P-PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

P-PS2-1: Analyze data to support the claim that Newton’s second law of motion describes the mathematical relationship among the net force on a macroscopic object, its mass, and its acceleration.

Atwood Machine
Crumple Zones
Fan Cart Physics
Free-Fall Laboratory

P-PS2-2: Use mathematical representations to support the claim that the total momentum of a system of objects is conserved when there is no net force on the system.

2D Collisions
Air Track

P-PS2-3: Apply scientific and engineering ideas to design, evaluate, and refine a device that minimizes the effect of a force on a macroscopic object during a collision.

Crumple Zones

P-PS2-4: Use mathematical representations of Newton’s law of gravitation and Coulomb’s law to describe and predict the gravitational and electrostatic forces between objects.

Coulomb Force (Static)
Gravitational Force
Pith Ball Lab

P-PS2-5: Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that an electric current can produce a magnetic field and that a changing magnetic field can produce an electric current.

Electromagnetic Induction
Magnetic Induction

P-PS3: Energy

P-PS3-1: Create a computational model to calculate the change in the energy of one component in a system when the following are known: 1) the change in energy of the other component(s) and 2) the energy flowing in and out of the system.

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

P-PS3-2: Develop and use models to illustrate that energy can be explained by the combination of motion and position of objects at the macroscopic scale and the motion and position of particles at the microscopic scale.

Energy Conversion in a System
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Rolling Objects
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Potential Energy on Shelves
Roller Coaster Physics
Trebuchet

P-PS3-3: Design, build, and refine a device that works within given constraints to convert one form of energy into another form of energy.

Trebuchet

P-PS3-5: Develop and use a model to illustrate the forces between two objects and the changes in energy of the objects due to their interaction through electric or magnetic fields.

Charge Launcher
Electromagnetic Induction
Magnetic Induction
Magnetism
Pith Ball Lab

P-PS4: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

P-PS4-1: Use mathematical representations to support a claim regarding relationships among the frequency, wavelength, and speed of waves traveling in various media.

Doppler Shift
Earthquakes 1 - Recording Station
Longitudinal Waves
Refraction
Ripple Tank
Waves

P-PS4-3: Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning about how electromagnetic radiation can be described either by a wave model or a particle model, and in some situations one model is more useful than the other.

Basic Prism
Photoelectric Effect

P-PS4-4: Evaluate the validity and reliability of claims in published materials of the effects that different frequencies of electromagnetic radiation have when absorbed by matter.

Herschel Experiment
Herschel Experiment - Metric
Photoelectric Effect
Radiation

P-PS-4-5: Communicate technical information about how some technological devices use the principles of wave behavior and wave interactions with matter to transmit and capture information and energy.

Phased Array