Summary

• Description:

  The MS Word document comprises Form 3 Physics Schemes of Work Term 3 2025. The PDF version is also available upon your request.

  The scheme of work is designed to be used with the Comprehensive Secondary Physics Students' Book 3 and the Secondary Physics KLB Students' Book 3 as the primary reference materials. The curriculum covers several key topics in electricity and thermodynamics.

  The topics and their corresponding sub-topics outlined in the document are:

  • Electrostatics
    • Understanding and explaining the various applications of capacitors.
  • The Heating Effect of Electric Current
    • Performing experiments to illustrate the heating effect of an electric current.
    • Describing the working principles of common heating devices like electric irons, bulb filaments, and electric kettles, as well as the function of fuses.
    • Investigating the factors that affect electrical energy.
  • Quantity of Heat
    • Defining heat capacity and specific heat capacity and their SI units.
    • Exploring changes of state, including latent heat of fusion and latent heat of vaporization.
    • Distinguishing between boiling and melting and the factors affecting them.
    • Describing the operation of a pressure cooker and a refrigerator.
  • The Gas Laws
    • Experimentally verifying the Pressure Law, Charles’s Law, and Boyle’s Law.
    • Discussing the basic assumptions of the kinetic theory of gases.
    • Converting between Celsius and Kelvin temperature scales and understanding the concept of absolute zero.
• Length:

  7 pages
• Category:

  Schemes of Work
• Level:

  Form 3
• Subject:

  PHYSICS
• Posted By:

  Caleb_Peter

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