1. Class Website http://hortonscience.weebly.com/
Can be accessed directly as well as from the Spartans page

2. Classroom Procedures Pick up papers when you walk in the door.
Labs and other work will be collected at the beginning of class – please place in a stack near the stapler.
Partners are at your table.
Homework is posted on the board near the window.
The rotation schedule is posted above the boards.
Bathroom – no more than one student out at a time.

3. Course Outline Fall Term Winter Term Spring Term Content
Fall Term
Winter Term
Spring Term
Content
· Experimental Design · Newton's First Law · Linear Motion · Vectors
· Forces · Newton's Second and Third Laws · Momentum · Energy
· Rotational Motion · Gravity · Projectile Motion
· Waves · Sound
· Light and Optics · Electrostatics · Electric Fields · Electric Circuits
· Magnetism · Electromagnetic Induction · Quantum Atom · Relativity
Lab Experiences
· Inertia · Linear Speed and Acceleration · Free Fall · Translational Equilibrium
· Newton's Second Law · Impulse-Momentum · Friction · Collisions
· Roller Coaster · Catapults
· Oscillating Spring · Acceleration Due to Gravity · Speed of Sound
· Snell's Law · Mirrors and Lenses · Van de Graaf Generator · Electrostatics
· Circuit Design · Ohm's Law · Kirchoff's Laws

5. Brain Teasers No calculators allowed!
Let’s find out how just how smart you really are! 
No calculators allowed!
Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another Now add 30. Add another Now add 20. Now add another Now add 10. What is the total?
4100
If you overtake the second person in a race, what position would you be in?
Second

6. Brain Teasers
If you overtake the last person in a race, what position would you be in?
It is not possible
What is times 192 divided by 192?
192
Some months have 31 days. How many have 28?
All of them
Divide 30 by ½ and add 10. 70

7. What is physics? Physics is the most basic of all sciences.
It is about the nature of basic things such as motion, forces, energy, matter, heat, sound, light, and the structure of atoms.
Physics is a way we search for ways to explain, simplify, and predict phenomena in the natural world.

8. What is physics? Give two examples WITHOUT SAYING THE RULE
It is off but not on
It is cool but not cold
It is kitten but not cat
It is wall but not ceiling
It is Milwaukee but not Chicago
It is Illinois but not Wisconsin
It is nineteen but not twenty
It is three but not two
It is pepper but not salt
It is book but not text
It is tall but not short
It is knee but not elbow

9. What is physics?
Physics consists of a set of rules that govern the world around us.

10. Vibrations and wave phenomena
7 Branches of Physics
Mechanics
Motion and its causes, interactions between objects
Thermodynamics
Heat and temperature
Vibrations and wave phenomena
Specific types of repetitive motions – springs, pendulums, sound
Optics
Light, including mirrors, lenses, color
Electromagnetism
Electricity, magnetism, and light, including electrical charge, circuits, and magnets
Relativity
Particles moving at any speed, including very high speed
Quantum mechanics
Behavior of submicroscopic and subatomic particles