High school Definition and 720 Threads

As exam time is right around the corner I'm looking to "brush up" on the cirriculum of my physics 11 course... I have looked at many of the university videos on here, and although they are very interesting and broaden my physics perspective, they are far out of the scope of my course, so that...

I'm having a great deal of trouble finding resources for high school level wave tutorials, every tutorial i come across is either poorly made or more into physics 12 or first year university stuff. If anyone could link me a site or article it would be much appreciated...

Hi there. I'm having issues with a high school lab that deals with acceleration of objects down inclined planes. At the top of my lab questions, there's a simple diagram (just a triangle with a rectangle on the hypotenuse, representing a cart), and one of the questions pertains to it: What is...

I'm a senior in High School, and took BC Calculus as a Junior and this last semester a 1-semester Calc 1&2 honors class, mainly for those those who took AB in High School at the University of Utah. (It's surprising how bad you can do on the AP test and still get a 5). I'm signed up for the next...

Several friends and I have a great yet unexplored interest in Astrophysics, and interesting Math not taught in the typical high school course. We have decided on forming a discussion based "club" (we will read/do research in between discussions) to help us learn more deeply and efficiently. I am...

my class is doing the typical soup cna race this friday, and i am in desperate need of suggestions! we have to come up with the fastest and slowest cans, both stock and modified. Modified can include basically any addition or alteration to the can excepting the addition of motors

Hi, I just fininshed Algebra I and I am about to start algebra II I plan to be a physics professer one day, so when do I start taking some sort of high school physics? I would like to take some now but I do not know if I have enough math yet. Can anyone help? Thanks!

Today I asked an upper-classman friend of mine what she was doing currently in pre-calculus. She told me she's doing differentiation, I woulda guessed that. However, she has a friend in calculus AP and I asked her what they did in AP, if she knew, since I'm planning on taking AP calculus my...

Hi, uhh, well I don't exactly know how to start here. I am a sophomore in high school and I am really interested in astronomy and physics, so obviously this was the first place for me to look. The thing is though, I don't know that much about neither astronomy or physics (due to my counselor not...

My sister has a high school competition to make a miniature rocket that shoots up - where the highest reaching rocket wins. The best Idea I can think of is using * a two liter pepsi/coke bottle and have a system to drop a whole roll of mentos into it * hopefully without tearing the...

Why did textbooks (when I was in high school 5 1/2 years ago) always associate photons with the visible light part of the EM spectrum. Wouldn't the radio, x-ray, gamma, etc. areas of the spectrum exist as photons too? What about the transverse waves; would it not form a helix shape instead of...

Hello everyone, I'm in the last year of high school and I need to decide what I'm going to do after. I'm thinking of getting a B.Sc. in either Physics or Math. I'm not sure what I want to do for job but I really like learning about Physics and Math so I don't think it would be wasted. I went...

Hi i am in my last year of high skool. I'll be joinin college next yr in the usa. I was wonderin wat are the most developing and well paid fields in biology.

So, since this is my first post on this forum I'd like to say hello to everyone. This year SAT-like exams are introduced in my school so I want to revise all the material from these 4 years of high-school education. I've tried Serway's book - it's nice, I can understand it completely, but I...

Hi, i need help with my high school ap physics class. I'm using the college physics fifth edition book. Also are there any guides that can help me with the class with that book as the guideline. thanks

An example of the work he's trying to do is: 1. A stream's current has a velocity of 10 km/hr. You and a friend are trying to paddle upstream at 6 kn/hr. What is the resulting velocity. 2. My problem is that I cannot find the formula or equation that he needs to figure out the...

Can someone give me the English definitions to the following words and phrases right quick? I started Spanish this semester and I pretty much suck at it... el borrador la pizarra la regla Que es? Que hay en...? It's some worksheet my crazy teacher gave us...except the definitions...

http://kr.cs.ait.ac.th/~radok/math/mat/intro.htm Loads of useful links in maths and physics, and easy referencing to quickly find what you want.

i am currently momentum, work, energy and power in physics and i am currently confused in a few concepts. This question states that: A car with mass 1500kg accelerates from 0 to 100km/hr in 4 seconds. calculate the power output of the car. -- My teacher states to solve this question...

Greetings ladies and gentlemen, I'm a high schooler, currently involved with a project regarding water-bottle rockets. My goal is to measure the force output of various water-air ratios of a water-rocket through force-sensors, and from that determine the maximum height reached by the rocket...

I'm currently a rising High School Junior and I'm wondering if it is worth it to take as many classes as you can during your High School years to find out what you truly enjoy. So far, I've taken Physics and I loved it but I've heard that you need to combine 2 subjects, for example, Physics and...

Excuse me, since the question could be misplaced to this board while a better forum board might fit: Why is Geometry in High School, the college preparatory course, important for any PRACTICAL puposes, when Intermediate Algebra, Trig+Math Analysis, and Statistics seem so much more practical...

Hello. I have heard many things about high school teaching in USA schools. I would like to know if any of the high school teachers can please guide me how is it to be a high school teacher in school in US. Also if at all I want to knw abt the syllabus are the physics high school and secondary...

Or, to write the question in slightly fuller form: Assuming a sufficient level of interest and competence, and very good teachers, could a high school student today understand the calculus better than Newton or Leibniz ever did in their lifetimes? And if not a high school student, then maybe...

I'm thinking of becoming a High School Teacher, perhaps in math or science. I've heard a lot of rumors about the job, but are there any High School Teachers who could tell me more about the nature of the job? What's the reality? Is the low pay hard to live on? Is it a very demanding job? Is...

