Shain – Study Guide – Physics (Honors and CP)
Ch 1 Intro/Metric Measurement/Tools
Be familiar with and be able to calculate and recognize terms and concepts related to:
SI units, prefixes, numerical meanings; conversions; order of magnitude estimates; measurement; significant figures, scientific notation; rounding; graphical representations and interpretations of graphs and data banks; precision and accuracy; variable relationships
Ch 2-4 Linear Motion
Be familiar with and be able to calculate products and derivatives and recognize terms and concepts related to:
Average speed and velocity; displacement and distance; acceleration due to gravity and general acceleration equations; free fall objects, postion-time graphs and their interpretations; vertical distance and hang time; speed vs. time graphs; relative motion; comparisions of velocity and acceleration (diagrams)
Vectors
Be familiar with and be able to calculate products and derivatives and recognize terms and concepts related to:
Definition and desciption of vectors; additions and subtraction of with respect to angles; classic right triangle trig and sin/cos/tan applications; calculate the height of a flagpole or other tower; scale representations; applications to real-world scenarios such as swimming and planes; horizontal and vertical components of - ; magnitude and direction of - ; law of cosines; calculation of resultants by addition and resolving
Ch 4 & 5 Forces
Be familiar with and be able to calculate products and derivatives and recognize terms and concepts related to:
Diagram of forces on an inclined plane; net forces on falling and lifting objects; helicopter lift and acceleration; drag force and terminal velocity; average net force; Newton’s laws and applications; acceleration equation; match terms and symbols with definitions; scale forces and diagrams; the normal force; friction and the friction equation
Gravity
Be familiar with and be able to calculate products and derivatives and recognize terms and concepts related to:
Newtion’s Law of Universal Gravitation; scientists matching (Kepler, Aristotle, Newton, etc.) with accomplishment; free fall and satellite operations and calculations of velocity and acceleration; Newtons’ mountain: Kepler’s laws and elliptical orbits and calc’s; velocity of a satellite; distance between spheres; forces between objects; different meanings of gravity; Einstein and gravity; history of discoveries related to…
Circular Motion
Be familiar with and be able to calculate products and derivatives and recognize terms and concepts related to:
Rotations and revolutions and calculations of; tire and auto applications; centripetal force and acceleration; tangential and rotational speed; centrifugal force; radians and calculations on a circle using radians; torque; apps to real-world; rotational inertia and linear and angular speed; pendulum dynamics and periodic motion
Momentum
Be familiar with and be able to calculate products and derivatives and recognize terms and concepts related to:
Momentum – definition and applications; momentum and impulse – def. and apps and calculations; changes in momentum; applications of impulse in stopping objects; elastic and inelastic collisions; angles and vector addition and conservation of momentum; energy changes and conservation of energy; kinetic and potential energy
Shain – Environmental Studies Exam review
Ch 1 and Intro
Explain and define terms and concepts and be able to recognize relationships and connections of:
Natural resources and pollution, renewable and nonrenewable resources, ecological footprint and sustainability; agriculture, industry; effects of the agricultural revolution; effects of man on the commons; fallen societies and causes; plant and crop derivatives; fossil studies and ramifications; cost-benefit of actions; benefits and harm of dams; biodegradation
Ch 2 Tools
Explain and define terms and concepts and be able to recognize relationships and connections of:
Songbird decline, spills, measurements on the environment and ecological impact; study of droughts and Lost Colony; mathematical models on different aspects of the et; probability; food web interactions; voluntary and involuntary risk; aesthetics and cultural; scientific method and studies such as the Snow study on Cholera in London
Ch 4 & 5 Organiz. Of Life and Ecosystems
Explain and define terms and concepts and be able to recognize relationships and connections of:
Communities and populations in ecosystems; biotic and abiotic factors; effects of keystone and other species on ecosystem; types and categories of plants and animals and interactions; resistance to pesticides and antibiotics; evidences of evolution; archaea and angiosperms; producers, consumers, decomposers; organisms and life
Ch 6 Biomes
Explain and define terms and concepts and be able to recognize relationships and connections of:
Biomes as defined by climate and vegetation and location; types of biomes and conditions; abundance or lack of certain plants and animals in biomes; range of vegetation and temps; types of animals and adaptations; canopy and make-up or rain forest; speciation and diversity in rain forests; conifers and leaves; weather patterns and moutains and climate; biome soils and events; niches of animals; role of fungi, bacteria
Ch 10 Biodiversity
Explain and define terms and concepts and be able to recognize relationships and connections of:
Speciation and types of plants and animals and impact; DNA coding for traits; extinctions and rates of extinction; affects of man; developing and undeveloped countries; derivations of meds; “genetic gold rush”; oceans biod.; species dependence; sources of income; population’s effects; aesthetics
Ch 11 Water
Explain and define terms and concepts and be able to recognize relationships and connections of:
Water resources, water cycle, water filtration and cleanup; surface water, river systems, groundwater; recharge zones, wells; water use and management; residential, industrial and agricultural water use; waste water, eutrophication, thermal pollution; ocean pollution, clean up; federal and state laws and mandates