Who is your hero? What is your greatest interest? What was the highlight of your summer?

Thursday 8/9/2012

Essential Questions: What does a physicist do?

Warm up: Answer the questions that appear on the next slide.

Learning Activities:“What is physics” activity to assess your current knowledge.

Homework and Heads up: Books and homework will be assigned on Monday

• Who is your hero?

• What is your greatest interest?

• What was the highlight of your summer?

Friday

Essential Questions: How can data be analyzed to reveal the laws of physics

Warm up:Perform the following unit conversions on the next slide

Learning Activities:Completing the “What is Physics” activity and some freefall practice problems

Homework and Heads up:Have a great weekend

3.45 hours = __________seconds8,480 Gigameters = ___________ meters18.4 miles/hour = ____________ meters/second25 milligrams = ____________ kilograms

Monday

Essential Questions: How do the Physics equations manipulated to predict the unknown?

Warm up: Answer the questions on the next slide.

Learning Activities: Complete “What is Physics” and the “AP Physics freefall problems”

Homework and Heads up:Chapter 1 homework due Monday

Use the equation we deduced from yesterdays data and graph to calculate the flight time of objects dropped from each of the heights below

20 meters _____________ 40 meters _____________ 100 meters _____________ 0.1 meter _____________ 6.0 feet ______________ 8 mile ______________

Tuesday

Essential Questions: What are distance displacement, speed, velocity, acceleration?What is the difference between average and instantaneous?

Warm up: Complete #6 and 7 on yesterdays Freefall problems

Learning Activities: Notes on linear motion and the kinematic equations.

Homework and Heads up: Textbook homework due Monday.

Wednesday

Essential Questions: How do graphs of position v. time describe the motion of an object?

Warm up: Try the “Dog Run” problems in yesterday’s packet

Learning Activities: Footballer Note SheetBungee Jumper Lab

Homework and Heads up:Chapter 1 homework due on Monday, I’ll answer questions on Friday if you preview it. Otherwise you are on your own.

Thursday

Essential Questions: What is acceleration? What can we deduce from a velocity versus time graph?

Warm up: Make a rough sketch, without numbers, showing the general shape of the distance v. time, and displacement v. time graphs for both the bungee jumper and the 4x100 medley swimming relay. http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/swimming/highlights-u-s-women-set-world-record-win-gold-in-4x100m-medley.htmlLearning Activities: Complete acceleration notes.

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 1 homework due on Monday

http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/swimming/highlights-u-s-women-set-world-record-win-gold-in-4x100m-medley.html

http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/swimming/highlights-u-s-women-set-world-record-win-gold-in-4x100m-medley.html

Friday

Essential Questions: How can we measure acceleration?What mathematical expression predicts the acceleration of a ball or cart rolling down an incline.

Warm up: Match the motion graphs on the board with their pair that describes the same motion.

Learning Activities:Acceleration on a slope lab

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 1 problems due on Monday.

Monday

Essential Questions: What mathemati9cal expression predicts the acceleration of an object on a ramp of any angle?

Warm up: Calculate the acceleration of the cart described on the white board during the first 3 seconds? Middle 3 seconds? And final 3 seconds?

Learning Activities: Complete measurements of acceleration and graph on the white board.


Tuesday

Essential Questions: What math9matical expression predicts the acceleration of an object on a ramp of any angle?

Warm up: Draw a motion diagram in the margin of your learning map that shows the position, velocity, acceleration, after each second for the object described on the next slide.

Learning Activities: Complete measurements of acceleration and graph on the white board.


• A dragracer accelerates from rest for 3 seconds at 30m/s²

• Then travels at a constant velocity for 2 seconds.

• Finally, is slowed by its parachute to a stop in the next 5 seconds.

Wednesday

Essential Questions: How do the “big 5” equations allow predictions of almost all motion?

Warm up: Estimate the time that the ball on the white board reaches each photogate.

Learning Activities: Using the “big 5” to solve kinematic problems.

Homework and Heads up: Linear Motion quiz on Friday. 10 multiple choice and 1 free response question.

You have 15 grams of clay.

1. Shape the clay into a cube and determine its volume.2. With the clay as a cube, determine it’s density.3. How many grams would it take to build 1 cubic

centimeter of clay.4. Shape the entire hunk of clay into a sphere and

determine its volume.5. With the clay as a sphere, determine it’d density.6. Shape or roll the clay into a round patty of uniform

thickness and as large a diameter as possible. Determine the thickness or height of this cylinder

Thursday

Essential Questions: How do we solve freefall problems using the kinematic equations?

Why is it important to express the direction of displacement, velocity, and acceleration in the big 5 equations?Warm up: Try the freefall problems on the next slide

Learning Activities: Continue with kinematic problems practice

Homework and Heads up: Linear Motion quiz on Friday. 10 multiple choice and 1 free response question.

At low tide, the deck of the Sidney Lanier Bridge is 65m above the surface of the river below. Calculate the

flight time of each of the stones described.

Stone 1 is dropped straight down from the deck of the bridge and lands in the water.

Stone 2 is thrown straight up with a speed of 25m/s and is caught at the same height from which it is thrown.

Stone 3 is also thrown straight up at 25m/s but misses the bridge deck and falls to the water.

Stone 4 is thrown downward from the bridge deck at a speed of 25m/s and lands in the water.

Write a mathematical expression to determine the tide height based upon the time it takes a stone to fall from the bridge deck.

Monday 8/27

Essential Questions: What is motion in two dimensions?How do we describe the direction of vectors like displacement, velocity, and acceleration, when in two and three dimensions?

Warm up: Grade linear motion examsHomework collected

Learning Activities: Review of how to describe two dimensional directions.

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 3 homework due Monday

Tuesday

Essential Questions: How do we describe displacements, times, and velocities for two and three dimensional motion?

Warm up: Describe your precise location in the classroom.

Learning Activities: Notes on vector directions.Two dimensional ramps

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 3 homework due on Tuesday

Wednesday

Essential Questions: How does the displacement, velocity, and acceleration of an object change when moving in two dimensions.

Warm up: Try the problems on the next slide

Learning Activities: Physics Put-Put

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 3 homework due on Tuesday.

A paper airplane is thrown horizontal from the rooftop travelling at a constant forward velocity of 4 m/s @15⁰ below horizontal. During the 9.5 seconds it is airborne, it is also blown sideways

off course a total distance of 12m

• 1. A sketch might be helpful• 2. How high was the building?• 3. How far from the wall of the building did it travel?• 4. What is its average velocity for the flight?• 5. What are the three components of its average velocity?

Thursday

Essential Questions: How are the seperated components of two dimensional motion related to each other?

Warm up: A fish swims horizontally forward at 2.5m/s at a depth of 8 meters. It chooses to expand its swim bladder and accelerates constantly upward at 0.2m/s. How long will it take to surface?What is its displacement during this time? What is its velocity as it reaches the surface.Learning Activities: Complete the putt-putt lab. Balloon problem.

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 3 homework due on Tuesday.

Friday

Essential Questions: How do we determine the components of motion for a projectile in two dimensions?

Warm up: Drifting balloon problem

Learning Activities: Notes on 4 types of projectiles.

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 3 homework is due on Tuesday. Enjoy your long weekend.

Tuesday 9/4


Warm up: Homework questions

Learning Activities: Notes and practice problems on projectiles.

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 3 homework part 2, due on Monday. Quiz on two dimensional and projectile motion on Friday.

Wednesday


Warm up: 20 jumping jacks and 2 bear crawls.

Learning Activities: Notes and practice problems on projectiles.

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 3 homework part 2, due on Monday. Quiz on two dimensional and projectile motion on Friday.

Thursday

Essential Questions: How do we use the kinematic equations to make predictions of projectile motion?

Warm up: Find the flight time of each projectile described on the white board.

Learning Activities: Complete the soccer ball problems and one of the projectile lab activities.

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 3 homework due on Monday.Quiz tomorrow on two dimensional motion.

Tuesday

Essential Questions:

Warm up:

Learning Activities:

Homework and Heads up:

Wednesday

Essential Questions: What do you know about submarines and balls rolling off of desktops?

Warm up: Grade tests

Learning Activities: Force notes

Homework and Heads up: Copy down today’s homework question.

Thursday

Essential Questions: How do we add concurrent forces to find the net force acting on an object

Warm up: Grade your own free response using the guide on the white board

Learning Activities: Notes on Forces, Vector addition practice

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 4 homework due next Monday.

