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Physical Science Course Syllabus
Physical Science Course Syllabus
Third Quarter
1. In The Beginning (Big Bang Theory and Formation of the Light Elements)
2. We Are All Made of Star Stuff (Formation of the Heavy Elements)
3. Atomos, Aristotle and Alchemy (Chemistry Before Modern History)
4. Not Indivisible (The Structure of the Atom)
5. Corpuscles to Chemical Atomic Theory (The Development of Atomic Theory)
6. Henry Moseley, the Atomic Number, and Synthesis of Elements
7. Polarity of Molecules
8. Intermolecular Forces
9. Structures, Properties, and Uses of Matter
10. Biological Macromolecules
Fourth Quarter
11. Chemical Change I
12. Chemical Change II
13. How Energy is Produced and Managed
14. Household Chemicals and PersonalCare Products
15. Ancient Greek physics and astronomy
16. Ancient Greek models of the Universe
17. Challenges to the Ptolemaic model of the Universe
18. Ptolemic, Copernican and Tychonic models of the Universe
19. The telescope of Galileo and the weakening of the two domains view
20. Tycho Brahe and Kepler’s Three Laws of Planetary Motion
21. Aristotelian and Galilean concepts of motion