Student Topics

Teaching Topic	Presentation Week	Considerations
Law of Conservation of Energy	Week 3	How Potential and Kinetic Energy Interact.
Efficiency vs. Advantage	Week 3	Calculations for each.
Thermal Expansion	Week 4	Molecular theory behind the expansion. Technological uses. Problems in construction.
Phase Change	Week 4	Energy Release at phase change. Expansion and contraction at phase change
3 Types of Heat Transfer	Week 4	Examples in nature and technology
2 Laws of Thermodynamics	Week 5	Uses in technology
Speed of Sound vs. Speed of Light	Week 6	Molecular theory behind speed of sound. Difference between sound waves and light waves.
Pigment Colors vs. Light Colors	Week 7	Theory behind the colors created and what colors are created. Uses in technology.
Reflection vs. Refraction	Week 7	Computing the critical angles. Uses in optical instruments.
How the eye works and vision correction	Week 8	Pretty self explanatory
Static Electricity vs. an Electrical Current	Week 9	Uses in technology and occurrences in nature.
Electric motor vs. electric generator	Week 9	How they work and structural differences. Significance of the commutator.
Half Life	Week 10	Computation. Uses in technology