Syllabus2011

SUMMER 2012

The calendar associated with these lessons can be found at the link to the left, labeled "@Class".

__**NOTE 2:**__ Gizmos can be found at www.explorelearning.com. To complete a Gizmo, you must do the activities and worksheets posted below, and answer the 5 assessment questions that are UNDERNEATH the Gizmo itself. To ENROLL in the class, use this Class Code: DUSVABVGEW. __**NOTE 3:**__ In general, each lesson is 2.5 hours long. WIth the exception of the midterm and final exam, when you will be dismissed early, we will do 2 lessons per day. __**NOTE 5:**__ All handouts are in your binder, unless noted otherwise.
 * __NOTE 1:__** All Readings can be found at The Physics Classroom.
 * __NOTE 4__:** Short quizzes will be given each day on the previous day's material. Most days they will be multiple choice questions online at www.Quia.com. Click here for the class list: Daily Quiz. Your username is your full name with 309 at the end of it (no spaces). Your password is "Physics".

toc = = = = = = = = =**Unit 1: Kinematics and Dynamics**= a) what you think will be most useful. b) anything you find confusing or unclear. c) any suggestions || ||
 * //**Lesson**// || //**Objectives**// || **//Topics and Readings//** || **//Class Work//** || //**Assignments**// ||
 * 1 || * Describe the topics we will learn about in Physics.
 * Introduce class resources. || # Introduction
 * 1) [|1-D Kinematics]
 * 2) Describing Motion with Words
 * 3) Describing Motion with Position-Time Graphs || * Introduction
 * Resources
 * Requirements || # Reread all of the materials provided for you on the class wiki, about the class. On the class discussion board (See tab above), record
 * 2 || * To understand the terms displacement, velocity, speed, acceleration, scalar, and vector.
 * To distinguish between motion as increasing, decreasing, or constant.
 * To use Excel to record data, do calculations and create graphs with one or more lines. ||  || * __LAB__: The motion of a Rolling Ball[[file:Day 1 Kinematics Quantities - 1.doc]]
 * Making Graphs on Excel
 * media type="youtube" key="8Ig-e509uRQ" height="126" width="205" || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You must use Method 1 today.
 * 1) Find __at least 1__ cool animation, joke, cartoon, or applet about the physics we've discussed today. Post links and a screenshot to your wiki.
 * 2) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 3 || * To represent motion using motion diagrams.
 * Predict, sketch, and test position vs. time kinematics graphs.
 * Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different representations of motion
 * Understand the relationship between direction of v and a for different types of motion.
 * Interpret data collected from a ticker tape
 * Make a graph on Excel || [|1-D Kinematics]
 * 1) Describing Motion with Diagrams
 * 2) Describing Motion with Velocity-Time Graphs || * Notes and examples
 * Daily Quiz
 * [[file:Day 1 Motion Diagrams .doc]]
 * [[file:013 The Sign Convention and Motion Diagrams.doc]]
 * [[file:009 H Stacks of graphs.doc]]
 * [[file:Day 1 Rules for drawing Motion Diagrams.doc]] || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You must use Method 2 today.
 * 1) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)

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 * 4 || * Solve problems with accelerated motion.
 * Graph the motion of a falling body.
 * To use a spark timer and interpret the tape.
 * Relate the motion of a freely falling body to motion with constant acceleration.
 * Calculate displacement, velocity and time at various points in the motion of a freely falling object. || [|1-D Kinematics]
 * 1) Free Fall and the Acceleration of Gravity
 * 2) Describing Motion with Equations || * LAB: The motion of a Falling Object
 * [[file:Day 1 Organizer Kinem blank.doc]]
 * [[file:Kinematics_Problem_Solving_Practice_1.doc]]
 * [[file:1173 Freefall Notes.doc]]
 * [[file:1175 FALLING OBJECT Practice Problems.doc]]
 * [[file:Value of g at different locations on earth.doc]] || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You must use Method 2 today.
 * 1) Find __at least 1__ cool animation, joke, cartoon, or applet about the physics we've discussed today. Post links and a screenshot to your wiki.
 * 2) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)

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 * 5 || * Recall Newton's 1st Law of Motion
 * Distinguish between Inertia, mass, and weight.
 * Describe the four types of forces. || [|Newton's Laws]


