IB PHYSICS
Field Guide
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- 01Where does motion happen without any work being done?
- 02Where does a force act perpendicular to motion, bending it into a curve?
- 03Where does conservation of momentum shape what happens next?
- 04Where do equations of motion predict what comes next from what's happening now?
- 05Where does a rotating object behave like a translating one?
- 06Where does the equilibrium of a system emerge from balanced opposites?
- 07Where does a restoring force set the pace of a system?
- 08Where do reference frames change the answer to 'what's happening'?
- 09Where does air resistance change the story that idealized physics would tell?
- 10Where does conservation of energy let you skip the kinematics?
- 11Where does the behaviour of many particles give a system its macroscopic feel?
- 12Where does a phase change absorb energy without a temperature change?
- 13Where does the inverse-square law govern how something spreads out?
- 14Where does the second law of thermodynamics set the direction of a process?
- 15Where does the ideal gas model break down?
- 16Where does thermal equilibrium determine the final state?
- 17Where does a simplified model capture the essentials of a complex system?
- 18Where does resistance turn ordered energy into disordered energy?
- 19Where does superposition produce a pattern neither wave could make alone?
- 20Where does a wave transfer energy without net movement of the medium?
- 21Where does resonance amplify what a small driving force started?
- 22Where does damping pull energy out of an oscillating system?
- 23Where does a boundary change the wave that meets it?
- 24Where does the Doppler effect reveal motion you couldn't otherwise see?
- 25Where does wave behaviour make matter act unlike a particle?
- 26Where does the wavelength of a wave decide what it can and cannot do?
- 27Where does a standing wave pick out specific frequencies and reject others?
- 28Where does a field let one object affect another across empty space?
- 29Where does a potential tell you how much work it takes to move something?
- 30Where do field lines reveal the geometry of a force?
- 31Where does a charged particle's path bend because a field deflects it?
- 32Where does induction turn motion into electricity?
- 33Where does symmetry make a field easy to calculate?
- 34Where does an equipotential surface cost no work to move along?
- 35Where does the escape condition set a threshold on kinetic energy?
- 36Where does a uniform field produce parabolic motion?
- 37Where does an emission spectrum betray what something is made of?
- 38Where does quantization force a system into discrete states?
- 39Where does binding energy explain why a system holds together?
- 40Where does mass itself become a source of energy?
- 41Where does exponential decay describe how a population dwindles?
- 42Where does a classical picture fail and a quantum one take over?
- 43Where does wave-particle duality show light or matter acting as the other?
- 44Where does equilibrium between gravity and pressure set a body's fate?
- 45Where does a random process at the microscopic scale give a predictable rate?