BHS Physics Guide

Interference and Diffraction

Physics

Quarter 3

McGraw Hill Module 17

● Evaluate the hypotheses, data, analysis, and conclusions in a science or technical text, verifying the data when possible and corroborating or challenging conclusions with other sources of information.

MATH CONNECTIONS

● Reason abstractly and quantitatively. ● Interpret expressions that represent a quantity in terms of its context. ● Choose and produce an equivalent form of an expression to reveal and explain properties of the quantity represented by the expression. ● Rearrange formulas to highlight a quantity of interest, using the same reasoning as in solving equations.

RECOMMENDED INSPIRE RESOURCES

PAGE MATERIALS NEEDED TIME

● Chromebook ● CERChart ● Launch Lab

Encounter the Phenomena

Encounter the Phenomena: What makes this hummingbird’s feathers

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45 mins

appear shiny and shimmery? Launch Lab: Patterns of Light

● Chromebook ● DQB

Lesson1

Engage: Focus Question: How do bubbles produce a rainbow effect?

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10 mins

● Chromebook ● Interactive Content ● Virtual Investigation

Explore and Explain: Interactive Content: Interference Interactive Content: Interference of Coherent Light Interactive Content: Double Slit Experiment Virtual Investigation: Double Slit Interference

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60 mins