Physics+ Education

Course Description:

Learn physics in an exciting, qualitative (math-free) way! We will cover deep concepts in the philosophy of physics, such as: What are space and time? Why does math work so well to model reality? Are there multiple realities? We will also explore fascinating history, including inventions of the ancient Greeks, how modern physics began with Newton, and the importance of the quantum revolution. Afterwards, we will dive into the different subfields of physics and learn about astrophysics, medical physics, and much more. All the while, we will do fun hands-on demonstrations and labs involving optics and lasers, using a spectrometer, experimenting with the classic pendulum, making a vacuum chamber, seeing radioactive particles, and watching liquid nitrogen make things levitate.

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Learn the details of how we can calculate rocket motion, launch missiles, generate electricity, and try to quantify and predict everything we see! These courses use much more math, but they give us a precise understanding of physics as a tool for predicting how things behave through mathematical models and correct reasoning. There are many labs and demonstrations, including finding the exact frequencies of oscillating motion, calculating the distance of a projectile, learning how hydraulics work, visualizing electric fields, building circuits, measuring magnetic forces, and much more.

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Course Description:

Learn the details of how we can calculate rocket motion, launch missiles, generate electricity, and try to quantify and predict everything we see! These courses use much more math, but they give us a precise understanding of physics as a tool for predicting how things behave through mathematical models and correct reasoning. There are many labs and demonstrations, including finding the exact frequencies of oscillating motion, calculating the distance of a projectile, learning how hydraulics work, visualizing electric fields, building circuits, measuring magnetic forces, and much more.

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We have always looked up at the heavens, but now you can learn a little more about their beauty. In this class, we will learn about the importance of space exploration in our past, present, and future; how the planets move and what we know about them; how the Sun works; why Pluto isn't a planet; and what else exists in our Solar System. How do astronomers learn about stars, galaxies, and black holes that are so far away? We will explore all of this while doing labs with lasers and optics, navigation, planetary simulations, gases and plasmas, and spectrometers. We will even go out at night, use large telescopes, and look at the sky ourselves!

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Who doesn't have a cool rock? But why does it look the way it does, and how does the Earth produce it? This course is as simple as a pile of rocks but as exciting as polished gemstones! Here, we will learn about earthquakes and seismic waves, plate tectonics, the many types and categories of minerals, crystals, and rocks, the gradual and dramatic processes of erosion, the many ways the Earth behaves electromagnetically, the complexities of weather and climate, and the careers geology can offer. We will also do hands-on labs looking at rocks under specialized microscopes, investigating magnetic materials, identifying minerals, and going outside to do field geology ourselves.

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