Units Covered in Physics

Physics is a course that is an inquiry based course that will focus on the following course goals with each unit covered.

Overall Course Goals

1. Students will demonstrate the ability to carry out scientific investigations, analyze data, communicate results and apply results to explain phenomena occurring in the units covered and outside of the laboratory.

2. Students will demonstrate the ability to apply mathematical processes to solving problems.

Units Covered

Unit 1: One Dimensional Motion

Students will demonstrate the ability to define, describe, calculate and differentiate among position, displacement, speed, velocity and acceleration.

Standards: PS2 & PS2A

Unit 2: Force, Two-Dimensional Motion & Gravity

Students will demonstrate the ability to state and apply Newton's Three Laws of Motion.

Students will demonstrate the ability to apply vector concepts and vector math to appropriate physical situations.

Students will demonstrate the ability to describe the path of a projectile using motion equations and vector components.

Students will demonstrate the ability to describe the law of universal gravitation.

Standards: PS2 & PS2A

Unit 3: Energy and Momentum

Students will demonstrate the ability to apply thenconcepts of momentum, impulses, conservation and system to describe and numerically solve simple collision and explosion problems.

Students will demonstrate the ability to explain the relationship between work and energy.

Students will demonstrate the ability to discuss how energy in a system is transferred from one form to another or from one object to another and use the conservation of energy to solve problems.