Year 12 Physics Programme for 2008


Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4


Term 1
Week 1: 7/2 - 8/2 Light Weds = Waitangi Day
Week 2: 11/2 - 15/2 Light
Week 3: 18/2 - 22/2 Light reflection - mirrors
Week 4: 25/2 - 29/2 Light refraction
Week 5: 3/3 - 7/3 Light refraction
Week 6: 10/3 - 14/3 Lenses
Week 7: 17/3 - 21/3 Wave properties Fri = Good Friday
Week 8: 24/3 - 28/3 Superposition and interference of waves Mon/Tues = Easter Monday
Week 9: 3/3 - 4/4 Electromagnetic waves
Week 10: 7/4 - 11/4 Data gathering and processing skill consolidation
Week 11: 14/4 - 18/4 Internal Achievement Standard 90252 Assessment
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Term 2
Week 1: 5/5 - 9/5 Motion descriptors
Week 2: 12/5 - 16/5 Constant acceleration
Week 3: 19/5 - 23/5 Relative velocity and vectors
Week 4: 26/5 - 30/5 Projectile Motion
Week 5: 2/6 - 6/6 Projectile Motion, Circular Motion Mon = Queens Birthday
Week 6: 9/6 - 13/6 Circular Motion
Week 7: 16/6 - 20/6 Vector Forces
Week 8: 23/6 - 27/6 Energy and Power
Week 9: 30/6 - 4/7 Momentum and Impulse
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Term 3
Week 1: 21/7 - 25/7 Momentum and Impulse
Week 2: 28/7 - 1/8 Static Electricity
Week 3: 4/8 - 8/8 Current Properties
Week 4: 11/8 - 15/8 Circuit Properties
Week 5: 18/8 - 22/8 Electromagnetic Properties Senior Exams
Week 6: 25/8 - 29/8 Motor Effect
Week 7: 1/9 - 5/9 Generator Effect Tournament Week
Week 8: 8/9 - 12/9 The atom, past and present
Week 9: 15/9 - 19/9 Senior Exams
Week 10: 22/9 - 26/9 Radioactivity
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Term 4
Week 1: 13/10 - 17/10 Re-assessment - Internal Achievement standards, Revision
Week 2: 20/10 - 24/10 Re-assessment - Internal Achievement standards, Revision
Week 3: 27/10 - 31/10 Revision
Week 4: 3/11 - 7/11 Revision for NCEA exams Mon = Labour Day
Week 5: 10/11 - 14/11 Revision for NCEA exams Tues = Senior Prizegiving, Fri = NCEA
Week 6: 17/11 - 21/11 NCEA exams
Week 7: 24/11 - 28/11 Tues = NCEA L2 Physics - afternoon
Week 8: 1/12 - 5/12
Week 9: 8/12 - 12/12
Week 10: 15/12 - 17/12
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