MS Physics — for James (17 October 2026)
The one thing to do next: Read and sign off the scripts of Topics 9 to 16 and 19 on the scripts page, tapping Fine or Change this under each lesson; David produces the videos from the scripts you sign off. Go
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Video: Topic 2, Speed: how fast something moves — What counts as a speed
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Video: Topic 2, Speed: how fast something moves — Speed is distance divided by time
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Video: Topic 2, Speed: how fast something moves — Speed units: a distance unit per a time unit
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Video: Topic 2, Speed: how fast something moves — Find the speed from a distance and a time
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Video: Topic 2, Speed: how fast something moves — Find the distance from a speed and a time
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Video: Topic 2, Speed: how fast something moves — Find the time from a distance and a speed
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Video: Topic 2, Speed: how fast something moves — Average speed over a whole journey
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Video: Topic 2, Speed: how fast something moves — Steady or changing speed
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Scripts waiting for your read (19 topics)
Tap Fine or Change this under each lesson on the scripts page. Topics 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 14 and 16 are the ones whose videos wait on your taps.
- Topic 4, Drawing and reading a distance-time graph
- Topic 5, What the shape of a distance-time graph tells you
- Topic 8, Adding forces: the net force
- Topic 9, Balanced forces and motion (Newton's first law)
- Topic 10, Force pairs (Newton's third law)
- Topic 11, Force, mass and acceleration (Newton's second law)
- Topic 12, Newton's three laws in one system
- Topic 13, Design a safer collision
- Topic 14, Kinetic and potential energy
- Topic 15, Energy changes form and is conserved
- Topic 16, Temperature, heat and thermal equilibrium
- Topic 17, How thermal energy travels
- Topic 18, Design a container that keeps a drink hot
- Topic 19, Waves carry energy
- Topic 20, The electromagnetic spectrum
- Topic 1, Where something is, and whether it moved — lessons L02 still unread
- Topic 2, Speed: how fast something moves — lessons L01, L02 still unread
- Topic 6, What a force is and what it does — lessons L03 still unread
- Topic 7, Spotting the forces on an object — lessons L01, L02, L03, L05, L06 still unread
Scripts you have read (1 topics)
- Topic 3, Velocity and acceleration — your taps are applied
Checkpoint tests (3 of 3 built)
Three parallel forms each, every item read cold by two readers. Not videos; read when you have time.
- Checkpoint 1 — Motion (after Topic 5)
- Checkpoint 2 — Forces (after Topic 13)
- Checkpoint 3 — Energy, and the end-of-course test (after Topic 20)
Decisions, when you have time
8. The render cap: which lever lets the held and queued videos through?
8. The render cap: which lever lets the held and queued videos through?
Topic 2's nine rendered videos are being delivered as they are; Topics 6, 14, 16 and 19 (33 videos) wait in the normal queue. The account-wide render cap has been full of HS Physics renders for three days, so nothing from Grades 3–8 moves while that lasts. Recommendation: an edit-first window at the start of each sweep.
A: Edit-first window each sweep / B: Pause HS Physics between units / C: Leave the queue as it is
7. Where does the mass-versus-weight bridge go?
7. Where does the mass-versus-weight bridge go?
Topic 7 coins "weight" (the force of gravity on an object) without the Moon case; mass is first measured in Topic 11. Recommendation: the bridge in Topic 11, where mass is in hand.
A: Bridge in Topic 11, with mass / B: Tell the Moon case in Topic 7's coining lesson
9. Topic 17: may radiation say "waves" two topics before Topic 19 coins the word?
9. Topic 17: may radiation say "waves" two topics before Topic 19 coins the word?
Lesson 4 tells radiation as "the Sun gives off waves that carry energy, and light is one of these waves", using "waves" as an everyday word. Topic 19 coins "wave" (a bump on water that carries energy) and Topic 20 names infrared. Built as it stands; the alternative leaves the wave mechanism to Topic 20 and says only "the Sun's warmth crosses empty space". Recommendation: keep the everyday word.
