Saskatchewan Curriculum
PH30-MP1.i: Explore the photoelectric effect including the influence of various frequencies and energies of electromagnetic radiation.
PH30-MP2.c: Compare the characteristics (e.g., composition, penetrating power, speed and potential danger) of alpha, beta and gamma radiation.
PH30-MP2.d: Represent nuclear reactions involving alpha, beta and gamma decay using words, diagrams and equations.
PH30-FM1.a: Provide examples of situations in which everyday objects undergo uniform motion, uniformly accelerated motion, circular motion and projectile motion.
PH30-FM1.c: Solve problems involving different types of motion in one- and two-dimensions, including relative motion, using graphical methods, vector analysis and kinematics equations (e.g., vector v = (delta vector d)/t, vector v sub f = vector v sub i + (vector a)(delta t), (vector v sub f)²= (vector v sub i)² + 2(vector a)(delta vector d), delta vector d = (vector v sub i)(delta t) + 1/2(vector a)(delta t)² and delta vector d = 1/2(vector v sub i + vector v sub f)(delta t)).
Feed the Monkey (Projectile Motion)
Free-Fall Laboratory
Golf Range
Uniform Circular Motion
PH30-FM1.d: Experimentally determine the value of the acceleration due to gravity near Earth’s surface.
PH30-FM1.f: Solve problems involving projectile motion and objects in free fall using graphical (e.g., scale diagrams) and/or mathematical (e.g., vector components, sine law and cosine law) methods.
Feed the Monkey (Projectile Motion)
Free-Fall Laboratory
Golf Range
PH30-FM1.h: Determine the characteristics (e.g., speed, velocity, period, distance travelled and acceleration) of uniform circular motion.
PH30-FM2.c: Discuss the importance of the concepts of inertia and inertial mass with respect to the development of Newton’s laws of motion.
Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
PH30-FM2.d: Investigate the effect of changing the mass of an object and/or force applied to an object on the acceleration of that object.
Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
PH30-FM2.e: Solve problems involving force, mass and acceleration, using free-body diagrams and Newton’s second law of motion (vector F = m(vector a)).
Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
PH30-FM2.f: Describe the effect of friction and air resistance, including terminal velocity, on objects in motion (e.g., rollercoasters, skydiving, snowboards, meteors entering Earth’s atmosphere, inclined plane situations, rolling balls, spacecraft and satellite re-entry, aircraft, race cars and artillery).
PH30-FM2.g: Predict and investigate the effect of balanced or unbalanced forces, including the effect of friction, on an object that is at rest, undergoing uniform motion or undergoing uniformly accelerated motion.
Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
Golf Range
PH30-FM2.h: Solve problems involving forces acting in one- and two-dimensions using graphical (e.g., scale diagrams) and mathematical (e.g., vector components, sine law and cosine law) methods.
Free-Fall Laboratory
Uniform Circular Motion
PH30-FM2.j: Examine the vertical and horizontal forces involved in various types of circular motion (e.g., roller coaster, Ferris wheel, merry-go-round and figure skater) with reference to the concepts of centripetal and centrifugal.
PH30-CO1.a: Recognize work as the transfer of energy that takes place when a force acts over a displacement.
PH30-CO1.b: Identify the conditions required for positive, negative and zero mechanical work and their relation to the angle between the applied force and displacement.
PH30-CO1.c: Discuss how common usage of the terms work, energy and power differ from their operational definitions in physics.
PH30-CO1.d: Identify the properties (e.g., boundaries, inputs and outputs) of a system with respect to total mechanical energy.
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
PH30-CO1.e: Explain the law of conservation of energy in terms of isolated and non-isolated systems and conservation of mechanical energy.
Air Track
Energy Conversion in a System
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
PH30-CO1.g: Design and perform experiments and/or simulations, including collecting, analyzing and interpreting data, to determine the kinetic energy involved in elastic and inelastic interactions (e.g., curling stones, billiard balls, bouncing ball, seatbelts and automobile collisions).
PH30-CO2.a: Explore how impulse and momentum concepts apply to motion-related technologies in fields such as sports science, transportation and space science.
PH30-CO2.e: Conduct an experiment or simulation, including collecting, analyzing and interpreting data, to determine the extent to which momentum is conserved in elastic and inelastic collisions.
PH30-CO2.f: Solve problems using the law of conservation of momentum in one- and two-dimensional interactions (e.g., head-on collisions, glancing collisions, rocket launches and explosions).
PH30-FI1.f: Explain variations in gravitational field strength as a function of inverse-square dependence.
Gravitational Force
Pith Ball Lab
PH30-FI2.e: Describe current scientific thinking regarding the electromagnetic force, one of the four fundamental interactions.
PH30-FI2.j: Analyze the direction of positive, negative and neutral charges moving in natural (e.g., solar flares and aurorae) and man-made (e.g., particle accelerators and MRI’s) magnetic fields.
Correlation last revised: 3/30/2021