Physics
Course Description
The purpose of the physics course is to provide a one year lab-based physics course which introduces students to the principal concepts of physics and the scientific methodologies used in physics. The tentative goals for this year are to study and explore:
- an array of forces and the laws about forces (Newton’s laws);
- linear motion and kinematics equations;
- work calculations, simple machines;
- the laws of conservation of energy and momentum;
- the reciprocal transformation of potential energy into kinetic energy and formulas to solve for potential energy and kinetic energy;
- the characteristics of waves (light, sound), differences between longitudinal and transverse waves, calculations involving wavelength, frequency, and waves speed the refraction and diffraction of light waves;
- the relationship between electric and magnetic phenomena and some applications (motors, generators);
- the transfer of energy as heat and heat flow and to measure it.
The following instructional strategies will be used for this course: labs & projects; online simulations; problems worksheets from the Holt Physics curriculum (California /Holt, Rinehart and Winston); homework practice worksheets pulled out from Conceptual Physics (11th edition Paul G Hewitt). Materials necessary to bring to class are a pencil, a ruler, line and graph paper, and a folder to keep all handouts.
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