Friday

Essential Questions: How are forces added together?

Warm up: For each of the photos on the next slide, make a sketch identify forces by name and direction that are acting on the object.

Learning Activities: Vector Addition practice

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 4 homework due next Monday

Monday

Essential Questions: How can we add force vectors in word problems and in real problems.

Warm up: Which of the following free body diagrams on the board represent balanced forces?

Learning Activities: Complete and turn in vector addition practice.Draw and label free body diagrams for each of the lab setups.

Homework and Heads up: Week 4 homework due on Monday.

Tuesday

Essential Questions: How do forces change the motion of an object

Warm up: Complete the Free body diagrams for each lab station

Learning Activities: Use the computers to research the questions on the white board.


Wednesday

Essential Questions: How do forces, balanced and unbalanced, affect the motion of an object?

Warm up: Read the article on the USS Macon model and answer the questions on the back.

Learning Activities: Notes on Newton’s Laws

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 4 homework is due on Monday.

Thursday

Essential Questions: How do Newton’s Laws of motion related the motion of objects to the forces on them.

Warm up: Calculate the net force on each of the carts drawn on the board

Learning Activities: Notes on Newton’s Laws and the Atwood’s machine lab


Monday

Essential Questions: How does the tension of a string change once an Atwood’s machine is set into motion

Warm up: Predict the acceleration of the Atwood machine on the board.

Learning Activities: Continue Atwood’s machine lab with calculations of tension while the cart is in motion.

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 4 homework part 2 due on Monday.

Tuesday

Essential Questions: How does the tension in the strings of Atwood’s machine change when they are set into motion.

Warm up: Calculate the acceleration and tension forces on the first 5 atwood machine problems



Wednesday

Essential Questions: How can we predict the acceleration of a variety of atwood machines?

Warm up: Calculate the acceleration of each object on the board and the tension in each string.

Learning Activities: Complete and turn in Atwood Machine Lab, or whatever you get done on it.

Homework and Heads up: Part 2 of chapter 4 homework is due on Monday. I give very little homework for an AP class, you should all be completing it on your own. I’m talking to you!

Thursday

Essential Questions: How do we calculate the force of sliding friction on objects in motion and objects at rest?

Warm up: Calculate the acceleration of the one of the cart drawn on the white board that is assigned to you.

Learning Activities: Notes and practice problems on friction.

Homework and Heads up: Part 2 of chapter 4 homework is due on Monday. I give very little homework for an AP class, you should all be completing it on your own. I’m talking to you!

Friday

Essential Questions: How can we determine the coefficient of friction for different surfaces.

Warm up: Tie a string loop around your physics book and use spring scales to measure those quantities described on the next slide.

Learning Activities: Calculating coefficients of friction lab.

Homework and Heads up: All of chapter 4 homework, part 1 and 2, will be collected on Monday.

Tie a string loop around your physics book and use spring scales to measure the following.

• What is the weight of your book?• What is the normal force on your book when

resting on your desktop?• What is the maximum force of static friction

between your book and desktop?• What is the force of kinetic friction between

your book and desktop?• What are both coefficients of friction?

Monday 10/1

Essential Questions: How can we predict the forces exerted by a spring?

Warm up: Try to solve the skier problem on the end of Friday’s friction lab.

Learning Activities: Spring forces activity

Homework and Heads up: Turn in both sections of Chapter 4 homework. Test on Forces and Newton’s Laws on Friday and Homework due on Friday.

Tuesday

Essential Questions: How can we predict the forces exerted by a spring? Why are the forces exerted by a spring unique?

Warm up: Try the two tension problems on the board.

Learning Activities: Spring forces activity

Homework and Heads up: Test on Forces and Newton’s Laws on Friday and Homework due on Friday.

Wednesday

Essential Questions: How can a cell phone pass through a wall.

Warm up:

Learning Activities: Quantum theory video


Thursday

Essential Questions: How does the force of a spring depend on the spring constant?

Warm up: Make 2 rough graphs of F versus x for the spring data you measured yesterday. Add your data to the graph on the board using a unique color.

Learning Activities: Complete the Spring Forces activity.Drop a spring from the wood gym. (Please no video)

Homework and Heads up: Test on Forces and Newton’s Laws on Tuesday and Homework due on Tuesday.

Friday

Essential Questions: How are torque forces different from all others we have discussed?