A: Keep "waves" as the everyday word / B: Leave the wave mechanism to Topic 20
10. Topic 18: coin "model" for the small test version, or "prototype"?
10. Topic 18: coin "model" for the small test version, or "prototype"?
Lesson 5 coins "model" as the small test version a designer builds to get test data before the real thing, and tells "prototype" once. STAAR uses "model" in the wider sense of a representation (a diagram, a scaled-down Earth), so a student could meet two meanings. The course already says "model train", "model boat" and "model rocket" to students in Topics 1, 3, 8, 9, 12 and 13, so coining "model" gives one word two meanings; "prototype" has no earlier use. Built: "model" coined, "prototype" told once. Recommendation: coin "prototype" and tell "model" once as the test's word.
A: Coin "prototype", tell "model" once / B: Keep "model" coined, "prototype" told once
11. Topic 20: one lesson or two for the spectrum's uses and dangers?
11. Topic 20: one lesson or two for the spectrum's uses and dangers?
Lesson 3 covers all seven bands' uses (TEKS 8.8B) and the dangers with their shielding (Florida's hazards) in one 177-word video with eight quiz questions. The author built it as one lesson and recommends keeping it so. My recommendation is two short videos, uses then dangers and shielding, because seven applications in 177 words leaves about 25 words per band, and Topic 17 was split the same way for the same reason.
A: Two lessons — uses, then dangers and shielding / B: Keep one lesson
12. A missing atom: "white light is made up of many colors" (Florida SC.7.P.10.1)
12. A missing atom: "white light is made up of many colors" (Florida SC.7.P.10.1)
Florida's standard on the Sun's radiation also says white light is a spectrum of many colors. No grade 6–8 Energy atom in the knowledge graph carries it, so Topic 20 does not teach it. Under your no-standard ruling's converse, a target state requires it. Recommendation: add one atom and one short lesson to Topic 20 (a prism splits white light into its colors; each color is a different wavelength of visible light), with the register edit logged in the knowledge graph.
A: Add the atom and a short lesson to Topic 20 / B: Leave it out and record the omission
13. Checkpoint tests: may the three forms rotate atoms, or must they be strictly parallel?
13. Checkpoint tests: may the three forms rotate atoms, or must they be strictly parallel?
Checkpoint 1 has 33 atoms and 20 positions. As built, eleven positions test the same atom in all three forms and nine rotate the atom within a sibling pair one lesson teaches together, so every atom is tested somewhere across A, B and C; a student who sits two forms meets more of the strand. Strictly parallel forms would test 20 atoms three times and leave 13 untested. Checkpoint 2 (Forces) has 42 atoms for 20 positions, so there 15 positions rotate and 22 atoms would go untested under strict parallelism. Recommendation: accept rotation within declared sibling pairs for all three checkpoints, with the form map in each record.
A: Rotation within sibling pairs, as built / B: Strictly parallel forms, 13 atoms untested
3. Do Topic 3's maps keep north, south, east and west?
3. Do Topic 3's maps keep north, south, east and west?
Every Topic 3 scene is a map seen from above with a compass; you said compass words sound fine but you want to see the scripts first. They are on the scripts page under Topic 3.
A: Compass words on Topic 3's maps / B: Left and right here too
Proposed check: a graph-reading set reads between the plotted points at least once
Proposed check: a graph-reading set reads between the plotted points at least once
Otherwise a student who finds the cross and reads its row never uses the line. From Topic 4's reviewer; not a rule until you say so.
A: Adopt as a check / B: Leave as reviewer judgement
Proposed check: a count axis prints "Number of …" with no unit bracket
Proposed check: a count axis prints "Number of …" with no unit bracket
"(count)" is not a unit. From Topic 4's reviewer.
A: Adopt as a check / B: Leave as reviewer judgement
Proposed check: a bank's freshness compares each easy item's move with the lesson quiz, not its nouns
Proposed check: a bank's freshness compares each easy item's move with the lesson quiz, not its nouns
Five of seven easy items in Topic 4's bank were lesson items with the nouns changed.
A: Adopt as a check / B: Leave as reviewer judgement
Proposed check: a distractor about a charged object is never a true claim
Proposed check: a distractor about a charged object is never a true claim
A charged comb pulls every nearby uncharged thing, coin included; the coin is only too heavy to move. A wrong option says "lifts" or "moves", never "pulls". From Topic 7's cold read.
A: Adopt as a physics-checklist line / B: Leave as reviewer judgement
History and every ruling already applied: the course record (records/FOR_JAMES_history_*.md), not this page.