General Physics

General Physics course explores the nature of our physical environment and explains how natural phenomena occur in terms of mathematics. It leads students through an investigation of matter and its motion through time and space, along with related concepts such as energy and force. The course includes:

• solve problems using measured numbers, using significant digits, scientific notation
• the metric system, math with units, and conversions
• the concepts of position and displacement, average velocity, position graphs,
• velocity graphs and acceleration, positive, minus, and zero acceleration, 
• 1-D kinematic equations; solve motion equations
• motion problems, and for a quadratic for time
• connections between vectors an 2-D motion
• graphical addition of vectors, vector components, vector magnitude and direction, analytical addition of vectors
• Break down and solve 2-D motion and projectile motion problems.
• Newton’s second law (single force), Newton’s first law (multiple forces, weight), Newton’s third law (normal force, kinetic and static friction
• Measuring  heat, temperature, thermal expansion, heat and temperature change, calorimetry, phase change, measuring gases, behavior of gases, and the first law of thermodynamics
• Circular Motion and Gravity
• Energy, Momentum, Fluid Mechanics
• Thermodynamics
• Oscillations and Waves
• Sound,  Light
• Optics, image.
• Electric Forces, DC Electric Circuits as well as  Magnetic Forces