Warm up: Try the Spring problem in the mineshaft.

Learning Activities: Notes on Torque and Torque drawings.

Homework and Heads up: Test on Forces and Newton’s Laws on Wednesday and Homework due on Tuesday.

Tuesday 10/9

Essential Questions: How do we calculate torque forces on an object?

Warm up:Outline of your test on Friday on next slide.

Learning Activities: Complete the notes on torque forces and begin the torque lab

Homework and Heads up: Test on Friday. Homework due on Friday is the sheet of practice problems 1-16

• How are forces described and measured. • How are forces added together ( arithmetically, tip to tail, right

angle method, component method)• How are forces and their components represented on a free

body diagram (especially on an incline)• How is Newton’s second law used to predict an object’s

acceleration.• How are mass and weight related by Newton’s 2nd

• What do the 1st and 3rd Laws really mean.• How do we predict sliding friction (static and kinetic)• How do we predict tension forces on a moving Atwood

machine?• How do we predict spring forces and measure spring constants?• How do we calculate and add torque forces?

Wednesday

Essential Questions: How can we calculate torque forces on a see-saw and on a drawbridge?

Warm up: Calculate the net torque on the mobile shown on the Ferris Wheel shown on the board

Learning Activities: Torque Lab

Homework and Heads up: Guest speaker, Danny Orlando, to be visiting on Friday. No test Sarah!

Monday 10/15

Essential Questions: How can an objects own weight create torque on itself?

Warm up: Calculate the torque on the drawbridge from your torque notesheet.

Learning Activities: Drawbridge lab, and torque mobile


Tuesday


Warm up:

Learning Activities: Test on Newton’s laws and Forces.At minimum, finish the 15 multiple choice problems.


Wednesday


Warm up:

Learning Activities: Test on Newton’s laws and Forces.Finish free response.


Wednesday


Warm up:

Learning Activities: Final day of test on Newtons Laws and Forces. If you finish early, start your homework.

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 6 homework due on Monday. Only Doug has turned in the last homework on Friction and Torque, so please put these in my box

Thursday


Warm up:

Learning Activities: Final day of test on Newtons Laws and Forces. If you finish early, start your homework.


Friday


Warm up:

Learning Activities: Work and Energy notes with substitute.


Monday 10/22

Essential Questions: How are work and energy related?

Warm up: Return exams

Learning Activities: Notes and practice problems on work and energy.


Tuesday

Essential Questions: How are work and energy measured, and how are they related?

Warm up: Try the questions on the next slide.

Learning Activities: Notes and practice problems on Work and Energy.

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 6 homework due on Wednesday.

If I am lifting a book from the flloor…am I doing work on the book?does the book have energy?

If I am holding a book stationary in front of me?am I doing work on the book?does the book have energy?

If a book is just sitting on the floor….is the floor doing work on the book?does the book have energy?

Wednesday

Essential Questions: How is work converted into energy in a variety of systems?

Warm up: A 300kg cart is rolled down a 30 degree incline over a 1.5m distance with a coefficient of friction on 0.2. What is it’s velocity at the bottom? What is its kinetic energy at the bottom? How much potential energy does it lose?Learning Activities: Complete the work and energy notes and a few practice problems. Begin work/energy lab stations

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 6 homework due tomorrow.

Thursday

Essential Questions: How is the conservation of energy applied to circumvent the use of kinematics?

Warm up: A 2.5m long frictionless pendulum (also in a vacuum to eliminate air resistance) has a 180g bob. It is raised to an angle of 45⁰ and released. What is the fastest speed it attains?

Learning Activities: Work/Energy practice problems and Conservation of Energy stations.

Homework and Heads up: Turn in Chapter 6 homework today.

Friday

Essential Questions: how does the net work done on an object determine it’s velocity?

Warm up: Try the sinking cannonball problem on the board.

Learning Activities: Conservation of energy stations.

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 6 homework was due yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before…Your next text on work and energy will be on Tuesday.

Monday 10/29

Essential Questions: How can the work done to stretch a spring be deduced from a graph of force v. elongation of a spring

Warm up: Try the warm-up problem on the board.

Learning Activities: Continue work on energy conservation stations.

Homework and Heads up: Test on work and energy will be on Wednesday.

Tuesday

Essential Questions: What types of energy conversions occur in your car?

