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Physics is intended to expose students to the design and order in the world that God has created. In preceding years, students should have developed a basic understanding of the macroscopic and microscopic world of forces, motion, waves, light, and electricity. The physics course will expand upon that prior knowledge & further develop both.

​The curriculum will also seek to teach the symbolic and mathematical world of formulas and symbols used in physics. The major concepts covered are kinematics, forces and motion, work and energy, sound and light waves, electricity and magnetism, and nuclear physics.

HIGHSCHOOL-B

​Students at this level should show development in their ability and understanding of scientific inquiry. The units contain experiments and projects that seek to develop a deeper conceptual meaning for the student and actively engage the student. The continued exposure of science concepts and scientific inquiry will serve to improve the student’s skill and understanding. Physics should be preceded by Algebra I and II courses and Geometry.

Smart Science Virtual Labs

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The lab component of this Physics course will be fulfilled using Smart Science labs. All labs from Smart Science are completed online. Students will have a typical lab experience following scientific steps reaching their conclusions to the lab.

Students should spend time reviewing the introductory video reviewing the process for completing labs with Smart Science. There will be no equipment or supplies to purchase as you complete your labs online.

Watch the video from Smart Science “Beyond Learning – How to Think” to learn more about how to use your online lab program.

Physics Online

UNIT 1 – KINEMATICS

  1. Course Overview
  2. Introduction to the Language of Physics
  3. Quiz 1: Measurements
  4. Scalars and Vectors
  5. Quiz 2: Scalars and Vectors
  6. Speed and Velocity
  7. Special Project: Smart Science – Velocity
  8. Tutorial for Making a Scatter Plot Using an Electronic Spreadsheet Program 
  9. Acceleration and Acceleration Due to Gravity
  10. Experiment: Smart Science Lab
  11. Quiz 4: Acceleration and Acceleration Due to Gravity
  12. Vectors
  13. Projectiles
  14. Quiz 5: Review
  15. Special Project: Smart Science – Acceleration
  16. Review Game
  17. Test
  18. Alternate Test
  19. Reference

UNIT 2 – DYNAMICS

  1. Newton’s First and Second Laws
  2. Report: Isaac Newton
  3. Quiz 1
  4. Gravity
  5. Quiz 2
  6. Uniform Circular Motion
  7. Project: Ignitia Virtual Lab: Circular Motion
  8. Quiz 3
  9. Newton’s Third Law and Conservation of Momentum
  10. Project: Ignitia Virtual Lab – Conservation of Momentum
  11. Quiz 4
  12. Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion
  13. Report: Solar System 
  14. Experiment: Smart Science – Inelastic Collision and Mass
  15. Quiz 5
  16. Special Project: Smart Science Lab
  17. Review Game
  18. Test
  19. Alternate Test
  20. Reference

UNIT 3 – WORK AND ENERGY

  1. Work, Kinetic, and Potential Energy
  2. Report:  Nuclear Energy
  3. Quiz 1
  4. Conservation of Energy
  5. Power and Efficiency
  6. Project: Ignitia Virtual Labs – Simple Machines
  7. Quiz 2
  8. Special Project: Smart Science – Gravity Energy
  9. Heat Energy
  10. Latent Heat
  11. Laws of Thermodynamics
  12. Quiz 3
  13. Review Game
  14. Special Project: Smart Science – Specific Heat
  15. Test
  16. Alternate Test
  17. Reference

UNIT 4 – INTRODUCTION TO WAVES

  1. Characteristics of Waves
  2. Experiment: Smart Science
  3. Quiz 1
  4. Wave Phenomena
  5. Experiment: Smart Science Lab
  6. Quiz 2
  7. Sound Waves
  8. Project: Ignitia Virtual Lab – Sound ( This virtual lab is a component of the Ignitia curriculum and completed with this Ignitia assignment.)
  9. Project: Ignitia Virtual Lab – Doppler Effect  (This virtual lab is a component of the Ignitia curriculum and completed with this Ignitia assignment.)
  10. Quiz 3
  11. Special Project: Smart Science – Doppler Effect
  12. Review Game
  13. Test
  14. Alternate Test
  15. Reference

UNIT 5 – LIGHT

  1. Speed of Light: Historical Calculations
  2. Properties of Light
  3. Quiz 1
  4. Mirrors
  5. Lenses
  6. Quiz 2
  7. Light Phenomena and Models of Light
  8. Project: Ignitia Virtual Lab – Light
  9. Special Project: Smart Science – Electromagnetic Spectrum
  10. Quiz 3
  11. Review Game
  12. Special Project: Smart Science – Light Reflection
  13. Test
  14. Alternate Test
  15. Reference

UNIT 6 – SEMESTER REVIEW AND EXAM

  1. Review
  2. Exam
  3. Alternate Exam—Form A
  4. Alternate Exam—Form B

UNIT 7 – STATIC ELECTRICITY

  1. Electric Charges
  2. Coulomb’s Law
  3. The Transfer of Charges
  4. Quiz 1
  5. Electric Fields
  6. Quiz 2
  7. Electric Potential
  8. Potential and Energy
  9. Quiz 3
  10. Review Game
  11. Special Project: Smart Science Lab – Basic Electrostatics
  12. Test
  13. Alternate Test
  14. Reference

UNIT 8 – ELECTRIC CURRENTS

  1. Sources of EMF
  2. Project: Research and Report
  3. Fluid Flow
  4. Quiz 1
  5. Resistance
  6. Quiz 2
  7. Ohm’s Law
  8. Circuits
  9. Special Project: Smart Science – Electrical Circuits
  10. Quiz 3​
  11. Special Project: Smart Science – Ohm’s Law
  12. Review Game
  13. Test
  14. Alternate Test
  15. Reference

UNIT 9 – MAGNETISM

  1. Fields and Forces
  2. Forces
  3. Quiz 1
  4. Electromagnetism
  5. Special Project: Smart Science – Magnet Drop
  6. Electromagnetic Induction
  7. Quiz 2
  8. Electron Beams
  9. Quiz 3
  10. Review Game
  11. Special Project: Smart Science – Magnetic Force
  12. Test
  13. Alternate Test
  14. Reference

UNIT 10 – ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS

  1. Quantum Theory
  2. X-Rays, Matter Waves, and the Uncertainty Principle
  3. Quiz 1
  4. Early Atomic Models
  5. Report: Early Atomic Physics
  6. Bohr Model
  7. Nuclear Theory
  8. Quiz 2
  9. Nuclear Reactions
  10. Fusion and Applications of Nuclear Energy
  11. Quiz 3
  12. Special Project: Smart Science – Radioactive Decay
  13. Special Project: Smart Science – Atomic Structure
  14. Review Game
  15. Test
  16. Alternate Test
  17. Reference

UNIT 11 – REVIEW

  1. Mechanics
  2. Dynamics
  3. Energy
  4. Quiz 1
  5. Wave Motion
  6. Light and Sound
  7. Quiz 2
  8. Electricity and Magnetism
  9. Fields and Forces
  10. Circuits
  11. Quiz 3
  12. Modern Physics
  13. The Bohr Atom
  14. Duality
  15. Nuclear Energy
  16. Quiz 4
  17. ​Review Game
  18. Test
  19. Alternate Test
  20. Reference

UNIT 12- SEMESTER REVIEW AND EXAM

  1. Review
  2. Exam
  3. Alternate Exam—Form A
  4. Alternate Exam—Form B

UNIT 13 – FINAL EXAM

  1. Exam
  2. Alternate Exam—Form A
  3. Alternate Exam—Form B