PH30-MP: Modern Physics

PH30-MP1: Analyze the importance of relativistic principles and quantum mechanics in our world.

PH30-MP1.i: Explore the photoelectric effect including the influence of various frequencies and energies of electromagnetic radiation.

Photoelectric Effect

PH30-MP2: Assess the effects of radioactivity and applications of nuclear technology on society and the environment.

PH30-MP2.c: Compare the characteristics (e.g., composition, penetrating power, speed and potential danger) of alpha, beta and gamma radiation.

Nuclear Decay

PH30-MP2.d: Represent nuclear reactions involving alpha, beta and gamma decay using words, diagrams and equations.

Nuclear Decay

PH30-FM: Forces and Motion

PH30-FM1: Analyze motion in one- and two-dimensions, including uniform motion, uniformly accelerated motion, circular motion and projectile motion.

PH30-FM1.a: Provide examples of situations in which everyday objects undergo uniform motion, uniformly accelerated motion, circular motion and projectile motion.

Free-Fall Laboratory

PH30-FM1.c: Solve problems involving different types of motion in one- and two-dimensions, including relative motion, using graphical methods, vector analysis and kinematics equations (e.g., vector v = (delta vector d)/t, vector v sub f = vector v sub i + (vector a)(delta t), (vector v sub f)²= (vector v sub i)² + 2(vector a)(delta vector d), delta vector d = (vector v sub i)(delta t) + 1/2(vector a)(delta t)² and delta vector d = 1/2(vector v sub i + vector v sub f)(delta t)).

Feed the Monkey (Projectile Motion)
Free-Fall Laboratory
Golf Range
Uniform Circular Motion

PH30-FM1.d: Experimentally determine the value of the acceleration due to gravity near Earth’s surface.

Free-Fall Laboratory

PH30-FM1.f: Solve problems involving projectile motion and objects in free fall using graphical (e.g., scale diagrams) and/or mathematical (e.g., vector components, sine law and cosine law) methods.

Feed the Monkey (Projectile Motion)
Free-Fall Laboratory
Golf Range

PH30-FM1.h: Determine the characteristics (e.g., speed, velocity, period, distance travelled and acceleration) of uniform circular motion.

Uniform Circular Motion

PH30-FM2: Analyze the effects of forces on objects undergoing uniform motion, uniformly accelerated motion and circular motion.

PH30-FM2.c: Discuss the importance of the concepts of inertia and inertial mass with respect to the development of Newton’s laws of motion.

Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics

PH30-FM2.d: Investigate the effect of changing the mass of an object and/or force applied to an object on the acceleration of that object.

Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics

PH30-FM2.e: Solve problems involving force, mass and acceleration, using free-body diagrams and Newton’s second law of motion (vector F = m(vector a)).

Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics

PH30-FM2.f: Describe the effect of friction and air resistance, including terminal velocity, on objects in motion (e.g., rollercoasters, skydiving, snowboards, meteors entering Earth’s atmosphere, inclined plane situations, rolling balls, spacecraft and satellite re-entry, aircraft, race cars and artillery).

Free-Fall Laboratory

PH30-FM2.g: Predict and investigate the effect of balanced or unbalanced forces, including the effect of friction, on an object that is at rest, undergoing uniform motion or undergoing uniformly accelerated motion.

Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
Golf Range

PH30-FM2.h: Solve problems involving forces acting in one- and two-dimensions using graphical (e.g., scale diagrams) and mathematical (e.g., vector components, sine law and cosine law) methods.

Free-Fall Laboratory
Uniform Circular Motion

PH30-FM2.j: Examine the vertical and horizontal forces involved in various types of circular motion (e.g., roller coaster, Ferris wheel, merry-go-round and figure skater) with reference to the concepts of centripetal and centrifugal.

Uniform Circular Motion

PH30-CO: Conservation Laws

PH30-CO1: Investigate the nature of mechanical energy and efficiency in mechanical systems in relation to the law of conservation of energy.

PH30-CO1.a: Recognize work as the transfer of energy that takes place when a force acts over a displacement.

Pulley Lab

PH30-CO1.b: Identify the conditions required for positive, negative and zero mechanical work and their relation to the angle between the applied force and displacement.

Pulley Lab

PH30-CO1.c: Discuss how common usage of the terms work, energy and power differ from their operational definitions in physics.

Pulley Lab

PH30-CO1.d: Identify the properties (e.g., boundaries, inputs and outputs) of a system with respect to total mechanical energy.

Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects

PH30-CO1.e: Explain the law of conservation of energy in terms of isolated and non-isolated systems and conservation of mechanical energy.

Air Track
Energy Conversion in a System
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects

PH30-CO1.g: Design and perform experiments and/or simulations, including collecting, analyzing and interpreting data, to determine the kinetic energy involved in elastic and inelastic interactions (e.g., curling stones, billiard balls, bouncing ball, seatbelts and automobile collisions).

2D Collisions
Air Track

PH30-CO2: Analyze the motion of objects and interactions between objects using momentum concepts, including the law of conservation of momentum.

PH30-CO2.a: Explore how impulse and momentum concepts apply to motion-related technologies in fields such as sports science, transportation and space science.

Air Track

PH30-CO2.e: Conduct an experiment or simulation, including collecting, analyzing and interpreting data, to determine the extent to which momentum is conserved in elastic and inelastic collisions.

2D Collisions
Air Track

PH30-CO2.f: Solve problems using the law of conservation of momentum in one- and two-dimensional interactions (e.g., head-on collisions, glancing collisions, rocket launches and explosions).

2D Collisions
Air Track

PH30-FI: Fields

PH30-FI1: Investigate gravitational fields and their interactions with matter.

PH30-FI1.f: Explain variations in gravitational field strength as a function of inverse-square dependence.

Gravitational Force
Pith Ball Lab

PH30-FI2: Investigate electric and magnetic fields and their interactions with matter.

PH30-FI2.e: Describe current scientific thinking regarding the electromagnetic force, one of the four fundamental interactions.

Electromagnetic Induction

PH30-FI2.j: Analyze the direction of positive, negative and neutral charges moving in natural (e.g., solar flares and aurorae) and man-made (e.g., particle accelerators and MRI’s) magnetic fields.

Electromagnetic Induction

Correlation last revised: 3/30/2021

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