1 LS 1: THE STUDENT WILL UTILIZE SKILLS OF OBSERVATION, DATA COLLECTION, AND DATA ANALYSIS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS

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1 PHYSICS-Semester 1 LS 1: THE STUDENT WILL UTILIZE SKILLS OF OBSERVATION, DATA COLLECTION, AND DATA ANALYSIS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS. 1.1 The student will pass a lab safety test following district guidelines. 1.2 The student will measure length, mass volume and temperature in metric measurements. 1.3 The student will convert units within the metric system and between the English and metric systems 1.4 The student will use technology, such as probeware and graphing software, to collect and analyze data. 1.5 The student will review data to form logical inferences about the cause and effect relationship in an experiment. Evaluate the accuracy of procedures and validity of results. LS 2: THE STUDENT WILL PREDICT THE OUTCOME OF SITUATIONS THAT INVOLVE FORCES AND THE MOTION OF SOLID OBJECTS The student will list basic SI units and the quantities they describe The student will convert measurements into scientific notation Interpret data in tables and graphs, and recognize equations that summarize data The student will distinguish between conventions for abbreviating units and quantities The student will use dimensional analysis to check the validity of expressions The student will describe motion in terms of frame of reference, displacement, time, and velocity The student will calculate the displacement of an object traveling at a known velocity for a specific time interval The student will construct and interpret graphs of position versus time The student will describe motion in terms of changing velocity The student will compare graphical representations of accelerated and nonaccelerated motions The student will apply kinematic equations to calculate distance, time, or velocity under conditions of constant acceleration The student will relate the motion of a freely falling body to motion with constant acceleration The student will calculate displacement, velocity, and time ate various points in the motion of a freely falling object The student will compare the motions of different objects in free fall The student will distinguish between a scalar and a vector The student will add and subtract vectors using the graphical method 3-2: Vector operations The student will identify appropriate coordinate systems for solving problems with vectors The student will apply the Pythagorean theorem and tangent function to calculate the magnitude and direction of a resultant vector

2 The student will resolve vectors into components using the sine and cosine functions The student will add vectors that are not perpendicular The student will recognize examples of projectile motion The student will describe the path or a projectile as a parabola The student will resolve vectors into their components and apply the kinematic equations to solve problems involving projectile motion The student will describe situations in terms of frame of reference The student will explain how force affects the motion of an object The student will distinguish between contact forces and field forces The student will interpret and construct free-body diagrams The student will explain the relationship between the motion of an object and the net external force acting on it The student will determine the net external force on an object The student will calculate the force required to bring an object into equilibrium 4-3: Newton s second and third laws The student will describe the acceleration of an object in terms of its mass and the net external force acting on it The student will predict the direction and magnitude of the acceleration caused by a known net external force The student will identify action-reaction pairs The student will explain why action-reaction pairs do not result in equilibrium LS 3: THE STUDENT WILL ANALYZE THE OUTCOME OF SCENARIOS INVOLVING WORK, ENERGY AND MOMENTUM The students will recognize the difference between the scientific and ordinary definitions of work The students will define work by relating it to force and displacement The students will identify where work is being performed in a variety of situations The students will calculate the net work done when many forces are applied to an object The students will identify several forms of energy The students will calculate kinetic energy for an object The students will apply the work-kinetic energy theorem to solve problems The students will distinguish between kinetic and potential energy The students will classify different types of potential energy The students will calculate the potential energy associated with an object s position The students will identify situation in which conservation of mechanical energy is valid The students will recognize the forms that conserved energy can take The students will solve problems using conservation of mechanical energy

3 The students will relate the concepts of energy, time, and power The students will calculate power in two different ways The students will explain the effect of machines on work and power The students will compare the momentum of different moving objects The students will compare the momentum of the same object moving with different velocities The students will identify examples of change in the momentum of an object The students will describe changes in momentum in terms of force and time The students will describe the interaction between two objects in terms of the change in momentum of each object The students will compare the total momentum of two objects before and after they interact The students will state the law of conservation of momentum The students will predict the final velocities of object after collisions, given the initial velocities The students will identify different types of collisions The students will determine the changes in kinetic energy during perfectly inelastic collisions The students will compare conservation of momentum and conservation of kinetic energy in perfectly inelastic and elastic collisions The students will find the final velocity of an object in perfectly inelastic and elastic collisions The students will relate radians to degrees The students will calculate angular displacement using the arc length and the distance form the axis of rotation The students will calculate angular speed or angular acceleration The students will solve problems using the kinematic equations for rotational motion The students will find the tangential speed of a point on a rigid rotating object using the angular speed and the radius The students will solve problems involving tangential acceleration The students will solve problems involving centripetal acceleration The students will calculate the force that maintains circular motion The students will explain how the apparent existence of an outward force in circular motion can be explained as inertia resisting the force that maintains circular motion Apply Newton s universal law of gravitation to find the gravitation to find the gravitational force between two masses The students will recognize the difference between a point mass and an extended object The students will distinguish between torque and force The students will calculate the magnitude of a torque on an object The students will identify the lever arm associated with a torque on an object

4 The students will identify the 6 types of simple machines The students will explain how the operation of a simple machine alters the applied force and the distance moved The students will calculate the mechanical advantage of a simple machine The student will define a fluid The student will distinguish a liquid form a gas The student will determine the magnitude of the buoyant force exerted on a floating object or a submerged object The student will explain why some objects float and some objects sink The student will calculate the pressure exerted by a fluid The student will calculate how pressure varies with depth in a fluid The student will describe fluids in terms of temperature The student will examine the motion of a fluid using the continuity equations The student will apply Bernoulli s equation to solve fluid-flow problems The student will recognize the effects of Bernoulli s principle on fluid motion LS 4: THE STUDENT WILL ASSESS SCENARIOS INVOLVING MATTER AND HEAT The student will relate temperature to the kinetic energy of atoms and molecules The student will describe the changes in the temperatures of two objects reaching thermal equilibrium The student will identify the various temperature scales, and be able to covert form one scale to another The student will explain heat as the energy transferred between substances that are at different temperatures The student will relate heat and temperature change on the macroscopic level to particle motion on the microscopic level The student will apply the principle of energy conservation to calculate changes in potential, kinetic, and internal energy The student will perform calculations with specific heat capacity The student will perform calculations involving latent heat The student will interpret the various sections of a heating curve The student will explain how energy is transferred as heat through the process of thermal conduction The student will recognize how energy transfer can be controlled with clothing The student will recognize that a system can absorb or release energy as heat in order for work to be done on or by the system and that work done on or by the system can result in the transfer of energy as heat The student will compute the amount of work done during a thermodynamic process

5 The student will distinguish between isovolumetric, isothermal, and adiabatic thermodynamic processes The student will illustrate how the first law of thermodynamics is a statement of energy conservation The student will calculate heat, work, and the change in internal energy by applying the first law of thermodynamics The student will apply the first law of thermodynamics to describe cyclic processes The student will recognize why the second law of thermodynamics requires two bodies at different temperatures for work to be done The student will calculate the efficiency of a heat engine The student will relate the disorder of a system to its ability to do work or transfer energy as heat The student will identify systems with high and low entropy The student will distinguish between entropy changes within systems and the entropy change for the universe as a whole