NGSShigh school
High School Physics
Understand the rules that govern everything around you: motion, forces, energy, waves, electricity, and modern physics. This course develops both physical intuition and quantitative problem-solving skills.
5units
11topics
145questions
~4hours
Course Units
Learning objectives
- Describe motion using displacement, velocity, and acceleration with appropriate units
- Apply Newton's three laws of motion to analyze forces and predict object behavior
- Construct and interpret free-body diagrams for objects in static and dynamic equilibrium
- Solve kinematics problems involving uniformly accelerated motion in one dimension
- Analyze two-dimensional motion by decomposing vectors into horizontal and vertical components
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Learning objectives
- Apply the work-energy theorem to calculate the work done on an object
- Use conservation of energy to analyze systems involving kinetic and potential energy
- Calculate impulse and apply conservation of momentum to collisions
- Distinguish between elastic and inelastic collisions based on energy conservation
- Apply conservation of energy and momentum together to solve problems involving collisions on frictionless surfaces
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Learning objectives
- Describe wave properties including wavelength, frequency, amplitude, and speed
- Explain interference, diffraction, and the superposition principle for waves
- Compare and contrast mechanical waves and electromagnetic waves
- Apply the law of reflection and Snell's law of refraction to optical problems
- Explain the Doppler effect and predict how relative motion between source and observer changes perceived frequency
Learning objectives
- Explain electric charge, Coulomb's law, and the concept of electric fields
- Analyze series and parallel circuits using Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's rules
- Describe magnetic fields and the force on a current-carrying conductor in a magnetic field
- Explain electromagnetic induction and its application in generators and transformers
- Design and analyze simple DC circuits with resistors in series and parallel to achieve desired voltage and current values
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Learning objectives
- Describe wave-particle duality and its experimental evidence including the double-slit experiment
- Explain the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and its implications for measurement
- Compare nuclear fission and fusion and calculate energy released using mass-energy equivalence
- Describe radioactive decay modes and use half-life to solve decay problems
- Explain the photoelectric effect and use it to support the particle model of light
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