Virginia Standards of Learning: Physics

Course Description

PH.1 Plan and conduct investigations in which:
PH.2 Analyze and interpret data. Key concepts include:
PH.3 Scientific reasoning and logic.  Key concepts include:
PH.4 How applications of physics affect the world.  Key concepts include:
PH.5 Interrelationships among mass, distance, force, and time. Key concepts include:
PH.6 Mass, energy, momentum, and charge are conserved. Key concepts include:
PH.7 Properties of fluids. Key concepts include:
PH.8 Energy can be transferred and transformed. Key concepts include:
PH.9 Models of transverse and longitudinal waves.  Key concepts include
PH.10 The electromagnetic spectrum. Key concepts include:
PH.11 Light: reflection, refraction, and image formation. Key concepts include:
PH.12 The field concept: gravitational, electric, and magnetic. Key concepts include:
PH.13 Basic electrical circuits. Key concepts include:
PH.14 Non-Newtonian physics. Key concepts include:

Note:  SOLs PH.1 through PH.4 will be emphasized throughout the year.

Textbook

Physics, Serway and Faughn, Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 2006.

Made 14 July 2006
by Lori Andersen.