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Essential Outcomes for Physics I showing state standards and textbook chapter correlation
1) Motion and Forces: Collaboratively describe, test through experiments, explain and defend
mathematical models of the motion of macroscopic objects in terms of Newton’s laws.
Learning Goals: Students will be able to:
a) use motion diagrams, graphs, and algebraic equations to describe , measure and analyze
constant acceleration motion in one direction in terms of time and the vector quantities of
displacement, velocity, and acceleration. (1.1) Chapters 2 and 3
b) use motion diagrams, graphs, and algebraic equations to describe, measure and analyze
constant acceleration motion in two dimensions in terms of time and the vector quantities
of displacement, velocity and acceleration specifically dealing with projectile motion and
uniform circular motion. (1.2) Chapter 6
c) describe the magnitude and direction of kinds of forces, including both the contact and the
field forces that act in a distance; find the net force acting on an object using free-body
diagrams and the addition of forces; and use Newton’s three laws to deductively analyze
static and dynamic systems. (1.3) Chapter 4 and 5
d) use Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation, the laws of motion and Keplar’s Third Law of
Planetary Motion to quantitatively analyze the motion of orbiting objects. (1.4) Chapter 7
2) Energy and Momentum: Collaboratively describe, test, explain, and defend mathematical
models of the motion of macroscopic objects in terms of their energy, momentum and their
conservation laws as developed using Newton’s three laws of motion.
Learning Goals: Students should be able to:
a) Describe qualitatively and quantitatively the concepts of momentum, work, kinetic energy,
potential energy and power. (2.1) Chapter 9, 10, and 11
b) Quantitatively predict changes in momentum using the impulse-momentum theorem and in
kinetic energy using the work-energy theorem. (2.2) Chapter 9 and 11
c) Analyze evidence that illustrates the Law of Conservation of Energy and the Law of
Conservation of Momentum and apply these laws to analyze elastic and inelastic collisions.
(2.3) Chapter 9 and 11
d) Describe and quantify energy, its different mechanical forms and recognize that these forms
of energy can be transformed one into another and into non-mechanical forms of energy
such as thermal, chemical, nuclear and electromagnetic. (2.4) Chapter 11
3) Temperature and Thermal Energy Transfer: Describe and distinguish the concepts of
temperature and thermal energy. Use the kinetic molecular theory to explain some thermal
properties of gases and phase changes of solids, liquids, and gases. (2.5)
Learning Goals: Students should be able to:
a) Students will be able to describe temperature; thermal energy and thermal energy transfer
in terms of the kinetic molecular model and expand the concept of conservation of
b)
mechanical energy to include thermal energy. (3.1) Chapter 12
b) Describe the kinetic molecular model, use it to derive the ideal gas law and show how it
explains the relationship between the temperature of an object and the average kinetic
energy of its molecules. (3.2) Chapter 13
c) Use the kinetic theory to explain that the transfer of heat occurs during a change of state.
(3.3)
d) Use examples from everyday life to describe the transfer of thermal energy by conduction,
convection, and radiation. (3.4) Chapter 12
4) Electricity and Magnetism: Understand the interplay of electricity and magnetism. Apply this
understanding to electrostatic problems and basic electrical circuits.
Learning Goals: Students should be able to:
a) Use Coulomb’s law to describe and determine the force on a stationary charge due to other
stationary charges and know that this force is many times greater than the force of gravity.
(4.1) Chapter 20
b) Define electric field and describe the motion of a charged particle in a simple electric field.
(4.2) Chapter 21
c) Describe the electric potential energy and electrical potential difference to explain the
motion of electric charges and the resulting electric current in conductors. (4.3) Chapter 22
d) Explain and analyze simple arrangements of electrical components in series and parallel
circuits in terms of current, resistance, voltage and power using Ohm’s and Kirchoff’s laws to
analyze circuits. (4.4) Chapter 22 and 23
e) Describe the magnetic forces and fields produced by and acting on moving charges and
magnetic materials. (4.5) Chapter 24 and 25
5) Apply Newton’s laws and concepts of kinetic and potential energy to describe and explain the
motion of vibrating objects.
Learning Goals: Students will be able to:
a) Identify properties of objects that vibrate using Newton’s laws to describe and explain the
vibrational motion resulting from restoring forces, such as Hooke’s law in the case of springs
or gravity in the case of a small amplitude pendulum. (5.1) Chapter 14
b) Describe how vibrating objects can generate transverse and/or longitudinal waves so that
energy is transmitted without the transfer of energy. (5.2) Chapter 14
c) Describe and analyze propagating waves in terms of their fundamental characteristics such
as wave speed, wavelength, frequency or period, and amplitude. (5.3) Chapter 14
d) Students will be able to describe and explain 1) the behavior of waves such as transmission,
reflection, interference and polarizations and 2) the production and properties of standing
waves. (5.4) Chapter 14
6) Light and Optics: understand the geometric nature of light propagation and its wave nature as
observed in the propagation of light through space and its interactions with matter.
Learning Goals: Students will able to:
a) Understand the geometric nature of light in reflection and refraction and in image formation
by lenses and mirrors and also be able to use that information to graphically predict the
formation of images. (6.1) Chapter 16, 17, and 18
b) 1) Describe the electromagnetic spectrum in terms of frequency, wavelength and energy
and
2) Recognize that all forms of electromagnetic energy travel in a vacuum at the same speed.
(6.2) Chapter 16
c) Understand that electromagnetic waves
1) Are produced by the acceleration of charged particles and
2) Interact with matter as both photons and waves and
3) Through wave theory can quantitatively explain polarization and diffraction (6.3) Chapter
16
7) Modern Physics: Understand how our knowledge of physics has changed during the last
hundred years, particularly in the area of atomic and nuclear physics, quantum theory and relativity.
Describe the structure of the atom and the reactions that occur in its nucleus.
Learning Goals: Students should be able to:
a) Explain the parts of the atom and the forces of attraction and repulsion consistent with the
mass and charge of those parts. They should also be able to distinguish between elements
and isotopes. (7.1) Handout
b) Explain that the stability of the nucleus indicates that a force is evident within the nucleus
that holds it together despite the strong repulsive electrical force. (7.2) Chapter 30
c) Distinguish fission from fusion and how the binding energies of the protons and neutrons
determine the stability and instability of nuclei. (7.3) Chapter 30
d) Describe qualitatively how nuclear reactions convert very small amounts of matter into large
amounts of energy. (7.4) Chapter 30
e) Understand that fission and fusion both result in the formation of more stable nuclei and
release thermonuclear energy. (7.5) Chapter 30