Physics In Focus Year 12

Prelims
	Title page
	Imprint page
	Contents
	Introduction
	Author and reviewer team
	Acknowledgements
	Using physics in focus
	Outcome grid
Chapter 01: Working scientifically and depth studies
	1.1: Physics knowledge and understanding
	1.2: Solving scientific problems: depth studies
	1.3: Planning your depth study
	1.4: Implementation and collecting data
	1.5: Analysing and interpreting your results
	1.6: Communicating your understanding
Module five: Advanced mechanics
	Chapter 2: Projectile motion
		2.1: Projectile motion
		2.2: The trajectory of a projectile
		2.3: Investigating projectile motion
		2.4: Modelling projectile motion
		Chapter summary
		Chapter review questions
Chapter 3: Circular motion
	3.1: Uniform circular motion
	3.2: Applications of the uniform circular motion model
	3.3: Energy and work in uniform circular motion
	3.4: Rotation and torque
	Chapter summary
	Chapter review questions
Chapter 4: Motion in gravitational fields
	4.1: The gravitational force and the gravitational field
	4.2: The orbits of planets and satellites
	4.3: Kepler’s laws
	4.4: Energy in gravitational fields
	Chapter summary
	Chapter review questions
Module SIX: Electromagnetism
	Chapter 5: Charged particles, conductors and electric and magnetic fields
		5.1: Charged particles in uniform electric fields
		5.2: The trajectory of a charged particle in a uniform electric field
		5.3: Charged particles in uniform magnetic fields
		5.4: The gravitational, electric and magnetic fields
		Chapter summary
		Chapter review questions
Chapter 6: The motor effect
	6.1: Current-carrying wires in magnetic fields
	6.2: Forces on parallel current-carrying wires
	Chapter summary
	Chapter review questions
Chapter 7: Electromagnetic induction
	7.1: Magnetic flux
	7.2: Electromagnetic induction
	7.3: Transformers
	Chapter summary
	Chapter review questions
Chapter 8: Applications of the motor effect
	8.1: DC motors
	8.2: Generators and AC induction motors
	8.3: Lenz’s Law and conservation of energy
	Chapter summary
	Chapter review questions
Module seven: The nature of light
	Chapter 9: Electromagnetic spectrum
		9.1: Maxwell’s contributions to the theory of electromagnetism
		9.2: The production and propagation of electromagnetic waves
		9.3: Determining the speed of light
		9.4: The electromagnetic spectrum
		9.5: Astronomical applications of spectroscopy
		Chapter summary
		Chapter review questions
Chapter 10: Light: wave model
	10.1: Competing models
	10.2: Diffraction patterns and interference
	10.3: Polarisation
	Chapter summary
	Chapter review questions
Chapter 11: Light: quantum model
	11.1: Black body radiation
	11.2: Investigating the photoelectric effect
	11.3: Analysing the photoelectric effect
	   Chapter summary
	  Chapter review questions
Chapter 12: Light and special relativity
	12.1: Frames of reference and relativity
	12.2: The aether and problems with classical relativity
	12.3:  Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity
	12.4: Experimental evidence for relativity
	12.5: Relativistic mass and momentum
	12.6: Einstein’s mass–energy equivalence relationship: E = mc2
	   Chapter summary
	  Chapter review questions
Module Eight: From the Universe to the atom
	Chapter 13: Origins of the elements
		13.1: Radiation transforms into matter
		13.2: The expanding Universe
		13.3: The production of spectra
		13.4:  Features of stellar spectra – classifying stars
		13.5:  The Hertzsprung–Russell diagram
		13.6: Einstein’s equivalence of mass and energy
		13.7:  Nucleosynthesis in stars
		Chapter summary
		Chapter review questions
Chapter 14: Structure of the atom
	14.1: The electron
	14.2: Thomson’s charge-to-mass ratio experiment
	14.3: Millikan’s oil drop experiment
	14.4:  The nucleus
	14.5: Chadwick’s discovery of neutrons
	  Chapter summary
	  Chapter review questions
Chapter 15: Quantum mechanical nature of the atom
	15.1: Bohr’s atomic model
	15.2: Spectra
	15.3: Energy, frequency, wavelength and the hydrogen spectrum
	15.4: de Broglie’s matter waves
	15.5: Modern quantum mechanics
	  Chapter summary
	  Chapter review questions
Chapter 16: Properties of the nucleus
	16.1: Spontaneous decay of unstable nuclei
	16.2: Properties of alpha, beta and gamma radiation
	16.3: Decay and half-life
	16.4: Energy from the nucleus
	16.5: Nuclear fusion
	Chapter summary
	Chapter review questions
Chapter 17: Deep inside the atom
	17.1: Are protons and neutrons fundamental particles?
	17.2: Further evidence for fundamental particles
	17.3: The Standard Model of matter
	  Chapter summary
	  Chapter review questions
Appendices
Numerical Answers