Course Description

This course is a continuation of Physics I but in greater depth. Subject matter includes rotational mechanics, physical optics, relativity, DC and AC electricity, and atomic physics. Approximately two days per week are spend in the laboratory performing experiments that will prepare students for the AP test. College credit depends upon the test score and the college of choice.

Rationale

Students who are continuing physics at the college level will work in depth on motion, electricity, and particle physics. They will intensify lab skills, enhance critical thinking, examine college and career opportunities, and ultimately sit for the advanced placement test in the spring. Studnets will devote considerable time to the study of physics and the development of higher-level skills.

Course Goals

• To strengthen the knowledge and relationships of the principle concepts of physics
• To develop skills in using the facilities of the laboratory to investigate problems
• To develop skills in interpreting and reporting experimental problems
• To understand and apply skills of collecting, organizing, computing, interpreting and communicating information
• To appreciate the impact of science and technology in our society

• elasticity, Hooke's Law, elastic potential energy, stress, strain, young's nodulus, frequency, period, angular frequency, period of oscillating mass, period of pendulum simple harmonic motion

Websites for Help:

• http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/physicszone/lessonch/02forces/hookeslaw.htm
• http://www.fearofphysics.com/

• current, resistance, voltage, ohm's law, resistivity, superconductivity, resistor, resistor code, electrical power, resistors in series, resistors in parallel, kirchoff's law

Websites for Help:

• http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/physicszone/lesson/07electr.htm
• http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~weidman/ph2200/pages/simapp.html
• http://webphysics.davidson.edu/physlet_resources/bu_semester2/menu_semester2.html

• angular displacement, radians, angular speed, linear speed, angular acceleration, linear acceleration, centripetal acceleration, rotational constant, acceleration equations, torque, 1st condition of equilibrium, 2nd conditin of equilirium, center of gravity, rotational inertia, rotational kinetic energy, angular momentum, conservation momentum

Websites for Help:

• http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/physicszone/lesson/03circ.htm
• http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/physicszone/lesson/04torque.htm
• http://www.fearofphysics.com/

• magnet characteristics, magnetic field of wire, magnetic field of loop, electromagnets, solenoids, magnetic force of moving charge, right hand rule, magnetic force on a wire, magnetic flux, induced emf, lenz's law, dc motors

Websites for Help:

• http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/physicszone/lesson/08magnet.htm
• http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~weidman/ph2200/pages/simapp.html
• http://webphysics.davidson.edu/physlet_resources/bu_semester2/menu_semester2.html

• polarization, intensity, light, interference, young's experiment or single slit diffraction, thin films, double slit diffraction, diffraction grating, interferometer

Websites for Help:

• http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/physicszone/lesson/09waves.htm
• http://webphysics.davidson.edu/physlet_resources/bu_semester2/menu_semester2.html

• atom, radioactivity, dosimetry, isotopes, hydrogen isotopes, nuclear forces, mass defect, binding energy, half-life, alpha decay, beta decay, gamma radiation, chain reaction, fissin, fusion

Websites for Help:

• http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/physicszone/lesson/12nuclear.htm
• http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nuccon.html#c1
• http://www.lbl.gov/abc/

• electron, proton, coulomb's law, charge, electric field, insulators, conductors, electric potential, voltage around a point charge, capacitance, parallel plate capacitor, potential energy in a capacitor, capacitors in series, capacitors in parallel

Websites for Help:

• http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/physicszone/lesson/07elecst.htm
• http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~weidman/ph2200/pages/simapp.html
• http://webphysics.davidson.edu/physlet_resources/bu_semester2/menu_semester2.html

• quantum mechanics, blackbody radiation, photoelectric effect, compton effect, energy of hydrogen atom, laswer, DeBroglie waves

Websites for Help:

• http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/physicszone/lesson/10modern.htm
• http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quacon.html#quacon
• http://www.fearofphysics.com/
• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html

• Michelson-Morley Experiment, special relativity, speed of light, time dilation, length contraction

Websites for Help:

• http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/relativ/relcon.html#relcon
• http://www.fearofphysics.com/
• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html