| Black Body Radiation |
Determine whether an object's spectrum
approximates a blackbody spectrum and
estimate
the temperature of an object. |
| Buoyancy |
Predict whether an object will sink or float. |
| Color and Spectra |
Given the color of an object, predict its color appearance. |
| Dark Matter |
Identify formulation of the dark matter hypothesis and
compute the central masses of the solar system. |
| Doppler Effect |
Describe Doppler Effect in sound. |
| Drake Equation |
Calculate the best
guess and low estimates
for the number of
communicative extraterrestrial
civilizations based on
the Drake Equation. |
| Fermi Questions |
Classify if a given question is a Fermi Question. |
| Field Lines |
Identify the direction of the force acting on
a change in an electric field represented by field lines
and predict the path of a charge particle moving in a
region with uniform electric field. |
Free- Body Diagram
(One-Body System) |
Identify the forces acting on a body and to draw
its
free-body diagram. |
Free – Body Diagram
(Many-Body System) |
Identify the forces acting on bodies in a
many-body
system and to construct the
free-body diagram of the
system. |
| Measuring Large Distances |
Identify the limitations of the method of
parallax and apply the method of parallax
to determine the distance of the stars. |
| Reference Frames |
Compare Galilean and Lorentz transformations. |
| Retrograde Motion |
Describe retrograde motion and differentiate the
Greek for Copernican models that explain
retrograde motion |
| Types of Forces |
Differentiate
between contact force and
action-at-a-distance force. |
| Vector Projection |
Add vectors analytically
and determine the projection
of vectors on planes. |