 * 1) Newton's First Law of Motion || * Notes and Demos
 * [[file:016 Notes Intro Forces.doc]]
 * [[file:018 Direction of Forces.doc]]
 * Daily Quiz

media type="youtube" key="M_8w-dD4RBE" width="192" height="159" || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You must use Method 3 today. || || || media type="youtube" key="uZGbtK2KBoY" width="181" height="155" || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You must use Method 4 today. || > || [|Newton's Laws]
 * 1) Find __at least 1__ cool animation, joke, cartoon, or applet about the physics we've discussed today. Post links and a screenshot to your wiki.
 * 2) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 6 || * Make a diagram to show the forces acting on an object.
 * Calculate the force required to bring an object into equilibrium.
 * Describe the acceleration of an object in terms of its mass and net force acting on it || [|Newton's Laws]
 * 1) Force and Its Representation || * LAB: Newton's Second Law of Motion
 * [[file:017 Notes Free Body Diagrams.doc]]
 * [[file:019 FBD Practice.doc]]
 * [[file:020 FBD Practice 2.doc]]
 * [[file:021 FBD Practice.doc]]
 * [[file:023 FBD Practice.doc]] || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You must use Method 3 today.
 * 7 || * Explain how force affects the motion of an object.
 * Predict the direction and magnitude of the acceleration caused by a known net external force.
 * Use FBDs to generate equations.
 * Demonstrate the relationship between net force and acceleration of an object.
 * Apply kinematics skills to dynamics problems.
 * Synthesize kinematics and dynamics problem solving. || [|Newton's Laws]
 * 1) Newton's Second Law of Motion || * [[file:204 Notes - Writing Collinear Equations Student.doc]]
 * [[file:1421 Writing Collinear Equations.doc]]
 * [[file:206 Writing Collinear Equations - 2.doc]]
 * [[file:210 GENERAL STEPS TO SOLVING DYNAMICS PROBLEMS.doc]]
 * [[file:212 Level 1 Collinear Dynamics Problems.doc]]
 * [[file:211 Level 1 Collinear Dynamics Problems.doc]]
 * [[file:208 Weight and Mass v2.doc]]
 * Static vs. Dynamic Equilibrium || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You must use Method 4 today.
 * 1) Find __at least 1__ cool animation, joke, cartoon, or applet about the physics we've discussed today. Post links and a screenshot to your wiki.
 * 2) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 8 || * Solve problems involving friction.
 * Understand the meaning of the coefficient of friction
 * Experimentally determine the coefficient of static and kinetic friction for various materials. || [|Newton's Laws]
 * 1) Newton's Second Law of Motion || * LAB: Friction
 * [[file:237 GENERAL STEPS TO SOLVING FRICTION PROBLEMS 2006.doc]]
 * [[file:237 Solving collinear friction problems 2006.doc]]
 * 1) Complete the 6 problems on this page:[[file:Dyn-Kin-frictionPracticeSet.doc]]
 * 2) Find __at least 1__ cool animation, joke, cartoon, or applet about the physics we've discussed today. Post links and a screenshot to your wiki.
 * 3) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 9 || * Identify action-reaction pairs.
 * Explain why action-reaction pairs do not result in equilibrium.
 * Analyze common static and dynamic situations for applications of Newton's Laws of Motion
 * Understand that Apparent Weight is due to changing support force.
 * Measure Air Resistance and describe the factors that influence it.
 * Distinguish between weightlessness and apparent weight.

video: Resistive Forces media type="youtube" key="9lvNofoUYwI" width="188" height="156"
 * 1) Air Resistance
 * 2) Newton's Third Law of Motion || LAB: Air Resistance

video: Apparent Weight media type="youtube" key="zfTE4J87aQQ" width="174" height="144" || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You must use Method 5 today.
 * 1) Find __at least 1__ cool animation, joke, cartoon, or applet about the physics we've discussed today. Post links and a screenshot to your wiki.
 * 2) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)

