CP: Integrated Chemistry - Physics

CP.1: Students begin to conceptualize the general architecture of the atom and the roles played by the main constituents of the atom in determining the properties of materials. They investigate, using such methods as laboratory work, the different properties of matter. They investigate the concepts of relative motion, the action/reaction principle, wave behavior, and the interaction of matter and energy.

CP.1.1: Understand and explain that atoms have a positive nucleus (consisting of relatively massive positive protons and neutral neutrons) surrounded by negative electrons of much smaller mass, some of which may be lost, gained, or shared when interacting with other atoms.

Element Builder

CP.1.2: Realize that and explain how a neutral atom's atomic number and mass number can be used to determine the number of protons, neutrons, and electrons that make up an atom.

Element Builder

CP.1.3: Understand, and give examples to show, that isotopes of the same element have the same numbers of protons and electrons but differ in the numbers of neutrons.

Element Builder

CP.1.5: Distinguish among chemical and physical changes in matter by identifying characteristics of these changes.

Density Experiment: Slice and Dice

CP.1.6: Understand and explain how an atom can acquire an unbalanced electrical charge by gaining or losing electrons.

Element Builder

CP.1.8: Know and explain that the nucleus of a radioactive isotope is unstable and may spontaneously decay, emitting particles and/or electromagnetic radiation.

Nuclear Decay

CP.1.9: Show how the predictability of the nuclei decay rate allows radioactivity to be used for estimating the age of materials that contain radioactive substances.

Half-life

CP.1.10: Understand that the Periodic Table is a listing of elements arranged by increasing atomic number, and use it to predict whether a selected atom would gain, lose, or share electrons as it interacts with other selected atoms.

Electron Configuration
Element Builder

CP.1.12: Realize and explain that because mass is conserved in chemical reactions, balanced chemical equations must be used to show that atoms are conserved.

Balancing Chemical Equations
Chemical Equations

CP.1.13: Explain that the rate of reactions among atoms and molecules depends on how often they encounter one another, which is in turn affected by the concentrations, pressures, and temperatures of the reacting materials.

Collision Theory

CP.1.15: Understand and explain that whenever the amount of energy in one place or form diminishes, the amount in other places or forms increases by the same amount.

Air Track
Energy Conversion in a System
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Roller Coaster Physics

CP.1.16: Explain that heat energy in a material consists of the disordered motions of its atoms or molecules.

Temperature and Particle Motion

CP.1.17: Know and explain that transformations of energy usually transform some energy into the form of heat, which dissipates by radiation or conduction into cooler surroundings.

Herschel Experiment

CP.1.20: Realize and explain that the energy in a system is the sum of both potential energy and kinetic energy.

Energy Conversion in a System
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Roller Coaster Physics

CP.1.21: Understand and explain that the change in motion of an object (acceleration) is proportional to the net force applied to the object and inversely proportional to the object's mass. (a=F/m)

Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
Free-Fall Laboratory

CP.1.22: Recognize and explain that whenever one object exerts a force on another, an equal and opposite force is exerted back on it by the other object.

Fan Cart Physics

CP.1.23: Understand and explain that the motion of an object is described by its position, velocity, and acceleration.

Distance-Time Graphs
Free-Fall Laboratory
Golf Range
Shoot the Monkey

CP.1.24: Recognize and explain that waves are described by their velocity, wavelength, frequency or period, and amplitude.

Ripple Tank

CP.1.25: Understand and explain that waves can superpose on one another, bend around corners, reflect off surfaces, be absorbed by materials they enter, and change direction when entering a new material.

Basic Prism
Herschel Experiment
Longitudinal Waves
Refraction
Ripple Tank
Sound Beats and Sine Waves

CP.1.27: Recognize and describe that gravitational force is an attraction between masses and that the strength of the force is proportional to the masses and decreases rapidly as the square of the distance between the masses increases. (F = G[(m1m2)/r²])

Gravitational Force
Pith Ball Lab