College Bound Physics

Instructor: Tyler Shoaff

This course is designed to provide students with the skills needed to successfully compete in a college level science environment. The course will begin with the laws of motion. We will continue to explore the areas of relativity, optics, gravity, light, and sound, waveforms, electricity and power. There is a significant component of particle and theoretical physics not found in typical HS physics curricula which will be very beneficial to students in the long term. Our course is unique among physics courses because we use a much more hands on approach with many different models, interactive activities, and real life applications. Students will leave the course with a collection of lab reports that demonstrate they completed the classic labs colleges are looking for during the admission process, but with so much more practical and memorable knowledge because they were engaged and participated every time they encountered class. Students leave the course with a working knowledge of what they were taught. They demonstrate this with a hands-on midterm and final exam. Experience how life is constructed around physics.

Class pre-requisites: Chemistry and successful completion of Algebra I- students should have a strong understanding of Algebra I. No exceptions will be made.

Required textbook: Conceptual Physics, 2nd or 3rd edition by Paul Hewitt available for rent from Quest for Education and Arts.

Required supplies: Calculator, graph paper, colored pencils, ruler, pencils, pens, paper, 3 ring binder and dividers, notecards and ring to hold them together.