Vocabulary

Topics, Special Reports, Mandatory Vocabulary. Students are required to know all vocabulary, essay questions, safety lab procedures, topics and special reports. Forces and Motion: Velocity, acceleration, & momentum. Frame of reference, distance & displacement. Compare speed, velocity, acceleration & momentum using investigations, graphing, scalar quantities and vector quantities. forces and motion. Gravitational force, weight, velocity of an object in free-fall. frictional forces, Newton’s three laws of motion.

Chemistry, Matter, and Energy: properties &structure of matter. Classify matter: homogeneous or heterogeneous; pure substance or mixture; element or compound; metals, nonmetals or metalloids; solution, colloid or suspension. phases of matter and the physical changes that matter undergoes. Physical &chemical properties. Bohr model diagrams &dot diagrams for atoms and ions of elements 1 through 18. chemical bonding, valence electrons, oxidation number, and reactivity of an element based on its location in the Periodic Table. covalent, ionic or metallic, chemical formulas& names for simple compounds.Balancing equations. Types of reactions . Acids& Bases. Nuclear chemistry.

Energy: Conservation and Transfer. The Law of Conservation of Energy in a mechanical system, kinetic energy, potential energy and heat. Work, applied force to an object, displacement of the object ,the energy transferred to an object.

Waves, wave frequency, wave-period, wave velocity & wavelength calculations. Compare waves (mechanical, electromagnetic, and surface) using their characteristics.Write an essay with images Classifying waves as transverse or compressional (longitudinal). Give examples of each.Draw illustrations of the wave interactions of reflection, refraction, diffraction, and interference.

Electricity & Magnetism: Relationship between electricity &magnetism?Static and current electricity. Simple series & parallel DC circuits in terms of Ohm's law. How current is affected by composition, length, temperature, & diameter of wire. Illustrations that represent magnetism in terms of domains, interactions of poles, and magnetic fields. Practical applications of magnetism..

Experiments: Characteristics and interactions of acids and bases.

Essay 1: Why does water dissolve salt? Must show illustration and explain.

Essay 2: How does SONAR technology work?

Essay 3: Explain the relationship among work, power and simple machines both qualitatively and quantitatively.

Essay 4: Describe free falling object in terms of kinetic energy and potential energy.

Special Report 2: Understand the role of the nucleus in radiation and radioactivity. b)Compare nuclear reactions including; alpha decay, beta decay and gamma decay; nuclear fusion and nuclear fission. c)Exemplify the radioactive decay of unstable nuclei using the concept of half-life.

Late work must be accompanied by a letter.