Warm up: Starting with the nuclear energy of the Sun. List the energy tranformations to show how the kinetic energy of your car comes from the Sun. And try the car problem on the board too.

Learning Activities: Discuss power and efficiency. Complete one more energy conversion station.

Homework and Heads up: Test tomorrow on work and energy.

Monday

Essential Questions: How do we desribe circular motion?

Warm up: Begin the practice problems with circular motion

Learning Activities: Circular motion notes and problems


Wednesday

Essential Questions: How can we predict the centripetal force on an object in uniform circular motion.

Warm up: complete the table on the next slide using only standard units.

Learning Activities: Complete the practice problems in your notes. Circular motion lab with a whirlygig.

Homework and Heads up: Homework problems on circular motion and harmonic motion due on Friday. Test on these topics on Friday.

Our moon has a mass of 7.4 x 10²² kg and orbits the Earth every 27.3 days at an average distance of

380,000km

T = f =C =v =ω =ac =Fc =

What changes if the moon is twice as far away?

Wednesday

Essential Questions: How does the motion of satellites reveal the nature of circular motion and gravitational attraction?

Warm up: Fill in the blanks on yesterday’s gravity note sheet

Learning Activities: Read the article on satellites @ howstuffworks.com and think about some answers to the discussion questions on the next slide

Homework and Heads up: Circular Motion and Harmonic motion problems will be due on Tuesday. You test on these will also be early next week.

Wednesday

Essential Questions: How does the motion of satellites reveal the nature of circular motion and gravitational attraction?

Warm up: Pick up a laptop and go to howstuffworks.com , search satellites and using the article on how satellites work, answer the questions on the next slide.

Learning Activities: Orbital motion problems

Homework and Heads up: Circular Motion and Harmonic motion problems will be due on Tuesday.

Friday

Essential Questions: How do the velocity of a satellites or planets orbit determine its radius of motion?

Warm up: Complete the orbital motion worksheet problems

Learning Activities: Whirlygig Lab

Homework and Heads up: Circular Motion and Harmonic motion problems will be due on Friday next week.

Tuesday 11/9

Essential Questions: How does the orbital velocity of a satellite, moon, or planet depend on its radius.

Warm up: The Sun with a mass of 2x10³⁰kg, orbits the center of our galaxy at a distance of 26,000 light years every 220 million years. What is its orbital speed?

Learning Activities: Finally, the whirlygig lab

Homework and Heads up: Circular and Harmonic motion homework due on Friday along with a test on these topics.

Wednesday

Essential Questions: How does a circular pendulum help explain the discrepancies in yesterday’s lab?

Warm up:: The Sun with a mass of 2x10³⁰kg, orbits the center of our galaxy at a distance of 26,000 light years every 220 million years. What is its orbital speed?

Learning Activities: Examine three new types of circular motion.

Homework and Heads up: Circular and Harmonic motion homework due on Friday along with a test on these topics

Thursday

Essential Questions: What forces aside from gravity can produce uniform circular motion?

Warm up: Answer the questions on the board regarding a whirlygig device.

Learning Activities: Practice three new examples of uniform circular motion.

Homework and Heads up: Circular and Harmonic motion homework due on Tuesday along with a test on these topics

Thursday

Essential Questions: What is simple harmonic motion?

Warm up: Answer the racetrack problem on the board.

Learning Activities: Notes and problems on simple harmonic motion of a pendulum and spring-mass oscillator.


Monday 11/19

Essential Questions: How can we predict the simple harmonic motion of a spring mass oscillator?

Warm up: Answer the pendulum problem on the white board

Learning Activities: Notes on mass-spring oscillators


Monday 11/26

Essential Questions: How do we measure and describe the density of a substance?

Warm up: Rank and list the objects at your desk in order from lowest to highest density. Then choose any one substance and measure its density.

Learning Activities: Notes and practice problems on density.

Homework and Heads up: Your homework, due Friday, will be to complete the textbook exercises on your notes sheets.

Monday 11/26

Essential Questions: How is density measured and calculated?

Warm up: Measure the density of the liquids using the

Learning Activities: Work on the textbook exercises regarding density.

Homework and Heads up: Your next test on Fluids will likely be early next week.

Wednesday

Essential Questions: How do we describe the pressure exerted by a fluid?

