Course+Syllabus

== = **PHYSICS I ** =

**Subject Description: ** Physics I is an introductory course offered to third year high school students of the Regional Science High School which aims to equip them with the knowledge and skills they need in their daily lives and develop their scientific attitude to become functionally literate citizens. As such, the course covers topics on scientific inquiry; forces and motion; nature, conservation and transformation of energy; nature and properties of mechanical and electromagnetic waves; and, properties and behaviors of light and optics. **Textbook **: 1. Hewitt, P. (1998). //Conceptual Physics//. USA: Addison-Wesley Longman, Inc. 2. Glencoe Physics Principles and Problems **References **: 1. Navaza, D. and B. Valdes, (1999). Philippines: Phoenix Publishing House  2. Physics Principles and Problems. USA: The McGrawHill Companies, Inc.  3. Santos, GN and J. Ocampo (2003). E-Physics with Laboratory Activities. Philippines:  Rex Bookstore.  4. Santos, GN and A. Danac (2006). i-Physics. Philippines : Rex Bookstore.  5. [|http://www.ruthedradan.wikispaces.com]  6. [|http://www.edutopia.org] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> 7. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|www.glencoe.com] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> 8. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|www.skoool.com] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> 9. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072437316/information_center_view0/#] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> 10. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|www.visionlearning.com] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> 11. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|www.worldofteaching.com] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> 12. www.discoveryeducation.com ****<span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">I. ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Scientific Inquiry **** = = **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Standard: ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">The student will demonstrate an understanding of how scientific inquiry and technological design, including mathematical analysis, can be used appropriately to pose questions, seek answers, and develop solutions. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Indicators ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">1.1 Generate hypotheses on the basis of credible, accurate, and relevant sources of scientific information. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">1.2 Use appropriate laboratory apparatuses, technology, and techniques safely and accurately when conducting a scientific investigation. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">1.3 <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Use <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">scientific instruments to record measurement data in appropriate metric units that reflect the precision and accuracy of each particular instrument. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">1.4 Design a scientific investigation with appropriate methods of control to test a hypothesis (including independent and dependent variables), and evaluate the designs of sample investigations. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">1.5 Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics (including formulas and dimensional analysis), graphs, models, and/or technology. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">1.6 Evaluate the results of a controlled scientific investigation in terms of whether they refute or verify the hypothesis. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">1.7 Evaluate a technological design or product on the basis of designated criteria (including cost, time, and materials). <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">1.8 Compare the processes of scientific investigation and technological design. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">1.9 Use appropriate safety procedures when conducting investigations. =**<span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">II. ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">The Interactions of Matter and Energy **=

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Indicators ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">2.1 Explain the relationship among distance, time, direction, and the velocity of an object. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">2.2 Use the formula v = d/t to solve problems related to average speed or velocity. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">2.3 Explain how changes in velocity and time affect the acceleration of an object. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">2.4 Use the formula a = (vf-vi)/t to determine the acceleration of an object. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">2.5 Explain how acceleration due to gravity affects the velocity of an object as it falls. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">2.6 Represent the linear motion of objects on distance-time graphs. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">2.7 Explain the motion of objects on the basis of Newton’s three laws of motion: inertia; the relationship among force, mass, and acceleration; and action and reaction forces. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">2.8 Use the formula F = ma to solve problems related to force. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">2.9 Explain the relationship between mass and weight by using the formula FW = mag. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">2.10 Explain how the gravitational force between two objects is affected by the mass of each object and the distance between them.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Standard 2 : **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;"> **The student will demonstrate an understanding of the nature of forces and motion.**

