Grade 12 Physics

Canada High School

Course Overview

Lessons & Practice

I. Welcome

1. Foundations / Introduction / Measurement

1hr

1.1.2. Example: Converting between units4 min

1.1.3. Practice: Volume Conversion

1.1.4. Practice5 min

1.2.1. Significant Figures5 min

1.2.2. Significant Figures in Calculations7 min

1.2.3. Example: Significant Figures4 min

1.2.4. Practice2 min

1.2.5. Practice: Significant Figures

1.2.6. Practice: Significant Figures

1.3.1. Percent Error2 min

1.3.2. Example: Percent Error2 min

1.3.3. Practice: Percent Error

1.4.1. Inertial Reference Frames42 sec

1.5.1. Example: Dimensional Analysis7 min

1.5.2. Dimensional Analysis3 min

1.5.3. Practice: Dimensional Analysis2 min

1.6.1. Unit Conversion5 min

1.6.2. Example: Unit Conversion4 min

1.6.3. Example: Unit Conversion Practice 2 min

1.6.4. Practice: Counting heartbeats2 min

1.7.1. Orders of Magnitude4 min

1.8.1. Scientific Notation

1.8.2. Example: Scientific Notation

1.8.3. Practice: Scientific Notation

2. Introduction to Vectors

1.4hr

2.1.1. Vectors and Their Components5 min

2.1.2. Vector's Magnitude2 min

2.1.3. Components of a Vector Using the Angle It Makes Respect to x or y Axis8 min

2.1.4. Example: Vector Algebra7 min

2.1.5. Practice: Displacement Magnitude and Direction4 min

2.1.6. Practice: Velocity Magnitude and Direction 3 min

2.1.7. Practice: 2D Velocity 3 min

2.1.8. Practice: Magnitude of a Vector3 min

2.2.1. Vector Addition and Subtraction: Algebraic Method 54 sec

2.2.2. Vector Addition and Subtraction: Graphic Methods9 min

2.2.3. Example: Vector Addition and Subtraction 6 min

2.2.4. Practice: Algebraic Addition4 min

2.2.5. Practice: Resultant of Two Vectors

2.2.6. Practice: Find Missing Vector

2.3.1. Dot Product or Scalar Product4 min

2.3.2. Example: Dot product2 min

2.3.3. Practice: Dot Product46 sec

2.3.4. Practice: Concept Clarifier2 min

2.4.1. Cross Product10 min

2.4.2. Right Hand Rule5 min

2.4.3. Example: Cross Product4 min

2.4.4. Practice: Cross Product

2.4.5. Practice: Cross Product2 min

3. Kinematics

4hr

3.1.1. Distance and Displacement ..8 min

3.1.2. Speed and Velocity8 min

3.1.3. Acceleration6 min

3.1.4. Example: Acceleration4 min

3.1.5. Practice 2 min

3.1.6. Practice: Distance and Displacement2 min

3.1.7. New Practice Question3 min

3.1.8. Practice: Average speed vs. Average velocity10 min

3.2.1. Motion Diagrams11 min

3.2.2. Example9 min

3.2.3. Practice: Position vs. Time Graphs4 min

3.3.1. One-Dimensional Kinematics 8 min

3.3.2. Example Problem 13 min

3.3.3. Example: Breaking Distance (Harder)8 min

3.3.4. Practice5 min

3.3.5. Practice: Acceleration and Constant Velocity (Copy catches Car)12 min

3.4.1. Free Fall1 min

3.4.2. Example: Free Fall7 min

3.4.3. Practice: Free Fall 5 min

3.5.1. Kinematic Graphs9 min

3.5.2. Example: Kinematic Graphs3 min

3.5.3. Velocity-Time Graphs5 min

3.5.4. Practice: Velocity vs Time Graph9 min

3.5.5. Practice: Flying a Drone (Tricky!)27 min

3.6.1. Relative Velocity11 min

3.6.2. Example: 9 min

3.6.4. Practice4 min

3.6.5. Practice: Relative Velocity11 min

3.7.1. Projectile Motion9 min

3.7.2. Example: Projectile Motion4 min

3.7.3. Practice5 min

3.7.4. Practice2 min

3.7.5. Practice: Projectile Motion10 min

4. Dynamics

3hr

4.1.1. Free Body Diagrams7 min

4.1.2. Example: Free Body Diagrams 8 min

4.1.3. Practice: Free Body Diagram II

4.1.4. Practice: Free Body Diagram I

4.2.1. Newton's Laws of Motion7 min

4.2.2. Practice: Interacting Forces Between Blocks11 min

4.2.3. Practice: Tension

4.2.4. Practice: Three books on a table8 min

4.2.5. Example: Newton's

4.3.1. Gravitational Force7 min

4.3.2. The Special Case of Earth 4 min

