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High School Physics
(Available 2025-2026)
Students will truly enjoy learning about how and why everything works around them. They will be challenged with questions, given time to discuss, and then discover the amazement of motion, forces, energy, lenses, light, sound, electromagnetism, electricity, and other fun areas of science that they can see in their lives. Emphasis will be on thinking and reasoning, looking for patterns and relationships in nature, developing lines of logic, and searching for the reasons why things happen as they do. Many projects will be given to students for hands-on experience with physics, and group projects will be assigned to help students develop leadership skills and abilities to work together in a group. Students will research areas of interest and give individual presentations, and research physics in the news today to find application to topics studied.
Class Information
Who: Minimum of 5 students, maximum of 8 students
Age Recommendation: 16+
Pre-Requisites: Pre-Algebra, Some basic geometry knowledge of Sin, Cos, Tan
When: Inquire for availability
Where: Sarah's Home (Philomath), or Zoom
Lab Fee (non-refundable): $100, paid at checkout to hold your spot. Cost includes all lab activities for the year, except costs acquired for catapult and Rube Goldberg expenses, but students will be encouraged to use things around the house for these activities, and will not be allowed to spend more than $20 total of their own money, so they will be making a budget and make due with what they have, or with what I have.
Class Fee (last day to withdraw Sept 30): $26/2 hour class, 27 week course, monthly payment option available at checkout.
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excludes
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required books and supplies needed
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Class preparation and instruction, mentoring, presentation feedback, weekly emails, end-0f-class certificates and portfolio information
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Required Books
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College Physics: A Strategic Approach (3rd edition) by Knight, Jones, and Field (buy used)
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The Wright Brothers by David McCullough (Due first day of class)
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer or The Martian: Classroom Edition by Andy Weir (class decision for 2nd term)
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Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 by Michio Kaku​
Supplies Needed
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Notebook with graph paper and pencil
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Geometry kit (protractor and ruler)