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Examine one-dimensional motion
Assessment Strategies
by successfully completing labs, quizzes, problems and exams
Criteria
you explore the displacement and average velocity of a particle in motion
you calculate average of various physical events
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Examine wave properties
Assessment Strategies
by successfully completing labs, quizzes, problems and exams
Criteria
you find the period, wavelength, amplitude, frequency and velocity of a periodic wave
you identify the crest and trough of a wave
you define constructive and destructive interference
you find the vector resultant of two waves
you distinguish between fixed-end and free-end reflection
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Apply the properties of light
Assessment Strategies
by successfully completing labs, quizzes, problems and exams
Criteria
you explain how light travels through a vacuum
you find the velocity, wavelength and frequency of light
you draw ray diagrams illustrating the path of light through a thin film and a prism
you calculate the shift of light from its original path in a thin film
you draw a ray diagram illustrating dispersion in a prism
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Examine the geometric optical properties of mirrors, lenses, and lens systems
Assessment Strategies
by successfully completing labs, quizzes, problems and exams
Criteria
you identify real and virtual images
you find the object distance, image distance, and magnification for convex and concave mirrors
you find the object distance, image distance and magnification for various converging and diverging lenses
you find the focal length of various lenses
you find the actual depth given the apparent depth of an object in a fluid when viewed directly above in air
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Examine the properties of a double slit interference pattern
Assessment Strategies
by successfully completing labs, quizzes, problems and exams
Criteria
you calculate the wavelength of light using a double slit interference pattern.
you find the separation between the first and second order maxima in a double slit interference pattern.
you calculate the difference in path length to bright and dark fringes.
you find the separation between the first order maxima of different wavelengths.
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Examine the properties of a single slit interference pattern
Assessment Strategies
by successfully completing labs, quizzes, problems and exams
Criteria
you identify the central maxima
you identify dark fringes
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Examine the optical properties of a camera
Assessment Strategies
by successfully completing labs, quizzes, problems and exams
Criteria
you find the distance between the lens and film
you find the magnification
you find the diameter of the lens
you calculate f-number
you find the factor of the change in light, due to change in shutter speed and f-number
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Examine the optical properties of the human eye
Assessment Strategies
by successfully completing labs, quizzes, problems and exams
Criteria
you find the power of the correcting lens for the myopic eye
you find the power of the correcting lens for the hyperopic eye