Centerville Senior High School Curriculum Mapping Physics, 1 st Nine Weeks Damon Anderson 2/1 P.1.1 What is the difference between speed and Finding gravity lab Displacement, velocity? velocity 2/2 P.1.1 Is acceleration a vector? acceleration 2/3 P.1.1 What is the value of gravity? gravity 3/1 P.1.2 What is the difference between a scalar and Speed and acceleration vector a vector? lab 3/2 P.1.2 How do you find the resultant of a vector resultant sum? 3/3 P.1.2 What is the acceleration during projectile Projectile motion motion? 3/4 P.1.2 What is frame of reference? Relative motion 4/1 P.1.3 What is the difference between a contact force and a field force? Static and kinetic friction lab Contact force, field force 4/2 P.1.3 How are inertia and mass related? Inertia, equilibrium 4/3 P.1.3 What is Newton s Second Law of Motion? 4/4 P.1.3 What is the difference between static friction and kinetic friction? Normal force, static friction, kinetic friction 1
Curriculum Mapping (Physics) 2 nd Nine Weeks 5/1 5/2 P.2.1 P.2.1 P.2.2 What is work? What is the difference between kinetic energy and potential energy? Work and energy lab work Kinetic energy, potential energy P.2.4 5/3 P.2.3 What is mechanical energy? Mechanical energy 5/4 P.2.1 What is power? power 6/1 P.2.1, P.2.2 What is momentum? What is impulse? Momentum, energy, and collisions lab 6/2 P.2.1, P.2.3 When is kinetic energy not conserved? Momentum, impulse 6/3 P.2.1, P.2.3 How do elastic collisions differ from inelastic collisions? Elastic collision, inelastic collision 7/1 P.1.2 What is centripetal acceleration? Centripetal acceleration, tangential speed, centripetal force 7/2 P.1.4 What is a gravitational force? Free fall 7/3 P.1.4 What are Kepler s three laws of planetary Orbital period, motion? orbital speed 7/4 P.1.2 What is torque? torque 9/1 P.3.1, P.3.2 What is temperature? Metal ball and rings demonstration, bimetallic strip demonstration Temperature, internal energy, thermal equilibrium 2
3 9/2 P.3.4 What is thermal conduction? Thermal conduction, thermal convection 9/3 P.3.3 What is a phase change? Specific heat capacity, latent heat
Curriculum Mapping (Physics) rd Nine Weeks 3 11/1 P.5.1 What is Hooke s Law? Pendulum periods lab Harmonic motion, pendulum 11/2 P.5.3 What does the period of pendulum depend Amplitude, on? period, frequency 11/3 P.5.2 What is the difference between a transverse Transverse wave, wave and a longitudinal wave? longitudinal wave, crest, 11/4 P.5.4 What is the difference between constructive and destructive interference? trough Constructive interference, destructive interference, nodes, antinodes 12/1 P.5.3 What is the Doppler Effect? Mathematics of Music lab Compression, rarefaction, pitch 12/2 P.5.4 What is sound intensity/ Decibel, resonance 12/3 P.5.4 What is a harmonic? Harmonic, beat 13/1 P.6.1, P.6.2 What is an electromagnetic wave? Polarization of light lab Electromagnetic wave 13/2 P.6.1 What is a virtual image? Reflection, virtual image 13/3 P.6.1 What is the difference between a real Real image image and a virtual image? 13/4 P.6.3 What is linear polarization? Linear polarization 14/1 P.6.1 What is Snell s Law? Refraction lab refraction 4
14/2 P.6.1 What are the two types of lenses? Concave, convex 14/3 P.6.1 What is a critical angle? Total internal reflection, dispersion, critical angle 16/1 P.4.1 What is the difference between a conductor and an insulator? Van de Graaff generator demonstration Conductor, insulator, induction 16/2 P.4.1 What is the inverse square law? Superposition 16/3 P.4.2 What is an electric field? Electric field 5
Curriculum Mapping (Physics) 4 th Nine Weeks 17/1 P.4.3 What is the difference between electrical potential energy and electric potential? 17/2 P.4.3 What is the difference between a capacitor and a parallel plate capacitor? Ohm s Law lab Electric potential, potential difference Capacitor, parallel plate capacitor 17/3 P.4.3 What is electric current? Electric current, resistance 17/4 P.4.3 What is electric power? Electric power 18/1 P.4.4 What is a schematic diagram? Parallel vs series lab Schematic diagram, electric circuit 18/2 P.4.4 What is the difference between series and parallel circuits? Series, parallel 18/3 P.4.4 What is a combination circuit? 19/1 P.4.5 What is magnetic flux? The magnetic field in a Magnetic flux, slinky lab magnetic field 19/2 P.4.5 What is a solenoid? Solenoid 19/3 P.4.5 What is the right-hand rule? Galvanometer 21/1 P.7.1 What is the photoelectric effect? Photoelectric effect, blackbody radiation 6
21/2 P.7.2 What is Rutherford s model of the atom? Emission spectrum, absorption spectrum 21/3 P.7.2 What is Heisenberg s Uncertainty Uncertainty Principle? principle 22/1 P.7.1 What is an isotope? Isotope 22/2 P.7.2 What are the three types of radiation? Half-life 22/3 P.7.3, P.7.4, P.7.5 What is the difference between fission and fusion? Fission, fusion 7