Recommended to: Students of grades 8 and up who want to understand Physics, who take Physics concurrently at school or will take Physics at school the following year.
Prerequisite: Algebra II, some Geometry and some Trigonometric formulas.
Outline. This course will include study of the fundamental physics laws and will include emphasis on rigorous problem solving. The course mainly concentrates on mechanics, basics of Fluids and Thermodynamics and electricity/magnetism. The course will cover the following topics:
- Overview of physical quantities: physical properties of matter, measure and measuring, errors in measurements, units of measurement.
- Mechanics. Kinematics: motion in 1-D, 2-D and 3-D, vectors, circular motion. Newton’s Laws. Mechanical energy, work, conservation and change of mechanical energy, gravity, gravitational force in the universe. Static equilibrium.
- Waves and Particles. Mechanical waves.
- Introduction to Fluids and Thermodynamics: pressure, liquids and gases, hydrostatic pressure. Temperature. Ideal gas equation of state. First Law of Thermodynamics. Heat flow. Reversible and irreversible processes. The Second Law of Thermodynamics.
- Electrostatics: Coulomb’s Law, electric field, Gauss’s Law, electric potential, capacitance. Current and circuits, resistance.
- Magnetostatics: magnetic field, Ampere’s Law. Magnetodynamics: Faraday’s Law of Induction, Lenz’s Rule, Inductors, transformers, magnetic dipoles and magnets.
- Electro-magnetic waves: electromagnetic oscillations, traveling electromagnetic wave, polarization.
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