NCES.Phy.1: Forces and Motion

NCES.Phy.1.1: Analyze the motion of objects.

NCES.Phy.1.1.1: Analyze motion graphically and numerically using vectors, graphs and calculations.

Feed the Monkey (Projectile Motion)
Golf Range

NCES.Phy.1.1.2: Analyze motion in one dimension using time, distance, displacement, velocity, and acceleration.

Free-Fall Laboratory

NCES.Phy.1.1.3: Analyze motion in two dimensions using angle of trajectory, time, distance, displacement, velocity, and acceleration.

Feed the Monkey (Projectile Motion)
Golf Range

NCES.Phy.1.2: Analyze systems of forces and their interaction with matter.

NCES.Phy.1.2.3: Explain forces using Newton’s laws of motion as well as the universal law of gravitation.

Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
Gravitational Force
Pith Ball Lab

NCES.Phy.1.3: Analyze the motion of objects based on the principles of conservation of momentum, conservation of energy and impulse.

NCES.Phy.1.3.1: Analyze the motion of objects involved in completely elastic and completely inelastic collisions by using the principles of conservation of momentum and conservation of energy.

2D Collisions
Air Track

NCES.Phy.1.3.2: Analyze the motion of objects based on the relationship between momentum and impulse.

2D Collisions
Air Track

NCES.Phy.2: Energy: Conservation and Transfer

NCES.Phy.2.1: Understand the concepts of work, energy, and power, as well as the relationship among them.

NCES.Phy.2.1.1: Interpret data on work and energy presented graphically and numerically.

Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Seasons Around the World

NCES.Phy.2.1.2: Compare the concepts of potential and kinetic energy and conservation of total mechanical energy in the description of the motion of objects.

Air Track
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Roller Coaster Physics

NCES.Phy.2.1.3: Explain the relationship among work, power and energy.

Pulley Lab

NCES.Phy.2.2: Analyze the behavior of waves.

NCES.Phy.2.2.1: Analyze how energy is transmitted through waves, using the fundamental characteristics of waves: wavelength, period, frequency, amplitude, and wave velocity.

Ripple Tank

NCES.Phy.2.2.2: Analyze wave behaviors in terms of transmission, reflection, refraction and interference.

Ripple Tank

NCES.Phy.2.2.3: Compare mechanical and electromagnetic waves in terms of wave characteristics and behavior (specifically sound and light).

Basic Prism
Ripple Tank

NCES.Phy.2.3: Analyze the nature of moving charges and electric circuits.

NCES.Phy.2.3.1: Explain Ohm’s law in relation to electric circuits.

Advanced Circuits
Circuits

NCES.Phy.2.3.5: Analyze systems with multiple potential differences and resistors connected in series and parallel circuits, both conceptually and mathematically, in terms of voltage, current and resistance.

Circuit Builder
Circuits

NCES.Phy.3: Interactions of Energy and Matter

NCES.Phy.3.1: Explain charges and electrostatic systems.

NCES.Phy.3.1.3: Explain how Coulomb’s law relates to the electrostatic interactions among charged objects.

Coulomb Force (Static)
Pith Ball Lab

NCES.Phy.3.2: Explain the concept of magnetism.

NCES.Phy.3.2.1: Explain the relationship between magnetic domains and magnetism.

Magnetic Induction

NCES.Phy.3.2.2: Explain how electric currents produce various magnetic fields.

Magnetic Induction

NCES.Phy.3.2.3: Explain how transformers and power distributions are applications of electromagnetism.

Electromagnetic Induction