Physics

Welcome to Physics at Amherst County High School. I am your teacher Mr. Collins.

room: 105 my email: [email protected]

High school telephone number: 434-946-2898

Hello all,

Below you will find an outline of topics with links to the notes, relevant youtube videos, and physicsclassroom web site. In some cases, there may be additional information that you can access. I hope this is helpful to you.

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formula sheet syllabus SOL's

 

1stunit: Safety Sig. Figs./SI Units and Conversion.

Lab Safety Rap

Video: sci. not. 

Video: Sci not. with a TI -84

Video: Sci not. with desmos

Web link: Metric Prefixes

Video: Convert 1

Video: Convert  2

Video: Convert  3

2nd unit: 1-Dimensional motion

Notes: 1-D motion

Web tutorial

Video: velocity

Video: acceleration

Video: which ball riddle

Video: bowling ball drop

Video:  3 example problems

Video: for Galileo gravity

3rd unit: Forces

Notes: Newton's Laws

Web tutorial

Video: difference between mass and weight

Video: Newton's First Law

 Video: Newton's 2nd and 3rd Law

Video:  2nd Law example problems

Video:  short description of Newton's 3 Laws

Sub Unit: Vectors

Notes:  Vector notes

Video: Naming Vectors

Video: Vector Components

  4th unit: 2-Dim motion (projectile and circular)

Projectile

 Notes: Projectile

Web Tutorial

Video: drop and launch

Video:  Solve the projectile prob

Video: projectile launcher

Video: Students using a slingshot to study projectile Motion 

Circular: 

Notes:  Circular

Web tutorial

video: Centripetal motion 

5th unit: Gravitation

Notes:  Gravitation

Web tutorial

Video:  Gravitation

6th unit: Momentum and Impulse

Notes:  Momentum and Impulse

web tutorial

Video:  Momentum

Video: Momentum example problem

Video: Impulse

 7th unit: Energy and Work

 Notes: Energy

Web Tutorial

Video: Energy, Work, and Power

  8th unit: Static Electricity

Notes: Static Electricity

Web Tutorial

Video: Coulombs Force Law

Video: Electric Field

9th Unit: Resistance and Ohm's law

Notes: Resistance and Ohm's Law

web tutorial

Video: Resistors in series or parallel

Video: Ohms law and solving a series circuit

Video: Ohms law and solving a parallel circuit

Video: Solving a combo circuit

10th unit: Capacitance and Diodes

Notes: Capacitors and Diodes

video1

11th unit:  Magnetism

Notes: Magnetism

Video: Magnetism

12th unit: Waves

 Notes: Waves

Web tutorial

 video: Waves

Rubens tube video

video break glass with sound

13th unit:  Optics

Notes: Optics

Web tutorial

video on drawing ray diagrams

video on Youngs Double slit

Bill Nye concave/convex

E/M spectrum Song

 

All information on this website was believed to be correct at the time of publishing, however, the classroom teacher reserves the right to deviate from it at any time without notice as he sees fit.