In this module, students learn Fundamental and derived units, scientific notations and metric multipliers, significant figures, uncertainties and errors, and vectors and scales. Students also gain expertise in recording, processing, and analyzing the data. In order to satisfy IA and EE** requirements, the knowledge and understanding of this module are essential.

Prior Learning: Students are expected to have knowledge of some physical quantities and their units.

Technology: graphing software

Content:
Measurements in physics
• Fundamental and derived SI units
• Scientific notation and metric multipliers
• Significant figures
• Orders of magnitude
• Estimation

Uncertainties and errors
• Random and systematic errors
• Absolute, fractional and percentage uncertainties
• Error bars
• Uncertainty of gradient and intercepts

Vectors and scalars
• Vector and scalar quantities
• Combination and resolution of vectors

Duration of the module: 4 Hours (2 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 160/-
Module CODE: IBPHYM1
Mode of Teaching: Online
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

Physics being fundamental in nature has a lot of applications in real life. Students connect the knowledge and understanding of mechanics in different aspects of our life. In this module, students learn to sketch and interpret free-body diagrams, understand and apply Newton’s laws of motion, and describe solid friction (static and dynamic) by coefficients of friction. Students also explore the conservation of total energy within energy transformations, sketching and interpreting force-distance graphs, and solve problems involving work, power, energy, and efficiency.

Prior Learning: Students are expected to apply basic mathematical operations and knowledge of vectors.

Technology: java simulations

Content:

• Distance and displacement
• Speed and velocity
• Acceleration
• Graphs describing motion
• Equations of motion for uniform acceleration
• Projectile motion
• Objects as point particles
• Free-body diagrams
• Translation equilibrium
• Newton’s laws of motion
• Solid friction
• Principle of conservation of energy
• Kinetic energy
• Gravitational potential energy
• Elastic potential energy
• Work done as energy transfer
• Power as the rate of energy transfer
• Efficiency
• Newton’s second law expressed as a rate of
• Change of momentum
• Impulse and force-time graphs
• Conservation of linear momentum
• Elastic collisions, inelastic collisions, and explosions

Duration of the module: 22 Hours (11 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 880/-
Module CODE: IBPHYM2
Mode of Teaching: Online
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

In this module, Students learn to deal with the process resulting in the thermal energy transfer between the objects at different temperatures and changes in internal energy. Students learn to consider how energy transfer brings about further temperature changes and phase change. This module also focuses on gas laws, importance of pressure, volume and temperature in explaining the properties of an ideal gas.

Prior Learning: Knowledge of heat and temperature

Technology: java simulations

Content:

• Temperature and absolute temperature
• Internal energy
• Specific heat capacity
• Phase change
• Specific latent heat
• Pressure
• Equation of state for an ideal gas
• Kinetic model of an ideal gas
• Mole, molar mass, and the Avogadro constant
• Differences between real and ideal gases

Duration of the module: 10 Hours (5 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 400/-
Module CODE: IBPHYM3
Mode of Teaching: Online
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

Motion is either periodic or non-periodic. In this module, students learn simple harmonic motion, similarities between the oscillations and waves, energy transformation taking place in the oscillations. Students also focus on solving problems with wavelength, frequency, period, and wave speed. This module also provides a deeper understanding of the properties of the waves.

Prior Learning: motion, and kinetic and potential energy.

Technology: simulations

Content:

• Simple harmonic oscillations
• Time period, frequency, amplitude,
• displacement, and phase difference
• Conditions for simple harmonic motion
• Travelling waves
• Wavelength, frequency, period, and wave speed
• Transverse and longitudinal waves
• The nature of electromagnetic waves
• The nature of sound waves
• Wavefronts and rays
• Amplitude and intensity
• Superposition
• Polarization
• Reflection and refraction
• Snell’s law, critical angle, and total
• Internal reflection
• Diffraction through a single-slit and around objects
• Interference patterns
• Double-slit interference
• Path difference
• The nature of standing waves
• Boundary conditions
• Nodes and antinodes

