This is a list of topics that are included in high school physics curricula or textbooks.
MOTION & FORCES
Linear Motion
- Acceleration
- Center of mass
- Force
- Mass
- Newton's laws of motion
- Speed
- Velocity
- Work
Rotational Motion
- Angular momentum
- Angular velocity
- Centripetal force
- Circular motion
- Introduction to angular momentum
- Tangential velocity
- Torque
Conservation of Energy and Momentum
- Conservation of energy
- Elastic collision
- Energy
- Inelastic collision
- Inertia
- Kinetic energy
- Moment of inertia
- Momentum
- Potential energy
- Rotational energy
Electricity and Magnetism
- Ampère's circuital law
- Capacitor
- Coulomb's law
- Direct current
- Electric charge
- Electric current
- Electric field
- Electric potential energy
- Electron
- Faraday's law of induction
- Ion
- Joule heating
- Lenz's law
- Magnetic field
- Ohm's law
- Plasma (physics)
- Resistor
- Transistor
- Voltage
Heat
- Entropy
- First law of thermodynamics
- Heat
- Heat transfer
- Second law of thermodynamics
- Temperature
- Thermal energy
- Thermodynamic cycle
- Volume (thermodynamics)
- Work (thermodynamics)
Waves
- Diffraction
- Doppler effect
- Frequency
- Harmonic oscillator
- Hooke's law
- Interference (wave propagation)
- Light
- Longitudinal wave
- Polarization (waves)
- Radio waves
- Reflection
- Refraction
- Refractive index
- Transverse wave
- Snell's law
- Sound
- Vibrating string
- Wave
- Wavelength
Gravity
- Gravitational potential
- Newton's law of universal gravitation
Math
- Euclidean vector
- Motion graphs and derivatives
- Scalar (physics)
- Newtonian Mechanics