Welcome to Physics!
Your Course
in a Nutshell
Hello physics students! My name is Kelly Hicks and I am very excited to be your physics teacher for the 2024-25 school year. This is my first year at St. Andrew’s. Prior to moving to St. Andrew’s, I taught at Germantown High School for 13 years. Before that, I was a mechanical engineer primarily working in the aerospace field.
As a physics student, you will study the laws that govern our physical world while considering matter, motion and energy. Through physics we learn more about the world around us and hopefully come to understand that there are specific principles that help explain the behavior of objects when forces are applied and also the nature of gravitational, electromagnetic and nuclear force fields.
Remember that all of your grades for assignments, quizzes, tests, etc. can be found in MySA. This website is just for you to access content for the course.
Your Course Content by Unit
Unit 1
Newton’s Laws of Motion
Introduction to Physics
Newton’s First Law
Newton’s Second Law
Newton’s Third Law
Unit 2
Kinematics
Kinematics is all about learning
how objects move
how quickly objects move
which direction objects move.
Unit 3
Projectile Motion
We will learn:
apply kinematic formulas to solve two dimensional motion problems
use trigonometry to find horizontal and vertical components of velocity
solve projectile motion problems
Unit 4
Unit 5