Welcome to Mr. Childs Grade 12 Physics - Calendar of Events

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Resources

1

2

3

PA Day

 

Course Evaluation pdf

4

1.1 Motion

Speed, Velocity, Displacement - One dimension, Position, Velocity Graphs

IRC ARC

Displacement - 2 dimensions

 

1.2 Acceleration

Acceleration Graphs

Constant Acceleration

Five Kinematic Equations

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 1.1 - pdf

page 17 - # 4, 5, 6, 7

 

Textbook 1.2 - pdf

page 27 #19,21,22

 

 

 

5

Survey

 

What is a Good Question?

 

Task – Motion Warmup

 

 

6

1.2 – Acceleration 2D

Acceleration in Two Dimensions (NEW)

 

 

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 1.2 - pdf

page 29 #25, 28, 29

page 30 - 31 # 9, 11, 15

 

 

 

7

IB - Measurement Support Videos

 

IB Data Booklet

IB Reading material

IB reading material2

IB reading material3

 

Additional Websites

 

mrgysbers.com

 

Antonine-IB

 

IB - Mechanics Support Videos

8

9

2D Con’t

 

 

Finding a Lab Idea

(bring a computer please)

 

Class Notes*

(AI use, OneNote, importance of the proof of work)

 

PDF-300 Lab Ideas

10

1.3- Acceleration Due to Gravity

Terminal Speed

(air resistance intro)*

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 1.3 - pdf

page 37 #9, 11, 12, 15

page 39 #19, 20

 

Reaction Time Challenge

11

1.4 - Projectile Motion

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 1.4 - pdf

page 46 #3, 4

page 50 - 51 #1, 3, 5, 8, 9

 

PHet Projectile Demo

 

PHet Task

(list impacts of air resistance*)

 

12

Measurement and Uncertainties Review

(see side links)

 

2025-Significant Figs

 

2025-Uncertainties-pdf

 

Task-MotionCheck2

13

 

Quiz - Projectile Motion

 

 

Finalize Lab Choice – Start Pre-Research

(bring a computer please)

 

14

Topic 0 – Measurement

 

Video Lesson 0-1

Class Notes-0-1

Task 0-1-sig-fig

Task 0-2 – SL – SigFig

 

Topic 1.2a – Uncertainty

 

Video Lesson 0-4

Class Notes-0-4

Task 0-4-uncertainty

Task 0-4 – SL -Uncertainty

 

15

 

 

16

Graphing Data

 

Topic 1.2b - Measurement and Uncertainty

(bring a computer please)

 

Class Notes

Task 1.2b

Task -SL - graphing

 

 

 

 

17

Task – Gradient Problem

 

IB Notes on Uncertainty and Graphing - pdf

 

18

Forces

2.1 - Free body Diagrams

- Forces on an Inclined Plane, Forces on Stationary Objects

 

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 2.1 - pdf

page 76 #2ad, 5, 6

 

19

2.2

Newton’s Laws of Motion

&

2.3 - Problem Solving combined

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 2.2 - pdf

Textbook 2.3 - pdf

page 92 #2, 3, 7, 10

 

 

20

2.4 Frictional Force

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 2.4 - pdf

page 95 #2, 3, 7, 10

 

page 101 #3, 5

 

21

IB - Force Support Videos

 

22

23

Pressure, Density, Stokes Law, Moving through a Fluid*

 

Class Notes

 

 

 

24

Unit 1 – Multiple Choice

 

Self-Quiz and Review

 

Chp 1-2 -Self-Quiz

 

Chp 1-2 - Review

 

 

2.5 – Reference Frames

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 2.5 - pdf

 

25

Review or Write Early

26

Unit 1 – Major Test – Chap 1-2

 

 

 

 

 

 

27

PA Day

28

 

 

 

29

30

Circular Motion Investigation

 

Data Collection pdf

 

Oct. 1

3.1 - Uniform Circular Motion

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 3.1 - pdf

page 126 #5 - 10

page 127 #5 – 7

 

2

3.2

Forces in Circular Motion

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 3.2 - pdf

page 133 #3, 6, 7, 8, 11

page 138 #3, 5, 6

3

Forces in Circular Motion Con’t

 

 

Task – Circular Motion

4

3.3

Universal Gravitational Constant

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 3.3 - pdf

page 141 #3, 4, 5

page 143 #8, 10, 11, 13a

pg 144 #3, 4

 

Lab Pre-Research Complete

 

5

 

6

7

3.4

Satellites and Orbit

 

 

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 3.4 - pdf

page 147 #1 - 4, 6

page 150 #7

page 151 #2, 4, 5

 

 

