FEU ALABANG

Senior High School Program

Topic Schedule
Subject: Total number of Hours Semester : S.Y. :
General Physics 100 Hrs 1st Semester 2019 - 2020
Subject Description:
This course explores topics on mechanics of particles, rigid bodies, and fluids; waves; and heat and
thermodynamics; electricity and magnetism; optics; the basics of special relativity, atomic and nuclear phenomena
using the methods and concepts of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, graphical analysis, and basic calculus.

Weekly Schedule
Week Day Topic/Lesson Content Week Day Topic/Lesson Content
Orientation to the Course and Syllabus Electricity
 Electric Charge
1 21
Introductory Concepts in Physics  Insulators and Conductors
 Measurement  Coulomb’s Law
 Metric Prefixes and Scientific Notation  Electric Forces and Fields
1 11
 Significant Figures  Electric Field Calculations
 Uncertainties and Errors in
2 22
Measurement
 Uncertainty of Derived Quantities
 Variable Relationships
One-dimensional Kinematics Electric Potential and Gauss’ Law
 Reference Frame, Distance and  Electric Potential Energy
Displacement  Electric Potential
3 23
 Speed, Velocity and Acceleration  Equipotential Surfaces and Gauss’ Law
 Freely Falling Objects  Electric Field as a Potential Gradient
2 12
 Motion Problems Involving Kinematic
Equations Capacitance and Dielectrics
 Graphical Analysis of Linear Motion  Capacitance and Capacitors
4 24
 Dielectrics

Two-and Three-dimensional Kinematics Current, Resistance, and Electromotive Force

 Vectors and Scalars  Current, Resistivity, and Resistance
 Dot Product and Scalar Product  Ohm’s Law
5  Projectile Motion 25  Energy and Power in Electric Circuits
 Circular Motion  Electrical Safety
3  Relative Velocity 13  Devices for Measuring Current and
Voltages
Dynamics of Motion  Experiments on Ohmic and non-Ohmic
6  Newton’s Law of Motion 26 Materials
 Applications of Newton’s Laws of
Motion
Direct-Current Circuits
 Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation
 Resistors in Series and Parallel
7 27  Kirchhoff’s Rules
 R-C Circuits
Work, Energy, and Energy Conservation
4  Work 14
 Energy
8  Work-Energy Theorem 28
 Law of Conservation of Mechanical
Energy
 Power
Center of Mass, Momentum, Impulse, and Force Due to Magnetic Fields and Sources of
Collisions Magnetic Fields
 Center of Mass  Magnetic Fields
 Momentum and Impulse  Lorentz Force
9 29
 Impulse-Momentum Theorem  Motion of Charge Particles in Electric
 Collisions and the Law of Conservation and Magnetic Fields
of Linear Momentum  Magnetic forces on Current Carrying
5 15 Wires
Rotational Equilibrium and Rotational  Biot-Savart Law
Dynamics  Ampere’s Law
 Rotational Motion
10  Moment of Inertia and Rotational 30
Kinetic Energy
 Torque and Angular Acceleration
 Angular Momentum
6 Fluid Mechanics 16 Magnetic Induction
 Fluid Mechanics  Magnetic Induction
11  Introductory Fluid Concepts 31  Faraday’s Law
 Fluid in Motion
12 32 Lights as an Electromagnetic Wave
 FEU ALABANG
Senior High School Program

Topic Schedule
Subject: Total number of Hours Semester : S.Y. :
General Physics 100 Hrs 1st Semester 2019 - 2020
 Maxwell’s Synthesis of Electricity,
Magnetism, and Optics
 EM Waves and Light
 Law of Reflection
 Law of Refraction (Snell’s Law)
 Dispersion
 Polarization (Malus’s Law)
 Applications of Reflection, Refraction,
Dispersion, and Polarization

Heat and Temperature Geometric Optics

 Heat and Temperature Basics  Reflection and Refraction at Plane and
 Thermal Equilibrium and The Zeroth Spherical Surfaces
Law of Thermodynamics  Mirrors
13 33
 Thermal Expansion  Thin Lens
 Quantity of Heat  Geometric Optics
 Mechanisms of Heat Transfer  Image Formation Experiments
7 17
Thermodynamics Interference and Diffraction
 Thermodynamic Systems  Huygens’ Principle
 Laws of Thermodynamics  Two-source Interference of Light
14 34
 Intensity in Interference Patterns
 Interference in Thin Films

Periodic Motion Relativity

15  Periodic Motion 35  Postulates of Special Relativity
 Simple and Physical Pendulums  Relativity of Times and Lengths
8  Damped Oscillation 18  Relativistic Velocity Addition
 Relativistic Doppler Effect
16 36

Mechanical Waves and Sounds Atomic and Nuclear Phenomena

 Mechanical Waves  Photoelectric Effect
17  Periodic Waves 37  Atomic Spectra
 Sound Waves  Radioactive Decay
 Experiments on Atomic and Nuclear
9 19
Phenomena
 Applications of Atomic and Nuclear
18 38 Concepts

19 39
10 First Quarterly Exam 20 Second Quarterly Exam
20 40
Prepared by: Evaluated by : Approved by:
Hadji C. Alegre, Ph.D.
Faculty-in-Charge Subject Group Head
Date: Date: Date: