Group+4+Physics

Greetings to the DP Physics students of 2011. This will be an exciting, practical course that lets you explore what makes the universe tick!

This course will also need (sometimes) a lot of hard work. You will have to become familiar with a lot of new concepts and methods.

But you have every chance of success. Just reading this means you have already started taking responsibility for your learning. Well done!

You can prepare for the course over the holidays by doing the following.

**1. Get familiar with the course structure.**
The course is divided into unit topics. Check the syllabus document below to see what they are and what they contain.

Standard level stuff is learned by both Standard level students AND Higher level students.

Our class will be a combined Standard and Higher level class.

We will approach the material all at the same time: This means we will cover the standard level topics all together in the first year.

In the second year, we do internal assessments, and Higher level students learn the extra HL material.

SL students will have time to review the SL material again in this time, and fill in any gaps or misconceptions.

2. Look at the content for the first 2 or 3 topics


You can rate your effort with the following descriptors: Level 1: Just Skim Read them Level 2: Read them all and highlight the parts you have seen before in green, and the parts you have not seen in red Level 3: Read them all, highlight them as above, and send your highlighted file to me so I know what you are up against.


 * My Contact Details over summer: georg.eitelhuber@kaust.edu.sa**

**3. Background Reading/Problem Solving**
Read the relevant chapters in the Physics text:

Standard Level: Read through and complete practice problems for Chapters 1, 2 and 3. Most of you have covered most of this during class in Grade 10.

Higher Level: Read through and complete practice problems for Chapters 8, 1, 2 and 3. Much of this has been covered in class during Grade 10.

Note: If you did not cover these things in Grade 10, you MUST cover this work in the break! We will be moving fast in class.

You can rate your effort with the following descriptors. Level 1: Just Skim Read the chapters Level 2: Read them all and make some notes on one of them Level 3: Read them all, make notes on all, write down questions that come to you, and email the questions to me.