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 * 10 || * Apply the Pythagorean theorem and tangent function to calculate the magnitude and direction of the resultant.
 * Use the graphical method to estimate the resultant of the addition of noncollinear vectors.
 * Add vectors that are perpendicular.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 13.33px;">Add vectors that are noncollinear and nonperpendicular.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 13.33px;">Apply vector addition rules to airplane and motorboat problems. || [|Vectors - Motion and Forces in Two Dimensions]

|| media type="youtube" key="wguFY0DDoAU" height="167" width="266" || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. YOU MUST USE METHOD #1. A description of summarization methods is located at the Resources page. || media type="youtube" key="T9lwrqdxaqE" height="163" width="198" || # Complete this problem set to be checked:
 * 1) Vectors - Fundamentals and Operations || media type="youtube" key="fwNQKjTj-0w" width="165" height="141" || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You must use Method 5 today.
 * 2) Find __at least 1__ cool animation, joke, cartoon, or applet about the physics we've discussed today. Post links and a screenshot to your wiki.
 * 3) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 11 || * Apply kinematics and freefall knowledge to projectile motion
 * Describe the motion of a projectile.
 * Understand projectile systems and to compare and contrast to 1-D systems. || [|Vectors - Motion and Forces in Two Dimensions]
 * 1) Projectile Motion || media type="youtube" key="0OV1E9M9Kkc" width="158" height="130"
 * [[file:Projectile Motion Student Notes.doc]]
 * [[file:InvestigateProjectiles.doc]]
 * [[file:Conceptual Projectiles Practice 2.doc]]
 * 1) Find __at least 1__ cool animation, joke, cartoon, or applet about the physics we've discussed today. Post links and a screenshot to your wiki.
 * 2) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 12 || * Explain the attributes of a projectile’s motion.
 * Solve problems involving hang time, range, and initial velocity of a projectile || [|Vectors - Motion and Forces in Two Dimensions]
 * 1) Projectile Motion || * LAB: Projectile Motion
 * [[file:Projectiles_Velocity.doc]]
 * [[file:Projectiles_Range.doc]]

|| || media type="youtube" key="Otmg0-knGtE" width="175" height="144" || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You must use Method 3 today. ||
 * 1) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)[[file:ShootMonkeySE.doc]] ||
 * 13 || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Solve problems involving noncollinear forces
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Solve problems involving noncollinear forces with friction
 * Determine the mass needed to accelerate a cart up an incline in a certain amount of time. Determine acceleration due to gravity. || [|Vectors - Motion and Forces in Two Dimensions]
 * 1) Forces in Two Dimensions || * LAB: Inclined Plane
 * [[file:ForcesAtAngles.doc]]
 * [[file:ForcesAtAngles_equilibrium.doc]] || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You must use Method 2 today.
 * 1) Do #3 on the Forces at Angles worksheet.
 * 2) Do #5 on the Forces at Equilibrium worksheet.
 * 3) Find __at least 1__ cool animation, joke, cartoon, or applet about the physics we've discussed today. Post links and a screenshot to your wiki.
 * 4) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 14 || * Explain how gravitational force is affected by changes in distance and mass.
 * Develop the relationship between g and distance.
 * Understand the contributions of historical figures to the development of our ideas of gravity. || [|Satellite Motion]
 * 1) Universal Gravitation (lesson 3) || media type="youtube" key="CgqBg44azYk" width="186" height="156" || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki.You must use Method 2 today.
 * 2) Find __at least 1__ cool animation, joke, cartoon, or applet about the physics we've discussed today. Post links and a screenshot to your wiki.
 * 3) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 15 || * Define centripetal acceleration.
 * Distinguish centripetal acceleration from linear acceleration.
 * Calculate centripetal acceleration and tangential velocity.
 * Compare and contrast linear and circular motion.
 * Understand that centripetal force is required to move an object in a circular path. || [|Circular Motion]
 * 1) Motion Characteristics for Circular Motion || LAB: Vertical Circles (min&max speeds) - // Note that results were not very good. //
 * 1) Find __at least 1__ cool animation, joke, cartoon, or applet about the physics we've discussed today. Post links and a screenshot to your wiki.
 * 2) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 16 || * Calculate centripetal force.
 * Use Newton's second law to relate centripetal force with centripetal acceleration.
 * Draw FBDs for objects moving in a circle.
 * Use Newton's Second Law on the radial and y-axis to solve problems. || [|Circular Motion]


