Introduction to Course

Unit One-Mechanics

Kinematics

1) Distance and displacement

2) Speed, velocity, time

3) Graphs and constant velocity

4) Acceleration

5) Basic kinematic equations

6) Gravity, free falling objects

7) Graphical analysis of accelerating objects

8) Projectile motion

Dynamics

9) Vector quantities

10) Forces

11) Mass

12) Newton’s laws

13) Equilibrium

14) freebody diagrams

15) Friction

16) Momentum, conservation of momentum, impulse

Weathering and Erosion

17) Weathering (chemical and physical)

a)      conductivity

b)      acid/base reactions

18) Soil

19) Glaciers

20) Rivers and streams

21) Mapping

Astronomy

22) Kepler’s laws

23) Centripetal acceleration and force

24) Law of Gravitation

25) Moons

26) Planets

a.      Earth

b.      Sun and Stars

Work and Energy

27) Hooke’s law

28) Conservation of Energy

29) Internal Energy/Thermodynamics

30) Kinetic theory

31) Kinetic vs Potential Energy

32) Heat Gain and Nature of Material

33) Energy of chemical bonds

34) States of matter

35) Gas laws

Applications of Thermodynamics – Weather

36) What determines weather?

37) Atmosphere

38) Water and atmosphere

39) Atmosphere in motion

40) Weather and climate

Oceanography

41) Waves