Listed below are the Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCI) for Physical Science and bullet points for their specific grade band progression.
- Nuclear processes, including fusion, fission, and radioactive decays of unstable nuclei, involve release or absorption of energy. The total number of neutrons plus protons does not change in any nuclear process.
- Spontaneous radioactive decays follow a characteristic exponential decay law. Nuclear lifetimes allow radiometric dating to be used to determine the ages of rocks and other materials.
This is a table of the Disciplinary Core Ideas
of Physical Science. If
coming from a Standard the specific bullet point used is highlighted
and additional performance Expectations that make use of the
Disciplinary Core Idea can be found below the table.
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Other Standards That Use This Disciplinary Core Idea: