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IB Physics 3-4
- IA Projects and Required Labs
- Unit 1 Measurement, Error Analysis and 1D motion
- Unit 1 Laboratory Skills
- Unit 2 Matter and Energy
- Unit 2 Vectors and 2 Dimensional Motion
- Unit 8 Circular motion and Gravity
- Unit 9 SHM and Rotation
- Unit 3 Forces
- Unit 3 Atoms and the Periodic Table
- Unit 4 Atomic Structure
- Unit 4 Work and Energy
- Unit 10 Waves
- Unit 11 Electricity
- Unit 5 Momentum
- Unit 5 Compounds
- Unit 6 Reactions
- Unit 6 Thermal Physics
- Unit 12 Electromagnetism
- Unit 13 Nuclear Physics
- Unit 7 Thermodynamics and Energy
- Unit 7 Stoichiometry
- Unit 8 Circular motion and Gravity
- Unit 14 Particle Physics
- Year 1 Files

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All about the IA Project - Topic selection, Experimental design, Data analysis, paper writing, presentation preparation
Errors and Uncertainty for the IA
The Science IA: Earning Full Marks
The Nature of Science Textbook Appendix
Agenda Oct 1 - Planning for 3.2 Required Lab - Mini IA project (Experimental goals given, practice for IA procedure development, data collection and analysis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZprLK1SIcg&t=1s Video that outlines the process of experimental Design, Data Collection, and Data Processing
Agenda Oct 2 - Trial runs for 3.2 Required Lab
Agenda Oct 3 - Lab day 2, Altered D schedule for homecoming
Agenda Oct 8 - Lab day 3
Agenda Oct 10 - Data analysis and results day
Agenda Oct 15 - Mini IA due
Agenda Jan 22 - IA Data Presentations
IA Projects and Required IB Practicals
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8 Required IB Practicals:
2.1 Determining the acceleration of free-fall experimentally (Completed year 1 Acceleration on an incline)
3.1 Applying the calorimetric techniques of specific heat or specific latent heat experimentally (Completed year 1 Calorimetry for specific heat and latent heat )
3.2 Investigating at least one gas law experimentally (done as a mock IA project in pairs for practice)
IB 3.2 Lab Agenda Sep 11 - Methods exploration IB 3.2 Lab Agenda Sept 13 - Expt Design and collect data (day 1) IB 3.2 Lab Agenda Sept 18 - Collect data (day 2) and IA paper info IB 3.s Lab Agenda Sept 20 - data analysis and writing
4.2 Investigating the speed of sound experimentally (Speed of Sound Lab IB 4.2 Lab Agenda Oct 23)
4.4 Determining refractive index experimentally (Index of Refraction Lab IB 4.4 Lab Agenda Oct 16)
5.2 Investigating one or more of the factors that affect resistance experimentally (IB 5.2 R Factors Lab IB 5.2 Agenda Jan 15)
5.3 Determining internal resistance experimentally (IB 5.3 Internal r Lab IB 5.3 Agenda Jan 17)
7.1 Investigating half-life experimentally (or by simulation) (Investigating half- life activities IB 7.1 Lab Agenda Mar 13)