This course is designed for the enthusiastic high school students who wish to explore exciting topics in classical mechanics beyond conventional high school topics. We will start by reviewing the very basic ideas of kinematics and dynamics such as Newton's laws of motion, momentum, and energy. We will conclude with the advanced theoretical topics of Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamics. In between, we will study examples from central forces, non-inertial reference frames, gyroscopic motion, and fluid dynamics. Along the way, we will emphasize both theory and applications so that students can appreciate the intricate relationship between the two prominent directions of current cutting-edge physics research.

This course is designed for the enthusiastic high school students who wish to explore exciting topics in electricity and have not had formal instruction in the subject. We will start from the very basic ideas of electric charges and conclude with fundamental applications to electric circuits and beyond. In between, we will study electrostatic interactions, conductors, insulators, and capacitors. Along the way, we will emphasize applications so that students can see the profound practicality of what they learn. Some of the potential applications that we will cover include superconductors and semiconductors. To further enforce the course content, we will spend a portion of the class getting students' hands dirty by constructing an automatic LED nightlight. This way, each student walks away with a little demonstration of electricity to show his or her friends.

This course is designed for the enthusiastic high school students who wish to explore exciting topics in electricity and magnetism and have not had formal instruction in the subject. We will start from the very basic ideas of electric charges and conclude with the fundamental ideas of electromagnetic induction. In between, we will study electrostatic interactions, conductors, capacitance, circuits, and magnetism. Along the way, we will emphasize applications so that students can see the profound practicality of what they learn. Some of the potential applications that we will cover include superconductivity, semiconductors, and lasers. To further enforce the course content, we will spend a major portion of the class getting students' hands dirty by constructing a Van de Graaff generator and an electrostatic motor. This way, each student walks away with a little demonstration of electricity and magnetism to show his or her friends.

This crash course traces the early developments of quantum theory. We will focus on experiments that led to inconsistencies with classical mechanics. Namely, we will study the photoelectric effect, the ultraviolet catastrophe, Compton scattering, and interference effects. We will conclude with a qualitative introduction to the Bohr and Schrodinger models of the atom. Throughout the course, we will, of course, use mathematics to describe the experiments, but we will focus more heavily on developing intuition to interpret those experiments.