Esta clase se imparte en Inglés.

. Learners will discover how to use representations and models to communicate scientific phenomena and solve scientific problems. The real world is extremely complex. When physicists describe and explain phenomena, they try to simplify real objects, systems, and processes to make the analysis manageable. These simplifications or models are used to predict how new phenomena will occur. 

. Learners will unearth and use mathematics appropriately. Learners will understand the connections between the mathematical description, the physical phenomena, and the concepts represented in the mathematical descriptions. 

. The learners will engage in scientific questioning to extend thinking or to guide investigations within the context of the AP course.
Research scientists pose and answer meaningful questions. Learners may easily miss this point since, depending on how science is taught, it may seem that science is about compiling and passing down a large body of known facts (e.g., the acceleration of free-falling).

.  The learner will implement data collection strategies appropriate for a particular scientific question. The question posed will determine the type of data to be collected and will influence the plan for collecting data. 

. The learner will conduct an analysis and evaluation of the evidence. learners often think that to make a graph they need to connect the data points or that the best-fit function is always linear. Thus, it is important that they can construct a best-fit curve even for data that do not fit a linear relationship (such as quadratic or exponential functions). Students should be able to represent data points as intervals whose size depends on the experimental uncertainty. 

. The learners can work with scientific explanations and theories. Scientific explanations may specify a cause-and-effect relationship between variables or describe a mechanism through which a particular phenomenon occurs. A scientific explanation, accounting for an observed phenomenon, needs to be experimentally testable. 

. The learner will be able to connect and relate knowledge across various scales, concepts, and representations in and across domains. Learners should have the opportunity to transfer their learning across disciplinary boundaries so that they are able to link, synthesize, and apply the ideas they learn across the sciences and mathematics. 

Through this course, learners will specifically obtain the following abilities:
. The learner will be able to express the motion of an object using narrative, mathematical, and graphical representations.

. The learner will be able to analyze experimental data describing the motion of an object and is able to express the results of the analysis using narrative, mathematical, and graphical representations.

. The student is able to represent forces in diagrams or mathematically using appropriately labeled vectors with magnitude, direction, and units during the analysis of a situation.

. The learner is able to analyze a scenario and make claims (develop arguments, justify assertions) about the forces exerted on an object by other objects for different types of forces or components of forces.

. The learner is able to analyze data to characterize the change in momentum of an object.

. The student is able to apply the concepts of Conservation of Energy to determine qualitatively and/or quantitatively that work done will change the kinetic energy, the potential energy of the systems, and/or the internal energy of the system.

. The learner is able to describe a representation and use it to analyze a situation in which several forces exerted on a rotating system of rigidly connected objects change the angular velocity and angular momentum of the system.

I have many years of experience teaching AP and SAT courses in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.

1 - 2 horas semanales fuera de clase
Tareas
Frecuencia: 1-2 durante toda la clase
Comentario: según sea necesario
Detalles: Multiple-choice and free-response questions will be given to confirm the proper comprehension of the material. I will check their answers in the next following class.
Evaluación
Frecuencia: 1 después de finalizar la clase
Detalles: Student knowledge will be assessed through problem set assignments, tests, and exams. Exams are modeled that include multiple-choice and free-response questions. 

Students attending this course should have successfully completed some high school courses in physics. I expect to see more senior high learners in this class.

1. Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics 4th Edition by Randall Knight.
2. Physics: Principles with Applications (7th Edition) - Standalone book 7th Edition by Douglas Giancoli. 
3. Foundations of Modern Physics 1st Edition by Steven Weinberg.