 * 1) Applications of Circular Motion || LAB: Conical Pendulum

|| # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You must use Method 3 today. = = =**Unit 2: Conservation Laws**=
 * 1) Do Problems #14,15,17,18 on the Circular Motion Practice worksheet to the left. ||
 * Lesson || Objectives || Topics and Readings || Class Work || Assignments ||
 * 17 || * Derive the definition for work.
 * Calculate work done.
 * Show that work stays constant for a given height although angle of incline changes.
 * Relate personal exertion to power not energy usage.
 * Identify the different types of energy. || [|Work, Energy, and Power]

media type="youtube" key="CgqBg44azYk" width="197" height="165" || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You must use Method 4 today. ||
 * 1) Work, Energy, and Power || LAB: Work [[file:LabAirBags.doc]]
 * 1) Find __at least 1__ cool animation, joke, cartoon, or applet about the physics we've discussed today. Post links and a screenshot to your wiki.
 * 2) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 18 || * Show that energy is conserved in all situations.
 * Distinguish between energy concepts and force concepts.
 * Solve a wide variety of problems using LCE. || [|Work, Energy, and Power]
 * 1) The Work-Energy Theorem || [[file:LCElab_2011.doc]]

|| # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You must use Method 4 today. ||
 * 1) Complete this worksheet to be checked on Monday [[file:PracticeLCE_2.doc]]
 * 2) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 19 || * understand and apply the law of conservation of momentum to collisions
 * Identify the type of collision in a problem by calculating KE before and after the collision.
 * Describe collsions and crumple zones in terms of momentum, impulse, and force.
 * Distinguish elastic and inelastic collisions. || [|Momentum and Its Conservation]

media type="youtube" key="Lkuo6nZ6nZM" width="201" height="166" media type="youtube" key="0DR8emfSsF0" width="195" height="161" || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You must use Method 5 today.
 * 1) The Impulse-Momentum Change Theorem || [[file:ElasticCollisionsLab.doc]]
 * 1) Find __at least 1__ cool animation, joke, cartoon, or applet about the physics we've discussed today. Post links and a screenshot to your wiki
 * 2) Complete worksheet (Practice ALL Momentum) B#5,6,13,14; C#2,4,6. ||
 * 20 || * compare the change of momentum of a cart before a collision with the impulse.
 * Explore ways of using cushions to increase the time that a force acts during a primary collision.
 * Apply the definition of momentum.
 * conduct analyses of the momentum of pairs of objects in one-dimensional collisions. || [|Momentum and Its Conservation]

media type="youtube" key="SUYnS7rj33w" width="195" height="161" || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You must use Method 5 today. || Apparent Weight: || # Optional Extra Assignments (due next class) ||
 * 1) The Law of Momentum Conservation || [[file:InelasticCollisionsLab.doc]]
 * 1) Make sure the activity and the lab are complete (answer all follow-up questions.)
 * 2) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 21 || * Analyze a roller coaster using forces and energy concepts.
 * Review all definitions and equations.
 * Understand how the different concepts are interrelated.
 * Use Newton's Second Law, FBDs and MDs to predict the relative magnitude of forces. ||  || Analyze a roller coaster
 * Use Newton's Second Law, FBDs and MDs to predict the relative magnitude of forces. ||  || Analyze a roller coaster
 * 22 || * Review all of the above objectives. || Review for Midterm Exam || [[file:MTEReview_2011.doc]]

This has the answers to MOST of the Open Ended Questions on the Review: This has the answers to ALL of the Multiple Choice on the Review (thank you Gabe!) || Study!!!! ||
 * 23 || * Demonstrate mastery of mechanical concepts. || Midterm Exam ||  ||   ||
 * 24/25 || School Closed: Water Main Break ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 24/25 || School Closed: Water Main Break ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 24/25 || School Closed: Water Main Break ||  ||   ||   ||

=**Unit 3: Vibrations, Waves, Sound, and Optics**= media type="youtube" key="__2YND93ofE" width="215" height="178" || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You may use any one of the 5 methods today. || <span class="wiki_link_ext">The Nature of a Wave Properties and Behavior of a Wave || LAB: Slinkies!
 * Lesson || Objectives || Topics/Readings || Class Work || Assignments ||
 * 26 || * measure the effect of weight on the vertical stretch of a spring.
 * Illustrate the relationship between weight and stretch of a spring in a graph.
 * Compare period of spring to that of a pendulum.
 * Calculate Energy of spring.
 * || Vibrations || Lab: Mass on a Spring
 * 1) Make sure the activity and the lab are complete (answer all follow-up questions.)
 * 2) Do the problems on the following worksheet:[[file:Problems - SHM.doc]]
 * 3) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 27 || * Observe the motion of a pulse.
 * Calculate the speed of a wave pulse.
 * Observe standing wave.
 * investigate the relationship between wave speed, wavelength, and frequency.
 * investigate the relationship between wave speed, wavelength, and frequency.
 * Distinguish between transverse and longitudinal waves. || [|Waves:]