EDIT: I'm extremelly sorry, i just noticed the sticky above my post saying not to post homework qustions in the forum. Dear Physics Forums, I am a 16 year old high school student currently doing year 11 physics. To do this weekend we were givin an exercise sheet with various questions...

Homework Statement I am working on a correspondence grade 12 Chemistry Course and I am confused by one question. I did an experiment involving hydrochloric acid (HCl) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH). Here is the question: "In a reaction, Na+ ions are separated from OH- ions, a process of...

I was wondering if you guys had any recommendations for a good C book (not C++ or C#), they are very heavily outnumbered by C++ books but i wanted to know if you guys knew any that were good in particular for high school level students.

I'm a high school student living in southeastern Wisconsin primarily interested in physics and I was wondering if any of you had information about good extracurricular physics organizations. I'm especially looking for something where I would get to socialize with other kids in the organization...

I'm getting my phyiscs bachelors in december. My original plan was to go all the way and get a PhD but I just can't keep staying in school that long. I realize graduate students get stipends, but I fear that won't be enough to support my family. I always enjoyed tutoring. I just love...

I will be graduating from high school this June and I don't really have any plans for summer. Some of my friends and classmates from high school are planning to take summer jobs and some are doing summer session and some are doing both. Right now, I'm thinking about whether to take classes at...

A 0.0025 mol/L solution of KHCrO4 has a pH of 3.50. Calculate the acid dissociation constant (Ka) for the equilibrium between HCrO4(-) and CrO4(2-). Thanks!:smile:

Hi.. New at this site, hope I'm posting these stuff on the write place... well i had these question below for review for an exam, hope someone can help me solve them, i did my solution in Paint program and on paper and am linking where i uploaded them, ( image shack) -Find the second...

Homework Statement Find pH of solution A and that of Solution C with the following information below: Solution A:50ml of 0.100 M solution of weak monoprotic acid HX Solution B: 0.0500M solution of salt NaX. It has a pH of 10.02 Solution C: made by adding 15.0m; of 0.250 M KOH to solution...

building a circuit?? - easy high school project...sorta Ok so my teacher just walks in one day (w/o any syllabus or assignment sheet) and tells us to build a circuit that would cause a lightbulb to flash on and off. He specified that the cicuit can't be made by buying something that was...

This year I am a sophomore in High School taking Algebra II. Since I got a B this year in honors English, I decided to self teach myself Precalcus(Math Analysis) with the hopes of taking AP Calculus BC my Junior year. I want to impress the colleges,chiefly The Wharton School of Finance, with...

I have several questions hoping someone could help me. I am nearing the end of my 10th grade year. I realized I should start thinking about college soon so I taughted myself calculus from Howard Anton's book called Calculus with Analytic Geometry last month hoping I could test out of...

Hello, I am a freshman in High School currently, I am in precalculus. I am intending to skip Calculus I over the summer. I know my school will test me with the AB Calculus APexam and I was planning on taking Calculus I through Columbia University's Summer Session. Will this be enough...

Hi everybody. I'm just wondering what kind of marks (in %) would be enough to consider a career in Theoretical Physics. It's an area I've become interested in, though I'm only in Grade 10, so things might change by the end of high school. I have a 97% in "Pure" Math 10, which is the toughest...

Hey guys I am looking for some ideas of projects to do for a physics class. It is for the last year of high school. I am open to all kinds of ideas, feel free to share them :)

Homework Statement Find the area of the shaded region. Leave your answer in terms of pi. The circle has a right triangle inside of it, with the leg length of 18ft. Area of a shaded region of a circle = Area of a sector of a circle minus the Area of the triangle. Homework Equations...

Hello everyone, I'm currently a Junior in high school, and i want to go to school for physics when i graduate. I'm planning my classes for next year, the ones that are of concern to what i intend to major in are: AP Calculus BC, AP Physics 1,2 (mechanics (1) and electricity and magnetism...

Hello, I took EE at University.. working on my master's right now (advanced control for electric power steering system). Kind of wanted to always teach, and here in Ontario, teachers are paid fairly well. Plus I can teach math / senior math as well as physics. Anyway, looking at the...

Hi I am a sophmore and I am taking physics. Its soming i have always want to do. I am thinking about taking it in college as a major. I am looking for a college in a big city that would be good for physics. I Have a 3.5 but play many sports and am involved in many extra things in and out of...

hi. my name is corey, and for my high school project, my group and i are trying to incorporate RFID tags into the lock and ignition system in automobiles. we are having truoble building/designing the RF tags. any feedback would be greatly appreciated. thanks

Hi, I'm in Chemistry AP and the teacher highly recommends to study in parallel with a book of our choice. Is there a book out there that covers extensively topics such as quantum numbers, quantum notation, molecular geometry in 3 dimension, hybridization, intra-molecular geometry, etc... ...

I am in the eight grade, and I am wondering whether I should take Physics in High School (HS) next year, or study over the summer and take the AP exam to get out of it. Please note that my grades in my science class (Integrated Physics and Chemistry or just I.P.C) over the last 2 grading...

I'm in my Senior Year, and our school is very Athletic, provinical/national champions in practically everything. We don't have any academic clubs whatsoever. I have been planning to start a math club since 10th grade with my Math Teacher. We decided we better do it this year...since next...

Help with "Simple" High School Physics Hey, does anyone know how to find the momentum when you only have mass and height?

Well, my chemistry teacher is extremely confusing, and wants us to create our own lab where we figure out the enthalpy changes in a chemical reaction. Is there are reaction out there that would give a considerable change in temperature, while using chemicals typically found in a high school? As...