4.3.3. Example: Weight at Higher Elevations6 min

4.3.4. Practice: Point Masses at Corners of Triangle8 min

4.3.5. Weight far away from Earth2 min

4.3.6. Acceleration due to Gravity on Different Planets3 min

4.4.1. Normal Force 6 min

4.4.2. Example: Weightlessness6 min

4.4.3. Practice: Man in an elevator

4.5.1. Inclined Surfaces 7 min

4.5.2. Example: Inclined Surface8 min

4.5.3. Practice: Connected Blocks on Incline11 min

4.6.1. Tension4 min

4.6.2. Example: Force and Newton’s Laws of Motion7 min

4.6.3. Practice: 2D Box Hanging from Ropes8 min

4.6.4. Practice3 min

4.6.5. Practice4 min

4.7.1. Spring Force4 min

4.7.2. Hooke's Law Concept Clarifier 4 min

4.7.3. Example2 min

4.7.4. Practice: Spring Force function graph2 min

4.7.5. Practice: Hooke's Law

4.7.6. Example: Hooke's Law4 min

4.8.1. Kinetic and Static Friction10 min

4.8.2. Rolling Friction2 min

4.8.3. Example: Sliding on Rough Surface8 min

4.8.4. Example2 min

4.8.5. Practice6 min

4.8.6. Practice: Friction and Static Friction6 min

4.8.7. Tugboats (defining systems)4 min

4.8.8. Practice: Pulley and friction on table4 min

4.Q. Checkpoint Quiz7 Qns

5. Circular Motion

3hr

5.1.1. Uniform Circular Motion6 min

5.1.2. Period and Frequency 7 min

5.1.3. Example: Uniform circular motion6 min

5.1.4. Practice : Circular Motion - Ball on a String

5.1.5. Practice: Circular Motion - Car Rounding a Curve5 min

5.2.1. Centripetal force12 min

5.2.2. Example: Circular Motion with Changing Radii3 min

5.2.3. Practice: Ball on a string at an angle4 min

5.2.4. Practice: Ferris wheel2 min

5.2.5. Practice: Circular Motion - Vertical Circle8 min

5.2.6. Friction turntable3 min

5.2.7. Practice: Marble Sliding on a Rotating Hoop (Tricky!)14 min

5.3.1. Car Turning Around a Circular Section of Road6 min

5.3.2. Example: Banked curves - no friction5 min

5.3.3. Example: Car Around a Circular Flat Ramp4 min

5.3.4. Practice: Car Rounding a Banked Turn8 min

5.3.5. Problems on Centripetal Force9 min

5.4.1. Satellites and Objects in Orbits 6 min

5.4.2. Kepler's Laws12 min

5.4.3. Practice: Satellite Orbital Periods5 min

5.4.4. Practice: Orbiting problems6 min

5.4.5. Example: The event horizon3 min

5.5.1. Torque14 min

5.5.2. Example: Torrque5 min

5.5.3. Practice: Torque9 min

5.6.1. Static Equilibrium3 min

5.6.2. Example15 min

5.6.3. Practice13 min

5.Q. Checkpoint Quiz4 Qns

6. Work and Energy

2.4hr

6.1.1. Mechanical Work10 min

6.1.2. Example: Positive vs. Negative Work4 min

6.1.3. Example: Work on pushing a block1 min

6.1.4. Practice: Work Involving Incline Surface (Ramp)15 min

6.2.1. Work-energy theorem7 min

6.2.2. Example: Work-Energy Theorem11 min

6.2.3. Practice: work and energy - PE

6.2.4. Practice: Spring and slope problem6 min

6.2.5. Practice: work done2 min

6.3.1. Conservative vs Non-Conservative Forces - Part 17 min

6.3.2. Conservative vs Non-Conservative Forces - Part 25 min

6.3.3. Practice: Conservative Forces

6.3.4. Example: Non-Conservative Forces

6.4.1. Conservation of Energy9 min

6.4.2. Example: Work Done by Friction12 min

6.4.3. Practice13 min

6.4.4. Example: Energy conservation on a rollercoaster2 min

6.4.5. Energy of the mass-spring system2 min

6.4.6. Practice: Graphical problem2 min

6.5.1. Power3 min

6.5.2. Example: Power in Lifting4 min

6.5.3. Practice: Towing a Car7 min

6.6.1. Elastic Potential Energy1 min

6.6.2. Practice: Friction and a spring2 min

6.6.3. Practice: Bungee jumping4 min

6.7.1. Orbital Energies10 min

6.7.2. Example8 min

6.Q. Checkpoint Quiz3 Qns

7. Oscillations

1.2hr

7.1.1. Concepts of Oscillation (Basic Version)10 min

7.1.2. Example: SHM position function

