Physics Course Program

This Prestige Tuition preliminary Physics course has been revised for the new NSW Physics syllabus meeting the Australian National Curriculum as per the NESA standards effective from 2017.

Students aim to:

Develop positive, informed values and attitudes towards physics.
Recognise the importance and relevance of physics in their lives.
Recognise the influence of economic, political and societal impacts on the development of scientific knowledge.
Develop an appreciation of the influence of imagination and creativity in scientific research.

Download the full Physics Stage 6 2017 Syllabus here.

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Students develop:

Knowledge and understanding of fundamental mechanics.
Knowledge and understanding of energy.

Student outcomes:

Describes and analyses motion in terms of scalar and vector quantities in two dimensions and makes quantitative measurements and calculations for distance, displacement, speed velocity and acceleration.
Describes and explains events in terms of Newton’s Laws of Motion, the law of conservation of momentum and the law of conservation of energy.
Explains and analyses waves and the transfer of energy by sound, light and thermodynamic principles.
Explains and quantitatively analyses electric fields, circuitry and magnetism.