Curriculum Distribution Chart

Class: O1

Subject: Physics CAIE Code: 5054

Month : August Section 1: General Physics

Topic
Chapter Week Learning Outcomes
No:
Introduction to Candidates should be able to:
Physics  Describe how to measure a variety of lengths with appropriate
Cambridge Physics – precision using tapes, rulers and micrometers (including
0.0 CIE Papers – reading the scale on an analogue micrometer) 2 Describe how
Curriculum – Topics – to use a measuring cylinder to measure the volume of a liquid
Brief of studying and to determine the volume of a solid by displacement 3
Physical techniques Describe how to measure a variety of time intervals using
Quantities clocks and digital timers 4 Determine an average value for a
and, 1.1 Scalar and Vectors
small distance and for a short interval of time by measuring
Measurements Measurement multiples (including the period of oscillation of a pendulum) 5
Technique 1.2 Understand that a scalar quantity has magnitude (size) only
Techniques
and that a vector quantity has magnitude and direction 6 Know
that the following quantities are scalars: distance, speed, time,
mass, energy and temperature 7 Know that the following
1.3 Units and Symbols quantities are vectors: displacement, force, weight, velocity,
acceleration, momentum, electric field strength and
gravitational field strength 8 Determine, by calculation or
graphically, the resultant of two vectors at right angles.
Month : September Section 2: Newtonian Mechanics
 Topic
Chapter Week Learning Outcomes
No:
1. Define speed as distance travelled per unit time and define velocity
as change in displacement per unit time
Speed, velocity and 2. Recall and use the equation speed = distance time v = s t
2.1
acceleration 3. Recall and use the equation average speed = total distance travelled
total time taken
4. Define acceleration as change in velocity per unit time; recall and
use the equation acceleration = change in velocity time taken a = ∆v
Graphical analysis of ∆t
2.2
motion 5. State what is meant by, and describe examples of, uniform
acceleration and non-uniform acceleration
6 .Know that a deceleration is a negative acceleration and use this in
calculations
7. Sketch, plot and interpret distance–time and speed–time graphs
Motion
8. Determine from the shape of a distance–time graph when an object
Kinematics
is: (a) at rest (b) moving with constant speed (c) accelerating (d)
decelerating
9. Determine from the shape of a speed–time graph when an object is:
(a) at rest (b) moving with constant speed (c) moving with constant
2.3 Free-Fall acceleration (d) moving with changing acceleration
10. State that the acceleration of free fall g for an object near to the
surface of the Earth is approximately constant and is approximately
9.8m/ s2
11. Calculate speed from the gradient of a distance–time graph
12. Calculate the area under a speed–time graph to determine the
distance travelled for motion with constant speed or constant
acceleration
13. Calculate acceleration from the gradient of a speed–time graph
Month : October Section 2: Newtonian Mechanics

Topic
Chapter Week Learning Outcomes
No:
 Balanced and unbalanced forces
Balanced and
3.1 unbalanced forces  Identify and use different types of force, including weight
Elastic Deformation (gravitational force), friction, drag, air resistance, tension
(elastic force), electrostatic force, magnetic force, thrust
(driving force) and contact force
3.2 Friction  Identify forces acting on an object and draw free-body
diagram(s) representing the forces
 State Newton’s first law as ‘an object either remains at rest or
continues to move in a straight line at constant speed unless
acted on by a resultant force’
 State that a force may change the velocity of an object by
changing its direction of motion or its speed
 Determine the resultant of two or more forces acting along the
same straight line
 Recall and use the equation resultant force = mass ×
acceleration F = ma
Forces  State Newton’s third law as ‘when object A exerts a force on
Dynamics object B, then object B exerts an equal and opposite force on
object A’
 Know that Newton’s third law describes pairs of forces of the
3.3 Circular motion same type acting on different objects
Friction
 Describe friction as a force that may impede motion and
produce heating
 Understand the motion of objects acted on by a constant
weight or driving force, with and without drag (including air
resistance or resistance in a liquid)
 Explain how an object reaches terminal velocity
 Define the thinking distance, braking distance and stopping
distance of a moving vehicle
 Explain the factors that affect thinking and braking distance
including speed, tiredness, alcohol, drugs, load, tyre surface
and road conditions
 Elastic deformation
 Know that forces may produce a change in size and shape of
an object
 Define the spring constant as force per unit extension; recall
and use the equation spring constant = force extension k = F x
 Sketch, plot and interpret load–extension graphs for an elastic
solid and describe the associated experimental procedures
 Define and use the term ‘limit of proportionality’ for a load–
extension graph and identify this point on the graph (an
understanding of the elastic limit is not required)
Circular motion
 Describe, qualitatively, motion in a circular path due to a force
perpendicular to the motion as:
(a) speed increases if force increases, with mass and radius
constant
(b) radius decreases if force increases, with mass and speed
constant
(c) an increased mass requires an increased force to keep speed
and radius constant (F = mv2 r is not required)
Month : November Section 2: Newtonian Mechanics

