Rocket launch

Science (2005)

Grade 9–12 — AP Physics B

• Goal 1: The learner will develop abilities necessary to do and understand scientific inquiry.
  • Objective 1.02: Design and conduct scientific investigations to answer questions about the physical world.
    • Create testable hypotheses.
    • Identify variables.
    • Use a control or comparison group when appropriate.
    • Select and use appropriate measurement tools.
    • Observe and measure real phenomena
    • Collect and record data.
    • Organize data into charts and graphs.
    • Analyze and interpret data.
    • Determine uncertainties in measurements.
    • Communicate findings.
  • Objective 1.04: Apply safety procedures in the laboratory and in field studies:
    • Recognize and avoid potential hazards.
    • Safely manipulate materials and equipment needed for scientific investigations.
• Goal 2: The learner will build an understanding of Newtonian mechanics.
  • Objective 2.01: Analyze and evaluate a particle using kinematics (movement in one, two, and circular dimensions).
    • Motion in one dimension.
    • Relate position, velocity, and acceleration of a particle for motion.
    • Motion in two dimensions.
    • Addition and subtraction of displacement and velocity vectors
    • Visual, graphical, mathematical expressions of the motion of a projectile in a uniform gravitational field.
    • Relate a particles radius, speed, velocity, and acceleration in uniform circular motion.

Grade 9–12 — Physics

• Goal 1: The learner will develop abilities necessary to do and understand scientific inquiry.
  • Objective 1.02: Design and conduct scientific investigations to answer questions about the physical world.
    • Create testable hypotheses.
    • Identify variables.
    • Use a control or comparison group when appropriate.
    • Select and use appropriate measurement tools.
    • Collect and record data.
    • Organize data into charts and graphs.
    • Analyze and interpret data.
    • Communicate findings.
  • Objective 1.04: Apply safety procedures in the laboratory and in field studies:
    • Recognize and avoid potential hazards.
    • Safely manipulate materials and equipment needed for scientific investigations.
• Goal 2: The learner will build an understanding of linear motion.
  • Objective 2.01: Analyze velocity as a rate of change of position:
    • Average velocity.
    • Instantaneous velocity.
  • Objective 2.02: Compare and contrast as scalar and vector quantities:
    • Speed and velocity.
    • Distance and displacement.
  • Objective 2.03: Analyze acceleration as rate of change in velocity.
  • Objective 2.03: Analyze acceleration as rate of change in velocity.
  • Objective 2.04: Using graphical and mathematical tools, design and conduct investigations of linear motion and the relationships among:
    • Position.
    • Average velocity.
    • Instantaneous velocity
    • Acceleration.
    • Time.
• Goal 3: The learner will build an understanding of two dimensional motion including circular motion.
  • Objective 3.01: Analyze and evaluate projectile motion in a defined frame of reference.
  • Objective 3.02: Design and conduct investigations of two-dimensional motion of objects.
  • Objective 3.03: Analyze and evaluate independence of the vector components of projectile motion.