OCG - AP Physics 1

Biology 1 (322100CW) or Biology 1 Honors (322100HW) and Chemistry 1 (323100CW) or Chemistry 1 Honors (323100HW)

There are no fees associated with this course.

South Carolina Standards:  (List the standards students are expected to master in this course)

Science and Engineering Practices

H.C.1A.7:  Construct and analyze scientific arguments to support claims, explanations, or designs using evidence and valid reasoning from observations, data, or informational texts.

H.C.1B.1:  Construct devices or design solutions using scientific knowledge to solve specific problems or needs: (1) ask questions to identify problems or needs, (2) ask questions about the creiteria and constraints of the device or solutions, (3) generate and communicate ideas for possible devices or solutions, (4) build and test devices or solutions, (5) determine if the devices or solutions solved the problem and refine the design if needed, and (6) communicate the results.

 

 

Other Standards:  (List national or local standards students are expected to master in this course)

Big Idea 1:  Objects and systems have properties such as mass and change.  Systems may have internal structure.

• A: The internal structure of a system determines many properties of the system.
• B: Electric charge is a property of an object or system that affects its interactions with other objects or systems containing charge.
• C: Objects and systems have properties of inertial mass and gravitational mass that are experimentally verified to be the same and that satisfy conservation principles.
• D: Classical mechanics cannot describe all properties of objects.
• E: Materials have many macroscopic properties that result from the arrangement and itneractions of the atoms and molecules that make up the material.

Big Idea 2:  Fields existing in space can be used to explain interactions.

• A: A field associates a value of some physical quantity with every point in space.  Field models are useful for describing interactions that occur at a distance (long-range forces) as well as a variety of other physical phenomena.
• B: A gravitational field is caused by an object with mass.
• C: An electric field is caused by an object with electric charge.
• D: A magnetic field is caused by a magnet or a moving electrically charged object.  Magnetic fields observed in nature always seem to be produced either by moving charged objects or by magnetic dipoles or combinations of dipoles and never by single poles.
• E: Physicists often construct a map of isolines connecting points of equal value for some quantity related to a field and use these maps to help visualize the field.

Big Idea 3:  The interactions of an object with other objects can be described by forces.

• A: All forces share certain common characteristics when considered by observers in intertial reference frames.
• B: Classically, the acceleration of an object interacting with other objects can be predicted by using a (vector) = Sum of F (vector) / m.
• C: At the macroscopic level, forces can be categorized as either long-range (action-at-a-distance) forces or contact forces.
• D: A force exerted on an object can change the momentum of the object.
• E: A force exerted on an object can change the kinetic energy of the object.
• F: A force exerted on an object can cause a torque on that object.
• G: Certain types of forces are considered fundamental.

Big Idea 4:  Interactions between systems can result in changes in those systems.

• A: The acceleration of the center of mass of a system is related to the net force exerted on the system, where a (vector) = Sum of F (vector) / m.
• B: Interactions with other objects or systems can change the total linear momentum of a system.
• C: Interations with other objects or systems can change the total energy of a system.
• D: A net torque exerted on a system by other objects or systems will change the angular momentum of the system.
• E: The electric and magnetic properties of a system can change in response to the presence of, or change in, other objects or systems.

Big Idea 5:  Changes that occurs as a result of interactions are constrained by conservation laws.

• A: Certain quantities are conserved, in the sense that the changes of those quantities in a given system are always equal to the transfer of that quantity to or from the system by all possible interactions with other systems.
• B: The energy of a system is conserved.
• C: The electric charge of a system is conserved.
• D: The linear momentum of a system is conserved.
• E: The angular momentum of a system is conserved.
• F: Classically, the mass of a system is conserved.

Big Idea 6:  Waves can transfer energy and momentum from one location to another without the permanent transfer of mass and serve as a mathematical model for the description of other phenomena.

• A: A wave is a traveling disturbance that transfers energy and momentum.
• B: A periodic wave is one that repeats as a function of both time and position and can be described by its amplitude, frequency, wavelength, speed, and energy.
• C: Only waves exhibit interference and diffraction.
• D: Interference and superposition lead to standing waves and beats.
• E: The direction of propagation of a wave such as light may be changed when the wave encounters an interface between two media.
• F: Electromagnetic radiation can be modeled as waves or as fundamental particles.
• G: All matter can be modeled as waves or as particles.

Required Instructional Materials and Resources: (List required materials including SDOC provided textbooks, including any fees that apply, etc.)

Giancoli, D.C. (2005). Physics:  Principles with Applications (6th Ed.).  Upper Saddle River, NJ:  

Pearson Prentice Hall.  [CR1]

 

Optional Materials and Resources:

The College Board. (2013). AP physics 1 and 2 inquiry-based lab investigations. New York, NY:

The College Board.

• Notebook (Notes and Problems)
• Writing Utencils
• Composition Book (lab)
• Calculator
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