Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Welcome and Course Outline to June 2019


Physics 11 until June 2019
Starting July 2019 please refer to the next document below labeled New Physics 11

Welcome to Physics 11!

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The prerequisite for this course is Pre-calculus Math 11.

You will rent the following text: Merrill Physics (Red book)
Your teacher will give you a “Self-Paced Card”

For every chapter: 
1.    Read the chapters
2.    View the videos.
3.    Do the Practice Problems (answers at the back of the text);
4.    Do the Chapter Review (ask a teacher for the answer key)
5.    When ready, ask for the Chapter Test

** If you want more review, ask your teacher for the extra Chapter Review
**You may use a formula sheet (attached) and a calculator)

6.    This course consists of 15 chapters with 14 chapter tests. Each test is worth 7.14%.

Please do the following:

Chapters 1 to 5                   Mechanics 1

Chapters 9 to12                  Mechanics 2 and Thermal Energy

Chapters 14 and 16-18     Waves and Light (Omit Chapter 15)

Special Relativity:  Ask your teacher for a different textbook: Conceptual Physics and do Chapter 15 and 16 (pages 204-236)
Ask for the practice worksheets



YouTube  Videos from Bozeman Science

(You can also search YouTube for additional videos)

Chapter 1:     What is Physics?

Chapter 2: A Mathematical Toolkit

Chapter 3 and 4: Describing Motion: Velocity and Acceleration

Chapter 5 and 9: Forces and Momentum

Chapter 10 and 11 Work, Energy and Simple Machines

Chapter 14 Waves

Chapter 16: Light