Lab Data Collection Planning / Building Begins

8

4.1 – 4.2

Work and Kinetic Energy

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 4.1 – pdf

Textbook 4.2 - pdf

page 181 #1, 2, 4, 6, 9

page 183 #5, 7

page 186 #2, 4, 5, 8

page 188 #6, 7

 

 

Quiz – Circular and Energy Concepts

 (on Edsby)

 

 

9

4.3 – 4.4

Potential Energy & Conservation of Energy

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 4.3 – pdf

Textbook 4.4 - pdf

page 191 #2, 3, 6

page 194 #2, 4

page 197 #1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13

page 201 #5, 7, 8, 9

 

 

Phet Demo

 

 

10

4.5

Elastic Potential and Hooke’s Law

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 4.5 - pdf

page 206 #3, 4

page 211 #9, 10, 11, 12

 

 

Quiz - Energy

 

 

11

4.5 con’t

Simple Harmonic Motion

 

Class Notes

 

SHM – Phet sim – link

 

PHet Hooke’s law Demo link

 

PHet Spring energy link

 

 

Question Period

 

Quiz - SHM

 

12

IB - Circular  Motion Support Videos

13

14 - Thanksgiving

 

15

5.1

Momentum & Impulse

 

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 5.1 - pdf

page 237 #6, 7, 8, 9

page 238 #4, 5

 

16

5.2

Conservation of Momentum 1 Dim

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 5.2 - pdf

page 243 #3, 5, 7, 9a-c

page 245 #5, 6, 7, 10

 

17

5.3

Collisions – Elastic and Inelastic

 

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 5.3 - pdf

page 251 #8, 10

 page 253 #4, 5, 6

 

Reading Task

 ­ secondary textbook

Link Here

 

18

Con’t

 

Quiz – Momentum

 

19

 

IB - Momentum and Energy Support videos

20

 

21

5.4

Conservation of Collisions – 2 Dim

 

 

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 5.4 - pdf

page 257 #3, 4, 5 page 258 #2, 4

 

 

PHet simulation

 

 

22

 

 

Task – Unit 2

 

23

Review

 

Multiple Choice Questions (Circular, Momentum, Energy)

 

 

 

 

24

Group Task

(roller coaster)

 

 

25

6.1/6.2 – Gravity – Kepler’s Law

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 6.1 – pdf

Textbook 6.2 – pdf

page 276 #3, 4, 6

page 277 #7

Read 278 – 284

26

 

 

27

28

Review

 

29

Unit Two Major Test

 

 

 

30

6.3

Gravitational Potential Energy

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 6.3 - pdf

page 287 #1, 2, 4

page 293 #8, 9, 10

page 294 #1, 3, 4, 6

 

 

Video Lesson Part 1

 

31

Con’t

 

Video – Spin Launcher

 

Video - Gravity Well

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video Lesson Part 2

 

Nov. 1

7.1

Electric Charge

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 7.1 - pdf

page 326 #1, 2, 8

 

7.2

Coulomb’s Law

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 7.2 - pdf

page 331 #2, 3, 5

page 334 #8

page 335 #2, 6, 8

 

2

 

 

3

 

4

7.3

Electric Fields

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 7.3 - pdf

page 343 #1, 2, 4, 5

page 347 #3, 8

 

PHet Sim - Fields

5

7.4

Electric Potential

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 7.4 - pdf

page 354 #1-4

page 358 #5 (top)

page 358 #1,3,4,7

6

Con’t

7

7.5 Millikan Experiment

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 7.5 - pdf

page 362 #1 - 5

page 364 #1, 3, 5

 

 

Task – Chp7

8

7.6

Motion

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 7.6 - pdf

page 368 #1, 2, 3, 4, 5

page 371 #1, 2,5

9

 

 

 10

 

 

11

Electric Charge Summary

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook - pdf

Page 377 #1 – 13

 

Pick up large paper from class for Concept Map

12

8.1

Magnetism – Electro

 

Class Notes

 

Read 386 - 87 - Domain Theory

 

Textbook 8.1 - pdf

Read 390 - "Using.."

page 391 #1, 2, 7

 

PHet Sim – Faradays Law

 

Make Concept Map

 

13

8.2

Mag. Force – Charges

 

Class Notes1

 

 

Textbook 8.2 - pdf

 

 

 

 

 

Task – Review for GEM

 

14

8.3

Mag. Force on Conductor

 

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 8.3 - pdf

 

15

PA Day

 

 

 

 

16

IB - Electricity – Electric Fields Support Video

 

IB - Electricity – Electric Circuit Support Video

 

IB - Magnetic Field Support Video

17

18

Review

 

 

 

Multiple Choice (with Concept map)

 

Lab Data Collection Complete

19

Consolidate

 

 

Reading Activity

Class Notes2

 

20

Unit Test 3

(with Concept Map)