Topic
Chapter Week Learning Outcomes
No:
 State that mass is a measure of the quantity of matter in an
4.1 Mass and weight object at rest relative to the observer
 State that the mass of an object resists change from its state of
rest or motion (inertia)
Mass, Weight 4.2 Gravitational fields  Know that weights, and therefore masses, may be compared
and Density
using a beam balance or equal-arm balance
 Describe how to determine mass using an electronic balance
4.3 Density  Describe how to measure weight using a force meter
 Define gravitational field strength as force per unit mass; recall
 and use the equation gravitational field strength = weight mass
g = W m and know that this is equivalent to the acceleration of
free fall
 State that a gravitational field is a region in which a mass
experiences a force due to gravitational attraction
 Define density as mass per unit volume; recall and use the
equation density = mass volume ρ = m V
 Describe how to determine the density of a liquid, of a
regularly shaped solid and of an irregularly shaped solid which
sinks in a liquid (volume by displacement), including
appropriate calculations
Month : December Section 2: Newtonian Mechanics

Topic
Chapter Week Learning Outcomes
No:
 Define momentum as mass × velocity; recall and use the equation
p = mv
 Define impulse as force × time for which force acts; recall and
use the equation impulse = FΔt = Δ(mv)
Momentum Momentum  Apply the principle of the conservation of momentum to solve
6.1
simple problems in one dimension
 Define resultant force as the change in momentum per unit time;
recall and use the equation resultant force = change in momentum
time taken F = ∆p ∆t

Mid-Year
Examination

Winter Break
 Month : January Section 2: Newtonian Mechanics

Topic
Chapter Week Learning Outcomes
No:
 Describe the moment of a force as a measure of its turning
effect and give everyday examples
 Define the moment of a force as moment = force ×
5.1 Moments
perpendicular distance from the pivot; recall and use this
equation
 State and use the principle of moments for an object in
equilibrium
Centre of Mass  Describe an experiment to verify the principle of moments
Conditions for  State what is meant by centre of gravity
5.2
equilibrium  Describe how to determine the position of the centre of gravity
of a plane lamina using a plumb line
Turning Effect  Describe, qualitatively, the effect of the position of the centre
of Forces of gravity on the stability of simple objects

5.3 Stability

Month : February Section 2: Newtonian Mechanics

 Topic
Chapter Week Learning Outcomes
No:

 Define pressure as force per unit area; recall and use the
equation pressure = force area p = F A
7.1 Pressure  Describe how pressure varies with force and area in the
context of everyday examples
 State that the pressure at a surface produces a force in a
direction at right angles to the surface and describe an
experiment to show this
Pressure
 Describe how the height of a liquid column in a liquid
barometer may be used to determine the atmospheric pressure
 Describe, quantitatively, how the pressure beneath the surface
7.2 Pressure Changes of a liquid changes with depth and density of the liquid
 Recall and use the equation for the change in pressure beneath
the surface of a liquid change in pressure = density ×
gravitational field strength × change in height ∆p = ρg∆h

Month : March Section 3: Energy and Thermal Physics

Topic
Chapter Week Learning Outcomes
No:
 State that energy may be stored as kinetic, gravitational
potential, chemical, elastic (strain), nuclear, electrostatic and
8.1 Energy forms internal (thermal)
 Describe how energy is transferred between stores during
Energy, work events and processes, including examples of transfer by forces
and power (mechanical work done), electrical currents (electrical work
done), heating, and by electromagnetic, sound and other waves
Major sources of  Know the principle of the conservation of energy and apply
8.2 this principle to the transfer of energy between stores during
Energy
events and processes
 Recall and use the equation for kinetic energy Ek = 1 2 mv2
  Recall and use the equation for the change in gravitational
potential energy ΔEp = mgΔh
8.3 Work  Recall and use the equation work done = force × distance
moved in the direction of the force W = Fd
 List renewable and non-renewable energy sources
 Describe how useful energy may be obtained, or electrical
power generated, from: (a) chemical energy stored in fossil
fuels (b) chemical energy stored in biofuels (c) hydroelectric
8.4 Efficiency resources (d) solar radiation (e) nuclear fuel (f) geothermal
resources (g) wind (h) tides (i) waves in the sea including
references to a boiler, turbine and generator where they are
used
 Describe advantages and disadvantages of each method limited
to whether it is renewable, when and whether it is available,
and its impact on the environment
 Define efficiency as:
(a) (%) efficiency = (useful energy output) (total energy input) ( ×
100%)
(b) (%) efficiency = (useful power output) (total power input) ( ×
100%) and recall and use these equations
efficiency =useful energy output / input × 100%
8.5 Power efficiency = useful power output / power input × 100%
 Define power as work done per unit time and also as energy
transferred per unit time; recall and use the equations
(a) power = work done time taken P = W t
(b) power = energy transferred time taken P = ∆E t

Month : Apr- May

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