Grade 11 Physics Mid Year Study Guide PDF

**Grade 11** **November 2024** **Miss. Nancy Beayni** **Physics Study guide** **End of Semester 1 exam** I. **Chapter 1: Introduction to Physics** **Section 1: Definition and fields of physics / Section 2: Measurements in Experiments** 1. Definition of physics slide 3 2. Areas with physic...

**Grade 11** **November 2024** **Miss. Nancy Beayni** **Physics Study guide** **End of Semester 1 exam** I. **Chapter 1: Introduction to Physics** **Section 1: Definition and fields of physics / Section 2: Measurements in Experiments** 1. Definition of physics slide 3 2. Areas with physics slide 4 3. Scientific method slide 6 4. SI units slide 10 5. Conversion scale slide 11 6. Prefixes Pico, micro and Nano slide 13 II. **Chapter 2: Motion in one dimension** **Section 1: Displacement and velocity** 1. Displacement 2. Reference frame 3. Average velocity 4. Interpret the velocity graphically (slope of a position-time graph) 5. Instantaneous velocity 6. Position --time graph: calculate average velocity, motion at rest, motion having positive velocity. **Section 2:** **Acceleration** 1. Rectilinear motion - URM/UARM/UDRM 2. Graphing speed in function of time, graphing displacement, velocity and acceleration 3. UARM kinematic equations: [*ΔX*]{.math.inline} **=** [\$\\frac{1}{2}\$]{.math.inline} **(**[*V*~*i*+ *V*~*f*~~]{.math.inline} **)** [*Δt*]{.math.inline} [  V~*f*~]{.math.inline}**=** [*V*~*i*~]{.math.inline} **+a**[*Δ*~*t*~]{.math.inline} --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*ΔX*]{.math.inline} **=** [*V*~*i*~*Δ*~*t*~]{.math.inline} **+** [\$\\frac{1}{2}\$]{.math.inline} **a (**[*Δt*^2^]{.math.inline} **)** [*V*~*f*~^2^]{.math.inline}**=** [*V*~*i*~^2^]{.math.inline} **+ 2a**[*Δ*~*X*~]{.math.inline} **Section 3:** **falling objects** 1. Free fall 2. Equations for free fall III. **Chapter 3:** **Two Dimensional Motion And Vectors** **Section 1:** **Introduction to vectors / Section 2: vectors operation** 1. Vector and scalar **Section 2:** **vector operation** 1. Resolving vector into components +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | [*Δx*]{.math.inline} = d | Vx = V [cos *θ*]{.math.inline} | | [cos *θ*]{.math.inline} | | | | Vy = V[ sin*θ*]{.math.inline} | | [*Δy*]{.math.inline} = d[ | | | sin*θ*]{.math.inline} | | +===================================+===================================+ | ax = a [cos *θ*]{.math.inline} | Fx = F [cos *θ*]{.math.inline} | | | | | ay = a[ sin*θ*]{.math.inline} | Fy = F[ sin*θ*]{.math.inline} | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ 2. Parallel vectors operation (adding or subtracting) 3. Resultant vector applying Pythagorean theorem d=[\$\\sqrt{{\\mathrm{\\Delta}x}\^{2} + \\ {\\mathrm{\\Delta}y}\^{2}}\$]{.math.inline} 4. Adding vectors that are not perpendicular Algebraically using Pythagorean theorem and the tangent function in 5 steps d=[\$\\sqrt{{\\mathrm{\\Delta}x}\^{2} + \\ {\\mathrm{\\Delta}y}\^{2}}\$]{.math.inline} [*θ*]{.math.inline}= [\${\\tan\^{- 1}(}\\frac{\\text{opp}}{\\text{adj}})\$]{.math.inline} **Section 3: Projectile Motion** 1. Projectile motion and its trajectory 2. Vertical projectile motion equations [**V**~x ~]{.math.inline} **=** [\$\\sqrt{\\frac{\\mathbf{a}\_{\\mathbf{y}}}{\\mathbf{2\\mathrm{\\Delta}y}}}\\mathbf{\\mathrm{\\Delta}}\_{\\mathbf{x}}\$]{.math.inline}