Course Description
Units:
- Motion and Forces
- Speed, velocity, and acceleration
- Newton’s Laws of Motion
- Energy
- Types of energy (kinetic, potential, thermal)
- Conservation of energy
- Simple machines
- Waves and Sound
- Wave properties (frequency, wavelength)
- Sound as a mechanical wave
- Light and Optics
- Reflection, refraction, absorption
- Behavior of light in lenses and mirrors
- Electricity and Magnetism
- Static and current electricity
- Circuits and basic electromagnetism
- Heat and Temperature
- Heat transfer: conduction, convection, radiation
- Thermal expansion