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  • MEASUREMENTS AND UNCERTAINTIES: Measurements in physics; uncertainties and errors; vectors and scalars

  • MECHANICS: Motion; forces; work, energy and power; momentum and impulse

  • THERMAL PHYSICS: Thermal concepts; modelling a gas

  • WAVES: Oscillations; travelling waves; wave characteristics; wave behavior; standing waves

  • WAVE PHENOMENA: Simple harmonic motion; single-slit diffraction; interference; resolution; Doppler effect 

  • ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM: Electric fields; heating effect of electric currents; electric cell; magnetic effects of electric currents

  • FIELDS: Describing fields; fields at work 

  • ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION: Electromagnetic induction; power generation and transmission; capacitance 

  • CIRCULAR MOTION AND GRAVITATION: Circular motion; Newton's law of gravitation 

  • ATOMIC, NUCLEAR, AND PARTICLE PHYSICS: Discrete energy and radioactivity; nuclear reactions; the structure of matter 

  • ENERGY PRODUCTION: Energy sources; thermal energy transfer 

  • QUANTUM AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS: The interaction of matter with radiation; nuclear physics       

  • OPTIONS: 

  • IMAGING: Introduction to imaging; imaging instrumentation; fibre optics; medical imaging 

Taken from Physics Guide (IBO, P. 25-27, 2015)

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RESOURCES

Physics HL IA (7)
Fluid Dynamics

Physics HL 
Study Guide 

IA Lab Checklist

IA Checklist 

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