The IB 11 NS Physics course is a two-year course that can be taken to meet the requirements of the IB Diploma in Experimental Science Program or as a certified course. In the first year, the higher-level course has one term per day and has a laboratory period every other day. Physics is the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, since it seeks to explain the universe itself, from the smallest particles to the vast distances between galaxies. Despite the exciting and extraordinary development of ideas throughout the history of physics, observations remain essential to the very core of the subject.
Models are developed to try to understand observations, and they themselves can become theories that attempt to explain observations. Much of this information is drawn directly from the physics subject guide, available to all IB teachers in the program's resource center. Learn more about physics in a DP workshop for teachers. Both HL and SL are two-year courses (for Visual Arts %26 Theater).
MUSIC SL is taught every two years and is a one-year course. The internal evaluation includes documented laboratory experiments and reflections; the externally evaluated exams cover the principles of physics applied to the course content. There is a high probability that this first-year course will be taught concurrently with the AP Physics 1 course. The additional study will include the optional topics of mechanics, atomic and nuclear physics, energy, biomedical physics, historical physics, astrophysics, relativity and optics.
The curriculum during the second year of the course includes topics of electricity and magnetism, waves, optics, thermodynamics and nuclear physics. As part of the IB Physics course, you'll cover additional subjects of your choice from the list below (usually you don't choose, but your teacher does). Both IB Physics SL and HL have the same basic requirements consisting of the same number of hours. To take the IB Physics exam, students must take both grades IB Physics HL 1 and SCI675 — IB Physics HL 2 in 11th %26 12th grade.
This is a relatively fast-paced course that will prepare students for college-level physics courses.
