Atomic and Nuclear Physics

Learners will use SI units, scientific notation, significant figures, and vector mathematics to describe and analyze physical quantities in physics.

Learners will analyze motion along a straight line using position, velocity, acceleration, kinematic equations, and motion graphs.

Learners will analyze projectile motion and relative motion using vector components in two dimensions.

Learners will identify forces, draw free-body diagrams, and apply Newton's three laws to solve dynamics problems.

Learners will calculate work, kinetic and potential energy, apply conservation of energy, and solve power problems.

Learners will calculate momentum and impulse, apply conservation of momentum to collision problems, and analyze collision data.

Learners will analyze uniform circular motion, apply Newton's law of gravitation, and solve orbital mechanics problems.

Learners will analyze rotational motion, calculate torque and moment of inertia, apply angular momentum conservation, and evaluate simple machine designs.

Learners will calculate density and pressure, apply Pascal's and Archimedes' principles, and explain Bernoulli's principle.

Learners will calculate heat transfer, apply the laws of thermodynamics, analyze heat engines, and investigate thermal properties.

Learners will analyze simple harmonic motion, calculate periods of springs and pendulums, and apply wave properties to mechanical waves.

Learners will analyze sound waves, calculate speed of sound and Doppler shifts, and investigate acoustic phenomena.

Learners will analyze reflection and refraction, draw ray diagrams for mirrors and lenses, and use the mirror and lens equations.

Learners will apply Coulomb's law, analyze electric fields and potential, and investigate electrostatic phenomena.

Learners will apply Ohm's law, analyze series and parallel circuits, use Kirchhoff's rules, and investigate circuit behavior.

Learners will analyze magnetic forces, apply Faraday's law of induction, and describe the electromagnetic spectrum.

Learners will analyze atomic models, apply quantum concepts, calculate nuclear reactions and half-lives, and evaluate nuclear technology.