Optics
PH.3.01 - Analyze the motion of travelling transverse and longitudinal
waves.
Week 1 - 0
Learning Outcome: Analyze the motion of travelling transverse
and longitudinal waves.
Key Concepts: 1. Mechanical waves 2. Transverse waves 3.
Longitudinal waves 4. Wave speed in a medium 5. Wavelength
Skills: 1. Describe travelling waves using sin(kx-wt) 2.
Determine speed of waves on a string 3. Understand pressure
and displacement views of a travelling longitudinal wave
Essential Questions: What are the main types of the waves?
Textbook and Resource Materials: What are the main types of
the waves?
Evidence of Learning: Questions and problems from Haliday
Holt: Practice (B) page 427. Holt: Review page 431. Holt: page
434 - 435 Review. quizzes on google drive and some others are
hard copies
PH.3.02 - Analyze oscillatory motion.
Week 02 - Week 03
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Learning Outcome: Analyze oscillatory motion.
Key Concepts: 1. Oscillation as a periodic motion 2. Parameters
of oscillatory motion (amplitude - frequency - periodic time -
energy) 3. Applications of oscillation (resonance - earthquakes -
bridges)
Skills: 1. Identify the amplitude of oscillation 2. Recognize the
relationship between frequency and period 3. Measure
oscillation parameters practically 4. Determine the free fall
acceleration practically through the Oscillation of a pendulum 5.
Apply the concept of energy conservation to simple harmonic
motion
Essential Questions: What is the relation between the frequency
and the wavelength of a wave? Explain how dos the energy is
conserved in the simple pendulum?
Textbook and Resource Materials: What is the relation between
the frequency and the wavelength of a wave? Explain how dos
the energy is conserved in the simple pendulum?
Evidence of Learning: Questions and problems from Haliday
Holt: Practice (B) page 427. Holt: Review page 431. Holt: page
434 - 435 Review. quizzes on google drive and some others are
hard copies
Reflection of light
PH.3.03 - Use geometrical optics and laws of reflection to analyze the
path of light rays in optical systems consisting of planar
mirrors
Week 03 - Week 04
Learning Outcome: Use geometrical optics and laws of
reflection to analyze the path of light rays in optical systems
consisting of planar mirrors.
Key Concepts: 1. Light rays 2. Law of Reflection. 3. Real &
Virtual image. 4. Image formation in plane mirror. 5. Focus &
Optical axis. 6. Convex & Concave mirrors. 7. Magnification.
Skills: 1. Use law of reflection to determine the position and size
of image(s) formed when an object placed in front of a set of
plane mirrors. 2. Predict image formed by concave/convex
mirrors using ray-tracing and mirror equation. 3. Use optical
bench to confirm mirror equations.
Essential Questions: What is the size of the smallest plane
mirror that you need to view an image of your entire body?
Textbook and Resource Materials: What is the size of the
smallest plane mirror that you need to view an image of your
entire body?
Evidence of Learning: Holt: practice (B) page 379 Haliday: page
386 Haliday: page 403 Haliday page 404. Quizzes on google
drive. Experiment.
Communications
PH.3.04 - Design a system of communication through applying
previous knowledge (electronics electronics, LASER,
mechanical...
Week 05 - Week 06
Learning Outcome: Design a system of communication through
applying previous knowledge (electronics, LASER, mechanical...
Key Concepts: 1. Basic elements of communication. 2. Ground,
Sky, Space wave propagation. 3. Antennas. 4. Covering range of
T.V transmitting tower. 5. Maximum usable frequency. 6.
Satellite communication. 7. Mobile phones. 8. Optical fibers.
Skills: 1. Design a flowchart to express a communication
system 2. Explain how information can be transmitted as
variation in amplitude and frequency of waves 3. Use diagrams
to design a system of communication 4. Analyze different
communication systems to identify sorts of variation included
5. Apply previous knowledge (electronics, LASER, mechanical
waves and em waves) to design 6. A system of communication
and transmitting data
Essential Questions: Local TV Channels can not transfer
matches of soccer world Cup, why?
PH.3.05 - Describe how information can be transmitted via
electromagnetic radiation
Week 07 - Week 08
Learning Outcome: Describe how information can be
transmitted via electromagnetic radiation
Key Concepts: 1. Encoding information 2. Amplitude
modulation 3. Frequency modulation 4. Digital vs analog data 5.
