High School Honors Physics Online

Description:

This course introduces students to the basic concepts of Physics, which is the branch of science that primarily studies matter, energy, and their interactions. This Honors Physics course then expands on the basic concepts of Physics by having the students interact with case studies, which ask the student to dive deeper into their understandings of the topics. Using the scientific method, physicists hypothesize relationships, design experiments, and complete tests to turn those hypotheses into theories. Students learn Physics is more than numbers and equations; it is about asking how and why things work and questioning everything we see in the natural world.

Textbook: Physics Concepts – © Excel Education Systems, Inc - 2019

Course objectives:

Throughout the course, you will meet the following goals:

• Describe the nature of physics and its related fields.
• Understand the concepts and relationship between displacement, time/speed, and velocity
• Examine the causes of circular motion, including gravitation.
• Describe an electric field, including positive and negative charges, conductors and insulators, and the properties of conductors in electrostatic equilibrium.

Contents:
Semester A
1: Introduction to Physics
2: Vectors
3: Motion in a Straight Line
4: Force
5: Motion in Two Dimensions
6: Universal Gravitation
7: Momentum
8: Energy
9: Work, Power, and Simple Machines
10: Thermal Energy
11: The Fluid States
12: Waves and Energy Transfer

Semester B
13: Light
14: Geometric Optics
15: Diffraction/Interference of Light
16: Static Electricity
17: Electric Fields
18: Current Electricity
19: Electrical Circuits
20: Magnetic Fields
21: Electromagnetic Induction
22: The Nucleus
23: The Atom
24: Astrophysics
25: Relativity

Grade Weighting
Unit Quizzes.........................70%
Mid-Term/Final Exams......30%
Total.......................................100%

Grading Scale
A = 90-100%
B = 80-89%
C = 70-79%
D = 60-69%
F = under 59%