Welcome to the Grade 11 University Physics website. As part of this site, you'll find multiple teaching resources to help the planning of units on kinematics, forces, conservation of energy and electricity.
SPH3U: Physics
Energy is everywhere and while it is transferred across systems, it is never created nor destroyed. This is the basic principle behind the Law of Conservation of Energy, the concept explored in this section.
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By clicking the button below, you'll be introduced to a variety of tools that will help you teach conservation of energy to your grade 11 physics class. Available to you in this section are lesson ideas that introduce energy, teacher resources, assessment pieces and more.
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I hope you have the energy to explore it all!
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- By Brendan Roy
Conservation of Energy
Pushing the door open to enter a room, opening a water bottle , and even playing pool: All of these daily activities are examples of forces.
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When two objects interact and either or both move because of a push or a pull, then there is a force acting on them! Forces are apart of our daily lives, even if we can not necessarily see it! It is important to learn about the different kind of forces!
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This section has different lesson plans for the forces unit, misconceptions and links to help take your lessons to another level
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- By Mona AbuSharkh
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Forces
Motion. Even though we don’t realize, it’s everywhere around us!
In this unit, we will analyze motion in two-dimensional situations. We will learn how to interpret these situations and draw them into a graph. We will also look into various misconceptions that students often have in kinematics, and strategies that can help you clear them with your students.
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- By Kratima Shukla
Kinematics
Electricity and magnetism are interrelated, as you will learn during this course. At first, however, scientists didn’t make the connection. Electricity, and charge was first observed as the force that sometimes arose when you rubbed two dissimilar materials together. This observation was attributed to an unknown electric liquid. Likewise, magnetism was associated with the behaviour of certain materials.
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In particular, in the lessons on this web site, we will explore some of the relationships between moving charge (also known as current) and the magnetic fields that are interrelated with it, the applications in the world around us, and the effects on society and the environment.
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Lest you doubt the interrelationship, it is no coincidence that electro-magnetism (combined) was designated as one of the four fundamental forces of the universe.
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- By Michael Heal
Electricity
