Seychelles S5 School Syllabus - Physics (IGCSE)
This syllabus is based on the Cambridge IGCSE Physics 0625 syllabus (2023-2025), which is likely the basis for the Seychelles S5 Physics curriculum.
1. Motion, Forces, and Energy
1.1 Physical Quantities and Measurement Techniques
1. Using rulers and measuring cylinders to determine length and volume.
2. Measuring various time intervals with clocks and digital timers.
3. Determining average values for small distances and short time intervals by measuring multiples (including the period of a pendulum's oscillation).
4. Understanding scalar and vector quantities: scalars have only magnitude (size), while vectors have both magnitude and direction.
5. Identifying scalar quantities: distance, speed, time, mass, energy, and temperature.
6. Identifying vector quantities: force, weight, velocity, acceleration, momentum, electric field strength, and gravitational field strength.
7. Determining the resultant of two vectors at right angles (limited to forces or velocities) through calculation or graphical methods.
1.2 Motion
1. Defining speed as distance traveled per unit time and using the equation: v = s/t.
2. Defining velocity as speed in a given direction.
3. Using the equation for average speed: average speed = total distance traveled / total time taken.
4. Sketching, plotting, and interpreting distance-time and speed-time graphs.
5. Qualitatively determining, from data or the shape of a distance-time or speed-time graph, when an object is: (a) at rest, (b) moving with constant speed, (c) accelerating, (d) decelerating.
6. Calculating speed from the gradient of a straight-line section of a distance-time graph.
7. Calculating the distance traveled for motion with constant speed or constant acceleration by finding the area under a speed-time graph.
8. Stating that the acceleration of free fall (g) for an object near the Earth's surface is approximately constant (9.8 m/s²).
9. Defining acceleration as change in velocity per unit time and using the equation: a = v/t.
10. Determining from data or the shape of a speed-time graph when an object is moving with: (a) constant acceleration, (b) changing acceleration.
11. Calculating acceleration from the gradient of a speed-time graph.
12. Understanding deceleration as negative acceleration and using it in calculations.
13. Describing the motion of objects falling in a uniform gravitational field with and without air/liquid resistance (including terminal velocity).
1.3 Mass and Weight
1. Stating that mass is a measure of the quantity of matter in an object at rest relative to the observer.
2. Stating that weight is a gravitational force on an object with mass.
3. Defining gravitational field strength as force per unit mass and using the equation: g = W/m, understanding its equivalence to the acceleration of free fall.
4. Knowing that weights (and masses) can be compared using a balance.
5. Describing and using the concept of weight as the effect of a gravitational field on a mass.
1.4 Density
1. Defining density as mass per unit volume and using the equation: ρ = m/V.
2. Describing how to determine the density of a liquid, a regularly shaped solid, and an irregularly shaped solid that sinks in a liquid (volume by displacement), including calculations.
3. Determining whether an object floats based on density data.
4. Determining whether one liquid will float on another (immiscible liquids) based on density data.
1.5 Forces
1.5.1 Effects of Forces
1. Knowing that forces can change an object's size and shape.
2. Sketching, plotting, and interpreting load-extension graphs for elastic solids and describing the associated experimental procedures.
3. Determining the resultant of two or more forces acting along the same straight line.
4. Knowing that an object remains at rest or continues in a straight line at constant speed unless acted on by a resultant force.
5. Stating that a resultant force can change an object's velocity by changing its direction or speed.
6. Describing solid friction as the force between two surfaces that can impede motion and produce heating.
7. Knowing that friction (drag) acts on an object moving through a liquid.
8. Knowing that friction (drag) acts on an object moving through a gas (e.g., air resistance).
9. Defining the spring constant as force per unit extension and using the equation: k = F/x.
10. Defining and using the term "limit of proportionality" for a load-extension graph and identifying this point on the graph.
11. Using the equation F = ma and knowing that force and acceleration are in the same direction.
12. Qualitatively describing motion in a circular path due to a perpendicular force: (a) speed increases if force increases (with constant mass and radius), (b) radius decreases if force increases (with constant mass and speed), (c) increased mass requires increased force to maintain constant speed and radius.
...(This continues for the rest of the syllabus content, following the same structure of topic, subtopic, core, and supplement.) |
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