Chapter 1. Physics and the physical methods of studying nature.

Physics, grade 7. Gendenshtein L.E., Kaidalov A.B. textbook, 2012

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Chapter 1. Physics and the physical methods of studying nature.

§1. Physics - the science of nature.

Page 6.
1.1. Laws of nature.
1.2. Physical bodies.
Page 7.
1.3. Physical phenomena.
Aurora



§2. How physics changes the world and our idea of it

Page 14.
2.1. How man's idea of the universe has changed.
2.2. Wonders of modern technology.
Page 15.
2.3. The history of clocks.
Page 17.
Pendulum clock
Glockenspiel

Extra (you can come back to this in the senior grades): Mathematical pendulum

§3. Observations and experiments. The scientific method.

Page 20.
3.1. Observations and experiments.
3.2. The scientific method.
Page 22.
3.3. Why the Leaning Tower of Pisa is famous.

§4. Physical quantities and their measurement.

Page 25.
4.1. Physical quantities.
4.2. Measuring instruments.
Page 27.
4.3. Measurement errors.
Page 29.
4.4. Guess how to measure it!
4.5. On the different units of length for small and large things.
Page 30.
4.6. Can distance be measured in years.
Page 31.

Physics, grade 7. Gendenshtein L.E., Kaidalov A.B. textbook, 2012

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