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      • Web Prerequisites
        • UTF-8 encoding, binary, and hexadecimal: Lesson
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      • WebWork Semester 1 Final Project
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    • Physics Unit Index
      • Physics Unit 6: Impulse and Momentum
      • Physics Unit 11: Thermodynamics – Overview
        • Internal vs external energy
        • 3 Temperature Scales
        • Converting F to C to K
        • The Zeroth Law
        • The First Law
        • The Second Law
        • The Third Law
        • Physics Unit 11: Heat Engines – Otto Cycle
      • Physics Unit 12: Waves and Harmonic Motion
        • Physics Unit 12: sound – resonance
      • Physics Unit 13: the nature of Light
        • Unit 13: Light – Essential learning goals
        • Quick Quiz: Light
        • The speed of light
        • Refraction
        • Diffraction
        • Physics: Diffraction and Interference
        • Physics Unit 12: Lesson 3 Doppler Red Shift
        • The Doppler Effect – formulas
      • Physics Unit 15: Electrostatics – Overview
        • Coulomb’s Law – Electrostatics
        • Coulomb’s Law – calculations
    • Physics Q1 Benchmark Study Guide 2014-15
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      • Balancing Chemical Reactions – Intro
        • Balancing Chemical Equations
        • HOW TO: Balance Chemical Equations
        • Unit 6 Quiz: Balancing Equations (part1)
      • Unit 7: Solutions – Study Guide
      • Chemistry Unit 10: Acids and Bases S2 Wk 2-3-4
        • Acids, Bases, pH, pOH and the Math Behind Them
        • Strong Acid – Formic Acid
        • Unit 10 Quick Quiz
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        • Unit 10 Quiz # 2
        • Chem Unit 10: Strong & Weak Acids
        • Chem Unit 10: MonoDi-TriPoly-Protic Acids
        • Chem Unit 10: Citric Acid
        • Acids, Bases, Salts, & Neutralization
        • Chem Unit 10: Neutralization / Titration
      • Chem Unit 11: Organic Chemistry Unit Index
    • Chemistry Q1 Benchmark Study Guide 2014-15
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    • Syllabus: Biology-Summer School
    • Textbook Agreement
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      • Biology A Vocabulary
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      • Bio A study guide for Quiz 2 – retake
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      • Scientific notation quiz answers
    • Logarithms (aka Why everyone hates John Napier!)
    • Acids, Bases, pH, pOH and the Math Behind Them
  • Courses and Books
    • Physics Secrets eBook
  • Science Events
    • Pahoa Lava Flow 11/10/14
    • Winter Snowstorm 2014 – GOES Imagery
    • Jupiter’s Moon Gannymead – Oceans in the ice?
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    • Earth Science U1.1 Maps as models of the Earth
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    • Earth Science U1.3 Minerals and Rocks
    • Earth Science Unit3 Non-Renewable Energy
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    • Earth Science Unit 4.1 Plate Tectonics
    • Earth Science Unit 4.2 Plate Collisions
    • Earth Science Unit 4.3 Volcanoes and Hot Spots
    • Earth Science Unit 4.4 Subduction zones and The Ring of Fire
    • Earth Science Unit 4.5 California Geology

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