Notes on Superposition principle and interference. Superposition Principle Applet Animation of fixed end/free end reflection at website Animation of Ripple Tank website media type="custom" key="10017177" || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You may use any one of the 5 methods today. || Standing Waves || LAB: Waves on a String || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You may use any one of the 5 methods today. The Nature of a Sound Wave
 * 1) Make sure the lab are complete (answer all follow-up questions.)
 * 2) Find __at least 1__ cool animation, joke, cartoon, or applet about the physics we've discussed today. Post links and a screenshot to your wiki.
 * 3) MANDATORY GIZMO (due next class)
 * 28 || * Observe the effect of string length on the pitch of the sound produced.
 * Observe the effect of tension on the pitch of the sound produced.
 * Control the variables of tension and length.
 * Summarize experimental results. || [|Waves:]
 * 1) Make sure the activity and the lab are complete (answer all follow-up questions.)
 * 2) Do the problems on the following worksheet:[[file:PracticeResonanceStrings_2011.doc]]
 * 3) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class) ||
 * 29 || * Observe how pitch changes with the length of the tube.
 * Relate observations of pitch to doppler effect in air and water.
 * Discuss shock waves, sonic booms, sound barrier, and Mach Number. || Sound

Behavior of Sound Waves || Applets by Surandranath

[|Hearing Test]

Beats Applet

Equal Loudness Contours: website || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You may use any one of the 5 methods today. || Resonance and Standing Waves Musical Instruments || LAB: Open and Closed Resonance Tubes
 * 1) Find __at least 1__ cool animation, joke, cartoon, or applet about the physics we've discussed today. Post links and a screenshot to your wiki.
 * 2) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 30 || * Relate Intensity, Power and surface area.
 * Relate intensity to intensity level.
 * Understand the structure of the ear to hearing and hearing problems.
 * Identify standing waves in different kinds of air-filled tubes.
 * Relate observations of pitch to drawings of standing waves.
 * Explore amplitude, frequency, and wavelength of sounds.
 * Measure the speed of sound.
 * Observe the effect of closing one end of the tube on the pitch of the sound. || Sound

Tacoma Narrows

Shattered Glass || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You may use any one of the 5 methods today. Sound Properties and Their Perception ||  ||   || How Do We Know Light is a Wave? Mathematics of Two-Point Source Interference || || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You may use any one of the 5 methods today. Reflection and its Importance Image Formation in Plane Mirrors || LAB: Reflection in a Plane Mirror || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You may use any one of the 5 methods today. || Concave Mirrors Convex Mirrors || LAB: Reflections in Curved Mirrors || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You may use any one of the 5 methods today. || Refraction at a Boundary The Mathematics of Refraction || LAB: Refraction
 * 1) Make sure the activity and the lab are complete (answer all follow-up questions.)
 * 2) Do the problems on the following worksheet: **Be prepared to hand this in at the beginning of class tomorrow. [[file:Practice_SoundProperties_2011.doc]]**
 * 3) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class): [[file:SoundBeatsSineWaves SE.doc]] ||
 * 31 || * Hear beats
 * Calculate distances from echo information.
 * describe refraction of sound in air and water.
 * Observe sound bending around corners and spreading. || Sound
 * 32 || * Describe the electromagnetic spectrum.
 * Distinguish between transparent, translucent, and opaque.
 * Find the relationship between intensity of light and distance from source. || Light Waves
 * 1) Find __at least 1__ cool animation, joke, cartoon, or applet about the physics we've discussed today. Post links and a screenshot to your wiki. ||
 * 33 || * Verify the law of reflection in a plane mirror.
 * Understand characteristics of images formed in plane mirrors.
 * Understand how reflection influences image characteristics.
 * Describe the characteristics of images formed in mirrors. || Reflection
 * 1) Make sure the activity is complete (answer all follow-up questions.)
 * 2) Complete the 12 questions on Practice Set 1 given out in class today, a copy located here:[[file:PS1Light.doc]]
 * 3) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 34 || * Understand how reflection influences image characteristics.
 * Describe the characteristics of images formed in mirrors.
 * Distinguish between convex and concave mirrors. || Reflection
 * 1) Post the data from the Curved mirror activity on your wiki. A copy of it is here
 * 2) Do the problems on the worksheet given out in class today, it's the last page in the packet on curved mirrors. You must do the graphical method AND the mathematical method. Be sure to complete the table for each example. //d o //, //f//, and //h o // must be measured with a ruler in order to do the mathematical method.
 * 3) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 35 || * Describe refraction and its applications.
 * Apply Snells law to predict the angle of refraction. || Refraction

