PHYSICS Instructor:  TBA   Course Description   Textbook:  Exploring Creation with Physics (2nd edition), by Dr. Jay Wile.   This college-prep physics course is designed for the student who has completed algebra and has had an introduction to the definitions of sine, cosine, and tangent. It provides a detailed introduction to the methods and concepts of general physics. Heavily emphasizing vector analysis, this text is ideal preparation for a university-level physics course. It provides the student with a strong background in one-dimensional and two-dimensional motion, Newton’s laws and their application, gravity, work and energy, momentum, periodic motion, waves, optics, electrostatics, electrodynamics, electrical circuits, and magnetism. (from Apologia Educational Ministries, www.highschoolscience.com)   Progress in science study is related to progress in math.  It is recommended that students have completed Algebra I and some Trigonometry before they take this course.