Download 1st Semester Final SMBATs List

SMBATs for the Final Exam (Semester I)
Energy Test SMBATs (Student Must Be Able To…)
•Identify the 8 forms of energy (and the two forms of mechanical energy).
•State the Law of Conservation of Energy (LoCoE) and be able to apply it to different situations.
•Use and construct energy flow diagrams for given situations to show how energy changes form and/or place.
•Use energy pie charts to track the total energy in a system.
•Use LoCoE to calculate the “missing” amount of energy given the amounts of other forms of energy in the system.
•Verify whether or not a given example works for an energy transformation.
•Given an energy transformation, give an everyday example for that transformation (like the Matrix).
Wave Test SMBATs (Student Must Be Able To…)
•Calculate time period and frequency given the number of events occurring and the time for those events to occur.
•Identify crests and troughs and count or measure wavelength and/or amplitude of a transverse wave.
•Identify compressions and rarefactions and measure wavelength of a longitudinal wave.
•Categorize a given wave as being either transverse or longitudinal.
•Calculate the speed, frequency, wavelength, or time period of a wave given enough information to do so.
•Know the relationship between time period and frequency and be able to calculate one if given the other.
•Calculate the wavelength of a wave given the length of the material and the number of wavelengths present.
•Describe how to change the speed of a wave through a material.
•Calculate the frequency of any harmonic given the frequency of a known harmonic standing wave.
•Identify (using a diagram) or draw (with information provided) a standing wave for a given situation.
•Count or calculate wavelengths for a given harmonic of a standing wave.
•Know and identify the correct metric units for frequency, time period, speed, and wavelength to use in calculations.
Sound Test SMBATs (Student Must Be Able To…)
•Calculate time period and frequency given the number of events occurring and the time for those events to occur.
•Identify compressions and rarefactions and measure wavelength of a longitudinal sound wave.
•Calculate the speed, frequency, wavelength, or time period of a sound wave given enough information to do so.
•Devise an experiment to find the speed of sound using either the wave equation or the average speed equation.
•Describe how to change the speed of a wave through a material.
•Describe a sound wave using the correct terms: speed, frequency, wavelength, amplitude, volume, pitch, waveform.
•Identify a pure tone, a musical instrument, or noise from an Audacity screen capture.
•Identify the 10 required parts of the ear and their functions in the process of hearing. [pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, (malleus, incus,
stapes), cochlea, auditory nerve, semicircular canals, eustachian tube]
•Know the energy transformations involved in the human ear.
•Know and identify the correct metric units for frequency, time period, speed, and wavelength to use in calculations.
•Be able to use an Audacity screen capture to measure the frequency of a sound wave.
•Know the difference between voice recognition and speech synthesis.
Light & Color SMBATs (Student Must Be Able To…)
•Describe the differences between light and other examples of waves (medium, speed, etc.)
•Compare/contrast/describe the uses of all types of light in the EM spectrum (radio, microwave, IR, visible, UV, x-ray, gamma).
•List the types of light (including the visible spectrum) in order of energy, frequency, and/or wavelength.
•Know the range of wavelengths in the visible light spectrum and the order of the colors (ROYGBV) [No indigo!]
•Calculate the speed, frequency, wavelength, or time period of a light wave given enough information to do so.
•Know and identify the correct metric units for frequency, time period, speed, and wavelength to use in calculations.
•Be able to use scientific notation correctly in calculations dealing with the speed, frequencies, and wavelengths of light.
•Identify the speed of light in a vacuum.
•Explain where all visible light in the EM spectrum comes from.
•Describe why the elementary color field is not a true color system.
•List the primary and secondary colors of both the subtractive (print) and additive (light) color systems.
•Compare and contrast the elementary color field, and the subtractive and additive color systems.
•Do simple math with the additive and subtractive color systems (Green paint - blue paint = ?; Red light + green light = ?)
•Explain why different objects look the color that they do (what light is absorbed/reflected from them).
•Describe the light that would pass through a primary or secondary-colored filter.
•Determine the color an object would appear through a primary or secondary-colored filter.
•Determine the color an object would appear under any primary or secondary color of light.
•Describe the differences between light and other examples of waves (medium, speed, etc.)
Reflection Test SMBATs (Student Must Be Able To…)
•Distinguish between specular and diffuse reflection
•Provide written evidence that we see most of the world around us by diffuse reflection
•Identify whether or not a surface is atomically smooth or atomically rough
•Write and use the Law of Reflection, knowing the correct terms (normal, angles of incidence and reflection, incident and
reflected rays)
•Describe the images formed by plane, convex and concave mirrors (size and orientation)
•Identify the different types of mirrors from pictures or from the types of images formed
•Draw or identify the correct reflected image for an object placed in front of a plane mirror
•Describe the front to back reversal found in images in plane mirrors
•Identify a real vs a virtual image
Refraction Test SMBATs (Student Must Be Able To…)
• Describe and define refraction as light passing through a boundary during which a change in speed and direction often takes
place
• Give everyday examples of refraction taking place, both with particles and waves
• Using the definition of the index of refraction, calculate the index for a material or the speed of light through that material
• Using a diagram of light refracting, describe the relative speed of light (faster/slower), the density and indices of the materials,
and the relative size of the angles of incidence and reflection
• Calculate the index of refraction of a material (or an angle of incidence or refraction) using Snell’s Law
• Calculate the critical angle for light going from one substance to another using the definition of critical angle and Snell’s Law
• Describe total internal reflection and when it can happen, give an common example of its use
• Know the types of general images formed by convex and concave lenses (Why are they the opposite of mirrors?)
• Know a general uses of each types of lens