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Physics Course Description and Overview

Texas School for the Deaf

High School Physics Syllabus

School Year: 2024-2025

Grade Placement: 9,11

Credit: 1.0

Instructor: Mrs. Suzanne Milford, M.S, B.A

  1. Phone: 512 410 6258

E-mail: [email protected]

High School Room #308

 

Course Description 

This course covers the study of matter and energy, focusing on their interactions through metric measurements and problem-solving. Topics include velocity and acceleration, Newton’s Laws of Motion, forces, conservation of energy and momentum, heat, electrostatics, electricity, magnetism, waves, sound, light, and modern physics. Laboratory investigations emphasize the development of process skills and reinforce course content using computers and safe handling of lab instruments. This course aligns with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Science (TEKS).

Physics Overview

 

Fall Semester

Spring Semester

1st Quarter

 

3rd Quarter

 

Unit 1: Introduction

  1. Ch. 0 Process of Science
  2. Ch. 1 Introduction to Physics

Unit 2:  Kinematics in Dimensions and Motions

  1. Ch. 2 Representing Motion
  2. Ch. 3 Accelerated Motion
  3. Ch. 4 Forces in One Dimension
  4. Ch. 5 Forces in Two Dimensions
  5. Ch. 6 Motion in Two Dimensions

 

Unit 4: Waves

  1. Ch. 15 Vibrations and Waves
  2. Ch.16 Sound
  3. Ch. 17 Fundamentals of Light
  4. Ch. 18 Reflection
  5. Ch. 19 Refraction
  6. Ch. 20 Interference and Diffraction

 

2nd Quarter

 

4th Quarter

 

Unit 2:  Kinematics in Dimensions and Motions, con’t

  1. Ch. 7 Gravitation
  2. Ch. 8 Rotational Motion

 

Unit 3: Momentum and Energy and their Conservation

  1. Ch. 9. Momentum and its Conservation
  2. Ch. 10 Energy and its Conservation
  3. Ch. 11 Thermal Energy
  4. Ch. 14 Using Energy

 

Unit 5: Electricity

  1. Ch. 22 Electric Current and Circuits
  2. Ch. 23 Magnetism
  3. Ch. 24 Electromagnetism

 

Unit 6: Electromagnetic Waves and

Quantum Phenomena

  1. Ch. 25 Electromagnetic waves
  2. Ch. 26 Quantum Theory and the Atom
  3. Ch. 28 Nuclear Physics

 

Unit 7: Special Topics

  1. Ch. 12 States of Matter
  2. Ch. 13 Energy in Earth Processes
  3. Ch. 21 Electrostatics
  4. Ch. 29 Composition/Formation of
  5. the Universe