Physics Classroom Shockwave Player || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You may use any one of the 5 methods today. || Total Internal Reflection Interesting Refraction Phenomena || LAB: Refraction Effects || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You may use any one of the 5 methods today. || Image Formation by Lenses The Eye || LAB: Lenses || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You may use any one of the 5 methods today. >
 * 1) Make sure the lab is complete (answer all follow-up questions.)
 * 2) Complete this worksheet: [[file:PS3Refraction_2010.doc]]
 * 3) Find __at least 1__ cool animation, joke, cartoon, or applet about the physics we've discussed today. Post links and a screenshot to your wiki.
 * 4) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 36 || * Describe Total Internal Reflection
 * Use Snell's Law to predict the critical angle
 * Explan some common phenomena using TIR and Refraction || Refraction
 * 1) Do the problems on this page:[[file:PS3_TIR_2010.doc]]
 * 2) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 37 || * Describe images formed by refraction.
 * Determine the image location and characteristics formed by a lens.
 * Distinguish between convex and concave lenses.
 * Compare and contrast mirrors and lenses.Distinguish between real and virtual images.
 * Understand how refraction occurs and influences images. || Refraction
 * 1) Make sure the activities are complete (answer all follow-up questions.)
 * 2) Do the problems on the worksheet given out in class today, it's the last page in the packet on lenses. You must do the graphical method AND the mathematical method. Be sure to complete the table for each example. //d o //, //f//, and //h o // must be measured with a ruler in order to do the mathematical method. [[file:PS5Lenses_2010.doc]]
 * 1) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)

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=**Unit 4: Electricity and Magnetism**= Basic Terminology & Methods of Charging || LAB: Static Electricity Enter Responses on Quia Website To Answer 1-12 Website To Answer #13-20
 * Lesson || Objectives || Topics/Readings || Class Work || Assignments ||
 * 39 ||  || Static Electricity

|| # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You may use any one of the 5 methods today. || Electric Forces and Fields || Practice Questions: PS1#2, PS2#4, PS3#9, PS4#7, PS6#2 || * Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You may use any one of the 5 methods today. • Identify the differences between conductors and insulators. • Trace continuous conducting path in conductors and through the internal parts of a light bulb. • Identify, describe, and explain energy flow in a variety of circuits and with a variety of charge moving devices (battery, capacitor, genecon) || Current Electricity Electric Potential Difference ||
 * 1) Make sure the activities are complete (answer all follow-up questions.)
 * 2) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 40 ||  || Static Electricity
 * Finish the practice problems on Practice Sets 1 - 6, that we didn't finish in class: PS1#3,4; PS2#3,5; PS3#1-5,7,8,10; PS4#3,4,5;PS6#3,4 ||
 * 41 || • Identify situations in which a bulb will and will not light.

Website for virtual lab: Equipotential Surfaces

Play with this one, too, you'll love it: media type="custom" key="10060921" || * Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You may use any one of the 5 methods today.
 * Make sure the activities are complete (answer all follow-up questions.)

|| • Use bulb brightness and compass deflection as indicators of flow rate. || Current Electricity Electrical Current || LAB: Basic Electric Circuits
 * Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 42 || • Identify bulb filaments as parts of circuits that resist charge flow.

Demos: genecon, capacitors || * Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You may use any one of the 5 methods today. || • Demonstrate and compare the resistance of batteries and wires. • Measure current and potential using a multimeter. • Understand how to use an ammeter and WHY it must be used that way. • Understand how to use a voltmeter and WHY it must be used that way. || Current Electricity Electrical Resistance || Demos: Lab: Using an Ammeter and a Voltmeter
 * Make sure the activities are complete (answer all follow-up questions.)
 * Finish the practice problems on Problem Set 1 in the packet
 * Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * 43 || • Distinguish flow rate (amount/sec through) from speed (distance/sec traveled).

