The "Kari's Introduction to Diploma Program Physics" online ebook prepares prospective Diploma Program physics students for IB  physics. It is a unique teaching companion to ”Physics as a natural science” course in the preparatory year.

 

All definitions, symbols and terms are consistent with the IB physics syllabus, first exams in 2016.

 

The book contains

 

• Description of the IB Diploma Program and preparatory year

• Study instructions  

• Introduction to Nature of Science (NOS)

• Fundamentals of practical work (data recording, random and systematic uncertainties, repeated measurement, linear and non-linear graph fitting)

• Introduction to kinematics and dynamics

• Fundamental interactions 

• Introduction to the standard model

• Large scale structures of the universe

 

You may use the HTML5 based flipbook on your laptop or tablet. It has a fully interactive table of contents for easy browsing and hyperlinks to internet resources.

 

There are more than 200 multiple-choice, short-answer and extended response questions in the book. Teachers get free access to the worked solutions if 10 or more students purchase the licence in a school.