CURRICULUM Physics HS - 2008/2009


9th grade10th grade11th grade12th advanced
Math:
SI units,scientific notation, metric system
Math:
graphing skill, slope,
vector in 1D
Math: trigonometry
vectors in 2D
depends on level ?
waves:
mechanical waves, sound , music,
light, EM waves
density,
forces
pressure, archimede
Kinematics in 1D,
free-fall
 Newton in 2D
(static and dynamic, light)
torques in 2D (lab)
magnetic and electric field

torques
introduction energy
simple machines
Newton's laws:
1)Inertia
2)F = ma
Hooke's law
3)action/reaction
impulse/momentum/
conservation of momentum
 projectile motion
in depth, examples
newton's 2nd law revisited,
more complex problems
conservation of momentum in 2D
harmonic motion ?
electostaticWork,Energy,
conservation of energy
power
circulation motion in depth
satellite, Kepler's laws,
gravitational law
pendulum
angular intertia +
angular momemtum+conservation ?
modern Phyiscs :
nuclear Physcs
relativity, quantum mechanics ?
electricity, circuits (series, //), power, electric energy,
electric bill
image formation, lenses,convex, concave.
optic: reflection, refraction, snell's law, v=c/n, lenses, image formation. (mirrors ?) fluids and thermodynamics
magnetism ?
electromagnetism?
history ?history?