Skill Descriptor: Select an appropriate frame of reference for describing motion.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Set a reference point and establish positive and negative directions for measurements and descriptions of motion.
• Describe apparent motion of an object as viewed by varied frames of reference.

Skill Descriptor: Represent displacement, velocity, and acceleration using vectors.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Interpret positive or negative value as an indication of a vector’s direction.
• Represent displacement, velocity, and acceleration as vectors on diagrams.
• Divide vectors into components.
• Solve displacement and relative velocity problems.

Skill Descriptor: Apply the law of conservation of momentum to collisions and explosions.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Explore under what conditions momentum and kinetic energy are conserved in collisions.
• Solve problems using the law of conservation of momentum in one and two dimensions.

Skill Descriptor: Analyze projectile motion

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Select and justify appropriate kinematics equations for various situations.
• Solve problems using kinematics equations for projectile motion.

Skill Descriptor: Derive equations for symmetrical trajectories.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Create expressions for range, maximum height, and time of flight using kinematic equations.

Skill Descriptor: Represent forces using vectors.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Interpret positive or negative value as an indication of a vector’s direction.
• Design free-body diagrams for singular objects where non-perpendicular forces occur.
• Design free-body diagrams for systems where non-perpendicular forces occur.
• Divide vectors into components, indicating resultant and equilibrant.

Skill Descriptor: Analyze non-perpendicular forces.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Explore conditions under which rotational motion may occur (e.g., torque and static equilibrium).
• Solve problems for singular objects where non-perpendicular forces occur.
• Solve problems for systems where non-perpendicular forces occur.

Skill Descriptor: Analyze uniform circular motion.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Describe uniform circular motion using algebraic and vector analysis.
• Solve problems involving circular or centripetal motion using Newton’s laws.
• Explore the motion of a pendulum using circular motion principles.

Skill Descriptor: Derive equations for circular motion.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Create expressions for maximum velocity in a circle on a horizontal plane using Newton’s second law.
• Create expressions for maximum velocity in a circle on a vertical plane using Newton’s second law.
• Create expressions for banked curves using Newton’s second law.

Skill Descriptor: Explore the development of scientific knowledge related to planetary motion.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Describe how our understanding of planetary motion has evolved over time. (e.g., Kepler’s laws, universal gravitation)

Skill Descriptor: Analyze non-contact forces.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Solve problems using the law of universal gravitation.
• Represent field lines for interactions between charged particles.
• Solve problems using Coulomb’s law.
• Derive equations where centripetal force is caused by non-contact forces.
• Solve problems where centripetal motion is caused by non-contact forces.

Skill Descriptor: Investigate relationships between electrical forces

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Explain electric fields as regions of space affecting mass and change.
• Describe electric fields, illustrating the source and direction of the lines of force.
• Discuss like and unlike charges of electric fields.
• Explain magnetic fields in terms of poles.

Skill Descriptor: Examine electric circuits.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

• Describe electric circuits with respect to energy, voltage, current, resistance, and power.
• Apply Ohm’s, Kirchhoff’s, and Watt’s Law to series, parallel, and combination circuits.
• Analyze forces acting on moving charge and on electric current.

Skill Descriptor: Model safety practices.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Conduct individual or collaborative investigations safely by following a plan.
• Identify behaviours that will keep own self and others safe.
• Safely use tools to build a model/prototype.

Skill Descriptor: Model sustainability practices.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Assess and communicate risk and ethical issues associated with investigation methods.
• Conduct science experiments/field investigations while following environmentally appropriate practices.
• Identify effects of the chosen solution and/or technology on people and the environment considering criteria.
• Explain why practical solution to a scientific or technological problem requires a compromise between competing priorities.

Skill Descriptor: Conduct investigations related to two-dimensional kinematics, dynamics, and electric circuits.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Design an investigation for a testable question.
• Use appropriate tools to collect and interpret data.
• Reflect and discuss findings.

Skill Descriptor: Apply inquiry skills.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Create and present a personal interest inquiry that extends learner’s understanding of physics.
• Communicate scientific or technological ideas for different audiences.
• Use appropriate scientific and technological language, conventions, and representations.

Skill Descriptor: Explore physics careers

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Explore physics-based careers in Canada based on personal interests.
• Reflect how skills and concepts learned in physics may be transferable to a career path.