O’LEVEL

O’Level Physics
COURSE PLAN

Physics Content

1 Forces and motion

2 Electricity
3 Waves
4 Energy resources and energy transfers
5 Solids, liquids and gases
6 Magnetism and electromagnetism
7 Radioactivity and particles
8 Astrophysics
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First Week

Forces and Motion

First Class:
● Scalar and Vector Quantities
● Contact and Non-contact Forces
● Gravity and Weight
● Resultant Forces
● Vector Diagrams
● Resolving Forces
● Work done and Energy Transfer
● Forces and Elasticity
● Required Practical 6: Stretching a Spring
● Moments
● Balanced Moments
● Levers and Gears
● Pressure in Fluids
● Floating or Sinking

Second Class:
● Speed
● Velocity
● Distance-Time Graphs
● Acceleration
● Acceleration 2
● Newton's First Law of Motion
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● Newton's Second Law of Motion

● Newton's Third Law of Motion

Third Class:
● Forces Acting on a Skydiver
● Required Practical 7: Acceleration
● Vehicle Stopping Distance
● Force and Braking
● Momentum
● Conservation of momentum
● Change in Momentum

Second Week

ELECTRICITY

First Class:
● Current in Series Circuits
● Current in Parallel Circuits
● Potential Difference in Series Circuits
● Potential Difference in Parallel Circuits
● Potential Difference from Batteries
● Charge in Circuits
● Calculating Energy Transfer by Components
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● Resistance
● Resistors
● Resistance of a Filament Lamp

Second Class:
● Diodes and LEDs
● Resistors in Series and Parallel
● Light-Dependent Resistors
● Thermistors
● The Wave Equation
● Required Practical 3: Resistance
● Required Practical 4: Current / PD Characteristics
● Energy Transfer by Appliances
● Calculating Energy Transferred by Appliances
● Power of Components
● DC and AC Supply