Unit 1: Thermal, nuclear and electrical physics Physics
An understanding of heating processes, nuclear reactions and electricity is essential to appreciate how global energy needs are met. In this unit, students explore the ways physics is used to describe, explain and predict the energy transfers and transformations …
Unit 1 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 2: Linear Motion and Waves Physics
In this unit, students develop an appreciation of how an understanding of motion and waves can be used to describe, explain and predict a wide range of phenomena. Students describe linear motion in terms of position and time data, and examine the relationships …
Unit 2 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 4: Revolutions in modern physics Physics
The development of quantum theory and the theory of relativity fundamentally changed our understanding of how nature operates and led to the development of a wide range of new technologies, including technologies that revolutionised the storage, processing …
Unit 4 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 3: Gravity and electromagnetism Physics
Field theories have enabled physicists to explain a vast array of natural phenomena and have contributed to the development of technologies that have changed the world, including electrical power generation and distribution systems, artificial satellites …
Unit 3 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Rationale/Aims Physics
Rationale Physics is a fundamental science that endeavours to explain all the natural phenomena that occur in the universe. Its power lies in the use of a comparatively small number of assumptions, models, laws and theories to explain a wide range of …
Rationale/Aims | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure of Physics Physics
Units In Physics, students develop their understanding of the core concepts, models and theories that describe, explain and predict physical phenomena. There are four units: Unit 1: Thermal, nuclear and electrical physics Unit 2: Linear motion and waves Unit …
Structure of Physics | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Links to Foundation to Year 10 Physics
Progression from the F-10 Australian Curriculum: Science The Physics curriculum continues to develop student understanding and skills from across the three strands of the F-10 Australian Curriculum: Science. In the Science Understanding strand, the Physics …
Links to Foundation to Year 10 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Representation of Cross-curriculum priorities Physics
While the significance of the cross-curriculum priorities for Physics varies, there are opportunities for teachers to select contexts that incorporate the key concepts from each priority. Through an investigation of contexts that draw on Aboriginal and …
Representation of Cross-curriculum priorities | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSPH018
All systems have thermal energy due to the motion of particles in the system
ACSPH018 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSPH019
Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of particles in a system
ACSPH019 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSPH020
Provided a substance does not change state, its temperature change is proportional to the amount of energy added to or removed from the substance; the constant of proportionality describes the heat capacity of the substance
ACSPH020 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSPH021
Change of state involves internal energy changes to form or break bonds between atoms or molecules; latent heat is the energy required to be added to or removed from a system to change the state of the system
ACSPH021 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSPH022
Two systems in contact transfer energy between particles so that eventually the systems reach the same temperature; that is, they are in thermal equilibrium
ACSPH022 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSPH023
A system with thermal energy has the capacity to do mechanical work (that is, to apply a force over a distance); when work is done, the internal energy of the system changes
ACSPH023 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSPH024
Because energy is conserved, the change in internal energy of a system is equal to the energy added or removed by heating plus the work done on or by the system
ACSPH024 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSPH025
Energy transfers and transformations in mechanical systems (for example, internal and external combustion engines, electric motors) always result in some heat loss to the environment, so that the usable energy is reduced and the system cannot be 100 percent …
ACSPH025 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSPH030
Alpha, beta and gamma radiation have sufficient energy to ionise atoms
ACSPH030 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSPH031
Einstein’s mass/energy relationship, which applies to all energy changes, enables the energy released in nuclear reactions to be determined from the mass change in the reaction
ACSPH031 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSPH033
Neutron-induced nuclear fission is a reaction in which a heavy nuclide captures a neutron and then splits into two smaller radioactive nuclides, with the release of neutrons and energy
ACSPH033 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSPH034
A fission chain reaction is a self-sustaining process that may be controlled to produce thermal energy, or uncontrolled to release energy explosively
ACSPH034 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum