HS-PS2-5Electric and Magnetic Fields

What NYSED says about assessing it

The three dimensions

Every item written to HS-PS2-5 has to assess all three dimensions together, not the content alone. This is the structural change that made older practice material stop matching the exam.

Related performance expectations

• HS-PS2-1Newton's Second LawAnalyze data to support the claim that Newton's Second Law of Motion describes the mathematical relationship among the net force on a macroscopic object, its mass, and its acceleration.
• HS-PS2-2Conservation of MomentumUse mathematical representations to support the claim that the total momentum of a system of objects is conserved when there is no net force on the system.
• HS-PS2-3Minimising Force in a CollisionApply scientific and engineering ideas to design, evaluate, and refine a device that minimizes the force on a macroscopic object during a collision.
• HS-PS2-4Gravitational and Electrostatic ForcesUse mathematical representations of Newton's Law of Gravitation and Coulomb's Law to describe and predict the gravitational and electrostatic forces between objects.
• HS-PS3-1Energy Change in a SystemCreate a computational model to calculate the change in the energy of one component in a system when the change in energy of the other component(s) and energy flows in and out of the system are known.
• HS-PS3-2Energy at the Macroscopic ScaleDevelop and use models to illustrate that energy at the macroscopic scale can be accounted for as a combination of energy associated with the motions of particles (objects) and energy associated with the relative position of particles (objects).