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Principles: Integrated Chemistry/Physics
The learner will be able to begin to conceptualize the general architecture of the atom and the roles played by the main constituents of the atom in determining the properties of materials. They investigate, using such methods as laboratory work, the different properties of matter. They investigate the concepts of relative motion, the action/reaction principle, wave behavior, and the interaction of matter and energy.
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CP.1.1
The learner will be able to understand and explain that atoms have a positive nucleus (consisting of relatively massive positive protons and neutral neutrons) surrounded by negative electrons of much smaller mass, some of which may be lost, gained, or shared when interacting with other atoms.
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CP.1.2
The learner will be able to realize that and explain how a neutral atom's atomic number and mass number can be used to determine the number of protons, neutrons, and electrons that make up an atom.
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CP.1.3
The learner will be able to understand, and give examples to show, that isotopes of the same element have the same numbers of protons and electrons but differ in the numbers of neutrons.
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CP.1.4
The learner will be able to know and explain that physical properties can be used to differentiate among pure substances, solutions, and heterogeneous mixtures.
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CP.1.5
The learner will be able to distinguish among chemical and physical changes in matter by identifying characteristics of these changes.
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CP.1.6
The learner will be able to understand and explain how an atom can acquire an unbalanced electrical charge by gaining or losing electrons.
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CP.1.7
The learner will be able to identify the substances gaining and losing electrons in simple oxidation-reduction reactions.
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CP.1.8
The learner will be able to know and explain that the nucleus of a radioactive isotope is unstable and may spontaneously decay, emitting particles and/or electromagnetic radiation.
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CP.1.9
The learner will be able to show how the predictability of the nuclei decay rate allows radioactivity to be used for estimating the age of materials that contain radioactive substances.
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CP.1.10
The learner will be able to understand that the Periodic Table is a listing of elements arranged by increasing atomic number, and use it to predict whether a selected atom would gain, lose, or share electrons as it interacts with other selected atoms.
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CP.1.11
The learner will be able to understand and give examples to show that an enormous variety of biological, chemical, and physical phenomena can be explained by changes in the arrangement and motion of atoms and molecules.
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CP.1.12
The learner will be able to realize and explain that because mass is conserved in chemical reactions, balanced chemical equations must be used to show that atoms are conserved.
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CP.1.13
The learner will be able to explain that the rate of reactions among atoms and molecules depends on how often they encounter one another, which is in turn affected by the concentrations, pressures, and temperatures of the reacting materials.
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CP.1.14
The learner will be able to understand and explain that catalysts are highly effective in encouraging the interaction of other atoms and molecules.
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CP.1.15
The learner will be able to understand and explain that whenever the amount of energy in one place or form diminishes, the amount in other places or forms increases by the same amount.
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CP.1.16
The learner will be able to explain that heat energy in a material consists of the disordered motions of its atoms or molecules.
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CP.1.17
The learner will be able to know and explain that transformations of energy usually transform some energy into the form of heat, which dissipates by radiation or conduction into cooler surroundings.
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CP.1.18
The learner will be able to recognize and describe the heat transfer associated with a chemical reaction or a phase change as either exothermic or endothermic, and understand the significance of the distinction.
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CP.1.19
The learner will be able to understand and explain that the energy released whenever heavy nuclei split or light nuclei combine is roughly a million times greater than the energy absorbed or released in a chemical reaction. (E=mc2).
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CP.1.20
The learner will be able to realize and explain that the energy in a system* is the sum of both potential energy and kinetic energy. *Systems could take different forms. One example would be that of an airplane travelling at Mach 3. .
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CP.1.21
The learner will be able to understand and explain that the change in motion of an object (acceleration) is proportional to the net force applied to the object and inversely proportional to the object's mass. (a=f/m ).
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CP.1.22
The learner will be able to recognize and explain that whenever one object exerts a force on another, an equal and opposite force is exerted back on it by the other object.
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CP.1.23
The learner will be able to understand and explain that the motion of an object is described by its position, velocity, and acceleration.
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CP.1.24
The learner will be able to recognize and explain that waves are described by their velocity, wavelength, frequency or period, and amplitude.
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CP.1.25
The learner will be able to understand and explain that waves can superpose on one another, bend around corners, reflect off surfaces, be absorbed by materials they enter, and change direction when entering a new material.
