You don’t need to understand physics to successfully support your learner through the Fundamentals of Physics course! The Fundamentals of Physics Answer Key & Parent Companion includes chapter previews and chapter summaries with key teaching points. It also includes all the study question and test answers and a 35-week schedule. To complete the course, you will also need the Fundamentals of Physics Student Text and the Fundamentals of Physics Test Booklet. These items are sold individually or as a Fundamentals of Physics 3-Book Set.
It is hard to not fall in love with a course that begins, "A physician writing physics? How does he know anything about physics?" Continuing on to explain that we are specializing ourselves out of the ability to appreciate and understand any subject, he reinforces the fact that we can learn anything if we are purposeful and devoted to learning the subject. While this may seem like a laborious introduction, for many of us, learning physics seems overly complicated, and I greatly appreciate the efforts Dr. Hardin has taken to write a comprehensive, engaging, and understandable physics course!
Written from a biblical worldview, Fundamentals of Physics introduces students to the general study of physics as well as to specific topics such as the scientific method, standardized measurement and data collection, matter (solids, liquids, gases), kinetic energy and potential energy, forces, mechanical equilibrium, Newton's laws of motion, gravity, waves, sound, light, color, and radioactive physics. The course concludes with a brief history of science and scientists through a biblical worldview and provides readers with applications of physics that support God's creation of the universe. Labs are not included in the Textbook; rather, they are found in the recommended Interactive Notebook Physical Science, which uses commonly found items and covers the key principles taught in this course.
There are three required components for this rigorous middle school course. The Fundamentals of Physics Student Textbook, the Fundamentals of Physics Answer Key and Parent Companion, and the consumable Fundamentals of Physics Test Booklet. These components are available individually or in a convenient Fundamentals of Physics Set.
Optional resources include the Fundamentals of Physics Workbook and the Workbook Answer Key, which are companions to the Fundamentals of Physics Digital Course available from Science Shepherd. This is a rigorous course that homeschool families will appreciate for its clear explanations, ease of use, and excellent preparation for high school science study. It may also function as an excellent introductory physics course for 9th-10th grade. ~Deanne
