Physics

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to the phases of matter including evaporation, condensation, boiling, melting, freezing, and related energy.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to color including selective reflection, selective transmission, results of mixing colored lights and colored pigments, and applications to the color of the sky, sunsets, clouds, and water.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to electric current including the flow of electric current, voltage sources, resistance, Ohm's Law, direct and alternating current, electric circuits, electric power, and applications.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to electromagnetic induction including Faraday's Law, power production, transformers, self-induction, power transmission, field induction, and applications.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to electrostatics including electric charges, Coulomb's Law, conductors, insulators, charging, charge polarization, electric fields, and electric potential.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to energy including work, potential energy, kinetic energy, the Work-Energy Theorem, conservation of energy, energy as applied to machines, efficiency, and sources of energy.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to gases including the make-up of the atmosphere, atmospheric pressure, Boyle's Law, buoyancy of air, Bernoulli's Principle, and the plasma phase of matter.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to the General Theory of Relativity including the Principle of Equivalence, and applications to gravity and time, gravity and space, and gravitational waves.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to gravity including the Universal Law of Gravity and Universal Gravitational Constant, the Inverse-Square Law related to gravity and distance, Weight and weightlessness, ocean tides, gravitational fields, black holes and universal gravitation.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to heat transfer including conduction, convection, radiation, Newton's Law of Cooling, the Greenhouse Effect, the physics of climate change, applications in solar power, and controlling heat transfer.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to light emission including excitation, the emission spectra, incandescence, the absorption spectra fluorescence, phosphorescence, and application to lamps and lasers.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to light quanta including Quantum Theory, quantization and Planck's constant, the Photoelectric effect, wave-particle duality, the double-slit experiment, electron diffraction, the Uncertainty Principle, and complementarity.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to light waves including Huygens' Principle, diffraction, superposition, interference, thin-film interference, polarization, and applications to holography.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to linear motion including the relativity of motion, speed, velocity, acceleration, falling objects, and velocity vectors.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to liquids including pressure, buoyancy, Archimedes' Principle, physics of sinking and floating, Pascal's Principle, surface tension, and capillarity.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to magnetism including magnetic poles and fields, magnetic domains, relationship to electric currents, electromagnets, magnetic forces, the earth's magnetic field, and biomagnetism.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to momentum including impulse, bouncing, conservation of momentum, and collisions.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to musical sound including noise, pitch, intensity, loudness, quality, Fourier analysis, analog and digital sound, and applications to musical instruments.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to Newton's First Law of Motion including net force and vectors, mechanical equilibrium and the Equilibrium Rule, support force, and the equilibrium of moving things.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to Newton's Second Law of Motion including acceleration, friction, mass, and weight.