Honors Physics is a high school physics course that covers the classical and modern physics areas in depth with a problem solving approach. The course includes topics from mechanics, fluids, waves, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics and nuclear physics.

1. The Science of Physics

Math Review

Physics and its Applications

2. Motion in one Dimension

Units, Speed, Displacement, Velocity,

Acceleration and Free Fall

3. Two-Dimensional Motion and Vectors

Vector quantities, Vector Operations,

       Graphical and Analytical Methods,

Relative Velocity and Projectile Motion

4. Forces and the Laws of Motion

Forces, Newton's Three Laws of Motion

       and Friction

5. Work and Energy

Work, Potential Energy, Kinetic Energy

and Conservation of Energy

7. Rotational Motion and the Law of Gravity

Rotational Motion,  Centripetal Acceleration,

Centripetal Force and Law of Gravity

6. Momentum and Collisions

Impulse and Momentum, Conservation of

Momentum, Rocket Propulsion and

Elastic and Inelastic Collisions

8. Rotational Equilibrium

Translational and Rotational Equilibrium,

Center of Gravity and Simple Machines

9. Fluid Mechanics

Pressure and Buoyancy. Pascal's Principle,

and Archimides' Principle

10. Heat

Temperature, Thermometers, Heat,

       Specific Heat Capacity and Calorimetry

12. Vibrations and Waves

       Simple Harmonic Motion, Elastic Potential

       Energy and the Simple Pendulum,

       Types of Waves, Boundary Behavior,

       Superposition Principle, Standing Waves

13. Sound

       Sound, Interference of Sound Waves and          Doppler Effect

TEXTBOOK:     PHYSICS

Raymond Serway and Jerry Faughn

Holt, 2002

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