Secondary 5 Physics

📘 This page is a collection of resources for Secondary V Physics Remedial Activities (203-001-05).

General Resources

🌟 Booster Course:
GIS: Exploration Sec 4 & Sec 5 | Vanier Moodle
Students can self-enroll with their Office365 account.

📖 Reference Textbook:
Physics 006 – Lecture Notes by Harris Benson

Vectors

👉 SEC_V_Vectors

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Math Review

🎥 Videos

• Khan Academy: Basic Trigonometry
• Solving a system (Sharp EL-W516X)
• Solving a system (Sharp EL-520X)
• Solving a system (Casio fx-991ES)
• Solving with WolframAlpha

🧪 Simulation

• PhET: Trig Tour

🛠 Tools

• WolframAlpha: Solve equations online

📝 Practice

• Khan Academy Practice: Trigonometry 1
• Scientific Math Bingo

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Measurements

🎥 Videos

• Accuracy vs Precision – Matt Anticole
• SI Prefixes
• Dimensional Analysis Basics
• Convert km/h to m/s

📖 Readings

• OpenStax: Accuracy, Precision & Significant Figures
• OpenStax: Physical Quantities and Units

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1D Kinematics

🎥 Videos

• Example: Graphs
• Distance → Velocity Graphs
• Equations for motion with constant acceleration
• Free Fall Example
• Kinematics Review (AP Physics 1)
• Explore: Smartphone Accelerometer

📖 Readings

• OpenStax: Intro to 1D Kinematics
• OpenStax: Displacement
• OpenStax: Vectors, Scalars, Systems
• OpenStax: Time, Velocity, Speed
• OpenStax: Acceleration
• OpenStax: Graphical Analysis of Motion
• OpenStax: Equations for Constant Acceleration
• OpenStax: Problem-Solving Basics
• OpenStax: Falling Objects
• OpenStax: Intro to 2D Kinematics
• OpenStax: Kinematics in 2D

🧪 Simulation

• PhET: Moving Man Simulation

📝 Practice

• GeoGebra: Graphs Practice
• Kinematics Equations Calculator

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Newton's Laws

🎥 Videos

• Intro to Newton's Laws
• Newton's 2nd Law
• Newton's 3rd Law
• Free Body Diagrams
• Normal Forces (Part 1)
• Normal Forces (Part 2)
• Tension Force
• Example with Newton's 1st Law
• Example with Newton's 2nd Law
• Two-body 3rd Law Example
• Neil deGrasse Tyson: Einstein vs Newton

📖 Readings

• OpenStax: Intro to Dynamics
• OpenStax: Force Concept
• OpenStax: Newton’s First Law
• OpenStax: Newton’s Second Law
• OpenStax: Newton’s Third Law
• OpenStax: Normal & Tension
• OpenStax: Problem-Solving Strategies
• OpenStax: Further Applications

🧪 Simulations

• PhET: Forces & Motion Basics
• PhET: Ramp Forces
• PhET: Forces & Motion
• PhET: Lunar Lander

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Energy

🎥 Videos

• Intro to Conservation of Energy
• Conservation of Energy in Mechanics
• Mechanical Work
• Work & Potential Energy
• Work & Kinetic Energy

📖 Readings

• OpenStax: Work & Energy Resources
• OpenStax: Work – Scientific Definition
• OpenStax: Kinetic Energy & Work-Energy Theorem
• OpenStax: Gravitational Potential Energy
• OpenStax: Conservative Forces
• OpenStax: Nonconservative Forces
• OpenStax: Conservation of Energy

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Reflection & Refraction

🎥 Videos

• Mirror Image Example
• Angle of Refraction
• Concave Mirror Images
• Convex Mirror Images

📖 Readings

• OpenStax: Intro to Geometric Optics
• OpenStax: The Ray Aspect of Light
• OpenStax: Law of Reflection
• OpenStax: Total Internal Reflection
• OpenStax: Dispersion & Rainbows
• OpenStax: Image Formation by Mirrors

🧪 Simulation

• PhET: Bending Light

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Thin Lenses

🎥 Videos

• Converging & Diverging Lenses
• Ray Tracing with Lenses
• Thin Lens Equation
• Glasses for Myopia
• Glasses for Reading

📖 Readings

• OpenStax: Image Formation by Lenses
• OpenStax: Vision & Optical Instruments
• OpenStax: Physics of the Eye
• OpenStax: Vision Correction

🧪 Simulation

• PhET: Lenses