Saturday, February 8, 2014

Physics 11

Physics 11
Welcome to Physics 11!

The prerequisite for this course is Pre-calculus Math 11.

You will rent the following text: Merrill Physics (Red book)
Your teacher will give you a “Self-Paced Card”

For every chapter: 

1.     Read the chapters

2.     View the videos. (See below)

3.     Do the Practice Problems (answers at the back of the text);

4.     Do the Chapter Review (ask a teacher for the answer key)

5.     When ready, ask for the Chapter Test 
** If you want more review, ask your teacher for the extra Chapter Review
You may use a formula sheet (attached) and a calculator)
6.     This course consists of 15 chapters with 14 chapter tests. Each test is worth 7.14%.

Please do the following:

Chapters 1 to 5              Mechanics 1

Chapters 9 to12            Mechanics 2 and Thermal Energy

Chapters 14 and 16-18            Waves and Light (Omit Chapter 15)

Special Relativity:  Ask your teacher for a different textbook: Conceptual Physics and do Chapter 15 and 16 (pages 204-236)
Ask for the practice worksheets

Videos from Bozeman Science (http://www.bozemanscience.com/)

(You can also search youtube for additional videos)

Chapter 1:  What is Physics?  What is physics?    Scientific Method  
       

Chapter 2: A Mathematical Toolkit   Factor label method     

Chapter 3 and 4: Describing Motion: Velocity and Acceleration



Chapter 5 and 9: Forces and Momentum  Free-body-diagrams   

Chapter 10 and 11 Work, Energy and Simple Machines  

Chapter 14 Waves  Waves

Chapter 16: Light  Light