General High School Physics
No performance-expectation codes to decode — a plain topic-by-topic sequence that works for any classroom, including the many states that haven't adopted NGSS by name.
Standards names and details may remain in English in non-English interfaces.
Motion & kinematics
Position, velocity, acceleration, and projectile motion.
Core
Forces & Newton's laws
Forces, free-body diagrams, and Newton's laws of motion.
Core
Work, energy & power
Work, kinetic and potential energy, and power.
Core
Momentum & collisions
Impulse, momentum, and elastic and inelastic collisions.
Core
Rotation, gravitation & orbits
Torque, circular motion, gravitation, and orbital ideas.
Core
Fluids & pressure
Pressure, buoyancy, and fluid flow.
Core
Heat, temperature & gas laws
Temperature, heat transfer, and ideal gas behavior.
Core
- Ideal gas sandbox →
- Kinetic theory sandbox →
- Isothermal compression →
- Isobaric heating →
- Isochoric heating →
- Adiabatic expansion →
- Hot & cold mixing →
- Conduction bar →
- Carnot cycle →
- Otto cycle →
- Refrigerator (reversed Carnot) →
- Stirling cycle →
- Isothermal expansion — entropy change →
- Reversible Carnot cycle — entropy →
Waves & sound
Wave properties, interference, standing waves, and sound.
Core
Electricity & DC circuits
Current, voltage, resistance, and circuit analysis.
Core
Magnetism & electromagnetism
Magnetic fields, induction, and electromagnetic interactions.
Core
- One positive source charge →
- Electric dipole →
- Line charge field →
- Parallel-plate capacitor →
- Isolated conducting sphere →
- Same C in a circuit →
- Charge in B field →
- Current-carrying wire →
- Solenoid field →
- Changing magnetic flux (ΔB) →
- Changing loop area (ΔA) →
- Faraday–Lenz (ΔB + ΔA) →
- RLC at resonance →
- RLC off resonance →
- Linked steady-state RLC →
Light & optics
Reflection, refraction, lenses, mirrors, and wave optics.
Core
- Converging lens — real image →
- Focal point — parallel rays →
- Magnifier (object inside f) →
- Diverging lens — virtual image →
- Concave mirror — real image →
- Convex mirror — virtual image →
- Plane mirror →
- Apparent depth (flat interface) →
- Total internal reflection →
- Two-lens relay →
- Compound microscope (angular) →
- Two-lens enlarger →
- White-light prism →
- Minimum deviation →
- Flint-glass prism (more dispersion) →
- Thin (small-apex) prism →
- Water prism (rainbow) →
- Lensmaker lens (from radii) →
- Normal eye →
- Myopia (near-sighted) →
- Myopia corrected →
- Hyperopia (far-sighted) →
- Hyperopia corrected →
- Young's double slit →
- Single-slit diffraction →
- Diffraction grating →
- Thin-film interference →
- Simple magnifier (angular) →
- Astronomical telescope →
- Compound microscope (angular) →
- Crossed polarizers →
- Three-polarizer paradox →
- Brewster's angle →
Modern physics intro
Photoelectric effect, spectra, and introductory quantum ideas.
Practice
- Photoelectric threshold →
- Retarding potential →
- Sodium photocell →
- Compton scattering at 90° →
- Compton backscatter (180°) →
- Compton scattering at 45° →
- Balmer α (Hα) line →
- Lyman α line →
- Paschen β line →
- Carbon-14 decay →
- Tc-99m medical tracer →
- Iron-56 binding energy →
- Electron de Broglie wavelength →
- Electron double-slit →
- Slow electron wave packet →
- Heisenberg electron →
- Nuclear-scale confinement →
- Position–momentum tradeoff →
- Light-clock time dilation →
- Muon atmospheric survival →
- Length contraction at β = 0.9 →
- Electron KE: classical vs relativistic →