Week 1 (Aug. 14 - 16)

Welcome to General College Physics at Wisconsin Lutheran High School! The sidebar (to the right) has some basic information about this course, such as the Professor's contact information and the textbook we will be using. You might wish to take a look at that first.

Reading: PSE Chap 1, Physics and Measurement
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Week 2 (Aug. 19 - 23)

Reading: PSE Chap 1, Physics and Measurement
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Week 3 (Aug. 26 - 30)

Reading: PSE Chap 2, Motion in 1 dimension
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Week 4 (Sep. 2 - 6)

Reading: PSE Chap 3, Vectors
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Week 5 (Sep. 9 - 13)

Reading: PSE Chap 4, Motion in Two dimensions
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Week 6 (Sep. 16 - 20)

Reading: PSE Chap 4, Motion in Two dimensions
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Week 7 (Sep. 23 - 27)

Reading: PSE Chap 5, The laws of motion

Deadline for registration for College Credit: You can. Receive college credit for this course from Wisconsin Lutheran College. Click on the application link below to register for each class you are wishing to apply for college credit. This must be approved by Friday, September 27.

https://admissions.wlc.edu/register/foundations

Once students apply we will wait for Wisconsin Lutheran College to confirm eligibility and requirements for college credit and communicate out further information. Please reach out to Mr. Davis if you have any questions.
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Week 8 (Sep. 30 - Oct. 4)

Reading: PSE Chap 5, The laws of motion
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Week 9 (Oct. 7 - 11)

Reading: PSE Chap 6, Circular motion and other applications of Newton's laws
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Week 10 (Oct. 14 - 18)

Reading: PSE Chap 7, Work and Energy
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Week 11 (Oct. 21 - 25)

Reading: PSE Chap 8, Potential energy and conservation of energy
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Week 12 (Oct. 28 - Nov. 1)

Reading: PSE Chap 9, Linear momentum and collisions
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Week 13 (Nov. 4 - 8)

Reading: PSE Chap 10, Rotation of a rigid body about a fixed axis
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Week 14 (Nov. 11 - 15)

Reading: PSE Chap 11, Rolling motion, angular momentum and torque
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Week 15 (Nov. 18 - 22)

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Week 16 (Nov. 25 - 29)

Reading: PSE Chap 14 gravity
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Week 17 (Dec. 2 - 6)

Reading: PSE Chap 14 gravity
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Week 18 (Dec. 9 - 13)

Reading: Chap 15, fluids
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Week 19 (Dec. 16 -20)

Practice final exam: Click here for a practice exam....see more info for this week.

Week 20 (Jan. 6 - 10)

Reading: Temperature (Chap. 19)

Key Topics:
temperature measurement, thermometry, thermal expansion, ideal gasses...see more info for this week.

Week 21 (Jan. 13 - 17)

Reading: Heat and the First Law (Chap. 20)

Key Topics:
thermal energy, specific heat capacity, latent heat, the first law of thermodynamics, conduction, convection, and radiation of heat,...see more info for this week.

Week 22 (Jan. 20 - 24)

Reading: Heat engines, Entropy, and the second law (Chap. 22)

Key Topics:
the second law of thermodynamics, reversible and irreversible processes, engine efficiency, absolute temperature scale, entropy, disorder,...see more info for this week.

Week 23 (Jan. 27 - Jan. 31)

Reading: Magnetic fields (Chap. 29)

Key Topics:
magnetic poles, earth's magnetic field, magnetic materials, ferromagnetism, paramagnetism, curie temperature, ...see more info for this week.

Week 24 (Feb. 3 - 7)

Reading: Electric fields (Chap. 23)

Key Topics:
Electric charge, triboelectricity, insulators and conductors, coulomb's law, electric fields...see more info for this week.

Week 25 (Feb. 10 - 14)

Reading: Finish electric fields and electric potential. Begin capacitance and dielectrics (Chap. 26)

Key Topics:
capacitance, calculation of capacitance, capacitors in series and parallel, energy stored in a capacitor, capacitors with dielectrics, ...see more info for this week.

Week 26 (Feb. 17 - 21)

Reading: Current and resistance (Chap. 27)

Key Topics:
electric current, resistance, resistivity, ohm's law, joule heating...see more info for this week.

Week 27 (Feb. 24 - 28)

Reading: Direct current circuits (Chap. 28)

Key Topics:
electromotive force, kirchoff's circuit rules, resistors in parallel and series, ammeters and voltmeters, household wiring...see more info for this week.

Week 28 (Mar. 3 - 7)

Reading: Finish our work on DC circuits.

Key Topics:
DC circuits laboratory, Joule heating, charging and discharging of a capacitor
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Week 29 (Mar. 10 - 14)

Reading: Faraday's law (Chap. 31)

Key Topics:
Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction, Lenz's law, eddy currents, electric motors...see more info for this week.

Week 30 (Mar. 17 - 21)

Reading: The nature of light and the laws of geometric optics (Chap. 35)

Key Topics:
the speed of light, ray approximation, reflection, refraction, dispersion, total internal reflection, prisms and rainbows

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Week 31 (Mar. 24 - 28)

Reading: The nature of light and the laws of geometric optics (Chap. 35)

Key Topics:
the speed of light, ray approximation, reflection, refraction, dispersion, total internal reflection, prisms and rainbows

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Week 32 (Mar 31 - Apr. 4)

Reading: Easter break

Key Topics:
Easter Break



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Week 33 (Apr. 7 - 11)

Reading: Geometric optics (Chap. 36)

Key Topics:
images formed by flat mirrors, spherical mirrors, lenses, the thin lens equation, the human eye, telescopes...see more info for this week.

Week 34 (Apr. 14 - 18)

Reading: Electromagnetic waves (Chap. 34)

Key Topics:
young's two slit experiment, Maxwell, Hertz, and the discovery of electromagnetic waves, production and detection of electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic spectrum...see more info for this week.

Week 35 (Apr. 21 - 25)

Reading: Interference of light waves (Chap. 37)

Key Topics:
electromagnetic waves, intensity, interference, and polarization...see more info for this week.

Week 36 (Apr. 28 - May 2)

Reading: Radioactivity

Key Topics:
x-rays, cathode rays, JJ Thompson's experiments, Rutherford's experiments, alpha rays, beta rays, gamma rays, radioactive decay,...see more info for this week.

Week 37 (May 5 - 9)

Reading: Radioactivity (still)

Key Topics:
radioactive decay, half life, radiocarbon dating

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Week 38 (May 12 - 16)

Reading: Atomic physics (Chap. 42)

Key Topics:
the Balmer series and atomic spectra, the photoelectric effect, early models of the atom and atomic transitions,

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