South African Curriculum

Accounting - Agricultural Science - Business Studies - Computer Applications Technology - Consumer Studies - Dance Studies - Design - Dramatic Arts - Economy - Electrical Technology - Engineering Graphics and Design - First Additional Language - Geography - History - Home Language - Hospitality Studies - Information Technology - Life Orientation - Life Sciences - Mathematical Literacy - Mathematics - Mechanical Technology - Music - Second Additional Language - Tourism - Visual Arts

Temporary Information Notice - Index of the South African Curriculum book

Units - PGCE Comments - TO DO LIST - Introduction - Unit Systems - The Importance of Units - Choice of Units - How to Change Units-- the Multiply by Technique - How Units Can Help You - Temperature - Scientific Notation, Significant Figures and Rounding - Conclusion

Waves and Wavelike Motion - What are waves? - Two Types of Waves - Properties of Waves - Practical Applications of Waves- Sound Waves - Practical Applications of Waves: Electromagnetic Waves - Important Equations and Quantities

Vectors - PGCE Comments - TO DO LIST - Introduction - Some Examples of Vectors - Mathematical Properties of Vectors - Techniques of Vector Addition - Components of Vectors - Do I really need to learn about vectors? Are they really useful? - Summary of Important Quantities, Equations and Concepts

Forces - TO DO LIST - What is a force - Force diagrams - Equilibrium of Forces - Newton's Laws of Motion - Examples of Forces Studied Later - Summary of Important Quantities, Equations and Concepts

Rectilinear Motion - What is rectilinear motion - Speed and Velocity - Graphs - Equations of Motion - Important Equations and Quantities

Momentum - What is Momentum - The Momentum of a System - Change in Momentum - What properties does momentum have - Impulse - Summary of Important Quantities, Equations and Concepts

Work and Energy - What are Work and Energy - Work - Energy - Mechanical Energy and Energy Conservation - Summary of Important Quantities, Equations and Concepts - Essay 1 - Energy

Essay 2: Tiny, Violent Collisions - Collisions and Explosions - Types of Collisions - Explosions - Explosions: Energy and Heat - Important Equations and Quantities

Newtonian Gravitation - Properties - Mass and Weight - Normal Forces - Comparative problems - Falling bodies - Terminal velocity - Drag force - Important Equations and Quantities

Pressure - Important Equations and Quantities

Heat and Properties of Matter - Phases of matter - Deformation of solids - Ideal gasses - Temperature - Thermal Properties of Materials - Important Equations and Quantities

Electrostatics - What is Electrostatics - Charge - Electrostatic Force - Electric Fields - Electrical Potential - Important Equations and Quantities|

Electricity - Flow of Charge - Circuits - Voltage and current - Resistance - Voltage and current in a practical circuit - How voltage, current, and resistance relate - An analogy for Ohm's Law - Power in electric circuits - Calculating electric power - Resistors - Nonlinear conduction - Circuit wiring - Polarity of voltage drops - What are series and parallel circuits - Simple series circuits - Simple parallel circuits - Power calculations - Correct use of Ohm's Law - Conductor size - Fuses - Important Equations and Quantities

Magnets and Electromagnetism - Permanent magnets - Electromagnetism - Magnetic units of measurement - Electromagnetic induction - AC - Measurements of AC magnitude

Electronics - capacitive and inductive circuits - filters and signal tuning - active circuit elements, diode, LED and field effect transistor, operational amplifier - principles of digital electronics - logical gates - Counting circuits

The Atom - Models of the Atom - Structure of the Atom - Isotopes - Energy quantization and electron configuration - Periodicity of ionization energy to support atom arrangement in Periodic Table - Successive ionisation energies to provide evidence for arrangement of electrons into core and valence - Bohr orbits - Heisenberg uncertainty Principle - Pauli exclusion principle - Ionization Energy - Electron configuration - Valency

Modern Physics - Introduction to the idea of a quantum - The wave-particle duality

Inside atomic nucleus - What the atom is made of - Nucleus - Nuclear force - Binding energy and nuclear masses - Radioactivity - Nuclear reactions - Detectors - Nuclear energy - Nuclear energy: Nuclear reactors - Nuclear energy: Fusion energy - Elementary particles - Elementary particles: beta decay - Elementary particles: Particle physics - Elementary particles: Quarks and leptons - Elementary particles: Forces of nature - Origin of the universe