Essential Standards
NCES.Phy.1.1.1: Analyze motion graphically and numerically using vectors, graphs and calculations.
Feed the Monkey (Projectile Motion)
Golf Range
NCES.Phy.1.1.2: Analyze motion in one dimension using time, distance, displacement, velocity, and acceleration.
NCES.Phy.1.1.3: Analyze motion in two dimensions using angle of trajectory, time, distance, displacement, velocity, and acceleration.
Feed the Monkey (Projectile Motion)
Golf Range
NCES.Phy.1.2.3: Explain forces using Newton’s laws of motion as well as the universal law of gravitation.
Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
Gravitational Force
Pith Ball Lab
NCES.Phy.1.3.1: Analyze the motion of objects involved in completely elastic and completely inelastic collisions by using the principles of conservation of momentum and conservation of energy.
NCES.Phy.1.3.2: Analyze the motion of objects based on the relationship between momentum and impulse.
NCES.Phy.2.1.1: Interpret data on work and energy presented graphically and numerically.
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Seasons Around the World
NCES.Phy.2.1.2: Compare the concepts of potential and kinetic energy and conservation of total mechanical energy in the description of the motion of objects.
Air Track
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Roller Coaster Physics
NCES.Phy.2.1.3: Explain the relationship among work, power and energy.
NCES.Phy.2.2.1: Analyze how energy is transmitted through waves, using the fundamental characteristics of waves: wavelength, period, frequency, amplitude, and wave velocity.
NCES.Phy.2.2.2: Analyze wave behaviors in terms of transmission, reflection, refraction and interference.
NCES.Phy.2.2.3: Compare mechanical and electromagnetic waves in terms of wave characteristics and behavior (specifically sound and light).
NCES.Phy.2.3.1: Explain Ohm’s law in relation to electric circuits.
NCES.Phy.2.3.5: Analyze systems with multiple potential differences and resistors connected in series and parallel circuits, both conceptually and mathematically, in terms of voltage, current and resistance.
NCES.Phy.3.1.3: Explain how Coulomb’s law relates to the electrostatic interactions among charged objects.
Coulomb Force (Static)
Pith Ball Lab
NCES.Phy.3.2.1: Explain the relationship between magnetic domains and magnetism.
NCES.Phy.3.2.2: Explain how electric currents produce various magnetic fields.
NCES.Phy.3.2.3: Explain how transformers and power distributions are applications of electromagnetism.
Correlation last revised: 10/4/2022