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Physical Science
Administrative info: [Note: Science help day for 2010-11 is: TUESDAY]
Course Expectations
General procedures and expectations - signature copy
Assignment format
Attendance and tardiness
Detention policy
Course syllabus:
Grading policy
Grading metric
Grade scale
Lab report format
Lab drawing rubric
Safety contract
Study skills
Text book - Science Insights
Measurement notes
Graphing notes
Scientific method
Science skills - key concepts -
Scientific method - key vocabulary and concepts - constant, variable, independent and dependent variable
controlled experiment, control group, experimental group
fact, theroy, scientific law
Structure of matter
Partical model of matter
Physical and chemical properties
Physical and chemical changes
States / phases of matter - solid, liquid, gas, plasma (ice, water, steam/water vapor)
melting, freezing, evaporation, condensation, sublimation
Gas Laws (Boyle's Law, Charles' Law, Gay-Lussac's Law)
Structure of the atom Subatomic particles
Chemistry
Isotopes
Electron distribution in molecules
Chemical bonds and reactions
Periodic table
Metals, metaloids, non-metals
Mixtures and Solutions - solvent, solute, homogeneous, heterogeneous
Properties of water - polarity, adhesion, cohesion, capillary action, surface tension, dissociatiaon
Acids, bases, salts, pH, electrolytes, dissociation
Waves
Nature of waves - types of waves (transverse, longitudinal, medium, distrubance)
Properties of waves, parts of a wave (crest, trough, amplitude, compression, rarefaction, wavelength, frequency, wave speed)
Wave interactions (reflection, refraction, diffraction, interference - constructive and destructive)
Motion
Relative motion (Ch 2.1)
[MID-TERM EXAM - 1st Semester 2010-11]
Speed, velocity ( Ch 2.2) and acceleration (Ch 2.2)
Energy of motion - energy, potential and kinetic energy (Ch 2.3)
Forces and Motion
Forces and gravity (Ch 3.1)
Free falling objects (Ch 3.1)
Newton's Laws of Motion
1st Law (Ch 3.2) - inertia, friction - sliding, rolling and fluid friction
2nd law (Ch 3.3) - force = mass x acceleration momentum = mass x velocity
3rd Law (Ch 3.4) - equal and opposite forces
Universal Forces (Ch 3.5) - gravitation, electromagnetic and nuclear forces