The Physics Honors course covers the same material as the standard course but with greater emphasis on understanding and mathematics, and with greater expectations for individual learning. The course provides a more complete explanation of the concepts involved and requires advanced mathematical solutions to extremely challenging problems. Lab activities require more complete mathematical treatment, and lab reports are expected to reveal greater understanding. Students first explore mechanics, then examine units in waves, optics, electricity and magnetism, and thermodynamics. They finish with the modern physics seminar, encountering relativity and quantum mechanics. Prerequisite/co-requisite: Pre-Calculus and departmental recommendation