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Core Content and Skills
Science Physics H
2008-2009
BOE Approved

Unit 1  Content   Skills  Physics and the methods of science Chapter 2 Measuring Length and Time Chapter 3 measuring mass and weight   Demonstrate that matter occupies space and has weight. Discuss the observable differences between solids, liquids, and gases. Demonstrate that energy is the ability to do work; that is, to exert a force on an object and to move it. Show how electricity does this by means of a motor, how heat does this by means of a model heat or steam engine, how light does this by means of a radiometer. Demonstrate that energy is the ability to do work; that is, to exert a force on an object and to move it.     Unit 1 Methods of Science and Measurment  Content   Skills  Physics and the methods of science Measuring length and time. Measuring mass and weight   Discuss the observable differences between solids, liguids and gases Energy is the ability to due work- what are the forms? What are the goals and methods of science? Show how to measure area of circles, volume of objects Use sig fig to measure a sheet of paper with caliper, ruler, meterstick Discern between mass and weight Perform Hooke's lab, Fid k graphically

Unit 2 Vectors, Force and Motion  Content   Skills  Vectors, Force, and Motion Motion in a straight line Laws of Motion Two Dimensional Motion Law of gravitation and planetary motion Law of work Energy and its conservation   Learn how to reresent forces and motion using vectors Be able to represent vectors graphically Learn how to determine the combined effect of two or more vectors acting at the same point of a body Learn how to resolve a vector into directions other than it's own Understand that the motion of a body is relative and can be only describe relative to some other body Be able to discribe and analyze the motion of a boby moving in a straight line understand and apply Newton's laws of motion Describe the limitations of Newton's laws Calculate the effects of relativistic speeds on time, length, and mass Understand the law of gravity and it's origins Describe and quantify the motion of planets, satellites, and falling bodies. Learn how forces do work and how to compute this work Compare and contrast PE and KE Fully realize the connection between work in, PEmax and KEmax Understand the concept of conservation of energy and how it is applied to all systems.

Unit 4  Content   Skills  Energy is transfered by waves The nature of light   Understand the nature of wave motion as a means of transferring energy. Become Familiar with wave phenomena such as reflection, refraction, diffraction, and polarization. Understand the nature and transmission of sound as a wave phenomenon.

Unit 4  Content   Skills  Reflection and refraction Mirrors, lenses, and optical instruments   Investigate and evaluate the different theories of light Observe and study how light is reflected and refracted Be able to apply the wave theory to explain reflection and refraction Learn how white light or other light can be seperated into its component colors and how this process can be used to identify elements Lean how mirrors and lenses form images Lean how mirrors and lenses form images Demonstrate how mirrors and lenses are used in optical devices

Unit 4  Content   Skills  Interference and diffraction   Learn how white light or other light can be seperated into it's component colors and how this process can be used to identify elements Learn how mirrors and lenses are used in optical devices to assist human visions Understand how interference and diffraction support the wave theory How do two sets of waves form interference patterns How is double slit interference pattern used to measure the wavelength of light passing through the slits How does a diffraction pattern form when light passes through a single slit.

Unit 5  Content   Skills  Electricity and the nature of matter Natural Unit of electricity Coulomb's law and Electrical fields Electric Circuits Series and parallel circuits   Understand the evidence that all bodies of matter contain positive andd negative electrical charges. Learn how bodies acquire electrical charges and how to detect and identify thoes charges. Undretsand the theory that explains how bodies gain or lose electric charge and be able to test it. Learn how to control the movement of electrons in charging and discharging bodies and in setting up continous current. Investigate how electricity is conducted through liquids and solids. Examine the evidence leading to the discovery that there is a natural unit of charge equal to the quanity of electrical charge onn an electron. Undrestand the concept of conservation of charge and be able to apply it. Understand the concept of coulombs charge and how to apply it. Develop the concept of the electric field as a trasmitter of electrical force. Learn how work is done and potential energy stored in an electrical field. Learn how a steady currenty is set up and maintained. Study the factors that control the flow of current. Learn how energy is recieved, transmitted, and transformed inn a circuit. Learn how to connect electrical devices in series and parallel. Learn the advantages of seriers and parallel.

Unit 6  Content   Skills  Magnetism and Magnetic Fields Forces exerted by magnetic fields Electromagnetic induction Electromagnetic waves    demonstrate and discuss the substances attracted by magnets  Show the lines of force around magnets with oil/iron fillings  Show the lines of force around magnets with oil/iron fillings  Show how a compass can be used to map a magnetic field  Oersted's experiment  Discuss and demonstrate the electromagnet as a means of producingstrong, controllable magnetic fields.  Discuss the evidence suggesting the exisrtence of atomic magnets in ferrfomagnetic substances  Discuss the orgins of atomic magnets in the motion of their electrons  Develop the theory of ferromagnetism  trace the magnetiic nature of all matter to the motion of its electrons  trace the magnetiic nature of all matter to the motion of its electrons  Demonstrate Faraday's experiment  Show that the directionof the force on the current bearing wire is qat right angles to the magnetic field and wire  Demonstrate that a single rectangular loop carrying current loop has two equal and opposite forces acting on iut.  Deflect an electron beam in a cthode-ray tube with a horseshoe magnet.  Discuss how crossed electrical and magnetic fields exert opposite forces on charged particles passing through them.  Show that when a conductor is moved across lines of force of magnetic field as decribed in Faraday's work conducts electric.  Discuss the csource of the energy that keeps an induction current flowing  Demonstrate a working model of an ac generator connected to a galvanometer.  Outl.ine the complete ac current generation in a generator  Graph a ac cycle as a sine wave  Show that a electric motor is a generator in reverse.  Explain Maxwell's law of induction, demonstrate it by using a compass and a current bearing wire.  Show that a spark near a radio attena causes interference, explain it in terms of a electromagnetic pulse.  Explain that light comming from atoms as a failure of the theory proposed by maxwell.

Unit 7  Content   Skills  Quantum theory of light Discovery of the atom Quantum theory of the atom Application of Quantum theory Application of Quantum theory The atomic nucleus Nuclear instruments and particle physics   Understand the evidence for light's particle-like properties Understand the evidence for matter's wavelike properties Learn how the quantum theory provides an explanation for the dual (wave-particle) nature of both matter and energy Examine the evidence for Rutherford's experiment that led to his picture or model of atomic structure Evaluate the successes and failures of Rutherfords Model Learn how Bohr arrived at his model of hydrogen atom Evaluate the sucesses and failures of Bohr's model Understand the current atomic model and the evidence that supports it Learn how the quantum theory explains the structure of the atom and their chemical properties Be able to compute the binding energy of a nucleus Understand how some nuclei can be transmutated into others Learn the principles underlying nuclear reactions Learn how fission and fusion can release large amount of energy Become familiar with the instruments used to detect nuclear and subnuclear particles Understand the principles underlying particle accelerators Understand how particles that emerge from nuclear reactions are classified Be introduced to the four fundemental forces that account for all the properties and charges of matter and energy