Warm up: Take a look at problem 23 from the density homework. These problems are due on Friday

Learning Activities: Notes and practice with pressure.

Homework and Heads up: All of the assigned textbook problems from this unit will be due on the day of the test.

Thursday

Essential Questions: How do we measure the pressure experienced at different depths of any fluid?

Warm up: Use the graph on the next slide to answer the attached questions.

Learning Activities: Notes and practice problems with pressure.

Homework and Heads up: All of the assigned textbook problems from this unit will be due on the day of the test early next week.

1. How high must one go to reach ½ atmosphere of air pressure?

2. A commercial airline cruises above 30,000ft. What is the outside air pressure in PSI at this altitude?

Friday

Essential Questions: What instruments can we use to measure air pressure?

Warm up: Try the hydraulic pressure problem on the board.

Learning Activities: Complete the textbook activities on Pressure and Density.

Homework and Heads up: Test on fluids on Wednesday

Monday 12/3 and Tuesday

Essential Questions: How does hydrostatic pressure create the buoyant force?

Warm up: Calculate the pressure at the bottom of the pool drawn on the white board? How much force would be needed to lift the drain plug?

Learning Activities: Why does wood float notes.

Homework and Heads up: Fluid test and textbook exercises from chapter 13 due on Thursday.

Wednesday

Essential Questions: How does hydrostatic pressure really determine the buoyant force on an object?

Warm up: Try the pressure problem on the board

Learning Activities: Complete the notes on Buoyancy. Work on the buoyancy lab stations.

Homework and Heads up: Test on fluids early next week. Be prepared to turn in the textbook and lab exercises on your note sheets.

Thursday

Essential Questions: How are density, buoyancy, and pressure related in real world problems.

Warm up: 50 push ups

Learning Activities: Complete the lab stations on buoyancy.

Homework and Heads up: Fluid test on Tuesday next week. Lab and text problems due on this day too.

Friday

Essential Questions: How do we measure the speed of moving fluids?

Warm up: Rank the scales drawn on the board from the lowest to highest readings.

Learning Activities: Notes and practice with fluid flow velocities and continuity principle.

Homework and Heads up: The additional text exercises on the back of today’s notesheet are part of what is due on test day.

Monday 12/10

Essential Questions: How does the velocity of a moving fluid affect it’s pressure according to Bernoulli’s principle.

Warm up: Calculate the volume flow rate (I) and flow velocity (v) at each lettered location in the canal system drawn on the board.

Learning Activities: Notes and practice with Bernoulli’s principle.

Homework and Heads up: Fluid test tomorrow. Lab and text problems due too. These include those on the following note sheets: density, pressure, buoyancy (what makes a wood block float), fluid dynamics, and Bernoulli’s principle.

Tuesday

Essential Questions: How are density, pressure, flow velocity, buoyant force all related.

Warm up:

Learning Activities: Choose any 4 of the free response questions to answer along with the multiple choice.

Homework and Heads up: Turn in 5 sheets stapled together. Density, Pressure, Why does wood float, fluid dynamics, Bernoulli’s principle.

Monday 12/17

Essential Questions: How does thermal energy affect matter?

Warm up:

Learning Activities: Prepare your “fill in the blank” handout, and 3 practice problems to go along with your science fair presentation. Your presentation can be a poster, slide show, demonstration, skit, or some combination.

Homework and Heads up: Presentations will begin Tuesday, Lizzie, Sarah, and John. All others will be done upon return.Lab Midterm on Wednesday.

Thursday 1/3

Essential Questions: How are the concepts of motion, force, energy, and fluids from semester 1 interrelated?

Warm up: A projectile is fired horizontally from a 40m tall building at 25m/s. How far will it travel horizontally before landing?

Learning Activities: Complete and turn in your lab station work on questions 1-12.

Homework and Heads up: Gareth, Will, and Will will present tomorrow on their Thermal Physics topics.

Friday 1/4

Essential Questions: What does our knowledge of a gas on a macroscopic level tell us about its behavior on an atomic level?

Warm up: How much elastic potential energy is stored in a spring of constant, k=0.55N/m, when it is elongated a distance of 75cm?

Learning Activities: Gareth and Will will present on Thermal Physics.

