The Ogburn Online School

Physics – 1.0 credit

Course Description:

Physics covers the basic concepts, principles, and history of physics. Course topics will include selected topics in mechanics, heat, light, sound, electricity, magnetism, and modern physics to include velocity, acceleration, force, inertia, mass, work, energy (kinetic, potential, etc.) momentum (linear and angular), gravity, tides, power, pressure, density, temperature, thermal expansion, heat, specific heat capacity, waves, sound, electric charge, current, magnetism, electromagnetic waves (including light), photons, and radioactivity; types of motion, Newton's Laws (including his Universal Law of Gravitation), the conservation laws of physics, the laws of electricity and magnetism.