Longwood High School
- Science Department
AP PHYSICS B - COURSE
OUTLINE
COURSE GOALS: Physics
offers the opportunity to become acquainted with a quantitative science,
as well as to inculcate sound study habits and problem solving techniques
that hopefully are carried over into other areas of personal endeavor.
This course is a full year and will end with a regents examination
in June. In the month of May, there is an Advanced Placement exam offered.
All the work necessary for the AP exam will have been covered by that time,
however, there will be an additional topic that will need to be covered
for the regents.
MATERIALS: notebook, calculator,
and separate lab notebook
HOMEWORK: Homework will
be assigned regularly. Basically, there will be two types. One will be
assignments from the textbook occurring 2 to 4 times a week. The time necessary
to complete these assignments will vary from 15 minutes to 1 hour. They
will be checked for neatness and effort, and the results will be noted
in the classdex. The second type of homework will be lab reports. Lab reports,
which are submitted late without a legitimate excuse, will have their grades
lowered. The later the lab, the greater the penalty.
GRADING: Your grade will
be determined primarily by test grades, lab grades and class participation.
Usually a test will be given a value of three times a lab grade. Class
participation will play a significant part in the determination of your
grade. At the end of each quarter, you will receive a class participation
grade, which will be recorded in the classdex. Class participation will
include the following: attendance, punctually to class, positive contributions
to the classroom instructional process, effort, work in laboratory, contributions
during small group activities, punctual submission of lab reports and other
written work, and attentiveness in class.
GENERAL CLASSROOM RULES AND PROCEDURE
1. Please make every
effort to get to class and be seated ready to work before the late bell.
2. Consideration, control
and common sense should govern your behavior in the classroom and the laboratory.
3. You may be handling
materials in the lab that have the potential to cause damage to you and
your fellow students. Thus, your behavior in the lab must be appropriate.
There can be no fooling around or practical joking. You may not have any
food at the lab tables.
4. Please help us maintain
our equipment and room in as good a condition as we find it.
COURSE OBJECTIVES ADVANCED PLACEMENT PHYSICS
B
I. KINEMATICS
A. Motion in One Dimension
B. Motion in a Plane
II. NEWTON’S LAWS OF MOTION
A. Dynamics of Single Body
B. Systems of Two or More Bodies
III. CONSERVATION LAWS IN CLASSICAL MECHANICS
A. Work, Energy, and Power
B. Linear Momentum
C. Angular Momentum
IV. OTHER TOPICS IN MECHANICS
A. Torque and Rotational Motion
B. Gravitation and Planetary Motion
C. Oscillations
V. KINETIC THEORY AND THERMODYNAMICS
A. Temperature and Heat
B. Kinetic Theory and Thermodynamics of Ideal
Gases
C. First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics
VI. ELECTROSTATICS
A. Charge, Field, and Potential
B. Electrostatics with Conductors
C. Electric Field and Potential of Point
Charges
D. Capacitance and the Parallel-Plate Capacitor
VII. ELECTRIC CIRCUITS
A. Current, Resistance, and Power
B. Steady-State, Direct-Current Circuits
with Batteries, Resistors, and Capacitors
VIII. MAGNETISM
A. Forces of Charges
B. Currents and Magnetic Fields
C. Electromagnetic Induction
IX. WAVES AND OPTICS
A. Wave Motion
B. Physical Optics
C. Geometrical Optics
X. MODERN PHYSICS
A. Atomic Physics and Quantum Effect
B. Nuclear Physics
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