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Standard 1

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A.  Explain how the Laws of Motion relate to all forms of motion.

1.   Identify and describe one-dimensional motion.

2.   Identify and describe two dimensional motion.

3.   Use vectors and coordinate systems to solve displacement, velocity and acceleration problems.

4.   Cite Newton’s Laws of Motion.

5.   Use Newton’s laws to explain static equilibrium, dynamics of a single object and systems of two or more objects.

6.   Understand frictional effects.

7.   Calculate center of mass for one- and two-dimensional objects.

8.   Relate impulse and momentum.

9.   Apply conservation of linear momentum to collision problems.

10. Identify and describe uniform circular motion.

11. Use conservation of angular momentum to solve point particle problems.

12. Understand torque and rotational statics, kinematics and dynamics.

13. Identify simple harmonic motion.

14. Distinguish pendulum, spring and other oscillations.

15. Relate Newton’s law of gravity to circular orbits.

23. Understand the behavior of gases based on the kinetic model and the ideal gas law.

 

B.   Describe the different forms of energy and conservation       of energy.

16. Understand work and apply the work-energy theorem.

17. Relate conservative forces and potential energy.

18. Know and use conservation of energy to solve problems.

19. Understand mechanical power.

20. Understand the mechanical equivalent of heat.

21. Distinguish specific and latent heat.

22. Solve heat transfer and expansion problems.

24. Compare and contrast the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics.

 

C.  Describe the interrelationship of wavers and energy in       light and sound.

25. Identify and describe the properties of traveling and standing waves.

26. Understand the Doppler effect and superposition.

27. Compare and contrast interference and diffraction.

28. Relate the dispersion of light to the electromagnetic spectrum.

29. Use principles of reflection and refraction to explain the properties of mirrors and lenses.

 

D.  Apply wave principles to electromagnetic    phenomena.

30. Compare and contrast electrostatic charge, field and potential.

31. Solve problems dealing with Coulomb’s law and field and potential of point charges.

32. Distinguish point and planar charge distributions.

33. Compare and contrast electrostatics with conductors and insulators.

34. Describe the effect of forces on moving charges in magnetic fields.

35. Describe the effect of forces on current-carrying wires in magnetic fields.

36. Measure the fields of long current-carrying wires.

37. Understand parallel plate capacitance.

38. Knows and uses Ohm’s law for determination of current, potential, resistance and power.

39. Solve steady-state direct current circuit problems, involving batteries, resistors and capacitors.

40. Understands electromagnetic induction, including Faraday’s law and Lenz’s law.

 

E.   Assess nuclear and atomic effects in respect to the modern       Quantum Theory.

41. Relate alpha particle scattering to the Rutherford model of the atom.

42. Relate photons, the photoelectric effect and the wave-particle duality of electromagnetic radiation.

43. Know and use the Bohr model to calculate energy level transitions.

44. Understand the nature of radioactivity, effects of radiation, and half-life.

45. Describe nuclear reactions, including conservation of mass number, conservation of charge and mass-energy equivalence.

46. Discuss the theory of relativity.

 

F.   Compare and contrast principles of fluids at rest and in       motion.

47. Describe and solve problems dealing with fluid mechanics.

48. Demonstrate Archimedes’ principle, Pascal’s principle, and Bernoulli’s principle.

 

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