IB Diploma Level Physics

This section of the website contains suggestions for material that could be used with the IB Diploma Level Physics syllabus for first examination in 2009.

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References to work at lower levels that might be useful at Diploma level are shown as (14-16) or (11-14)

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Topic 6 Fields and forces

6.1 Gravitational force and field

6.1.1 Newton's law of gravitation
6.1.2 Gravitational field strength
6.1.3 Gravitational field strength
6.1.4 Gravitational field strength
6.1.5 Gravitational field strength
6.1.5 Newton's law of gravitation

16-19/Mechanics/Gravitation/Problems/Gravitational fields 1
16-19/Mechanics/Gravitation/Problems/Gravitational fields 2
16-19/Mechanics/Gravitation/Problems/Gravitational fields 3

6.2 Electric force and field

6.2.1 Electric charges
6.2.2 Conservation laws
6.2.3 Conductors, semiconductors and insulators
6.2.4 Coulomb's law
6.2.5 Electric field strength
6.2.6 Electric field strength
6.2.7 Electric fields
6.2.7 Equipotentials and fields
6.2.7 Parallel plates
6.2.8 Electric field problems

16-19/Electricity and magnetism/Electrostatics/Problems/Electric fields 1
16-19/Electricity and magnetism/Electrostatics/Problems/Electric fields 2
16-19/Electricity and magnetism/Electrostatics/Problems/Electric and gravitational fields

6.3 Magnetic force and field

6.3.1 Electromagnetic fields
6.3.2 Electromagnetic fields
6.3.3 Force on a current in a magnetic field
6.3.3 Torque on a coil
6.1.5 Forces on currents (11-14)
6.3.4 Force on a moving charge in a magnetic field
6.3.5 Electromagnetic fields
6.3.6
16-19/Electricity and magnetism/Electromagnetism/Problems/Electromagnetism 1
16-19/Electricity and magnetism/Electromagnetism/Problems/Electromagnetism 2
16-19/Electricity and magnetism/Electromagnetism/Problems/Forces on currents in magnetic fields

16- 19/Electricity and magnetism/Electromagnetism/Experiments/Ampere balance

Further text, problems and experiments will be added later.