Advanced Physics is our most challenging physics course that parallels an introductory algebra-based college physics course. Major topics include kinematics, forces, energy, momentum, rotation, and simple harmonic motion. This is a rigorous, fast-paced course that also includes a significant laboratory component. In collaboration with their lab teams, students will have significant license in designing experimental procedures and in analyzing and explaining their data in ways that demonstrate a strong command of the underlying physics concepts. Students will also enrich their understanding of the physics concepts by learning how to create and explore computational models of physics phenomena using the VPython coding environment. This course assumes that students are comfortable with both algebra and trigonometry. To allow for the completion of college-level laboratory experiments, the course meets for an additional 70-minute block each week.

Prerequisite: Physics 9 or equivalent and departmental approval