Honors/AP1 Physics

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Course Information and Advice from past students
Cycle Overview (subject to change)
Updated packets for 2023-2024 school year: Sem1 and Sem2

Supplemental Material
Physics Hypertextbook (online text)
Hyperphysics (online concept map with mini tutorials)
The Physics Classroom

Semester 2

Unit 7: Waves & Sound

7:Packet
7:Wave Stations Lab
Youtube Ripple Tank Video
Wave Clip 1
Wave Clip 2
Wave Clip 3
Wave Clip 4
Wave Clip 5
Wave Clip 6
Wave Clip 7
PhET Wave on a String
Ripple Tank Demo 1
Ripple Tank Demo 2
The physics of noise-cancelling headphones
PhysicsGirl Standing Waves
Standing longitudinal waves
Doppler Movies

Unit 8: Electricity & Circuits

8: Packet
PhET for electric fields
8: Circuit Lab
8: Circuit Lab Answer Sheet

Mini-Unit: Modern Presentations

Overview, instructions, links
PowerPoint Template - download, do not use Google Slides!
Drop completed slides here: Coke
1030 class

Unit 11: Modern Physics

11 Packet
Packet videos: Alice&Bob-stuck to earth
Alice&Bob-moon , Newton vs. Einstein
Alice&Bob-black hole,
SixtySymbols-special vs. general relativity
Relativity and Quantum Physics on Youtube
11 Special Relativity with minutephysics
(short overview)
11 Special Relativity with minutephysics
(longer playlist)
11 General Relativity with PBS Spacetime
11 Quantum Physics with Looking Glass Universe

Unit 9: Magnetism

9 Packet
PhET Magnet and Compass
(right click from Finder after downloaded to open)
Images p.9.8:
-Visual of an oscillating charge creating a changeing electric field (url in packet is broken)
-Detail of the B field due to a wire
Video of a wire feeling a force due to a magnetic field
9 Slinky Lab