Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Planning and Carrying out Investigations
Crosscutting Concepts
Cause and Effect
Knowledge
Students know:
- How light interacts at boundaries of different media.
- The wave properties of light.
- Basic trigonometric equations.
- How to do graphical analysis.
- Inverse and inverse square relationships.
- Types of images and how images are formed.
- Appropriate units of measure.
- How to identify a system.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Develop an appropriate experimental procedure.
- Create a data sheet.
- Collect and organize experimental data.
- Follow written and verbal instructions.
- Make measurements using standard units.
- Effectively manipulate laboratory equipment.
- Work safely in collaborative lab groups.
- Manipulate equations.
- Interpret graphical data.
- Solve mathematical equations.
- Draw a light ray diagram and identify the location of an image.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- The behavior of light is predictable mathematically allowing the development of optical devices to improve vision macroscopically and microscopically.
Vocabulary
- medium
- model
- graph
- image distance
- object distance
- focal point
- magnification
- critical angle
- refraction
- reflection
- diffraction
- interference
- constructive interference
- destructive interference
- principal axis
- center of curvature
- intensity
- inverse
- angle of incidence
- angle of reflection
- angle of refraction
- index of refraction
- speed of light
- system
- velocity
- polarization
- minima
- maxima
- order
- slit width
- slit separation
- object
- image
- real
- virtual
- inverted
- erect
- spherical aberration
- chromatic aberration
- total internal reflection
- law of reflection
- Snell's lLaw
- prism
- ray
- concave
- convex
- plane
- divergent
- convergent
- ray diagrams
