Advanced Physics: Electricity & Magnetism One Semester (Offered Second Semester) Prerequisites: Honors Physics or Classical Mechanics with concurrent Calculus AND Science Department recommendation This course will introduce and elaborate on concepts in electricity and magnetism. Students will collaboratively explore concepts such as Coulomb’s Law, Gauss’ Law, electric potential and electric potential energy, capacitance, combination circuits, magnetic fields, and electromagnetism through inquiry-based investigation and problem-solving. Students will apply their knowledge in the lab with a significant amount of electronics. This course will require significant use of trigonometry, complex algebraic problem solving techniques, computational coding, and differential and integral calculus. The course content will promote growth of science skills in modeling, collaborating, investigating, coding, technical reporting, and engineering solutions.
Kinesiology: Exercise Physiology & Motor Control One Semester (Offered Second Semester) Prerequisites: Kinesiology: Biomechanics or equivalent In Kinesiology: Exercise Physiology & Motor Control students will have the opportunity to study human movement from a variety of perspectives. This course will focus on exercise physiology and how hormones, cardiovascular health, and metabolism are impacted by varying degrees of daily and athletic activities. Other units include health and fitness, and motor control and development. The content of this course will help promote skills used when commonly exploring or treating the human body and how the numerous systems of the human body work together to create movement and to repair itself. The topics used to develop these skills will include a deeper understanding of anatomy and medical terminology, what an undergraduate kinesiology program entails, and necessary injury treatment and prevention. Students will deepen their understanding of the human body through studies in exercise physiology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and biomedical research. Students will also have the opportunity to research the different ways neural and behavioral mechanisms impact human body movement over the lifespan of all people. Advanced Physics: Calculus Based Mechanics One Semester (Offered First Semester) Prerequisites: Honors Physics or Classical Mechanics with concurrent Calculus AND Science Department recommendation Calculus Based Mechanics more fully develops the concepts covered in Classical Mechanics and the first semester of Honors Physics. The pace is fast, and the use of calculus is integral. Through collaborative lab and problem-solving, and computational coding, students explore the mechanics concepts of one and two-dimensional motion, Newton’s laws of motion, mechanical energy, momentum, rotational motion, rotational kinematics, simple harmonic motion, and gravitation. The course content will promote growth of science skills in modeling, collaborating, investigating, coding, technical reporting, and engineering solutions.
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