SCI1200: Physics
05/01/2024 to 05/30/2025 • Modified 04/27/2024Course Description
This year-long foundational course allows students to explore the physical and mathematical relationships that describe the world God created. The first semester of this course focuses on Newtonian mechanics and the laws of the physical world related to work, motion, gravity, types of energy, and power. The second semester covers pendulums, sound and light waves, electricity and magnetism, particle and solid-state physics, and other applications of physics in the modern world. Virtual demonstrations and lab exercises require students to apply the theories they learn practically. This course requires strong mathematical skills. Students discover the perfection and order of God’s creation as they investigate the laws and patterns that govern physics in the natural world.
Prerequisite
Completion of Algebra I, II, and Geometry
Schedule
Module 1: Motion in One Dimension
- Week 1: Scientific Figures and Units
- Week 2: What Makes It Move
- Week 3: One-Dimensional Equations
- Week 4: Free Fall and Module Quiz
Module 2: Motion in Two Dimensions
- Week 5: Two-Dimensional Vectors
- Week 6: Using Two-Dimensional Motion
Module 3: Newton’s Laws
- Week 7: What are the Laws?
- Week 8: Applications of the Laws
- Week 9: Applications of Physics Laws & Quarter 1 Exam
Module 4: Circular Motion, Gravity, & Work
- Week 10: Circular Motion
- Week 11: Gravity & Work
- Week 12: Work & Energy
Module 5: Work, Energy, & Momentum
- Week 13: Hooke’s Law
- Week 14: Conservation & Kinetic Energy
- Week 15: Power
- Week 16: Momentum
- Week 17: Conservation of Momentum
- Week 18: Angular Momentum & 2nd Quarter Test
Module 6: Periodic Motion & Waves
- Week 19: Let the Pendulum Swing
- Week 20: Types of Waves
- Week 21: Doppler, Resonance, Harmonics & Module Quiz
Module 7: Geometric Optics
- Week 22: How Does Light Move?
- Week 23: Refraction & Optics
Module 8: Coulomb’s Lab & Electricity
- Week 24: Electrostatics
- Week 25: Electric Fields
- Week 26: Potential & Capacitance
- Week 27: Capacitance & Quarter 3 Exam
Module 9: Electric Potential & Circuits
- Week 28: Introduction to Electric Circuits
- Week 29: Series Circuits
- Week 30: Parallel & Combination Circuits
- Week 31: Magnetism
Module 10: Particle & Solid-State Physics, Nuclear Reactions & Relativity
- Week 32: Particle & Solid-State Physics
- Week 33: Nuclear Physics
- Week 34: Half-Life & Quantum Physics
- Week 35: Relativity
- Week 36: Quarter 4 Exam