Homework and Heads up: Will Scott and Iris on Monday

Monday 1/7

Essential Questions: How does the atomic and molecular motion of particles translate into macroscopic measurement of temperature, volume, and pressure?

Warm up: Attempt the practice questions on particle motion provided by Will.

Learning Activities: Gareth and Will Scott to present.

Homework and Heads up: Iris and Roby tomorrow

Tuesday 1/8

Essential Questions: What is heat and what effect does it have on matter?

Warm up: Estimate the number of gas molecules in this room. Estimate their total amount of kinetic energy.

Learning Activities: Iris and Roby

Homework and Heads up: Drew/Doug and Abby tomorrow

Wednesday 1/9

Essential Questions: What is heat and how is the rate of heat transfer measured?

Warm up: Turn in Iris’ practice problems on thermal expansion.Calculate the increase in volume or a acrylic cube that is 1m on each side when it is raised 20 C to 100C. ( coefficient of thermal expansion for steel is 234 x 10⁻⁶ m/mK ?Learning Activities: Roby

Homework and Heads up: Drew and Doug tomorrow

Thursday 1/10

Essential Questions: How do we measure the heat transfer between two materials in thermal contact?

Warm up: Answer Roby’s warm-up questions.

Learning Activities: Drew and Doug, begin Heat transfer lab

Homework and Heads up: Test on Thermal Physics late next week.

Friiiiidaaay

Essential Questions: How can we experimentally measure the transfer of heat?

Warm up: Two equal 5kg masses of 100C water and 0C water are in thermal contact with a 1 meter long rod of silver with a cross sectional area of .001m².

What is the maximum rate of heat transfer?Average rate of heat transfer?Total amount of heat transfer?Time to reach thermal equilibrium?Learning Activities: Abby to present on Monday


Monday, 11/14

Essential Questions: How can we experimentally measure the transfer of heat?

Warm up: Two equal 5kg masses of 100C water and 0C water are in thermal contact with a 1 meter long rod of silver with a cross sectional area of .001m².

What is the maximum rate of heat transfer?Average rate of heat transfer?Total amount of heat transfer?Time to reach thermal equilibrium?Learning Activities: Complete and turn in calorimetry lab

Homework and Heads up: Abby and Gareth to present tomorrow

Tuesday

Essential Questions: How can we predict the final temperature of combined warm and cool substances?

Warm up: Perform the calculations from part 4 of yesterday’s lab, then turn in your completed lab.

Learning Activities: Thermal Physics practice problems.

Homework and Heads up: Thermal Physics test on Thursday.

Thursday

Essential Questions: How do we use heat to do work?How do we describe the work done by a heat engine

Warm up: Review practice problems

Learning Activities: Notes on Thermodynamics

Homework and Heads up: Thermal Energy Test tomorrow

Friday

Essential Questions: How do we determine the efficiency of a heat engine?

Warm up: Two equal 5kg masses of 100C water and 0C water are in thermal contact with a 1 meter long rod of silver (k=429 W/mK with a cross sectional area of .001m².

What is the maximum rate of heat transfer?Total amount of heat transfer?Time to reach thermal equilibrium?

Learning Activities: Complete Notes and practice problems on Thermodynamics

Homework and Heads up: Thermal Energy Test Tuesday

Thursday

Essential Questions: How do we predict the effect of heat on our environment?

Warm up

Learning Activities: Multiple Choice section to be completed by the end of class.

Homework and Heads up: Thermal Energy Free Response Test tomorrow

Thursday

Essential Questions: How do we use heat to do work?How do we describe the work done by a heat engine


Learning Activities: Notes on Thermodynamics

Homework and Heads up: Thermal Energy Test tomorrow

Tuesday

Essential Questions: What effects does heat have on our environment and how do we use these to our advantage?


Learning Activities: Thermal Energy Test


Wednesday

Essential Questions: How is heat used to do work?

Warm up: Review thermodynamics

Learning Activities: Choose any two of the free response questions to answer. Show your work neatly on a separate sheet. Show equations, substitutions, and units when applicable.


Thursday

Essential Questions: How do we describe the static electricity around us?

Warm up: Complete your test.

Learning Activities: Grade your test. Using chapter 21, begin filling in the blanks on the Static Electricity Notes.

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 21 exercises due next Friday.

Friiiiiiidaaaaaay

Essential Questions: : How do we describe the static electricity around us?