7.2.1. SHM as the Projection of a Uniform Circular Motion11 min

7.3.1. Energy of an Oscillator11 min

7.3.2. Example: Spring & Mass System 10 min

7.3.3. Practice: Energy of Oscillation 4 min

7.4.1. Vertical springs13 min

7.4.2. Example: Vertical Springs7 min

7.4.3. Practice: Vertical Springs6 min

8. Linear Momentum and Collisions

1.8hr

8.1.1. Momentum and Impulse (Basic)3 min

8.1.2. Example: Impulse on a Soccer Ball3 min

8.1.3. Practice: Impulse on a Ball Hitting Wall11 min

8.2.1. Conservation of momentum12 min

8.2.2. Practice: Conservation of momentum example3 min

8.2.3. Practice: Conservation of Momentum - 2 Carts8 min

8.2.4. Practice: Conservation of Momentum - Two Carts Colliding4 min

8.2.5. Example: Collision2 min

8.3.1. Elastic Collision3 min

8.3.2. Elastic Collision with One Object Initially at Rest12 min

8.3.3. Inelastic Collision3 min

8.3.4. Perfectly Inelastic Collision4 min

8.3.5. Example: Inelastic Collision8 min

8.3.6. Practice: Elastic balls in 1D5 min

8.3.7. Practice: Inelastic Collision4 min

8.3.8. Practice: 1D Elastic Collision7 min

8.4.1. Momentum Conservation in 2D Collisions1 min

8.4.2. Example4 min

8.4.3. Practice: 2D Inelastic Collision3 min

8.4.4. Practice: 2D Colliding balls3 min

8.4.5. Practice3 min

8.4.6. Momentum and Impulse3 min

9. Electrostatics

46min

9.1.1. Properties of Charge2 min

9.1.2. Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charge2 min

9.1.3. Current1 min

9.1.4. Practice1 min

9.1.5. Practice: Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charge49 sec

9.2.1. Coulomb's Law3 min

9.2.2. Example3 min

9.2.3. Practice3 min

9.2.4. Practice: Placing a third charge (x-axis)4 min

9.2.5. Practice (with vectors)2 min

9.2.6. Practice: Square of Charges3 min

9.2.7. Coulomb's Torsion Balance Experiment1 min

9.2.8. Practice: Kinematic equations with a charge5 min

9.3.1. Electric Field3 min

9.3.2. Electric Field Lines1 min

9.3.3. Example4 min

9.3.4. Practice2 min

9.3.5. Practice: Field from two point charges3 min

9.3.6. Practice: Field from multiple charges (symmetry)2 min

10. Electric Potential

23min

10.1.1. Electric Potential Energy and Work4 min

10.1.2. Practice4 min

10.1.3. Example: Pulling a charge away3 min

10.1.4. Practice: Electric potential energy and three charges1 min

10.1.5. Practice: Releasing two repulsive charges2 min

10.2.1. Electric Potential2 min

10.2.2. Example2 min

10.2.3. Electron volts1 min

10.2.4. Practice: Equipotential lines and work done2 min

10.2.5. Practice: Graph of electric field from the electric potential2 min

11. Magnetism

1.4hr

11.1.1. Magnetism and Magnetic Fields2 min

11.1.2. Magnets and Magnetic Materials2 min

11.1.3. Practice: Magnetic Field Lines2 min

11.2.1. Magnetic Force on a Moving Charge5 min

11.2.2. Example: Find the direction of magnetic field2 min

11.2.3. Practice2 min

11.2.4. Example1 min

11.2.5. Practice: Moving Charge (Electric and Magnetic Field)4 min

11.3.1. Circular Motion in a Magnetic Field3 min

11.3.2. Example3 min

11.3.3. Example1 min

11.3.4. Practice4 min

11.3.5. Practice2 min

11.3.6. Practice: Circular motion in a magnetic field2 min

11.3.7. Practice: Electric and magnetic fields on a proton2 min

11.4.1. Magnetic Force on a Wire1 min

11.4.2. Example1 min

11.4.3. Force on a simple wire4 min

11.5.1. Magnetic Field of Current-Carrying Wires2 min

11.5.2. Example3 min

11.5.3. Example47 sec

11.5.4. Practice: Two long straight wires4 min

11.5.5. Practice6 min

11.5.6. Practice: Magnetic Field of a Loop-de-Loop2 min

11.5.7. Practice: Levitating wire3 min

11.6.1. Magnetic Flux1 min

11.6.2. Example: Magnetic Flux3 min

11.7.1. Faraday's Law1 min

