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Gr 11-12 | 6 Class Credits 1 Lab Credit | Year-Long | 6x per Cycle
Gr 11-12 | 6 Class Credits 1 Lab Credit | Year-Long | 6x per Cycle
PREREQUISITE: Students must have completed one year of physics. In addition, students must be either simultaneously enrolled in a Pre-Calculus course at Wellesley High School or have completed one of these courses. Seniors are given preference for this course.
PREREQUISITE: Students must have completed one year of physics. In addition, students must be either simultaneously enrolled in a Pre-Calculus course at Wellesley High School or have completed one of these courses. Seniors are given preference for this course.
This course will focus on advanced topics not included in introductory classes: reconstructing traffic accidents, discovering “exoplanets,” lasers and fiber optic communications, quantum mechanics, Einstein’s theory of relativity and the possibility of time travel, modern digital circuits, and the standard model of particle physics.
Essential Skills in the Advanced Topics in Physics Honors Classroom
Essential Skills in the Advanced Topics in Physics Honors Classroom
SKILL 1: Investigating Practices
Students will be able to solve problems mathematically using relevant physics content in familiar and unfamiliar contexts.
Students will be able to use proportional reasoning to solve problems using relevant physics content in familiar and unfamiliar contexts.
SKILL 2: Sensemaking Practices
Students will be able to analyze and interpret data using relevant physics content in familiar and unfamiliar contexts.
Students will be able to construct an explanation for a scientific phenomenon using relevant physics content in familiar and unfamiliar contexts.
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