HS Physics
2021-2022 Course Overview
Required Text: Conceptual Physics, Paul Hewitt, 3rd Edition
The following syllabus is an outline of what we will be covering throughout the year and the basic order it will be covered. As the year commences some topics may be added or subtracted depending on time.
Motion
The following syllabus is an outline of what we will be covering throughout the year and the basic order it will be covered. As the year commences some topics may be added or subtracted depending on time.
Motion
- Beginning linear motion
- Velocity
- Acceleration
- Graphing motion
- Gravity
- Two dimensional motion
- Working with vertical and horizontal motion
- Newton’s Laws of Motion
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd
- Momentum
- Impulse
- Free Body Diagram
- Work & Power
- Potential and Kinetic Energy
- Energy Efficiency
- Waves
- Resonance
- Sound
- Light
- Lenses
- Mirrors
- F=MA
- D=1/2 gt^2
- V=d/t
- V=at
- V=gt
- P=MV
- Impulse = ft
- Ft = delta MV
- V=freq x wavelength
- MV=MV
- Power = work/t
- w=fd
- KE = 1/2 mv^2
- gPE = mgh
- Efficiency (wo/wi) x 100
- Period = time/vibration
- Freq = vibration/sec