If you are absent, please email me to get any notes or other materials you may have missed. Homework is always posted on the homework board in our classroom. Schedules for midterms and finals will be distributed in class as well as posted here when they are available.
Mechanical Waves & Sound
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Vocabulary:
mechanical wave medium crest trough compression rarefaction period frequency wavelength amplitude transverse wave longitudinal wave surface wave seismic wave |
Plate Tectonics
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Vocabulary:
fault tectonic plate continental drift Alfred Wegener Lithosphere Crust Asthenosphere Mantle Pangaea Sea-floor spreading Rifting Mid-Ocean Ridge |
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Vocabulary:
electromagnetic waves photons electromagnetic spectrum electric field magnetic field thermograms transparent translucent opaque dispersion hertz |
Electricity & Magnetism
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Vocabulary:
static electricity induction direct current alternating current conductor insulator resistance voltage Ohm's Law electric circuit series circuit parallel circuit semiconductor magnetic field magnetosphere solenoid electromagnet ferromagnetic material |