Physics (SPH4U)

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 technological devices that apply the principle s of the dynamics of motion, and assess the technologies’ social and environmental impact;
• Investigate, in qualitative and quantitative terms, forces involved in uniform circular motion and motion in a plane. and solve related problems:
• Demonstrate an understanding of the forces involved in uniform circular motion and. motion in a plane.

By the end of this course, students will:

• Analyse. and propose ways to improve. technologies or procedures that apply principles related to energy and momentum and assess the social and environmental impact of these technologies or procedures
• Investigate, in qualitative and quantitative terms through laboratory inquiry or computer simulation, the relationship between the laws of conservation of energy and conservation of momentum, and solve related problems:
• Demonstrate an understanding of work. energy. momentum, and the laws of conservation of energy and conservation of momentum. in one and two dimensions.

By the end of this course, students will:

• Analyse the operation of technologies that use gravitational, electric, or magnetic fields. and assess the technologies’ social and environmental impact:
• Investigate, in qualitative and quantitative terms. gravitational, electric, and magnetic Fields and solve related problems:
• Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts, properties. Principles. and laws related to gravitational,electric, and magnetic fields their interactions with matter.

By the end of this course, students will:

• Analyse technologies that use the wave nature of light. and assess their impact and society and the environment;
• investigate, in qualitative and quantitative terms, the properties of waves and light, and solve related problems;
• Demonstrate an understanding of the properties of waves and light in realtion diffraction,refraction,interference and Polarization

• Analyse, with reference to quantum mechanics and relativity. how the introduction of new conceptual models and theories can influence and/or change scientific thought and lead to the development of new technologies
• Investigate special relativity and quantum mechanics, and solve related problems;
• Demonstrate an understanding of the evidence that supports the basic concepts of quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theory of special relativity.