Duration of the module: 14 Hours (7 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 560/-
Module CODE: IBPHYM4
Mode of Teaching: Online
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

Modern society uses a whole range of electrical devices from the simplest heated metal filaments that provide light, through to the most sophisticated medical instruments and computers. In this module, students will investigate practical electric cells (primary and secondary), determine the internal resistance, and solve the problems involving emf, internal resistance, and other electrical quantities. This module also helps to Sketch and interpret magnetic field patterns, determine the direction of the magnetic field based on current direction, the direction of the force on a charge moving in a magnetic field, and solve problems involving magnetic forces, fields, current and charges.

Prior Learning: NA

Technology: java simulations

Content:

• Charge
• Electric field
• Coulomb’s law
• Electric current
• Direct current (dc)
• The potential difference
• Circuit diagrams
• Kirchhoff’s laws
• Heating effect of an electric current and its
• Consequences
• Resistance
• Ohm’s law
• Resistivity
• Power dissipation
• Primary and secondary cells
• Terminal potential difference
• Electromotive force emf
• Internal resistance
• Magnetic fields
• Magnetic force

Duration of the module: 14 Hours (7 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 560/-
Module CODE: IBPHYM5
Mode of Teaching: Online
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

The motion of a satellite about its planet involves both a consideration of the gravitational force and the mechanics of motion in a circle. This module helps to identify the forces providing centripetal forces, describe the circular motion qualitatively and quantitatively, and describe the relationship between the gravitational force and centripetal force.

Prior Learning: Motion, Forces, and Newton’s laws of motion.

Technology: java simulations

Content:

• Period, frequency, angular displacement, and angular velocity
• Centripetal force
• Centripetal acceleration
• Newton’s law of gravitation
• Gravitational field strength

Duration of the module: 4 Hours (2 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 160/-
Module CODE: IBPHYM6
Mode of Teaching: Online
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In this module, students learn the energy inside the atom by examining the spectra, and the energy released when there are changes in the structure of the nuclei by means of radioactive decays, fusion, fission, and other artificial induced reactions. This module also helps to describe the Rutherford, Geiger, and Marsden experiment and how it led to the discovery of the nucleus. This module also introduces the matter in terms of quarks and leptons and explores the fundamental interactions in terms of exchange particles and Feynman diagrams.

Prior Learning: .NA

Technology: java simulations

Content:

• Discrete energy and discrete energy levels
• Transitions between energy levels
• Radioactive decay
• Alpha particles, beta particles, and gamma rays
• Half-life
• Constant decay probability
• Absorption characteristics of decay particles
• Background radiation
• The unified atomic mass unit
• Mass defect and nuclear binding energy
• Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion
• Quarks, leptons, and their antiparticles
• Hadrons, baryons, and mesons
• The conservation laws of charge, baryon number, lepton number, and strangeness
• The nature and range of the strong nuclear force,
• weak nuclear force, and electromagnetic force
• Exchange particles
• Feynman diagrams
• The Higgs boson

Duration of the module: 14 Hours (7 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 560/-
Module CODE: IBPHYM7
Mode of Teaching: Online
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There is a constant need for new energy sources without impacting the environment. In this module, students explore the energy sources and their impacts on the environment. This module also focuses on black body radiation and describes how thermal radiation can be quantified.

Prior Learning: Different forms of energy, energy resources, and the law of conservation of energy.

