Year 11 Physics Diagnostic · not a mark

What this exam will actually ask.

Thirty-two questions, mapped to the outcomes on the paper and to your teacher’s inclusions and exclusions. Tap I don’t know instead of guessing — a guess hides a gap.

Outcomes on the paper

  • PH11-1 Develops and evaluates questions and hypotheses for scientific investigation
  • PH11-4 Selects and processes appropriate qualitative and quantitative data and information using a range of appropriate media
  • PH11-5 Analyses and evaluates primary and secondary data and information
  • PH11-6 Solves scientific problems using primary and secondary data, critical thinking skills and scientific processes
  • PH11-7 Communicates scientific understanding using suitable language and terminology
  • PH11-8 Describes and analyses motion in terms of scalar and vector quantities in two dimensions, and calculates distance, displacement, speed, velocity and acceleration
  • PH11-9 Newton’s laws, conservation of energy — momentum is named in the outcome but ruled out for this paper
  • PH11-10 Waves — this paper: Doppler effect only
  • PH11-11 Electric fields, circuitry and magnetism

Teacher’s notice

On it Module 1 kinematics, except the two cuts below

On it Forces, free-body diagrams, Newton’s laws

On it Newton’s third law — there will be a question

On it Object on an inclined plane

On it Newton 2 connected to motion

On it Conservation of mechanical energy

On it Doppler effect

On it Parallel plates: field, force, equipotentials, potential difference, electric PE

On it Electric field-line rules

On it Series and parallel: current, voltage, equivalent resistance

On it Magnetic field-line rules; field of a wire and a solenoid

On it Motor effect — direction only, plus grip / solenoid / palm rules

Not on it Relative velocity or relative position

Not on it Motion graphs (displacement–, velocity–, acceleration–time)

Not on it Ropes or pulleys

Not on it Power or momentum

Not on it Rest of Module 3 (waves investigations, $v=f\\lambda$ graphs, thermodynamics)

Not on it Electrical power of a circuit or a component

Not on it Motor-effect formula $F=IlB$

Maybe A work calculation — teacher has not decided

Maybe Friction — teacher has not decided

Use $g = 9.8\\ \\mathrm{m\\ s^{-2}}$ and speed of sound $= 340\\ \\mathrm{m\\ s^{-1}}$ unless a question says otherwise. About 25 minutes if you don’t linger.