Physical Science: Physics · Waves and Electromagnetic Radiation

HS-PS4-5Wave Technologies

Performance expectation

Communicate technical information about how some technological devices use the principles of wave behavior and wave interactions with matter to transmit and capture information and energy.

What NYSED says about assessing it

Clarification statement

Examples could include Doppler effect, solar cells capturing light and converting it to electricity; medical imaging; and communications technology.

Assessment boundary

Assessments are limited to qualitative information. Assessments do not include band theory.

The three dimensions

Every item written to HS-PS4-5 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.

Science & engineering practice

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Disciplinary core ideas
  • PS3.D: Energy in Chemical Processes
  • PS4.A: Wave Properties
  • PS4.B: Electromagnetic Radiation
  • PS4.C: Information Technologies and Instrumentation Multiple
Crosscutting concepts
  • Cause and Effect

Related performance expectations

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