AP PHYSICS 1 - UCONN/ECE 

This course is designed to correlate to a first semester algebra-based physics college course. Students planning to pursue a career in healthcare or nursing are encouraged to take this course, as well as any student planning to major in a STEM field who does not yet have the calculus prerequisite.  UCONN/ECE physics is an inquiry based exploration of physics concepts including Kinematics, Newton's laws of motion, torque, rotational motion and angular momentum, gravitation and circular motion, work, energy, and power, linear momentum, oscillations, waves, sound, properties of fluids,heat and thermodynamics. Students will develop 21st century skills, including problem solving, and critical thinking, which is a major emphasis of the coursework. This will be a laboratory-based class, where students will be designing and implementing their own experiments to answer physics based questions. Students are prepared for the Advanced Placement Physics I Examination taken in May if they choose. Upon successful completion of this course, students may receive 4 college credits for UConn’s full year Physics 1201Q course.