11.7.2. Example: Faraday's Law4 min

11.7.3. Motional EMF2 min

11.7.4. Example: Conductor on Rails57 sec

11.7.5. Practice: Motional EMF2 min

11.8.1. Lenz's Law2 min

11.8.2. Example: Lenz's Law2 min

11.8.3. Practice: Lenz's Law3 min

12. Geometric Optics

38min

12.1.1. Reflection1 min

12.1.2. Refraction4 min

12.1.3. Example: Refraction2 min

12.1.4. Practice: Refraction3 min

12.1.5. Practice: Twins in a mirror1 min

12.2.1. Total Internal Reflection2 min

12.2.2. Practice: Total Internal Reflection57 sec

12.2.3. Practice: Rock under the water1 min

12.3.1. Concave and Convex Mirrors4 min

12.3.2. Example: Concave Mirror1 min

12.3.3. Practice: Concave Mirror1 min

12.4.1. Mirrors Equation1 min

12.4.2. Example: Convex Mirror2 min

12.4.3. Practice: Concave Mirror2 min

12.5.1. Convex and Concave Lenses3 min

12.5.2. Example: Convex Lens44 sec

12.5.3. Practice: Convex and Concave Lenses1 min

12.6.1. Lenses Equation1 min

12.6.2. Example: Converging vs Diverging Lens2 min

12.6.3. Practice: Convex Lenses3 min

12.7.1. Telescopes48 sec

13. Wave Nature of Light

41min

13.I. Chapter Intro1 min

13.1.1. Light Waves2 min

13.1.2. Practice58 sec

13.1.3. Electromagnetic Waves48 sec

13.2.1. Constructive and Destructive Interference2 min

13.2.2. Diffraction2 min

13.2.3. Example: Properties of waves2 min

13.2.4. Practice: The Wave Equation2 min

13.2.5. Practice

13.3.1. Double-Slit Diffraction3 min

13.3.2. Example3 min

13.3.3. Double-Slit Interference (MODIFIED) (Copy)

13.4.1. Single Slit Diffraction2 min

13.4.2. Example46 sec

13.4.3. Practice2 min

13.5.1. Diffraction Grating1 min

13.5.2. Example1 min

13.5.3. Practice2 min

13.5.4. Practice3 min

13.6.1. Polarization3 min

13.7.1. Thin film Interference3 min

13.7.2. Example2 min

13.7.3. Practice2 min

14. Light as a Particle

21min

14.I. Chapter Intro1 min

14.1.1. Photons1 min

14.1.2. Practice: Energy of Photons1 min

14.1.3. Practice: Frequency of Photons52 sec

14.2.1. The Compton Effect2 min

14.2.2. Example: Compton Effect1 min

14.2.3. Practice: Compton Effect5 min

14.3.1. The Photoelectric Effect4 min

14.3.2. Example: The Photoelectric Effect43 sec

14.3.3. Practice: The Photoelectric Effect2 min

14.3.4. Photoelectric effect and Photons1 min

15. Modern Physics

55min

15.1.1. The Atom and the Elements2 min

15.1.2. Nuclear Forces and Binding Energy 3 min

15.1.3. Practice: Binding Energy4 min

15.2.1. Einstein's Postulates of Special Relativity6 min

15.2.2. Time Dilation and Length Contraction2 min

15.2.3. Example: Special Relativity1 min

15.2.4. Practice: Special Relativity59 sec

15.2.5. Relativistic Velocity Transformations54 sec

15.3.1. de Broglie Wavelength (Particles = Waves)2 min

15.3.2. Example2 min

15.3.3. Practice3 min

15.4.1. Radioactive Decays2 min

15.4.2. Half-Life2 min

15.4.3. Example: Half-Life3 min

15.4.4. Practice: Half-Life2 min

15.5.1. Radioactive Decays2 min

15.5.2. Alpha Decay2 min

15.6.1. Beta Decay52 sec

15.6.2. Beta Negative Decay2 min

15.6.3. Beta Positive Decay2 min

15.6.4. Electron Capture1 min

15.6.5. Example: Decays 4 min

15.6.6. Practice: Decays 3 min

15.7.1. Gamma Decay2 min

16. Atomic Physics

15min

16.1.1. Review of History (Atomic Models)26 sec

16.1.2. Dalton's "Billiard Ball" Atomic Theory45 sec

16.1.3. Thomson's "Plum Pudding" Atomic Theory3 min

16.1.4. Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment1 min

16.1.5. Rutherford's "Planetary" Atomic Model3 min

16.1.6. The Basics of Absorption and Emission Spectra44 sec

16.1.7. Bohr Atomic Model 3 min

16.1.8. Quantum Atomic Theory1 min

16.2.1. Elementary Particles2 min

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