displacement, you will be introduced to these...
Physics course: students
A3 Work, energy and power
Armed with knowledge of forces and displacements, in this Activity you will learn how to define work and energy, and understand the relationship between these concepts. You will then state and apply the......
Assessment
SL/HL Core tests
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Assessment
Examinations
From 2025, DP physicists will sit two examinations. Here we'll take a look at what these contain and how students can prepare. Examination papers Paper 1 consists of two sections: At Standard Level, the...
Physics course: students
A1 activity: Displacement and velocity
In this activity on Distance and Displacement, you will be introduced to these quantities as well as velocity and acceleration. You will measure these (in the real world or on screen), understand the...