Western Hills HS
IPC
Coach Maehs
Course Description: This course is designed to help you understand the basics of chemistry and physics
Available Make-up times: (When we get back on campus)
Mornings at 7:45 am by appointment
All assignments will be graded on a 100 point grading scale. A 91-100 B 81-90 C 70-80 F 69 and below
- The weight of various assignments will be as follows:
Classwork/Daily grades 30%
Labs/Projects 35%
Tests 35%
1st 6 weeks: Force and Motion
2nd 6 weeks: Energy
3rd 6 weeks: waves and electromagnetism
4th 6 weeks: periodic table
5th 6 weeks: types of reactions
6th 6 weeks: balancing equations
Coach Maehs Physics Syllabus
Course Description: This course is designed to help you use your mathematical skills to understand the motion of the world around us.
Assignment Weighting:
Daily work: 30%
Tests: 35%
Quizes/Labs: 35%
Notebooks and Folders: Student’s will be required to keep a notebook or journal throughout the year. You can take it home each day if you wish, but I will have a place in the classroom to keep this notebook. Your notebook will be used for almost every test and quiz that we take this year.
Course Outline:
1st Semester:
-Basic Mathematical Conversions
-Kinematics
-Newton’s Laws of Motions
-Momentum and Impulse
2nd Semester:
-Energy
-Waves
-Gravity
-Electricity