MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
District Pacing Guide
PHYSICS I
Course Code: 200338001
TOPIC XIV: Optics
Pacing
Date(s)
Traditional 20 days
Block
ESSENTIAL CONTENT
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
Division of Academics – Department of Science
Fourth Nine Weeks
OBJECTIVES
 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.
10 days
05-18-16 to 06-09-19
05-18-16 to 06-09-19
INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS
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.cf
m?manual=1
9. Lab Manuals from Vernier:
http://www.vernier.com/cmat/cmatdnld.html
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
District Pacing Guide
PHYSICS I
Course Code: 200338001
Laser Reflection
SC.912.P.10.22
Ray Tracing (Lenses)
Ray Tracing (Mirrors)
Refraction
SC.912.P.10.22
Geometric Optics
Bending Light
Color- vision
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Fourth Nine Weeks
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
District Pacing Guide
PHYSICS I
Course Code: 200338001
Standard:
SC.912.N.1.1
Video
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SC.912.N.1.2
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SC.912.P.10.20
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SC.912.P.10.22
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Fourth Nine Weeks
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 Refracted Light
 Reflected Light and Mirrors
 Curved Mirrors: Concave
 Curved Mirrors: Convex
 Mirrors and Lenses
 Diffraction and Polarization
 Robert Hooke
 Diffraction
 Light as a Wave: Thomas Young's
Experiment
 The Quantum World
 Particles and Waves
 Light and Sound Waves
 Refracted Light: Index of Refraction
 Refracted Light: The Normal, Angle of
Incidence, Angle of Refraction, Critical
Angle
Optics
Refraction
Refracted Light: Mirages
Refracted Light: Prisms
 Refracted Light: Lenses: Convex and
Concave
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Course Code: 200338001
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Fourth Nine Weeks
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