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Indicators ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">3.1 Explain how the law of conservation of energy applies to the transformation of various forms of energy (including mechanical energy, electrical energy, chemical energy, light energy, sound energy, and thermal energy). <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">3.2 Explain the factors that determine potential and kinetic energy and the transformation of one to the other. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">3.3 Explain work in terms of the relationship among the force applied to an object, the displacement of the object, and the energy transferred to the object. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">3.4 Use the formula W = Fd to solve problems related to <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">work done on an object. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">3.5 Explain how objects can acquire a static electric charge through friction, induction, and conduction. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">3.6 Explain the relationships among voltage, resistance, and current in Ohm’s law. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">3.7 Use the formula V = IR to solve problems related to electric circuits. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">3.8 Represent an electric circuit <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">by drawing a circuit diagram that includes the symbols for a resistor, switch, and voltage source. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">3.9 Compare the functioning of simple series and parallel electrical circuits. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">3.10 Compare <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">in terms of the production of electricity and the direction of current flow. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">3.11 Explain the relationship of magnetism to the movement of electric charges in electromagnets, simple motors, and generators. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">3.12 Compare how current, voltage, and resistance are measured in a series and in a parallel electric circuit and identify the appropriate units of measurement. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">3.13 Analyze the relationships among voltage, resistance, and current in a complex circuit by using Ohm’s law to calculate voltage, resistance, and current at each resistor, any branch, and the overall circuit. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">3.14 Carry out calculations for electric power and electric energy for circuits. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">3.15 Summarize the function of electrical safety components (including fuses, surge protectors, and breakers). <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">3.16 Explain the effects of magnetic forces on the production of electrical currents and on current carrying wires and moving charges. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">3.17 Predict the cost of operating an electrical device by determining the amount of electrical power and electrical energy in the circuit.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Standard 3: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;"> **The student will demonstrate an understanding of the nature, conservation, and transformation of energy.**

=**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Standard 4 **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">: **The student will demonstrate an understanding of the nature and properties of mechanical and electromagnetic waves.** = <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Indicators

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">4.1 Illustrate ways that the energy of waves is transferred by interaction with matter (including transverse and longitudinal/compressional waves). <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">4.2 Compare the nature and properties of transverse and longitudinal/compressional mechanical waves. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">4.3 Summarize characteristics of waves (including displacement, frequency, period, amplitude, wavelength, and velocity as well as the relationships among these characteristics). <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">4.4 Use the formulas v = f and v = d/t to solve problems related to the velocity of waves. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">4.5 Summarize the characteristics of the electromagnetic spectrum (including range of wavelengths, frequency, energy, and propagation without a medium). <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">4.6 Summarize reflection and interference of both sound and light waves and the refraction and diffraction of light waves. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">4.7 Explain the Doppler effect conceptually in terms of the frequency of the waves and the pitch of the sound. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">4.8 Analyze the relationships among the properties of waves (including energy, frequency, amplitude, wavelength, period, phase, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">and speed). <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">4.9 Compare the properties of electromagnetic and mechanical waves. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">4.10 Analyze wave behaviors (including reflection, refraction, diffraction, and constructive and destructive interference). <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">4.11 Distinguish the different <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">properties <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">of waves across the range of the electromagnetic spectrum. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">4.12 <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">Illustrate the interaction of light waves with optical lenses and mirrors by using Snell’s law and ray diagrams. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">4.13 Summarize the operation of lasers and compare them to incandescent light.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Standard 5: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **The student will demonstrate an understanding of the properties and behaviors of light and optics**.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Indicators
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">5.1 Explain the particulate nature of light as evidenced in the photoelectric effect. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">5.2 Use the inverse square law to determine the change in intensity of light with distance. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">5.3 Illustrate the polarization of light. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">5.4 Summarize the operation of fiber optics in terms of total internal reflection. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">5.5 Summarize image formation in microscopes and telescopes (including reflecting and refracting). <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">5.6 Summarize the production of continuous, emission, or absorption spectra. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">5.7 Compare color by transmission to color by reflection. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">5.8 Compare color mixing in pigments to color mixing in light. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">5.9 Illustrate the diffraction and interference of light. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;">5.10 Identify the parts of the eye and explain their function in image formation.