PHYSICS SS 1 SECOND TERM

-Concept of temperature

-Effects of heat

i) Rise/fall in temperature

ii) Expansion/Contraction

iii) Change of state/phase

iv) Change of resistance, etc

-Expansion in solids and its consequences and application

-Linear expansivity

-Area expansivity

-Volume or cubic expansivity

-Conduction

-Convection

-Radiation

-Production of charges

-Types of charges

-Distribution of charges

-Storage of charges

-Application in lightening conductor

-Concept of fields

-Types of fields( gravitational, magnetic and electric fields)

-Properties of fields

-Concept of gravitational field

-Acceleration due to gravity

-Shape and dimension of the earth

-Electric lines of force

-Electric current and potential difference

-Production of electric current

-Electric circuit

-Electric conduction through materials

-Ohm’s law

-Electrical work done in a given circuit

-Structure of matter

i) Evidence of the particle nature of matter

ii) Simple atomic structure

-Molecules

i) Their nature

ii) Their size

.Brownian motion

.Diffusion

-States of matter

i) Solid

ii) Liquid

iii) Gas

The teacher to use models to illustrate the three states of matter. Guides students to do similar illustrations.

-Arrangement of atoms in crystal structure

-Distinction between crystalline and amorphous substances

-Hooke’s Law

-Young Modulus

-Work done in springs and elastic string

-Surface Tension

i) Definition and effects and their applications

-Capillarity

i) Cohesion

ii)Adhesion

-Viscosity

i) Definition

ii) Terminal velocity

iii) Application of viscosity

-Units in industry

-Electrical continuity testing

-Solar energy

-Solar panels or Solar collectors for energy supply

-Lead students to construct solar collector and use it to heat water.

-Resultant and Equilibrant forces

-Parallel forces

-Moment of a force

-Stability of objects

-Stable

-Unstable

-Archimedes’ Principle

-Law of floatation

-Density and relative density

-Hydrometer

-Momentum and Impulse

-Newton’s law of motion

-Conservation of linear momentum

-Applications of Newton’s law of motion

-Application of mechanical energy

-Machines:

i) Force ratio

ii) Velocity ratio

iii) Efficiency

-Types of Machines

i) Levers

ii) Pulleys

iii) Inclined Plane

iv) Wedge

v) Screw

vii)Gear wheels, etc

Students should practice the applications.

-Concept of Projectiles

-Ways of projecting an object

i) Vertical Projection

ii) Horizontal projection

iii) Projecting at an angle to the horizontal

-Simple problems involving range, height, time of flight.

Students should practice the applications

-Uniform circular motion

-Centripetal force

-Centripetal acceleration

-Centrifugal force

-Angular speed and velocity

-Example of circular motion

-Definition of Simple harmonic motion

-Displacement, velocity and acceleration of Simple harmonic motion

-Energy of simple harmonic motion

-Forced vibration and resonance

1. 
   Definition of set
   
2. 
   Set notation methods
   
3. 
   Types of set:
   

1. 
   Null set
   
2. 
   Singleton
   
3. 
   Finite
   
4. 
   Infinite
   
5. 
   Universal
   
6. 
   Power set
   
7. 
   Number of elements
   

i. set operations

a. union

b. intersection

c. Venn diagrams and applications up to 3 set problem

i. laws of indices

ii. application of indices

iii. Indicial equations

i. laws of logarithms

ii. change of base of logarithms

i. Midpoint of a line segment

ii. Gradient of a straight line

iii. Distance between two points

i. Conditions for parallelism and perpendicular

ii. Equation of a line

i. Transforming non-linear relationship into linear form.

ii. Areas of triangles and quadrilaterals.

i. Definition of surds

ii. Rules for manipulating surds

iii. Rationalization of the denominators of surds

i. Trigonometric Ratio of 30^o, 45^o and 60^o

ii. Application of trigonometric ratio 30^o, 45^o and 60^o to solve problems without the use of tables.

i. The truth table

ii. Using p or q, p and q (pvq; p_^q)

iii. P=>q, p<=>q

iv. Rule, of syntax, simple true or false statement.

i. Rules of logic application to argument

ii. Implication and deduction.

i. Definition of sequences and series

ii. the n^th term of a sequence and series

iii. Arithmetic progression (AP)

i. Geometric progression (GP)

ii. Solving problems on AP and GP.

i. Definition of a function

ii. Types of function

1. 
   One to one
   
2. 
   Onto function
   
3. 
   Inverse function
   
4. 
   Identity function
   
5. 
   Constant function
   
6. 
   Circular function
   

ai. Logarithmic function

ii. Exponential functions

bi. Application of functions

ii. Solutions to problems on functions

i. Scalars and vectors

- zero vectors

- negative vectors

ii. Vector addition and subtraction

iii. Scalar multiplication of vectors

iv. Magnitude and direction of vectors

v. Unit vector.

i. Triangle law of vectors

ii. Parallelogram law of vectors

iii. Resolution of vectors

i. Scalar (dot) product

ii. Application of scalar (dot) product

Mean, mode, median (for grouped data)

i. Decile

ii. Percentile

iii. Quartile

i. Range

i. mean deviation

ii. standard deviation

iii. Coefficient of variation