MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
District Pacing Guide
PHYSICS I Course Code: 200338001
TOPIC XIV: Optics / Pacing / Date(s)Traditional 20 days / 05-18-16 to 06-09-19
Block 10 days / 05-18-16 to 06-09-19
ESSENTIAL CONTENT / OBJECTIVES / INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS
A. Analyze the Properties of Reflection
1. Law of reflection
2. Mirrors
a. Focal Point
b. Focal Length
3. Diffuse reflection
4. Reflection of sound
5. Ray Diagrams
B. Analyze the Properties of Refraction
1. Refraction of sound
2. Refraction of light
3. Dispersion in a prism
4. Snell’s Law
5. Total internal reflection
C. Model the use of Lenses and Mirrors to Produce Images
1. Convergent and divergent lenses
2. Image
3. Ray diagrams
4. The eye
D. Discuss Diffraction and Interference / · Describe the law of reflection.
· Describe the type of images produced by plane mirrors.
· Construct ray diagrams for reflected and refracted light rays
· Describe what happens to a wave that is traveling at an angle, changes its speed when crossing a boundary between two different media.
· Explain causes of sound refraction.
· Describe how a lens forms an image.
· Construct ray diagrams and use thin lens and mirror equations to locate the images formed by lenses and mirrors.
· Explain the types of images formed by lenses.
· Describe how light bends around obstacles and produce bright and dark fringes. / Core Text Book: Ch. 29, Ch. 30 and Ch. 31
Vocabulary:
specular reflection, diffuse reflection, angle of incidence, angle of reflection, virtual image, concave spherical mirror, real image, convex spherical mirror, linear polarization, refraction, index of refraction, lens, total internal reflection, critical angle, dispersion, chromatic aberration, coherence, path difference, order number, diffraction, resolving power, laser
Technology:
1. Progressive Science Initiative (PSI)
a. EM Waves
2. Lectures online
3. Khan Academy
4. The Physics Source: http://www.physicssource.org
5. Teachers Domain: http://teachersdomain.org
6. Online Conversion
7. Hyperphysics
8. Lab Manuals from Pasco: http://www.pasco.com/resources/labdownloads/detail.cfm?manual=1
9. Lab Manuals from Vernier: http://www.vernier.com/cmat/cmatdnld.html
SC.912.P.10.22 / Laser Reflection
Ray Tracing (Lenses)
Ray Tracing (Mirrors)
Refraction
SC.912.P.10.22 / Geometric Optics
Bending Light
Color- vision
Standard: SC.912.N.1.1 / / Video / · Optics
· Refraction
· Refracted Light: Mirages
· Refracted Light: Prisms / · Refracted Light
· Reflected Light and Mirrors
· Curved Mirrors: Concave / · Curved Mirrors: Convex
· Mirrors and Lenses
· Diffraction and Polarization
Standard: SC.912.N.1.2 / / Video / · Robert Hooke
· Diffraction / · Light as a Wave: Thomas Young's Experiment
· The Quantum World / · Particles and Waves
· Light and Sound Waves
Standard: SC.912.P.10.20 / / Video / · Refracted Light: Index of Refraction / · Refracted Light: The Normal, Angle of Incidence, Angle of Refraction, Critical Angle
Standard: SC.912.P.10.22 / / Video / · Refracted Light: Lenses: Convex and Concave
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