Science Ages 14-18 ● Media ready

High school physics

Explore the behavior of the universe including forces and motion, energy, electromagnetism, and light. Explain phenomena from the grand scale of stars and planets down to the subatomic world of charged particles.

9 units 40 lessons 28 videos 6 on CDN

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Unit 2 Motion and forces

1 Describing motion Free 1 video(s) ● 3 Forces Free 2 video(s) ● 4 Newton's first and second laws 🔒 Pro 3 video(s) ● 5 Activity: How do engineers design strong bridges? 🔒 Pro 8 Nuclear physics: Unit test 🔒 Pro

Unit 3 Force pairs and momentum

1 Newton's third law 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 2 Momentum 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 4 Impulse 🔒 Pro 5 Activity: How do engineers design safety cushions to save lives? 🔒 Pro

Unit 4 Gravitation

1 Newton's law of gravitation 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 2 Falling objects 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 4 Orbital motion 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 5 Activity: Why is a Neptune year so long? 🔒 Pro

Unit 5 Electrostatics

1 Coulomb's law 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 2 Static electricity 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 3 Activity: Why do clothes develop static cling in a dryer? 🔒 Pro

Unit 6 Energy

1 Kinetic and potential energy 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 3 Conservation of energy 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 4 Activity: How do engineers design roller coasters? 🔒 Pro 5 Work and power 🔒 Pro 1 video(s)

Unit 7 Electromagnetics

1 Voltage and current 🔒 Pro 2 Magnetic field due to current 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 4 Electric motors 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 6 Electromagnetic induction 🔒 Pro 7 Activity: How can motion produce electricity? 🔒 Pro 8 Electric generators 🔒 Pro 2 video(s)

Unit 8 Electromagnetic radiation

1 The electromagnetic spectrum 🔒 Pro 2 Wave behaviors of EM radiation 🔒 Pro 3 video(s) 3 Activity: Why do optical discs reflect rainbow colors? 🔒 Pro 5 Particle behaviors of EM radiation 🔒 Pro 6 Activity: How can starlight reveal the elements in a star? 🔒 Pro 7 EM radiation from the Sun 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 8 Activity: How do carbon dioxide and albedo affect how Earth interacts with sunlight? 🔒 Pro

Unit 9 Nuclear physics

1 Radioactive decay 🔒 Pro 2 Half-life 🔒 Pro 3 Activity: How do we know when dinosaurs lived on Earth? 🔒 Pro 5 Nuclear fusion 🔒 Pro 6 Nuclear fission 🔒 Pro

Unit 10 Teacher resources

1 Unit guides 🔒 Pro 2 Hands-on physics activities 🔒 Pro