ADVANCED PLACEMENT PHYSICS

Full year course - 4
credits

Prerequisites: Recommendation of current science teacher and full year Calculus
taken concurrently with this course.

This course is designed to be the equivalent of a calculus-based first semester
college physics course. The text is the same as that used at several local
univerisities. The course is a rigorous introduction to mechanics, including
Newton's laws, conservation principles and rotational dynamics. Additional topics
will be covered in the spring as time allows. Considerable instructional time is
devoted to building problem solving skills, and frequent problem sets are
assigned. Students will be required to do some laboratory work, and will be
graded on tests, laboratory write-ups, and homework.