Unit 1 - Learn to work with significant figures, scientific notation, the metric system, and conversions.
Unit 2 - Learn about displacement and position, velocity and acceleration calculations and graphs, and motion graphs and word problems.
Unit 3 - Learn about graphing and adding vectors, representing vectors in component form, and breaking down 2 dimensional and projectile motion.
Unit 4 - Learn about the characteristics and properties of Newton’s laws of motion, kinetic and static friction, 2-d forces, force, acceleration, and gravity.
Unit 5 - Learn about uniform circular motion, centripetal forces, periods and acceleration, centripetal forces, as well as orbits.
Unit 6 - Learn about the differences between positive and negative work, kinetic and potential energy, and solve energy problems with and without work.
Unit 7 - Learn about momentum, impulse, the conservation of momentum, as well as elastic and inelastic collisions.
Unit 8 - Learn about fluids, pressure in fluids, depth, buoyant forces, and rates of flow in fluids.
Unit 9 - Learn about thermodynamics with a specific focus on thermal energy, heat, temperature, calorimetry, phase changes, the behavior of gases, and the first law of thermodynamics.
Unit 10 - Learn about various forms of waves, characteristics and properties of waves, interference, standing waves, and Hooke’s laws.
Unit 11 - Learn about sound waves, the properties of sound, the speed of sounds, and the process in which instruments create sound.
Unit 12 - Learn about light waves, how they form color, the electromagnetic spectrum, as well as reflection and refraction.
Unit 13 - Learn about lenses and images, real and virtual images, magnification, and ray tracing.
Unit 14 - Learn about electric charges, parallel and series circuits, Coulomb’s law, the electric field, and electric potentials.
Unit 15 - Learn about electric current and circuits, resistance, the application of Ohm’s Law, as well as series and parallel resistors.
Unit 16 - Learn about magnetic forces, magnetic fields, current-based magnetic fields, and magnetic force on charges.
