AP 物理学 / 大学物理学 (アドバンスト プレースメント物理学)

This AP physics course offers topics that are mainly found in first-year college physics courses in North American Universities. This course advances students' understanding of concepts that are covered in North American high school physics. The current AP physics course tries to address the challenges learners encounter during the study of physics concepts and promotes the content that supports them. The major topics that will be discussed in this course include scientific measurement, kinetics in one dimension, kinetics in two or three dimensions, Newton's laws of motion, friction, circular motion, drag forces, gravitation, and Newton's synthesis, the curvature of space; black holes, conservation of energy, linear momentum. 

In my experience, when I teach science subjects I try to make the lessons more interactive. It makes the lesson more interesting for them and often leads to an interesting discussion, which helps them develop their communication skills, and also helps with a deeper understanding of the subject. One of my favorite teaching styles is the activity method. I encourage students to ask questions, think creatively, and find the answers. In my opinion, it is much more effective than simply giving them the right answers. Once they learn in this way, they tend to remember the lesson better, and it also helps them to develop a question. I am definitely ready to adapt to the conditions in the class, as well as to the subjects I cover.

** 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.**

The format of classes would be as follows:
Session One: INTRODUCTION, MEASUREMENT, ESTIMATING - The Nature of Science, Models, Theories, and Laws, Measurement and Uncertainty; Significant Figures, Units, Standards, and the SI System, Converting Units, Dimensions, and Dimensional Analysis.

Session Two: DESCRIBING MOTION: KINEMATICS IN ONE DIMENSION - Average Velocity, Instantaneous Velocity, Acceleration, Motion at Constant Acceleration, Solving Problems, Freely Falling Objects, Variable Acceleration; Integral Calculus, Graphical Analysis, and Numerical Integration.

Session Three: KINEMATICS IN TWO OR THREE DIMENSIONS; VECTORS - Addition of Vectors-Graphical Methods, Subtraction of Vectors, and Multiplication of a Vector by a Scalar, Adding Vectors by Components, Unit Vectors, Vector Kinematics, Projectile Motion, Solving Problems Involving Projectile Motion.

Session Four: DYNAMICS: NEWTON'S LAWS OF MOTION - Force, Newton's First Law of Motion, Mass, Newton's Second Law of Motion, Newton's Third Law of Motion, Weight-the Force of Gravity; and the Normal Force, Solving Problems with Newton's Laws: Free-Body Diagrams. 

Session Five: USING NEWTON'S LAWS: FRICTION, CIRCULAR MOTION, DRAG FORCES - Applications of Newton's Laws Involving Friction, Uniform Circular Motion-Kinematics, Dynamics of Uniform, Circular Motion, Highway Curves: Banked and Unbanked, Nonuniform Circular Motion, Velocity-Dependent Forces. 

Session Six: WORK AND ENERGY - Work Done by a Constant Force, Scalar Product of Two Vectors, Work Done by a Varying Force, Kinetic Energy, and the Work-Energy Principle, Kinetic Energy, and the Work-Energy Principle, Potential Energy, Other Forms of Energy and Energy Transformations; the Law of Conservation of Energy, Energy Conservation with Dissipative Forces: Solving Problems, Power.

Session Seven: CONSERVATION OF ENERGY - Conservative and Nonconservative Forces, Potential Energy, Mechanical Energy, and Its Conservation, Problem-Solving Using Conservation of Mechanical Energy, The Law of Conservation of Energy, Energy Conservation with Dissipative Forces: Solving Problems, Gravitational Potential Energy and Escape Velocity, Power, Potential Energy Diagrams; Stable and Unstable Equilibrium.

Session Eight: Momentum - You will explore the relationship between force, time, and momentum and learn to use the law of conservation of momentum to analyze physical situations. Topics may include, Momentum and Impulse, Representations of Changes in Momentum, Open and Closed Systems: Momentum, and Conservation of Linear Momentum.

Session Nine:  Torque and Rotational Motion - You will study the motion of an object rotating around an axis and you’ll study torque, the measure of a force that can cause rotational motion. Topics include Rotational Kinematics, Torque, and Angular Acceleration, Angular Momentum and Torque, and Conservation of Angular Momentum.

Session Ten: ElECTROMAGNETIC WAVES - Changing Electric Fields Produce Magnetic Fields; Maxwell’s Equations, Production of Electromagnetic Waves, Light as an Electromagnetic Wave and the Electromagnetic Spectrum, Measuring the Speed of Light
Energy in EM Waves, Momentum Transfer, and Radiation Pressure, Radio, and Television; Wireless Communication, The Ray Model of Light, Reflection and Mirrors, Refraction, Snell’s Law, Total internal Reflection.