South Africa
The national curriculum will enable both leaners and educators to understand what is require of them to achieve before examinations.
Physical Sciences (GRADE 12)
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| Skills needed for practical investigations (observation, precautions, data collection, data handling, tables, general types of graphs, analysis, writing conclusions, writing a hypothesis, identifying variables, for example independent, dependent and control variable.). | ||
| Momentum & Impulse: Momentum | ||
| Newton’s second law expressed in terms of momentum | ||
| Conservation of momentum and Elastic and Inelastic collisions. | ||
| Impulse | ||
| Vertical projectile motion in one dimension (1D) | ||
| Organic molecules: | ||
| IUPAC naming and formulae, | ||
| Structure physical property relationships; | ||
| Applications of organic chemistry | ||
| Substitution, addition and elimination. (ONLY alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, alcohols, haloalkanes, carboxylic acids, and esters) | ||
| Plastics and polymers (ONLY BASIC POLYMERISATION as application for organic chemistry) | ||
| Work, Energy & Power Definition of Work | ||
| Work -Energy Theorem | ||
| Conservation of energy with non-conservative forces present. | ||
| Power | ||
| Doppler Effect (relative motion between source observer With sound and ultrasound | ||
| With light – red shifts in the universe (evidence for the expanding universe). | ||
| Rates of reaction and factors affecting rate (nature of reacting substances, concentration [pressure for gases], temperature and presence of a catalyst); | ||
| Measuring rates of reaction; | ||
| Mechanism of reaction and of catalysis; | ||
| Chemical equilibrium and factors affecting equilibrium; | ||
| Equilibrium constant; | ||
| Application of equilibrium principles. | ||
| Acid-base reactions | ||
| Electric circuits: Internal resistance and seriesand parallel networks | ||
| Electrodynamics Electrical machines (generators, motors) | ||
| Alternating current | ||
| Optical phenomena and properties of materials Photoelectric effect | ||
| Emission and absorption spectra | ||
| Electrochemical reactions Electrolytic cells and galvanic cells; | ||
| Relation of current and potential to rate and equilibrium; | ||
| Understanding of the processes and redox reactions taking place in cells; | ||
| Standard electrode potentials; | ||
| Writing of equations representing oxidation and reduction half reactions and redox reactions | ||
| Oxidation numbers and application of oxidation numbers | ||
| Chemical industry The fertilizer industry (N, P, K). | ||
| Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Waves, Sound and Light | ||
| Organic chemistry | ||
| Rate and Equilibrium | ||
| Acids & Bases and Electrochemistry | ||