Physics 20

Students will describe motion in terms of displacement, velocity, acceleration and time.

Students will explain the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on velocity.

Students will explain that gravitational effects extend throughout the universe.

Students will explain circular motion, using Newton's laws of motion.

Students will explain that work is a transfer of energy and that conservation of energy in an isolated system is a fundamental physical concept.

Students will describe the conditions that produce oscillatory motion.

Students will describe the properties of mechanical waves and explain how mechanical waves transmit energy.