 

21

Waves and Light

Travelling Waves – Review

 

Class Notes

 

1-Task - Waves

22

9.1 Waves in Two Dimensions (Refractions)

 

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 9.1-pdf

 

pg 445 # 1,2

pg 450 # 4, 5, 8

pg 452 #1, 2, 5, 6

23

 

24

 

 

25

9.2 Diffraction of Water Waves

 

9.3 Interference of Waves in two dimensions

 

Class Notes

 

2-Task – Diffraction-Interference

 

Textbook 9.2-pdf

Textbook 9.3-pdf

 

PDF – Interference Pattern

 

PHET Simulation

26

Con’t

27

9.4 Light; Wave or Particle

 

Class Notes

 

Textbook 9.4-pdf

 

The Science Asylum – Light Duality (4:00)

 

The Science Asylum - Photon (6:00)

 

Minute Physics 1

Minute Physics 2

 

Quiz

 

PI Video

Quantum Behaviour

 

PI-Video

 

3-Task – PI -Video

 

Duality Visualization

 

Perimeter Institute Notes

28

9.5 Double Slit Experiment

 

 

Class Notes

 

Read pg 469 - 475

 

pg 473 #1, 2, 3, 4, 6

 

Textbook 9.5-pdf

 

 

 

4-Task – Big Ideas - Waves and Light

 

29

9.6

Colour and Wavelength

 

10.1

Polarization of Light

 

Class Notes

 

5-Task-Polarization

 

Textbook 9.6-pdf

Textbook 10.1-pdf

 

 

30

IB - Waves pt 1 Support Videos

 

IB - Waves pt 2 Support Videos

 

 

 

 

 

1

2

Review

 

Finish ALL Tasks

 

Multiple Choice Practice

 

 

 

3

Thermal Energy- Gases

Thermal Energy, Kelvin Temperature

 

 

Class Notes E1

 

Task-E1-E3-pdf

 

Textbook 6.1

 

Textbook 6.2

4

Light and Waves Test

 

 

 

Portfolio due (Tasks #1-5, completed, in a folder)

 

5

Specific Heat Capacity – Thermal Transfer

 

Class Notes E2

 

 

 

Textbook 6.3

6

States of Matter – Latent Heat

 

 

Class Notes E3

 

 

 

Textbook 6.4

7

Light and Waves Solution Sets

Task – 1

Task – 2

Task – 3

Task – 4

Task - 5

8

 

9

 

Partial Snow Day

 

Consolidate

 

10

Black Body Radiation, Wiens, Boltzman, Albedo

 

Class Notes E4

 

 

Task-E4-BlackbodyRadiation

 

 

 

Quiz

11

Astronomical Connections

 

 

Class Notes E5

 

 

Task-E5-Stellar

 

 

Video – Magnitude-long

12

Climate Change

 

 

 

Class Notes E6

 

Task-6-Greenhouse

 

13

 

 

 

Finish ALL Practice  Tasks E1 to E6

14

 

 

IB - Thermal Energy Support Videos

 

15

 

16

Gas Laws

 

Class Notes E7

 

Task-E7-GasLaws

 

17

Review

 

18

Multiple Choice Task

 

 

Rough Draft of Formal Lab Done

19

Test – Thermal Energy and Gas Laws

 

20

Consolidate / Review

 

 

 

21

Thermal Energy Solutions

Task-E1-E3

Task E4

Task E5

Task E6

Task E7

22

23

24

25

 

26

27

28

 

29

30

 

31

 

Jan. 1

 

2

 

3

 

4

Culminating Activity

 

Calendar pdf

 

Task – Culminating Activity

 

 

 

5

6

Nuclear and Atomic

 

Radioactivity and Isotopes

 

Class Notes-1

 

1-Task – handout

Sec.7.1 #1,2,3,6,7

Sec. 7.2 #1,2,3

 

PHet Sim - Rutherford

 

Textbook 7.1

Textbook 7.2

 

 

7

Con’t

 

 

 

 

 

Nuclear Study Guide PDF

 

8

Nuclear and Atomic

 

Atomic Spectra

 

Class Notes-2

 

2-Task - Spectra

 

9

Nuclear and Atomic

 

Radioactive Half-Life

 

Class Notes-3

 

3-Task – Half-Life

Sec. 7.3 #2,3

 

 

 

Textbook 7.3

10

Nuclear and Atomic

 

Elementary Particles

 

Class Notes-4

 

 

4-Task – Elementary Particles

 

 

Perimeter Institute Video – Particle Zoo

 

Perimeter Institute Notes

 

Higgs Video

 

Higgs Analogy Video

 

11

IB - Atomic and Nuclear Support Video

 

IB - Structure of Matter Support Videos

 

 

