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Welcome to Advanced Physics!
Our study will include Big Ideas and Topics. The topics are the framework of the content we will cover, but the big ideas are the underlying understandings you will gain which will impact your view of the world around you. Topics can be tricky to understand correctly, until we have the Big Ideas in place.
For example, we may wonder how we can push on a box, and it react back, but still move, until we consider how we are anchored to the ground through out tennis shoes, and the box,.. well not so much. If that seems a bit, fuzzy, in time you will come to know the Big Ideas, and they will help you sort out your understanding of Dynamics.
BIG IDEAS
SYSTEMS
Objects and systems have properties such as mass and charge. Systems may have internal structure.
FIELDS
Fields existing in space can be used to explain interactions.
FORCE INTERACTIONS
The interactions of an object with other objects can be described by forces.
CHANGE
Interactions between systems can result in changes in those systems.
CONSERVATION
Changes that occur as a result of interactions are constrained by conservation laws.
TOPICS (AP1)
Kinematics
Does the runner with a greatest average velocity win the race?
Dynamics
Can a person push another without being pushed back?
Circular motion and Gravitation
Does the moon go straight or does it fall?
Energy
Do roller coasters really coast?
Momentum
When a car accelerates, does the Earth rotate underneath it?
Simple Harmonic Motion
Can someone predict the stock market?
Torque and Rotational Motion
If a crowbar was long enough, could a child lift a car?
AP2
Fluids
If there isn't (or is there) a suction force, then how do suction cups work?
Thermodynamics
What's hotter - the crust of a pizza, or the sauce inside?
Electricity - Static
How do we touch the face of a cell phone, and it knows it?
Electricity - Moving (circuits)
How does the stuff inside your cell phone actually work?
Magnetism
Does the road at a stop light know a car is on it?
Optics
Are the images in our eyes upside-down?
Quantum, Atomic and Nukes
What was so special about Einstein's ideas?
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