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DEVIL PHYSICS PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS Lesson 0 N/A Giancoli Chapter 0: What is Science? What is Physics? Day One N/A N/A 1 Giancoli Chapter 1: Introduction 1-1 to 1-4 2-10 even 1-11 odd, 35, 38 N/A N/A 2 SC.912.N.1.2 SC.912.N.1.3 SC.912.N.1.4 SC.912.N.1.5 SC.912.N.1.6 SC.912.N.1.7 SC.912.N.2.1 SC.912.N.2.2 SC.912.N.2.3 SC.912.N.2.4 SC.912.N.2.5 SC.912.N.3.2 SC.912.N.4.1 SC.912.N.4.2 SC.912.N.3.1 SC.912.N.3.3 SC.912.N.3.4 SC.912.N.3.5 1-5 to 1-6 12-20 even 13-21 odd, 33,42 N/A N/A 3 1-7 to 1-8 24-30 even 23-29 odd N/A N/A 4 N/A 5 N/A 6 N/A 7

PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS PAGE 2 OF 21 Giancoli Chapter 2: Describing Motion: Kinematics in One Dimension 2-1 to 2-3 2-10 even 1-11 odd 9-12 8 SC.912.P.12.2 2-4 none 13-16 all 13-14 9 SC.912.P.12.2 2-5 to 2-6 22,24,26 18-21,23,25,27 14-16 10 SC.912.P.12.2 2-7 32-44 even 33-45 odd 26-28 11 SC.912.P.12.2 2-8 52-58 even 51-59 odd 16-26 12 SC.912.P.12.2 7% 13 14 15 Giancoli Chapter 3: Kinematics in Two Dimensions; Vectors 3-1 to 3-4 1-7 16 SC.912.P.12.1 3-5 to 3-6 28-31 17 3-7 to 3-8 N/A 18 7% 19 20 21 Giancoli Chapter 4: Motion and Force: Dynamics 4-1 to 4-6 37-40, 44 SC.912.P.12.3 4-7 41-44 SC.912.P.12.3 4-8 44-51 9% Giancoli Chapter 5: Circular Motion; Gravitation 5-1 to 5-3 51-55 5-4 7% 5-5 to 5-7 102-104 SC.912.P.12.4 5-8 104-108

PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS PAGE 3 OF 21 5-9 101-102 SC.912.E.5.6 Giancoli Chapter 6: Work and Energy 6-1 68-71 6-2 71-72 6-3 72-74 6-4 to 6-5 74-75 SC.912.P.10.6 6-6 to 6-7 75-79 SC.912.P.10.1 6-8 to 6-9 75-79 SC.912.P.10.2 5% 6-10 79-81 SC.912.P.10.3 Giancoli Chapter 7: Linear Momentum 4% 7-1 to 7-2 87-96 SC.912.P.10.2 7-3 87-96 7-4 to 7-5 SC.912.P.10.2 SC.912.P.12.5 7-6 SC.912.P.12.5 7-7 SC.912.P.12.5 7-8 7-9 7-10 Giancoli Chapter 8: Rotational Motion

PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS PAGE 4 OF 21 8-1 8-2 to 8-3 8-4 55-58 8-5 to 8-6 8-7 8-8 SC.912.P.12.6 8-9 Giancoli Chapter 9: Bodies in Equilibrium; Elasticity and Fracture 9-1 to 9-3 58-60 9-4 9-5 9-6 9-7 9-8 Giancoli Chapter 10: Fluids 10-1 133-135 10-2 to 10-5 135-140 10-6 140-144 10-7 to 10-9 144-152 10-10 to 10-11 10-12 6% Giancoli Chapter 11: Vibration and Waves SC.912.P.8.1

PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS PAGE 5 OF 21 11-1 to 11-3 113-125 11-4 125-128 11-5 to 11-8 283-289, 297-299 11-9 to 11-11 289-290 11-12 290-294 11-13 2.5% Giancoli Chapter 12: Sound 2.5% SC.912.P.10.6 12-1 294-297 12-2 12-3 to 12-5 12-6 to 12-7 12-8 299-303 SC.912.P.10.21 12-9 13-1 to 13-3 Giancoli Chapter 13: Temperature and Kinetic Energy 164, 166-168 0.67% SC.912.P.8.1 SC.912.P.8.3 SC.912.P.10.5 SC.912.P.12.11 13-4 161-162 13-5 SC.912.L.18.12 13-6 to 13-7 13-8 to 13-9 164-168 13-10 to 13-12 SC.912.P.12.10 13-13 to 13-14 13-15

PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS PAGE 6 OF 21 Giancoli Chapter 14: Heat 0.67% 14-1 to 14-3 160-164 SC.912.P.10.4 14-4 to 14-5 160-161 SC.912.L.18.12 14-6 161 14-7 to 14-9 SC.912.P.10.4 Giancoli Chapter 15: The Laws of Thermodynamics 15-1 to 15-2 168-175 SC.912.P.10.2 15-3 to 15-4 175-177 15-5 177-179 SC.912.P.10.8 15-6 SC.912.P.10.8 15-7 to 15-10 175-177 SC.912.P.10.8 15-11 15-12 0.67% SC.912.L.17.11 Giancoli Chapter 16: Electric Charge and Electric Field 16-1 to 16-4 185-186, SC.912.P.10.13 198-200 SC.912.P.10.14 16-5 to 16-6 186-190 SC.912.P.10.13 16-7 to 16-8 190-198 SC.912.P.10.13 16-9 to 16-10 SC.912.P.10.13 5%

PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS PAGE 7 OF 21 Giancoli Chapter 17: Electric Potential and Electric Energy; Capacitance 17-1 to 17-4 205-214 SC.912.P.10.6 SC.912.P.10.13 SC.912.P.10.15 17-5 SC.912.P.10.13 17-6 17-7 to 17-8 214-219 SC.912.P.10.13 17-9 SC.912.P.10.13 4% 17-10 18-1 to 18-3 Giancoli Chapter 18: Electric Currents 225-227, 228-229 SC.912.P.10.15 18-4 to 18-5 227-228 SC.912.P.10.14 SC.912.P.10.15 18-6 to 18-7 SC.912.P.10.15 18-8 SC.912.P.10.15 18-9 to 18-10 3.5% Giancoli Chapter 19: DC Circuits 19-1 229-237 19-2 228-229 19-3 to 19-4 237-240 19-5 to 19-6 19-7 240-243 3.5% 19-8 to 19-10 19-11

PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS PAGE 8 OF 21 Giancoli Chapter 20: Magnetism 4% 20-1 to 20-4 249-257 SC.912.P.10.16 20-5 to 20-6 255-257 20-7 to 20-8 SC.912.P.10.16 20-9 to 20-10 20-11 to 20-12 20-13 to 20-15 Giancoli Chapter 21: Electromagnetic Induction and Faraday s Law; AC Circuits 21-1 to 21-4 267-278 21-5 to 21-6 21-7 21-8 to 21-9 21-10 to 21-11 21-12 21-13 to 21-15 5% Giancoli Chapter 22: Electromagnetic Waves SC.912.P.10.16 22-1 to 22-2 22-3 to 22-4 22-5 to 22-6 311-312 SC.912.P.10.18 22-7 2-8

PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS PAGE 9 OF 21 Giancoli Chapter 23: Light: Geometric Optics 23-1 to 23-2 317-326 23-3 317-326 23-4 to 23-5 23-6 321-324 23-7 to 23-9 332-338 23-10 to 23-11 5% Giancoli Chapter 24: The Wave Nature of Light 24-1 to 24-3 313-317 24-4 to 24-5 320-321 24-6 to 24-7 24-8 24-9 to 24-10 5% Giancoli Chapter 25: Optical Instruments SC.912.P.10.20 25-1 25-2 25-3 SC.912.P.10.22 25-4 0% SC.912.P.10.22 25-5 to 25-6 SC.912.P.10.22 25-7 to 25-9 25-10 to 25-12

PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS PAGE 10 OF 21 26-1 to 26-6 Giancoli Chapter 26: Special Theory of Relativity SC.912.P.12.8 SC.912.P.12.9 26-7 to 26-9 SC.912.P.12.7 26-10 SC.912.P.12.7 26-11 SC.912.P.12.7 0% Giancoli Chapter 27: Early Quantum Theory and Models of the Atom 5% 27-1 27-2 SC.912.P.10.9 27-3 345-348 27-4 27-5 to 27-7 351-352 27-8 to 27-11 348-351 28-1 to 28-5 28-6 to 28-8 28-9 to 28-11 Giancoli Chapter 28: Quantum Mechanics of Atoms 0% SC.912.P.8.3 SC.912.P.8.4 SC.912.P.10.9

PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS PAGE 11 OF 21 Giancoli Chapter 29: Molecules and Solids 0% 29-1 to 29-3 SC.912.P.10.6 29-4 to 29-5 29-6 to 29-7 SC.912.P.10.14 29-8 SC.912.P.10.14 29-9 Giancoli Chapter 30: Nuclear Physics and Radioactivity 5% 30-1 30-2 352-355 30-3 to 30-7 30-8 to 30-13 SC.912.P.10.6 Giancoli Chapter 31: Nuclear Energy; Effects and Uses of Radiation 31-1 355-356 31-2 356-358 31-3 356-358 31-4 to 31-5 31-6 to 31-9 Giancoli Chapter 32: Elementary Particles

PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS PAGE 12 OF 21 32-1 to 32-2 32-3 to 32-6 SC.912.P.10.10 32-7 to 32-11 33-1 to 33-2 33-3 to 33-4 33-5 to 33-7 Giancoli Chapter 33: Astrophysics and Cosmology SC.912.E.5.1 SC.912.E.5.8 Benchmark Number: SC.912.L.17.11 Benchmark Description: Evaluate the costs and benefits of renewable and nonrenewable resource s, such as water, energy, fossil fuels, wildlife, and forests. Subject Area: Science Grade Level: 912 BODY OF KNOWLEDGE: Life Science Standard: Interdependence - A. The distribution and abundance of organisms is determined by the interactions between organisms, and between organisms and the non-living environment. B. Energy and nutrients move within and between biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems via physical, chemical and biological processes. C. Human activities and natural events can have profound effects on populations, biodiversity and ecosystem processes. Date Adopted or Revised: 02/08 Date of Last Rating: 05/08 Cognitive Complexity: - What does this mean? Status: State Board Approved Benchmark Number: SC.912.L.17.15 Benchmark Description: Discuss the effects of technology on environmental quality. Subject Area: Science Grade Level: 912 BODY OF KNOWLEDGE: Life Science Standard: Interdependence - A. The distribution and abundance of organisms is determined by the interactions between organisms, and between organisms and the non-living environment.

PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS PAGE 13 OF 21 B. Energy and nutrients move within and between biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems via physical, chemical and biological processes. C. Human activities and natural events can have profound effects on populations, biodiversity and ecosystem processes. Date Adopted or Revised: 02/08 Date of Last Rating: 05/08 Cognitive Complexity: - What does this mean? Status: State Board Approved

PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS PAGE 14 OF 21 Course: Physics 1 Honors - 2003390 GENERAL INFORMATION Course Number: Course Title: Abbreviated Title: Course : 2003390 Physics 1 Honors PHYS 1 HON Basic and Adult Education Course Path: : Basic and Adult Education» Grade Group: Secondary Grades 9-12» Subject: Science» SubSubject: Physical Sciences» Number of Credits: Course Length: One credit (1) Year Course Type: Core Course Level: 3 Course Status: Honors? General Notes: State Board Approved Yes Laboratory investigations which include the use of scientific inquiry, research, measurement, problem solving, laboratory apparatus and technologies, experimental procedures, and safety procedures are an integral part of this course. Related Benchmarks (60) Benchmark # Description Cognitive Complexity The student will organize information to show understanding or relationships among facts, ideas, and events (e.g., representing key points within text through charting, mapping, paraphrasing, summarizing, comparing, contrasting, or outlining); More information LA.910.4.2.2 The student will record information and ideas from primary and/or secondary sources accurately and coherently, noting the validity and reliability of these sources and attributing sources of information; Determine appropriate and consistent standards of measurement for the data

PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS PAGE 15 OF 21 to be collected in a survey or experiment. Collect, organize, and analyze data sets, determine the best format for the data and present visual summaries from the following: bar graph s line graphs stem and leaf plots circle graph s histograms box and whisker plots scatter plots cumulative frequency (ogive) graphs» SC.912.E.5.1: Cite evidence used to develop and verify the scientific theory of the Big Bang (also known as the Big Bang Theory ) of the origin of the universe.» Related instructional resources» SC.912.E.5.6: Develop logical connections through physical principles, including Kepler's and Newton's Laws about the relationships and the effects of Earth, Moon, and Sun on each other.» SC.912.E.5.8: Connect the concepts of radiation and the electromagnetic spectrum to the use of historical and newlydeveloped observational tools.» Related instructional resources» SC.912.L.17.11: Evaluate the costs and benefits of renewable and nonrenewable resource s, such as water, energy, fossil fuels, wildlife, and forests.» SC.912.L.17.15: Discuss the effects of technology on environmental quality.» SC.912.L.18.12: Discuss the special properties of water that contribute to Earth's suitability as an environment for life: cohesive behavior, ability to moderate temperature, expansion upon freezing, and versatility as a solvent.» : Define a problem based on a specific body of knowledge, for example: biology, chemistry, physics, and earth/space science, and do the following: 1. pose questions about the natural world,

PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS PAGE 16 OF 21 2. conduct systematic observations, 3. examine books and other sources of information to see what is already known, 4. review what is known in light of empirical evidence, 5. plan investigations, 6. use tools to gather, analyze, and interpret data (this includes the use of measurement in metric and other systems, and also the generation and interpretation of graphical representations of data, including data tables and graphs), 7. pose answers, explanations, or descriptions of events, 8. generate explanations that explicate or describe natural phenomena (inferences), 9. use appropriate evidence and reasoning to justify these explanations to others, 10. communicate results of scientific investigations, and 11. evaluate the merits of the explanations produced by others.» Related instructional resources» SC.912.N.1.2: Describe and explain what characterizes science and its methods.» SC.912.N.1.3: Recognize that the strength or usefulness of a scientific claim is evaluated through scientific argumentation, which depends on critical and logical thinking, and the active consideration of alternative scientific explanations to explain the data presented. Low» SC.912.N.1.4: Identify sources of information and assess their reliability according to the strict standards of scientific investigation.» SC.912.N.1.5: Describe and provide examples of how similar investigations conducted in many parts of the world result in the same outcome.» SC.912.N.1.6: Describe how scientific inferences are drawn from scientific observations and provide examples from the content being studied.» Related instructional resources» SC.912.N.1.7: Recognize the role of creativity in constructing scientific questions, methods and explanations.» Related instructional resources Low» SC.912.N.2.1: Identify what is science, what clearly is not science, and what superficially resembles science (but fails to meet the criteria for science).

PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS PAGE 17 OF 21» SC.912.N.2.2: Identify which questions can be answered through science and which questions are outside the boundaries of scientific investigation, such as questions addressed by other ways of knowing, such as art, philosophy, and religion.» SC.912.N.2.3: Identify examples of pseudoscience (such as astrology, phrenology) in society. Low» SC.912.N.2.4: Explain that scientific knowledge is both durable and robust and open to change. Scientific knowledge can change because it is often examined and re-examined by new investigations and scientific argumentation. Because of these frequent examinations, scientific knowledge becomes stronger, leading to its durability.» Related instructional resources» SC.912.N.2.5: Describe instances in which scientists' varied backgrounds, talents, interests, and goals influence the inferences and thus the explanations that they make about observations of natural phenomena and describe that competing interpretations (explanations) of scientists are a strength of science as they are a source of new, testable ideas that have the potential to add new evidence to support one or another of the explanations.» Related instructional resources» SC.912.N.3.1: Explain that a scientific theory is the culmination of many scientific investigations drawing together all the current evidence concerning a substantial range of phenomena thus, a scientific theory represents the most powerful explanation scientists have to offer.» Related instructional resources» SC.912.N.3.2: Describe the role consensus plays in the historical development of a theory in any one of the disciplines of science.» SC.912.N.3.3: Explain that scientific laws are descriptions of specific relationships under given conditions in nature, but do not offer explanations for those relationships.» SC.912.N.3.4: Recognize that theories do not become laws, nor do laws become theories; theories are well supported explanations and laws are well supported descriptions.» SC.912.N.3.5: Describe the function of models in science, and identify the wide range of models used in science.» Related instructional resources» SC.912.N.4.1:

PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS PAGE 18 OF 21 Explain how scientific knowledge and reasoning provide an empirically-based perspective to inform society's decision making.» Related instructional resources» SC.912.N.4.2: Weigh the merits of alternative strategies for solving a specific societal problem by comparing a number of different costs and benefits, such as human, economic, and environmental.» SC.912.P.8.1: Differentiate among the four states of matter.» SC.912.P.8.3: Explore the scientific theory of atoms (also known as atomic theory) by describing changes in the atomic model over time and why those changes were necessitated by experimental evidence.» Related instructional resources» SC.912.P.8.4: Explore the scientific theory of atoms (also known as atomic theory) by describing the structure of atoms in terms of protons, neutrons and electrons, and differentiate among these particles in terms of their mass, electrical charges and locations within the atom.» Related instructional resources» SC.912.P.10.1: Differentiate among the various forms of energy and recognize that they can be transformed from one form to others.» SC.912.P.10.2: Explore the Law of Conservation of Energy by differentiating among open, closed, and isolated systems and explain that the total energy in an isolated system is a conserved quantity.» SC.912.P.10.3: Compare and contrast work and power qualitatively and quantitatively.» SC.912.P.10.4: Describe heat as the energy transferred by convection, conduction, and radiation, and explain the connection of heat to change in temperature or states of matter.» SC.912.P.10.5: Relate temperature to the average molecular kinetic energy.» SC.912.P.10.6:

PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS PAGE 19 OF 21 Create and interpret potential energy diagrams, for example: chemical reactions, orbits around a central body, motion of a pendulum.» SC.912.P.10.8: Explain entropy's role in determining the efficiency of processes that convert energy to work.» SC.912.P.10.9: Describe the quantization of energy at the atomic level.» SC.912.P.10.10: Compare the magnitude and range of the four fundamental forces (gravitational, electromagnetic, weak nuclear, strong nuclear).» Related instructional resources» SC.912.P.10.13: Relate the configuration of static charges to the electric field, electric force, electric potential, and electric potential energy.» SC.912.P.10.14: Differentiate among conductors, semiconductors, and insulators.» SC.912.P.10.15: Investigate and explain the relationships among current, voltage, resistance, and power.» Related instructional resources» SC.912.P.10.16: Explain the relationship between moving charges and magnetic fields, as well as changing magnetic fields and electric field s, and their application to modern technologies.» Related instructional resources» SC.912.P.10.18: Explore the theory of electromagnetism by comparing and contrasting the different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum in terms of wavelength, frequency, and energy, and relate them to phenomena and applications.» SC.912.P.10.20: Describe the measurable properties of waves and explain the relationships among them and how these properties change when the wave moves from one medium to another.» SC.912.P.10.21: Qualitatively describe the shift in frequency in sound or electromagnetic waves due to the relative motion of a source or a receiver.

PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS PAGE 20 OF 21» SC.912.P.10.22: Construct ray diagrams and use thin lens and mirror equations to locate the images formed by lenses and mirrors.» SC.912.P.12.1: Distinguish between scalar and vector quantities and assess which should be used to describe an event.» SC.912.P.12.2: Analyze the motion of an object in terms of its position, velocity, and acceleration (with respect to a frame of reference ) as functions of time.» Related instructional resources» SC.912.P.12.3: Interpret and apply Newton's three laws of motion.» Related instructional resources» SC.912.P.12.4: Describe how the gravitational force between two objects depends on their masses and the distance between them.» SC.912.P.12.5: Apply the law of conservation of linear momentum to interactions, such as collisions between objects.» SC.912.P.12.6: Qualitatively apply the concept of angular momentum.» SC.912.P.12.7: Recognize that nothing travels faster than the speed of light in vacuum which is the same for all observers no matter how they or the light source are moving. Low» SC.912.P.12.8: Recognize that Newton's Laws are a limiting case of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity at speeds that are much smaller than the speed of light. Low» SC.912.P.12.9: Recognize that time, length, and energy depend on the frame of reference.» Related instructional resources Low» SC.912.P.12.10: Interpret the behavior of ideal gases in terms of kinetic molecular theory.

PHYSICS I HONORS/PRE-IB PHYSICS SYLLABUS PAGE 21 OF 21» Related instructional resources» SC.912.P.12.11: Describe phase transitions in terms of kinetic molecular theory.