Curriculum Guide
This site represents a teacher resource developed for the content in the original PhysicsLAB which existed from 1997 to 2003. All of its entries now link to updated pages in the current, redesigned PhysicsLAB. Browse 21 units of instruction and 10 content areas — designed to help students build progressively on prior physics knowledge.
Starting in 2004, all newly developed curricular materials can be accessed through PhysicsLAB's Table of Contents, also arranged by units. All content can be searched.
Units of Instruction
- 1.Introductory Metrics
- 2.Kinematics and Graphical Analysis of Motion
- 3.Freefall and Projectiles
- 4.Newton's Laws, Forces, and Freebody Diagrams
- 5.Work and Energy
- 6.Linear Momentum
- 7.Uniform Circular Motion and SHM
- 8.Vertical Circular Motion
- 9.Torque and Rotational Motion
- 10.Waves and Vibrations
- 11.Sound
- 12.Refraction
- 13.Lenses
- 14.Reflection and Mirrors
- 15.Physical Optics
- 16.Electrostatics
- 17.DC Circuits
- 18.Magnetism and Induction
- 19.Thermodynamics
- 21.Modern Physics
- 22.Atomic and Nuclear Physics
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