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Overview
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Since public high schools doesn’t provide physics classes until the junior and senior years of high school, it created the two main problems:
- Students who like to Physics or students who have talent and passion with Physics will miss the opportunity to participate the competition because of the regular school pace and curriculums.
- Even for some students who are not interested in taking the competition, a lot of students will have a hard time to learn all Physics in one year during the Junior year, the most busiest year during the high school.
The main objectives of our ACES Physics Program are :
- provide a platform for the students maximize their potential and dig out their talents in Physics and pave the road for students to be qualified for the physics Olympiad semifinalist, the first level of US Physics Olympiad competition( F=MA )
- To help students learning in advance and make their job easier when their schools teach the class.
ACES Physics Class Roadmap
The design of the ACES physics roadmap allows middle school students and high school freshman to learn physics before their peers.
Each year, the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and American Institute of Physics (AIP) sponsor a competition for high school students to represent the United State at the International Physics Olympiad (USAPhO) Competition. The current procedure to select the U.S. Physics team consists of two exams and then a study camp, the preliminary F=ma Exam and the Semifinal Exam.
The preliminary exam is known as the “F=ma contest”. Students passed the cut-off score are named US Physics Olympiad Semifinalists.
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The “ACES Physics I” class focuses on kinematics. After the “Physics I” class, students should be able to solve 1/3 of the F=ma exam problems.
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The “ACES Physics II” class will study “dynamics”. The Physics II course enables students to understand all concepts and principles of F=ma contest. [divider_padding]
The “ACES Physics III ” is for students who have completed “ACES Physics II” class or students who have taken high school physics class and are ready to take the F=ma exam. [divider_padding]
The “Physics I” and “Physics II” classes share the same format: homework review, new material and classroom exercises. The key objectives of these classes are learning and problem solving. The focus of the “ACES Physics III” is burning, which burns the concepts and problem solving skills into students brain so that they can quickly and correctly solve the 25 F=ma problems in 75 minutes.