Physics (SPH3U)

By the end of this course, students will:

• Demonstrate scientific investigation skills (related to both inquiry and research) in the four areas of skills (initiating and planning, performing and recording, analysing and interpreting, and communicating);
• Identify and describe careers related to the fields of science under study, and describe the contributions of scientists, including Canadians, to those fields.

By the end of this course, students will:

• Analyse technologies that apply concepts related to kinematics, and assess the technologies’ social and environmental impact;
• Investigate, in qualitative and quantitative terms, uniform and non-uniform linear motion, and solve related problems;
• Demonstrate an understanding of uniform and non-uniform linear motion, in one and two dimensions

By the end of this course, students will:

• Analyse and propose improvements to technologies that apply concepts related to dynamics and Newton’s laws, and assess the technologies’ social and environmental impact;
• Investigate, in qualitative and quantitative terms, net force, acceleration, and mass, and solve related problems;
• Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between changes in velocity and unbalanced forces in one dimension.

By the end of this course, students will:

• Analyse technologies that apply principles of and concepts related to energy transformations, and assess the technologies’ social and environmental impact;
• Investigate energy transformations and the law of conservation of energy, and solve related problems;
• Demonstrate an understanding of work, efficiency, power, gravitational potential energy, kinetic energy, nuclear energy, and thermal energy and its transfer (heat).

By the end of this course, students will:

• analyse how mechanical waves and sound affect technology, structures, society, and the environment, and assess ways of reducing their negative effects;
• investigate, in qualitative and quantitative terms, the properties of mechanical waves and sound, and solve related problems;
• demonstrate an understanding of the properties of mechanical waves and sound and of the principles underlying their production transmission, interaction, and reception.

By the end of this course, students will:

• Analyse the social, economic, and environmental impact of electrical energy production and technologies related to electromagnetism, and propose ways to improve the sustainability of electrical energy production;
• Investigate, in qualitative and quantitative terms, magnetic fields and electric circuits, and solve related problems;
• Demonstrate an understanding of the properties of magnetic fields, the principles of current and electron flow, and the operation of selected technologies that use these properties and principles to produce and transmit electrical energy