Technology: java simulations

Content:

• Primary energy sources
• Renewable and non-renewable energy sources
• Electricity as a secondary and versatile form of energy
• Sankey diagrams
• Specific energy and energy density of fuel sources
• Conduction, convection, and thermal radiation
• Black-body radiation
• Albedo and emissivity
• Solar constant
• Greenhouse effect
• Energy balance in the surface-atmosphere system

Duration of the module: 8 Hours (4 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 320/-
Module CODE: IBPHYM8
Mode of Teaching: Online
How to enrol: Fill in the form and submit for slots and payment details CLICK HERE

In this module, students understand how to develop a mathematical approach to the simple harmonic motion and energy changes in it. Students get the opportunity to understand the importance of diffraction and nature of single-slit diffraction. This module also focuses on describing two-slit interference pattern patterns, including modulation by one-slit diffraction effect, investigating Young’s double-slit experimentally, qualitative and quantitative description of thin-film interference. The resolution places an absolute limit on the extent to which an optical system can separate images of objects. After attending this students understand and apply the Rayleigh criterion for light emitted by two sources diffracted at a single slit, and describe the diffraction grating resolution. This module also discusses the Doppler effect and its real-life applications qualitatively and quantitatively.

Prior Learning: knowledge of oscillations, and wave characteristics and energy.

Technology: java Simulations

Content:

• The defining equation of SHM
• Energy changes
• The nature of single-slit diffraction
• Young’s double-slit experiment
• Modulation of two-slit interference pattern by one-slit diffraction effect
• Multiple slit and diffraction grating interference patterns
• Thin-film interference
• The size of a diffracting aperture
• The resolution of simple monochromatic two-source systems
• The Doppler effect for sound waves and light waves

Duration of the module: 18 Hours (9 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 720/-
Module CODE: IBPHYM9
Mode of Teaching: Online
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In this module, students explore more about the electric and gravitational fields and work done by these fields. Students understand that similar approaches can be taken in analysing electrical and gravitational potential problems.

Prior Learning: Basic knowledge of electricity, magnetism and gravitation.
Technology: java simulations

Content:

• Gravitational fields
• Electrostatic fields
• Electric potential and gravitational potential
• Field lines
• Equipotential surfaces
• Potential and potential energy
• Potential gradient
• Potential difference
• Escape speed
• Orbital motion, orbital speed, and orbital energy
• Forces and inverse-square law behaviour

Duration of the module: 10 Hours (5 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 400/-
Module CODE: IBPHYM10
Mode of Teaching: Online
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The physics of electromagnetic induction has profound implications for the way we generate electrical energy and therefore for the way we live. This module helps to understand how electric energy is generated and transmitted. This module also gives the deep understanding of capacitors and its applications.

Prior Learning: Basic knowledge of electricity and Magnetism.

Technology: java simulations

Content:

• Electromotive force (emf)
• Magnetic flux and magnetic flux linkage
• Faraday’s law of induction
• Lenz’s law
• Alternating current (ac) generators
• Average power and root mean square values of current and voltage
• Transformers
• Diode bridges
• Half-wave and full-wave rectification
• Capacitance
• Dielectric materials
• Capacitors in series and parallel
• Resistor–capacitor (RC) series circuits
• Time constant

Duration of the module: 16 Hours (8 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 640/-
Module CODE: IBPHYM11
Mode of Teaching: Online
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The quantum world offers a range of phenomena, interpretation and explanation of which require new ideas and concepts not found in the classical world. This module discusses the photoelectric effect, experimental evidence of the matter waves, Heisenberg uncertainty, tunnelling effect, and nuclear size and structure in more detail, beginning with an explanation of Rutherford’s experiment. This module also focuses on solving problems involving the radioactive decay law for arbitrary time intervals and explaining the methods for measuring short and long half-lives.

Prior Learning: Basic knowledge of nuclear structure.

Technology: java simulations

Content:

• Photons
• The photoelectric effect
• Matter waves
• Pair production and pair annihilation
• Quantization of angular momentum in the Bohr model for hydrogen
• The wave function
• The uncertainty principle for energy and time, and position and momentum
• Tunnelling, potential barrier, and factors affecting tunnelling probability
• Rutherford scattering and nuclear radius
• Nuclear energy levels
• The neutrino
• The law of radioactive decay and the decay
• Constant

Duration of the module: 16 Hours (8 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 640/-
Module CODE: IBPHYM12
Mode of Teaching: Online
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