COURSE OUTLINE SCIENCE IV PHYSICS CHAPTER 1 ENERGY FOR THE FUTURE Sun and Wind Power Energy from

m Water Energy from Biomass CHAPTER 2 LIGHT RAYS AND REFLECTIONS What is Light? The Speed of Light The Transmission of Light The Pinhole Camera Laws of Reflection Images in a Plane Mirror Applications: Plane Mirrors CHAPTER 3 REFRACTION OF LIGHT Refraction Index of Refraction Laws of Refraction Snells Law A General Equation Total Internal Reflection and the Critical Angle Applications: Refraction CHAPTER 4 LENSES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Lenses Refraction in Lenses Images Formed by Converging Lenses Image Formed by Diverging Lenses The Thin Lenses Equations The Camera The Human Eye Defects in Vision and Their Correction Application: Lenses

CHAPTER 5 INVESTIGATING NEW RAYS Cathode Rays Thermionic Effect Applications: Cathode Rays X-rays Appications: X-rays Radioactivity Detectors of Radioactivity Units of Redioactivity CHAPTER 6 INVESTIGATING THE ATOM Early Ideas about the Atom The Discovery of the Nucleus: Rutherfords Experiment The Bohr Model of the Atom Another Look at the Nature of Light Atoms and Lights Applications: Lasers CHAPTER 7 INVESTIGATING THE NUCLEUS Whats in the Nucleus? Natural Transmutations Decay Rate and Half-life Applications: Radioactive Dating Chadwicks Discovery of the Neutron Neutron Transmutation The Neutrino The Position and Antiparticles Artificial Transmutation Classifying Elementary Particles Quarks The Stuff of Matter Writing Nuclear Reactions Applications: Artificial Radioisotopes

CHAPTER 8 NUCLEAR ENERGY Mass: Energy Relationships in Nuclear Reactions Nuclear Fission The First Reaction and The First Atomic Bombs Nuclear Power Reactors By-products of Nuclear Power Nuclear Fusion Nuclear Energy An answer or a Challenge CHAPTER 9 CURRENT ELECTRICITY Moving Electrons: Electric Current Electric Potential Producing Electric Potential Energy Applications: Electrical Energy CHAPTER 10 ELECTRIC CIRCUITS Electric Circuits Circuit Symbols Resistance in Electric Circuits Resistance in Series and in Parallel Electric Circuit Analysis Power in Electric Circuits CHAPTER 11 ELECTROMAGNETISM Electricity and Magnetism Oersteds Discovery The Magnetic Field of a Coil or Solenoid Factors Affecting the Magnetic Field of a Coil Applications: Electromagnetism Conductor in a Magnetic Field The Motor Principle Applications: The Motor Principle

CHAPTER 12 ELECTROMAGNETIC CONDUCTION The Electromagnetic Age Faradays Discovery The Magnitude of the Induced Electric Potential The Direction of the Induced Current: Lenzs Law ElectricalGeneratos: AC and DC The Victory of Alernating Current: The Transformer Distribution of Electrical Energy CHAPTER 13 WORK, POWER AND ENERGY Work Power Another Unit for Work Energy Gravitational Potential Energy Kinetic Energy Conservation of Energy Machines Efficiency CHAPTER 14 NEWTONS LAWS OF MOTIONS Galileo Looks at Force and Motion Newtons First Law (The Law of Inertia) Newtons Second Law: Motion with Unbalanced Forces Newtons Third Law Using Newtons Laws Motion and Momentum Momentum and Impulse Coversation of Momentum

CHAPTER 15 THERMAL ENERGY Kinetic Theory of Matter Temperature Thermal Expansion