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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