Digital vs. analog transmission 6. Wifi 7. Sampling.
Skills: 1. Convert base 10 values to binary and vice-versa 2.
Explain how AM can be used to encode digital data. 3. Explain
how FM can be used to encode digital data. 4. Analyze effect of
sampling rate on data transmission
Essential Questions: How can TV, radio, cellular, and data
signals be transmitted through open air, and even outer space?
Textbook and Resource Materials: How can TV, radio, cellular,
and data signals be transmitted through open air, and even
outer space?
Evidence of Learning: quizzes on google drive and some others
are hard copies
Refraction of light.
PH.3.06 - Use geometrical optics to analyze image formation from
concave/convex lenses.
Week 09 - 0
Learning Outcome: Use geometrical optics to analyze image
formation from concave/convex lenses.
Key Concepts: 1. Index of refraction. 2. Snell’s law. 3. Total
internal reflection. 4. Focus & Optical axis. 5. Real & Virtual
image. 6. Convex & Concave lenses. 7. Magnification.
Skills: 1. Predict image formed by concave/convex lenses using
ray-tracing and lens equation. 2. Determine critical angle for
total internal reflection when light passes from more dense to
less dense optical material. 3. Explain the optics of areflecting
telescope. 4. Explain the optics of a refracting telescope. 5.
Explain the optics of a compound microscope. 6. Use an optical
bench to measure the focal point of lenses. 7. Use optical
bench to confirm lens equations.
Essential Questions: Explain why travelers may think that they
see water in a "phantom oasis"
Textbook and Resource Materials: Explain why travelers may
think that they see water in a "phantom oasis"
PH.3.07 - Use wave description of light to analyze interference and
diffraction.
Week 10 - Week 11
Learning Outcome: Use wave description of light to analyze
interference and diffraction.
Key Concepts: 1. Superposition 2. Constructive/Destructive
Interference 3. Slits and interference patterns 4. Diffraction
gratings 5. Resolution of optical instruments.
Skills: 1. Explain/analyze young double-slit experiment 2.
Explain/analyze use of diffractio gratings to produce
monochromatic radiation 3. Calculate the resolving power of an
objective lens
Essential Questions: •What is the resolving power of your eye?
•How large can a photo taken on your smart phone be enlarged
before the image degrades?
Textbook and Resource Materials: •What is the resolving power
of your eye? •How large can a photo taken on your smart phone
be enlarged before the image degrades?
PH.3.08 - Analyze light as electromagnetic waves consisting of
travelling electric and magnetic field waves
Week 12 - 0
Learning Outcome: Analyze light as electromagnetic waves
consisting of travelling electric and magnetic field waves
Key Concepts: 1. Electromagnetic waves 2. Wave properties:
frequency, wavelength, speed 3. Polarized vs unpolarized light
4. Electromagnetic spectrum 5. Energy in electromagnetic
waves
Skills: .1. Describe experimental observatins that suggest light
is a wave 2. Understand different regions of EM spectrum (IR,
UV, visible, x-ray. etc..) and their uses 3. Explain how speed of
light is determined 4. Explain evidence that speed of light
constant in all reference frames
Essential Questions: How can light be characterized as both a
wave and a particle?
Textbook and Resource Materials: How can light be
characterized as both a wave and a particle?
PH.3.09 - Analyze the production of complex waves using the principle
of superposition.
Week 13 - Week 14
Learning Outcome: Analyze the production of complex waves
using the principle of superposition.
Key Concepts: 1. Superposition of waves. 2. Interference. 3.
Diffraction.
Skills: 1. Draw diagrams to express the resultant wave due to
superposition between two waves. 2. Analyze the outcome of
constructive and destructive interference of transverse wave
pulses and use this to make predictions with other wave pulses.
3. Students will also recognize the standing wave on a resonant
spring as being the superposition of two sinusoidal travelling
waves.
Quantum Nature of Light
PH.3.10 - Discuss evidence for the particle model of light and analyze
specific situations in terms of energy, wavelength, and
temperature
Week 01 - Week 03
Learning Outcome: Discuss evidence for the particle model of
light and analyze specific situations in terms of energy,
wavelength, and temperature
Key Concepts: 1. Blackbody radiation 2. Energy quantization 3.
