STANDARD COURSE OF STUDY

1.01 Identify questions and problems that can be answered through scientific investigations.

1.02 Design and conduct scientific investigations to answer questions about the physical world.

• Create testable hypotheses
• Identify variables.
• Use a control or comparison group when appropriate.
• Select and use appropriate measurement tools.
• Collect and record data.
• Organize data into charts and graphs.
• Analyze and interpret data.
• Communicate findings.

1.03 Formulate and revise scientific explanations and models using logic and evidence to:

• Explain observations.
• Make inferences and predictions.
• Explain the relationship between evidence and explanation.
• Communicate results, including suggested ways to improve experiments and proposed questions for further study.

1.04 Apply safety procedures in the laboratory and in field studies:

• Recognize and avoid potential hazards.
• Safely manipulate materials and equipment needed for scientific investigations.

1.05 Analyze reports of scientific investigations of physical phenomena from an informed scientifically literate viewpoint including considerations of:

• Adequacy of experimental controls.
• Replication of findings.
• Alternative interpretations of the data.
  

2.01 Analyze and evaluate a particle using kinematics (movement in one, two, and circular dimensions).

• Motion in one dimensions.
• Relate position, velocity, and acceleration of a particle for motion.
• Motion in two dimensions.
• Addition and subtraction of displacement and velocity vectors
• Visual, graphical, mathematical expressions of the motion of a projectile in a uniform gravitational field.
• Relate a particles radius, speed, velocity, and acceleration in uniform circular motion.

2.02 Investigate, measure, and analyze Newton's laws of motion

• Static equilibrium (first law).
• Dynamics of a single particle (second law).
• Systems of two or more bodies (third law).
  • Velocity with constant force and average force.
  • Force diagram.
• Normal and frictional forces.
• Action and reaction forces an two or more bodies (third law).
• Tension.

2.03 Examine and calculate work, energy and power.

• Work and work-energy theorem.
• Conservative forces and potential energy.
• Conservation of energy.
• Power.

2.04 Analyze and evaluate systems of particles and linear momentum.

• Impulse and momentum.
• Conservation of linear momentum and collisions.

2.05 Evaluate and analyze circular motion and rotation.

• Uniform circular motion.
• Torque and rotational statics.

2.06 Investigate and analyze oscillations and gravitation.

• Simple harmonic motion (dynamics and energy relationships).
• Mass on a spring.
• Pendulum and other oscillations.
• Newton's law of gravity.
• Circular orbits of planets and satellites.
  

3.01 Examine and evaluate fluid mechanics.

• Hydrostatic pressure.
• Buoyancy.
• Fluid flow continuity.
• Bernoulli's principle.

3.02 Evaluate and investigate temperature and heat.

• Mechanical equivalent of heat.
• Heat transfer and thermal expansion.

3.03 Examine and evaluate kinetic theory and thermodynamics.

• Ideal gases-kinetic model and ideal gas law.
• Laws of thermodynamics-first law (including processes on PV diagrams) and second law (including heat engines).
  

4.01 Study and analyze electrostatics.

• Charge, field, and potential.
• Coulomb's law and field and potential of point charges.
• Planar fields and potentials of other charge distributions.

4.02 Evaluate and analyze conductors, capacitors, and dielectrics.

• Electrostatics with conductors.
• Parallel plate capacitors.

4.03 Analyze and investigate electric circuits.

• Current, resistance, and power.
• Steady-state direct current circuits with batteries and resistors only.
• Steady-state capacitors in circuits.

4.04 Study and evaluate magnetostatics.

• Forces on moving charges in magnetic fields.
• Forces on current-carrying wires in magnetic fields.
• Fields of long current-carrying wires.

4.05 Measure and analyze electromagnetism.

• Electromagnetic induction (including Faraday's law and Lenz's law).
  

5.01 Study and evaluate wave motion.

• Properties of traveling waves.
• Properties of standing waves.
• Doppler effect.
• Superposition.

5.02 Evaluate and analyze physical optics.

• Interference and diffraction.
• Dispersion of light and the electromagnetic spectrum.

5.03 Investigate and analyze geometric optics.

• Reflection and refraction.
• Mirrors.
• Lenses.
  

6.01 Analyze and evaluate atomic physics and quantum effects.

• Photons and the photoelectric effects.
• Atomic energy levels.
• Wave-particle duality.

6.02 Evaluate, measure, and analyze nuclear physics.

• Nuclear reactions (including conservation of mass number and charge).
• Mass-energy equivalence.