OGS.13.PS
Open Global Science Standards 2026™ · 12th Grade
Physical Sciences: Advanced Mechanics, Materials, Electromagnetism, Thermodynamics, Waves, and Quantum/Nuclear Physics
Grade12th Grade
SubjectScience
Levelstrand
Child standards (9)
- OGS.13.PS.1Resolve and combine coplanar vectors mathematically and graphically to analyze translational equilibrium, dynamics in one and two dimensions, and projectile motion under uniform acceleration.
- OGS.13.PS.2Apply principles of work, energy conservation, power, linear momentum, and impulse to elastic and inelastic collisions, center of mass, mechanical stability, and energy dissipation as thermal energy.
- OGS.13.PS.3Model circular motion and simple harmonic motion quantitatively using angular velocity, centripetal acceleration, restoring force equations, and harmonic displacement functions.
- OGS.13.PS.4Analyze mechanical properties of solid materials and fluid statics/dynamics using tensile stress, strain, Young modulus, Hooke's law, elastic strain energy, and fluid flow continuity and Bernoulli principles.
- OGS.13.PS.5Investigate direct-current and complex circuits by evaluating electromotive force, internal resistance, resistivity, Kirchhoff's laws, potential divider networks, and capacitive charge-discharge kinetics.
- OGS.13.PS.6Analyze wave behaviors including transverse polarization, single-slit and grating diffraction, two-source interference, phase difference, path difference, and the formation of stationary waves.
- OGS.13.PS.7Model thermodynamic states and internal energy using the molecular kinetic theory of ideal gases, absolute zero, specific heat capacity, and thermal transfers.
- OGS.13.PS.8Explain quantum and nuclear phenomena including wave-particle duality, the photoelectric effect, de Broglie wavelength, radioactive decay kinetics, nuclear binding energy, mass defect, fission, and fusion.
- OGS.13.PS.9Compare gravitational, electrostatic, and magnetic fields, calculating potentials, field strengths, orbital dynamics, Coulomb interactions, magnetic force on moving charges/wires, and electromagnetic induction via Faraday's and Lenz's laws.