Units 3 & 4
VCE Physics
Learn every VCE Physics idea with clear worked explanations, diagrams and interactive animations, plus practice questions with full solutions, organised by VCAA Area of Study. No videos, no sign up needed to read. Just the physics.
22 free lessons across 4 Areas of Study, each with a plain English explanation, worked examples and an auto marked practice test including real VCAA exam questions.
Areas of Study
- Unit 3 · Area of Study 1 5 lessonsMotion in Two Dimensions
Newton's laws in two dimensions, projectile and circular motion, momentum and impulse, and work, energy and power.
- Unit 3 · Area of Study 2 6 lessonsGravitational, Electric and Magnetic Fields
Field models for gravity, electricity and magnetism, motion within fields, satellite orbits, and the forces on charges and current carrying wires.
- Unit 3 · Area of Study 3 4 lessonsElectromagnetic Induction and Electric Power
Electromagnetic induction, generators and alternators, transformers, and the transmission of electrical power.
- Unit 4 · Area of Study 1 7 lessonsLight, Matter and Special Relativity
How understanding of the physical world changed: the wave model of light, diffraction and Young's double slit experiment, the photoelectric effect and photons, matter waves and the de Broglie wavelength, atomic spectra, and Einstein's special relativity and mass energy.