Richard Reeves rreeves@pendletonschool.org Office: Classroom 131 Office Hours: Directed Learning - Mondays 6:30 - 8:30 PM Please see the "TEACHER" link for my mission statement and background information on Mr. Reeves. Physics Curriculum: The Physics Course curriculum is built on the most recent edition of the widely acclaimed Conceptual Physics text book, written by Paul Hewitt. This is an excellent, readable text for a first course in Physics - possibly the best introductory physics text book ever written. An outline of the material we will cover this semester appears below: Physics Course Outline First Semester Table of Contents I. MECHANICS 1. About Science (Sept) 2. Newton's First Law of Motion: Inertia (Sept) 3. Linear Motion (Sept) 4. Newton's Second Law of Motion: Force and Acceleration (Nov) 5. Newton's Third Law of Motion: Action and Reaction (Nov) 6. Momentum (Dec) 7. Energy (Dec) 8. Rotational Motion (Dec)