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CP.1.26
The learner will be able to realize and explain that all motion is relative to whatever frame of reference is chosen, for there is no absolute motionless frame from which to judge all motion.
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CP.1.27
The learner will be able to recognize and describe that gravitational force is an attraction between masses and that the strength of the force is proportional to the masses and decreases rapidly as the square of the distance between the masses increases.
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CP.1.28
The learner will be able to realize and explain that electromagnetic forces acting within and between atoms are vastly stronger than the gravitational forces acting between atoms.
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CP.1.29
The learner will be able to understand and explain that at the atomic level, electric forces between oppositely charged electrons and protons hold atoms and molecules together and thus, are involved in all chemical reactions.
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CP.1.30
The learner will be able to understand and explain that in materials, there are usually equal proportions of positive and negative charges, making the materials as a whole electrically neutral. However, also know that a very small excess or deficit of negative charges will produce noticeable electric forces.
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CP.1.31
The learner will be able to realize and explain that moving electric charges produce magnetic forces, and moving magnets produce electric forces.
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Historical Perspectives
The learner will be able to gain understanding of how the scientific enterprise operates through examples of historical events. Through the study of these events, they understand that new ideas are limited by the context in which they are conceived, are often rejected by the scientific establishment, sometimes spring from unexpected findings, and grow or transform slowly through the contributions of many different investigators.
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CP.2.1
The learner will be able to explain that Antoine Lavoisier invented a whole new field of science based on a theory of materials, physical laws, and quantitative methods, with the conservation of matter at its core. Recognize that he persuaded a generation of scientists that his approach accounted for the experimental results better than other chemical systems.
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CP.2.2
The learner will be able to describe how Lavoisier's system for naming substances and describing their reactions contributed to the rapid growth of chemistry by enabling scientists everywhere to share their findings about chemical reactions with one another without ambiguity.
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CP.2.3
The learner will be able to explain that John Dalton's modernization of the ancient Greek ideas of element, atom, compound, and molecule strengthened the new chemistry by providing physical explanations for reactions that could be expressed in quantitative terms.
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CP.2.4
The learner will be able to explain that Isaac Newton created a unified view of force and motion in which motion everywhere in the universe can be explained by the same few rules. Note that his mathematical analysis of gravitational force and motion showed that planetary orbits had to be the very ellipses that Johannes Kepler had demonstrated two generations earlier.
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CP.2.5
The learner will be able to describe that Newton's system was based on the concepts of mass, force, and acceleration, his three laws of motion relating them, and a physical law stating that the force of gravity between any two objects in the universe depends only upon their masses and the distance between them.
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CP.2.6
The learner will be able to explain that the Newtonian model made it possible to account for such diverse phenomena as tides, the orbits of the planets and moons, the motion of falling objects, and Earth's equatorial bulge.
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CP.2.7
The learner will be able to describe that among the surprising ideas of Albert Einstein's special relativity is that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, which is the same for all observers no matter how they or the light source happen to be moving.
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CP.2.8
The learner will be able to explain that the special theory of relativity is best known for stating that any form of energy has mass, and that matter itself is a form of energy. (E=mc2).
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CP.2.9
The learner will be able to describe that general relativity theory pictures Newton's gravitational force as a distortion of space and time.
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CP.2.10
The learner will be able to explain that Marie and Pierre Curie made radium available to researchers all over the world, increasing the study of radioactivity and leading to the realization that one kind of atom may change into another kind, and so must be made up of smaller parts. Note that these parts were demonstrated by Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, and other scientists to be a small, dense nucleus that contains protons and neutrons and is surrounded by a cloud of electrons.
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CP.2.11
The learner will be able to explain that Rutherford and his colleagues discovered that the heavy radioactive element uranium spontaneously splits itself into a slightly lighter nucleus and a very light helium nucleus.
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CP.2.12
The learner will be able to describe that later, Austrian and German scientists showed that when uranium is struck by neutrons, it splits into two nearly equal parts plus one or two extra neutrons. Note that Lise Meitner, an Austrian physicist, was the first to point out that if these fragments added up to less mass than the original uranium nucleus, then Einstein's special relativity theory predicted that a large amount of energy would be released. Also note that Enrico Fermi, an Italian working with colleagues in the United States, showed that the extra neutrons trigger more fissions and so create a sustained chain reaction in which a prodigious amount of energy is given off.
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