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Classroom Procedures
• Pick up papers when you walk in the door.
• Labs and other work will be collected at the
beginning of class – please place in a stack near
the stapler.
• Partners are at your table.
• Homework is posted on the board near the
window.
• The rotation schedule is posted above the
boards.
• Bathroom – no more than one student out at a
time.
Course Outline
Fall Term
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Experimental Design
Newton's First Law
Linear Motion
Vectors
Content
· Inertia
· Linear Speed and
Acceleration
· Free Fall
· Translational
Lab
Experiences Equilibrium
Winter Term
· Forces
· Newton's Second and
Third Laws
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Momentum
· Energy
· Rotational Motion
· Gravity
· Projectile Motion
· Waves
Sound
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· Roller Coaster
· Catapults
· Oscillating Spring
· Acceleration Due to
Gravity
· Speed of Sound
Newton's Second Law
Impulse-Momentum
Friction
Collisions
Spring Term
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Light and Optics
Electrostatics
Electric Fields
Electric Circuits
· Magnetism
· Electromagnetic
Induction
· Quantum Atom
· Relativity
· Snell's Law
· Mirrors and Lenses
· Van de Graaf
Generator
· Electrostatics
· Circuit Design
· Ohm's Law
· Kirchoff's Laws
Brain Teasers
Let’s find out how just how smart you really are! 
No calculators allowed!
1. Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another
1000. Now add 30. Add another 1000. Now
add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10.
What is the total?
4100
2. If you overtake the second person in a race,
what position would you be in?
Second
Brain Teasers
3. If you overtake the last person in a race, what
position would you be in?
It is not possible
4. What is 192 + 192 - 192 times 192 divided by
192?
192
5. Some months have 31 days. How many have
28?
All of them
6. Divide 30 by ½ and add 10.
70
What is physics?
• Physics is the most basic of all sciences.
• It is about the nature of basic things such as
motion, forces, energy, matter, heat, sound,
light, and the structure of atoms.
• Physics is a way we search for ways to explain,
simplify, and predict phenomena in the
natural world.
What is physics?
Give two examples WITHOUT SAYING THE RULE
• It is off but not on
• It is cool but not cold
• It is kitten but not cat
• It is wall but not ceiling
• It is Milwaukee but not Chicago
• It is Illinois but not Wisconsin
• It is nineteen but not twenty
• It is three but not two
• It is pepper but not salt
• It is book but not text
• It is tall but not short
• It is knee but not elbow
What is physics?
• Physics consists of a set of rules that govern
the world around us.
7 Branches of Physics
Mechanics
Motion and its causes, interactions
between objects
Thermodynamics
Heat and temperature
Vibrations and wave
phenomena
Specific types of repetitive motions –
springs, pendulums, sound
Optics
Light, including mirrors, lenses, color
Electromagnetism
Electricity, magnetism, and light,
including electrical charge, circuits, and
magnets
Relativity
Particles moving at any speed, including
very high speed
Quantum mechanics
Behavior of submicroscopic and
subatomic particles