Science and Technology/Engineering | Grade : High School
Discipline - Physics
Core Idea - Matter and Its Interactions
[HS.PHY.1.8] - Develop a model to illustrate the energy released or absorbed during the processes of fission, fusion, and radioactive decay.
Clarification Statements: Examples of models include simple qualitative models, such as pictures or diagrams. Types of radioactive decay include alpha, beta, and gamma. State Assessment Boundary: Quantitative calculations of energy released or absorbed are not expected in state assessment.
[RCA-ST.9-10.7] -
Translate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text into visual form (e.g., a table or chart) and translate information expressed visually or mathematically (e.g., in an equation) into words.
[SLCA.9-10.4] -
Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, vocabulary, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.
[AI.F-LE.A.1] -
Distinguish between situations that can be modeled with linear functions and with exponential functions.*
[AI.F-LE.A.1.c] -
Recognize situations in which a quantity grows or decays by a constant percent rate per unit interval relative to another.*
[AI.S-ID.A.1] -
Represent data with plots on the real number line (dot plots, histograms, and box plots).*
[HS.ESS.1.1] -
Use informational text to explain that the life span of the Sun over approximately 10 billion years is a function of nuclear fusion in its core. Communicate that stars, through nuclear fusion over their life cycle, produce elements from helium to iron and release energy that eventually reaches Earth in the form of radiation. State Assessment Boundary: Specific stages of the life of a star, details of the many different nucleosynthesis pathways for stars of differing masses, or calculations of energy released are not expected in state assessment.
[HS.PHY.3.1] -
Use algebraic expressions and the principle of energy conservation to calculate the change in energy of one component of a system when the change in energy of the other component(s) of the system, as well as the total energy of the system including any energy entering or leaving the system, is known. Identify any transformations from one form of energy to another, including thermal, kinetic, gravitational, magnetic, or electrical energy, in the system. Clarification Statement: Systems should be limited to two or three components and to thermal energy; kinetic energy; or the energies in gravitational, magnetic, or electric fields.