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Class Outline
- Scientific Method – involves investigation, measuring, use of scientific tools.
- Motion and Energy – involves speed, velocity, momentum, acceleration, and deceleration.
- Force and Motion – involves Newton’s Laws, gravity, friction, balanced/unbalanced forces, potential/kinetic energy, energy conversion and laws of conservation of energy.
- Work, Machines and Energy – involves work, power, simple/complex machines, ideal/real mechanical advantage and efficiency.
- Properties of Matter – involves states of matter, density, general/specific properties of matter and physical/chemical properties of matter.
- Heat Energy – involves temperature, heat, thermal energy, heat transfer, insulation and specific heat capacity.
- Wave Behavior – involves transverse/compression waves. Refraction, diffraction, reflection and interference of waves.
- Behavior of Gases – involves pressure, volume and temperature of gases. Boyle’s and Charles’s Laws.
- Solution Chemistry – involves solutes, solvents, solutions and the factors that affect solutions.
- Atoms, Elements and Compounds – involves the atomic structure, element identification, isotopes and formation of compounds.
- Introduction to the Periodic table – involves symbols of elements, arrangement of table, trends and relationships within the table.
- Chemical Bonding – involves ionic and covalent bonding.
- Electricity and Magnetism – involves static/flowing electricity, current, resistance, voltage and factors which cause magnetic fields.
- Acids, Bases and Salts – involves identification of acids, bases and salts.
- Chemical Reactions – involves identifying types of reactions.
- Nuclear Chemistry – involves energy within the nucleus, radioactivity, fission and fusion.
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