Warm up: Review your graded tests. Any questions?

Learning Activities: Notes on static electricity.

Homework and Heads up: Text exercises due on Friday

Tuesday

Essential Questions: How do we measure the magnitude of static charges?

Warm up: Complete Static Electricity Notes


Homework and Heads up: Begin homework exercises.

Wednesday

Essential Questions: How can we describe the strength of the electric field created by a point charge or by charged plates.

Warm up: Two 5 gram styrofoam balls hang side by side on a 1.5m long massless strings. The balls are deflected 12 degrees from vertical by their identical charges. What are the charges?

Learning Activities: Notes on Electric Field and Electric Field Strength

Homework and Heads up: Static Electricity homework due on Friday. Static Electricity test on Monday.

Thursday

Essential Questions: How do we describe the electric field around a charged object both visually and quantitatively?

Warm up: A small Van De Graff Generator possesses a charge of 0.00003 C. What is the force on a single proton placed at a distance of 10cm and 30cm from the generator. What would be the force on a dust particle with a charge of 3 x 10⁸ if placed at the same distances.Learning Activities: Notes on Electric Field Strength.

Homework and Heads up: Static Electricity homework due on Monday. Static Electricity test on Monday or Tuesday

Friday

Essential Questions: How can we predict the electric field strength near a point charge and between charged plates.

Warm up: What is the net force on a particle of charge -25e when midway between two stationary point charges of +3pC and -6pC if the point charges are separated by .4m? What is the electric field strength at this location?Where could the “test” charge be placed to experience zero net force?Learning Activities: Complete notes on field strength and complete and turn in practice problems.

Homework and Heads up: Homework due Monday. Test on Tuesday!

Monday 2/4

Essential Questions: How do we calculate the potential energy stored by electric charges?

Warm up: Questions on homework. Try the problem on the board given to you on Friday’s worksheet.

Learning Activities: Notes on Electric potential energy

Homework and Heads up: Test tomorrow on static electricity

Tuesday

Essential Questions: What have you learned about static electricity?

Warm up:

Learning Activities: Static Electricity Test

Homework and Heads up: Turn in your static electricity homework exercises

Friday

Essential Questions: How do we describe the flow of current electricity.

Warm up: Build a circuit that makes both your bulb and your motor function.

Learning Activities: Notes on Current Electricity. Begin Current Electricity lab

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 25 text exercises due on Wednesday next week.

Monday 2/11

Essential Questions: How do we measure current, voltage, and resistance in a circuit?

Warm up: A large lightning bolt can send 120kA of current from cloud to ground in 5 hundredths of a second. How much charge is transferred? How many electrons are moved?

Learning Activities: Continue with current electricity notes. Begin current electricity lab

Homework and Heads up: Chapter 25 text exercises due on Wednesday next week.

Thursday

Essential Questions: How can we predict the variables of electricity in series and parallel circuits?

Warm up: Working with the partner with whom I have paired you. Measure the circuit as it is built for you to fill in the blanks on your paper and white board.

Learning Activities: Complete your current electricity lab

Homework and Heads up: Current Electricity textbook exercises are due on Wednesday after our long weekend. Test on current electricity to be next week also.

Friday

Essential Questions: How can we measure and mathematically predict the resistance of a wire?

Warm up: Calculate the missing values in each of the circuits on the board.

Learning Activities: Complete the current electricity lab.

Homework and Heads up: I may be gone on Wednesday. I want you to work together on your homework in class and turn it in by the end of the period. Be polite and productive with the substitute.

Thursday

Essential Questions: How can we determine missing values in a complex circuit? How can we draw circuits given a description.

Warm up: Measure the resistance of your wire coil. Given its length and the resistivity of its materials, calculate its diameter. Copper (Cu) ρ = 1.7 x 10⁻⁸ Nickel Silver Alloy (NS) ρ = 28.7 x 10⁻⁸

Learning Activities: Practice two worksheets on drawing and solving circuits.

Homework and Heads up: Test tomorrow on Current Electricity.

Friday

Essential Questions: What are capacitors?

Warm up: Calculate the current, voltage, and resistance of each element in the circuit on the board. This is #76 from your homework.

Learning Activities: Capacitor cartoon

Homework and Heads up: I will be gone on Monday. You will have your test on current electricity on Tuesday.

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