Grade Eleven

Curriculum Outcomes involved:

• Dynamics
  • Introduction to Dynamics
    • Use vectors to represent forces
  • Newton's Laws
    • Explain inertia and relationships among force, mass, and acceleration 

• Momentum & Energy
  • Conservation of Momentum
    • Apply quantiatively the law of conservation of momentum to one-dimensional collections and explosions
  • Work, Power, and Efficiency
    • Analyze quantitatively the relationships among force, distance, and work
    • Analyze quantitatively the relationships among work, time, and power
    • Design and carry out an experiment to determine the efficiency of various machines
  • Transformation, Total Energy, and Conservation
    • Analyze quantitatively the relationships among mass, speed, and thermal energy, using the law of conservation of energy
    • Describe quantitatively mechanical energy as the sum of kinetic and potential energies
    • Analyze common energy transformation situatins using the closed system work-energy theorem
    • Determine which laws of conservation, momentum and energy, are best used to analyze and solve particular real-life problems in elastic and in-elastic interactions 

• Waves
  • Fundamental Properties
    • Describe the production, characteristics, and behaviours of longitudinal and transverse mechanical waves
    • Formulate operational definitions of major variables
  • Sound Waves and E-M Radiation
    • Apply the laws of reflection and the laws of refraction to predict wave behaviour
    • Explain qualitatively the phenomena of wave interference, diffraction, reflection, refraction, and the Doppler-Fizeau effect
    • Compare and describe the properties of electromagnetic radiation and sound

Demonstrations that may apply to your lesson plans:

• Dynamics
  • Introduction to Dynamics
    • Force Table
    • Free Body Diagrams
  • Newton's Laws
    • Force Table
    • Kinetic Friction
    • Spinning Ball
    • Static Friction
    • Ball & Feather
    • Newton's Pendulum

• Momentum & Energy
  • Conservation of Momentum
    • Double Ball Drop
    • Newton's Pendulum
    • The Nose Crusher
  • Work, Power, and Efficiency
    • Water Rocket
  • Transformation, Total Energy, and Conservation
    • Heat Conductivity
    • Temperature of a Gas
    • Radiometer
    • The Nose Crusher
    • Happy & Sad Balls

• Waves
  • Fundamental Properties
    • Standing Waves & Resonance
    • Resonance in a Spring
    • Coupled Oscillator
    • Wave Interference
    • Transverse & Longitudinal Waves
    • Wave Reflection
    • Wavelength & Frequency
    • Wave Speed
  • Sound Waves and E-M Radiation
    • Doppler Effect

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