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Girvan Academy, Physics Dept.
Standard Grade PhysicsGirvan Academy
Why study Physics ?
• Physics is amazing & beautiful
• Physics teaches you to think
• Physics gives you an appreciation of the world around you.
• Physics is extremely useful when you leave school
• Physics is FUN !!
More on Why study Physics !!
Physics is very useful when you leave school because employers
know …...
Physics is difficult so you must have studies hard
You must be good at understanding complicated ideas
You must be good at problem solving
Lots of jobs use physics…..
Radiographers, astronomers, geologists, pilots, medical researchers
weather forecasters, satellite and television engineers, electricians
car mechanics, electronic engineers and
…………...…many, many more
WOW !!Physicists have discovered , invented and been involved in………..
Television sets Computers
CD players
CAT scannersSatellites
Fibre-Optic communications
DVD players
The search for Extra-terrestial life
The motor carAircraft and Radar
How to make electricity
Fibre-Optics in medicine
Infra-Red cameras
The light bulbVideo Recorders
Digital Cameras
Rockets
Girvan Academy, Physics Dept.
SGrade Physics
• Telecommunications
• Using Electricity
• Electronics
• Health Physics
• Transport
• Energy matters
• Space Physics
Telecommunications
• Waves
• Radio
• Television
• Fibre Optics
• Satellites
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Using Electricity
• Current, Voltage and Resistance
• Voltage Dividers
• Electromagnetism
• Electricity in the Home
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Electronics
• Analogue and Digital
• Systems ( Input > Process > Output)
• Voltage Dividers as Input devices
• Logic Gates
• Counters and Displays
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Health Physics
• Temperature
• The Eye and Lenses
• Radiation
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Transport
• Speed
• Acceleration
• v-t graphs
• Forces and Newton’s Laws
• Work, Energy and Power
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Energy Matters
• Sources of Energy
• Heat
• Transformers
• Generating Electricity
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Space Physics
• Galaxies, stars, planets and Moons
• Gravity
• Projectiles
• Space travel
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