Fast-Paced High School Physics

Fast-Paced Physics is a course which covers roughly TWO years of high school level physics in three weeks. The book used at Lancaster is Zitzewitz by Glencoe and comprises 30 chapters. A typical honors-level high school class will cover about 16-17 chapters over a school year. PHYW covers 28-30 chapters, resulting in a pace of over 2 chapters per day.

Students are strongly advised to have had trigonometry before taking this class. Basic knowledge of differential and integral calculus are also helpful for understanding certain concepts, though the course is not a calculus-based physics course.