IB - Power and Energy Support Videos1

 

IB - Power and Energy Support Videos2

 

 

 

 

 

12

13

Nuclear Reactions

 

Class Notes-6

 

 

5-Task - Reactions

 

14

Nuclear and Atomic

 

Reactions Con’t

 

Textbook 7.4

Textbook 7.5

 

 

 

Test Sample Questions

 

Multiple Choice (28 questions)

 

Short Answer

(4 questions)

 

15

Nuclear and Atomic

 

Astrophysics – Stellar Evolution – Pt 2

(HR Diagrams, evolution)

 

Class Notes

 

6-Astrophysics

 

 

 

 

Video - Prof Dave – H-R Diagrams

 

Video – Prof Dave – Star Life Cycle

 

 

16

Review

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video Selections

Known Universe Video

 

Expanding Univer

 

CMB

 

How we Study Stars

 

17

Nuclear and Atomic Assessment

 

Short Test (8-10 Mc) & 2 Short Answer

 

Portfolio due (Tasks #1-6,and elementary particles sheet completed, in a folder)

 

 

 

 

 

18

 

 

 

Nuclear Solution Sets

Task – 1

Task – 2

Task – 3

Task – 4

Task – 5

Task – 6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

19

20

Exam Review

 

Class Notes

 

21

Exam Review

 

Class Notes

 

 

 

 

 

 

22

Exam Review

 

Class Notes

23 – First day of Exams

 

 

 

24

25

Video-Misconceptions Link

 

Videos for the curious

 

CMB polarization

Picture of Big Bang

Do We Expand

Big Bang Tour

 

PBS Space Time Videos – lots of good stuff

 

 

26

27

 

28

 

 Final Exam 25%

 

Culminating Activity 5%

 

Bring textbook.

29

30

31

 

Video – Life Cycle of Stars – Longer

 

Video-Star Corpses

 

Video-BlackHole1

 

Video-BlackHole2

 

Prof Dave Channel

 

The Cosmic Scale - long

 

 

29

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

25

 

 

 

 

PI – Relativity

 

 

Task - Worksheet

(Calgary-Van-675km)

 

Map of Canada

 

Video Link

PI – Beyond the Atom

 

 

Task – Worksheet

 

Video Link

Particle Wrap Up

 

 

Class Notes

 

PI – Quantum Reality

 

 

Task - Worksheet

 

Video Link

 

 

 

 

 

IB practice questions by Topic

 

Solutions will be stored in class in a solutions binder.

Topic 1 – Measurement

 

Measurement MC

 

Measurement ShortA

 

Measurement Extended

Topic 2 – Mechanics

 

 

Mechanics 1 MC

 

Mechanics 2 MC

 

Mechanics 1 ShortA

 

Mechanics 2 ShortA

 

Mechanics 1 Extended

Topic 3 – Thermal Physics

 

Thermal 1 MC

 

Thermal 2 MC

 

Thermal 1 ShortA

 

Thermal 1 Extended

Topic 4 – Waves

 

 

Waves 1 MC

 

Waves 2 MC

 

Waves 1 ShortA

 

Waves 2 ShortA

 

Waves 1 Extended

Topic 5 – Electricity, Circuits and Magnetism

 

Electricity 1 MC

 

Electricity 2 MC

 

Electricity 1 ShortA

 

Electricity 2 ShortA

 

Electricity 1 Extended

Light and Waves Solution Sets

Task – 1

Task – 2

Task – 3

Task – 4

Task - 5

 

Solutions for Measurement

 

Task 0-1-sig-fig-sol

Task 0-2-SL-SigFig-sol

Task 0-4-Uncertainty-sol

Task 0-4-SL-Uncertainty-sol

Topic 6 – Circular Motion

 

Circular 1 MC

 

Circular 1 ShortA

 

Circular 2 ShortA

 

Circular 1 Extended

Topic 7 – Nuclear

 

Nuclear 1 MC

 

Nuclear 2 MC

 

Nuclear 1 ShortA

 

Nuclear 2 ShortA

 

Nuclear 1 Extended

Topic 8 – Energy Production

 

EnergyPro 1 MC

 

EnergyPro 1 ShortA

 

EnergyPro 2 ShortA

 

EnergyPro 1 Extended

 

Option – D – Astrophysics

 

Practice Questions 2

 

Practice Questions 3

 

Astro – 2018 - long

 

Astrophysics – Cosmology (Big Bang, CMB)

 

Class Notes

 

 

 

Oxford Study Guide

 

Questions – Auto Test

 

Questions – Oxford

 

Cambridge Text and Questions

 

Video Selections

Science, Rel. BB

 

PBS -CMB – good

 

Video - NatGeo - good

 

Video – Life Cycle of Stars