The PRISMS PLUS Test Bank

The computer test bank contains objectives as well as questions related to the concepts being introduced in each of the learning cycles. This enhanced version of the original PRISMS computer test bank has been made more user-friendly for both PC and Macintosh users.

Some of the activities as well as activity extensions can be used as performance assessments to assess student understanding and proficiency in both scientific process and physics related skills.

Unit I: FORCE AND MOTION
1. Kinematics
2. Making Tracks
3. Accelerating Tracks
4. Vector, Vector, What’s My Vector?
5. Relative Motion
6. Static Equilibrium
7. Inertia
8. Newton’s Second Law
9. Using Graphs to Understand Newton’s Second Law
10. Weight
11. Newton’s Third Law
12. Impulse and Change in Linear Momentum
13. Conservation of Linear Momentum
14. Projectile Motion

Unit II: WORK AND ENERGY
1. Work
2. Power
3. Conservation of Energy
4. Heat and Temperature
5. Change of Phase
6. Mechanical Equivalent of Heat
7. Ideal Gas Laws
8. Solar Energy

Unit III: WAVES AND OPTICS
1. Incandescence or Luminescence?
2. Inverse Square
3. Velocity, Frequency, and Wavelength
4. Speed of Sound
5. Factors Affecting Frequency
6. Reflection
7. Refraction
8. Image Size and Location
9. Lenses
10. Diffraction and Interference
11. Color
12. Polarized Light

Unit IV: ELECTRICITY, MAGNETISM, AND MODERN PHYSICS
1. Electrostatics
2. Electric Fields
3. Magnetic Fields
4. Electric Circuits
5. Ohm’s Law
6. Capacitors
7. Motors
8. Generators
9. Radioactive Decay
10. Spectra and Energy