Physics

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to Newton's Third Law of Motion including forces and interactions, actions and reactions, and related vectors.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to nuclear fission and fusion including applications to reactors and fission power, mass-energy equivalence, and control methods.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to projectile and satellite motion including circular and elliptical orbits, Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion, energy conservation in satellite motion, and escape speed.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to light including electromagnetic waves, the electromagnet spectrum, and applications to transparent and opaque materials and the eye.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to reflection and refraction of light including the Law of Reflection, the cause of refraction, dispersion, total internal reflection and applications to lenses.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to rotational motion including rotational inertia, torque, center of mass, center of gravity, centripetal force, centrifugal force, angular momentum, and conservation of angular momentum.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain basic science principles and methods including relative sizes of things from planets to atoms, methods for measuring things, scientific methods and attitudes, and the definition and focus of physics.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to solids including crystal structure, density, elasticity, tension, compression, application in arches, and scaling.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to sound including the nature and characteristics of sound, reflection and refraction of sound, forced vibrations, resonance, and interference.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to the Special Theory of Relativity including simultaneity, space-time and time dilation, addition of velocities, length contraction, relativistic momentum, the mass-energy equivalence equation, and the Correspondence Principle.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to temperature and heat including specific heat capacity and thermal expansion.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to quantum mechanics including the historical milestones related to discovery of the atom and electrons, the atomic spectra, the Bohr Model of the atom, electronic waves, and the Correspondence Principle.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to atoms including the atomic hypothesis, characteristics of atoms, atomic imagery and structure, the Periodic Table, isotopes, compounds and mixtures, molecules, and antimatter.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to radiation including x-rays, radioactivity, alpha and beta rays, gamma rays, environmental radiation, the atomic nucleus, radioactive half-life, radiation detectors, the transmutation of elements, and applications in radiometric dating.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to thermodynamics including absolute zero, the Laws of Thermodynamics, adiabatic processes, applications to meteorology, the dispersing of energy, and entropy.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain physics concepts by applying knowledge and solving problems related to vibrations and waves including wave characteristics, wave motion and speed, interference, the Doppler Effect, bow waves, and shock waves.