Planck's Constant 4. Photon 5. x-rays 6. Inelastic scattering
(Compton effect). Wave nature of the particle.
Skills: 1. Explain blackbody radiation, including laws associated
with energy distribution (Wien, Stefan-Boltzman) 2. Solve Wien
and Stefan-Boltzman type problems 3. Explain impossibility of
wave explanation (ultraviolet catastrophe) 4. Explain Planck's
success in matching blackbody distribution using assumption
of quantized energy changes 5. Determine relationship between
kinetic energy of electrons and emitted photons in x-ray
emission 6. Apply the law of conservation of energy in analysis
of Compton scattering and x-ray production. 7. Determine
relationship between kinetic energy of electrons and emitted
photons in x-ray emission 8. Properties of photon (Energy,
mass, momentum, rate of photons, force) 9. Solve problems on
De-Broglie equation.
Essential Questions: •How can we tell the temperature of the
sun and other stars? •How are x-rays produced?
PH.3.11 - Analyze the interaction of light and matter using the
Photoelectric Effect where appropriate
Week 04 - Week 05
Learning Outcome: Analyze the interaction of light and matter
using the Photoelectric Effect where appropriate.
Key Concepts: 1. Photoelectric effect 2. Work function 3.
Intensity 4. Cut-off frequency 5. LED's 6. Laser 7. Photocell
Skills: 1. Calculate cut-off frequency that will generate
photoelectricity for a given material 2. Predict how photocurrent
varies with changes in frequency and intensity 3. Compare
wave and photon views of light 4. Describe principles behind
photoabsorption and photoemission 5. Explain basic physics of
Lasers 6. Explain basic physics of LED's 7. Explain basic
conversion of light to electrical energy using photocell 8. Solar
cell calculations:fill factor, efficiency; explanation of deviation
from ideal behavior.
Essential Questions: •How can the sun's energy be used to
generate electricity? •What is the explanation for the
Greenhouse effect?
Materials Physics 1: Thermal & Electrical Properties
PH.3.12 - Explain the thermal and electrical properites of
materials using quantum concepts from solid-state physics
Week 06 - Week 07
Learning Outcome: Explain the thermal and electrical properites
of materials using quantum concepts from solid-state physics
Key Concepts: 1. Solid-state physics 2. Crystal structure 3.
Coulomb forces 4. Phonons 5. Energy bands.
Skills: 1. Explain typical metal crystal structures (Simple cube,
fcc, bcc, hcp) 2. Analyze vibration modes in a 1-D crystal
structure 3, Miller indecies. 4. Explain how photoelectron
spectroscopy can be used to probe electron energy bands in
solids
Essential Questions: •Why is iron a conductor while silicon is a
semi-conductor? •Why is the speed of sound in titanium so
much higher than in air?
Materials Physics 2: Low Temperature Physics
PH.3.13 - Explain the superconductivity and/or superfluidity for
certain materials at very low temperatures using quantum
mechanics concepts.
Week 08 - Week 09
Learning Outcome: Explain the superconductivity and/or
superfluidity for certain materials at very low temperatures
using quantum mechanics concepts.
Key Concepts: 1. Cooling processes 2. Van Der Walls effect and
chemical reaction 3. Super fluidity 4. Viscosity 5. Bose-Einstein
condensates 6. Superconductivity 7. Cooper pairs
Skills: 1. Explain several cooling mechanisms that can bring
materials close to 0K 2. Explain the properties of superfluids 3.
Explain some applications of superfluidity. 4. Explain the
properties of some metals at very low temperature. 5. Explain
some applications of superconductors.
Essential Questions: Does life as we know it come to a stop
when the temperature is Absolute Zero?
Materials Physics 3: Nanoparticles
PH.3.14 - Decribe new mechanical and electrical properties for
objects in the nanoscale range
Week 10 - Week 11
Learning Outcome: Decribe new mechanical and electrical
properties for objects in the nanoscale range.
Key Concepts: 1. Nanoparticles 2. Nanofabrication 3. Atomic
force microscope 4. Scanning tunneling microscope 5.
Nanotubes
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Essential Questions: How can the science and engineering of
nanomaterials be used to design/create more energy efficient
materials for construction in Egypt?
