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Course Description:
Physics is the study
of the material world. It focuses on investigating natural phenomena
and identifying patterns, applying models, principles and laws to
explain their behaviour.
The Preliminary
course develops a knowledge of waves, motion, forces, fields,
electricity and magnetism by focusing on increasing students’
understanding of current communication technologies, the use of
electricity in the home, interaction involving vehicles, such as car
crashes and the mechanisms that maintain the physical conditions of
planet Earth.
The HSC course
builds on the concepts of the Preliminary course by expanding on
areas such as relativity, the motor effect and solid state physics,
by focusing on space flight, motors and generators and the
scientific advances involved in the development of semi-conductors
and electronics. |