Notes on Current Notes on Resistance || * Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You may use any one of the 5 methods today. • Discuss the factors that impact resistance. • Use Ohm’s law to relate resistance, current and electric pressure. || Current Electricity Circuit Connections (Series and Parallel || Lab: Ohm's Law
 * Make sure the activities are complete (answer all follow-up questions.)
 * Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * [[file:CircuitsSE.doc]] ||
 * 44 || • Use Ohm’s law to relate resistance, current and electric pressure.

Notes on Power Practice: PS8#1,2,5,9 || * Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. You may use any one of the 5 methods today. • Analyze simple series circuits, calculating V and I for each resistor. Test the series circuit relationships. Analyze circuits and solve for missing V, I, or R. • Explain how adding parallel bulbs will lower “overall” resistance. • Analyze simple parallel circuits, calculating V and I for each resistor. Test the parallel circuit relationships. Analyze circuits and solve for missing V, I, or R. ||  ||
 * Finish all of the practice problems on Practice Set 1, PS2, and PS 4.
 * Do PS8(Power) #8,10
 * Make sure the activities are complete (answer all follow-up questions.)
 * Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * [[file:Circuit_Builder_SE.doc]] ||
 * 45 || • Explain how adding series bulbs will raise “overall” resistance.

PS3#1 only Demos of Series and Parallel Circuits Practice VIRP tables do all questions PS#9,10,11 || * Make sure wiki is completed for grading. || || * Study for exam.
 * 46 ||  || Review || [[file:FinalReviewPacket2011.doc]]
 * Answers to Final Review Packet are Here: [[file:FinalReviewPacket2011_KEY.pdf]] ||
 * 47 ||  || Final Exam ||   ||   ||

 (cm) ||
 * Object Distance (cm) || Focal Length (cm) || Calculated Image Distance (cm) || Experimental Image Distance
 * 48 || 5 || 5.5 || 5.4 ||
 * 18 || 5 || 6.9 || 6.6 ||
 * 23 || 10 || 17.7 || 17.3 ||
 * 48 || 10 || 12.6 || 12.6 ||

__**Cool Stuff We Won't Get To During this Course:**__ Types of Radiation, Calorimetry, Expansion due to Heating, Laws of Thermodynamics, P-V curves, and Temperature. ||  ||   || || Angular Kinematics Rotational Energy, Rotational Inertia, Angular Momentum Torque and Equilibrium Center of Mass Rotational Dynamics || LAB: Balancing Act media type="youtube" key="9A1Zb8109fg" width="210" height="173" media type="youtube" key="lJfuU7D1DOA" width="222" height="183" media type="youtube" key="EOy1NV21pMY" width="229" height="189" || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki. || Magnetic Forces and Fields; The Right-Hand Rule Motors and Generators || LAB: Magnetism LAB: Make an Electric Motor || || Combination Circuits Multiple Power Supply circuits (Kirchoff's Rules) 2D Electric Fields 2D Potential problems Capacitors ||  ||   ||
 * || Thermal Physics, including:
 * || Fluids, including Kinetic Theory of Gases, Ideal Gas Law, Pressure, Bernouilli's Law, Achimedes Principle, and Continuity Law. ||  ||   ||
 * * Combine circular motion and gravitation law to find "g".
 * Combine the force of gravity and w=mg to discuss orbital speed.
 * Understand Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion and their significance. || [|Satellite Motion]
 * 1) Planetary and Satellite Motion || media type="youtube" key="vqPsB6jb6ig" width="213" height="176" || # Summarize the Readings at the Physics Classroom directly onto your wiki.
 * 2) Find __at least 1__ cool animation, joke, cartoon, or applet about the physics we've discussed today. Post links and a screenshot to your wiki.
 * 3) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * || **__Rotational Concepts__**
 * 1) Find __at least 1__ cool animation, joke, cartoon, or applet about the physics we've discussed today. Post links and a screenshot to your wiki.
 * 2) Optional Extra Assignments (due next class)
 * || Magnetism: Basic Properties and characteristics
 * || __**Electricity Topics:**__
 * || __**Modern Physics**__, including Atomic Theory, Bohr's Atomic Radii, E= mc2, Quantum Mechanics, the photoelectric effect, and nuclear physics. ||  ||   ||
 * || __**Modern Physics**__, including Atomic Theory, Bohr's Atomic Radii, E= mc2, Quantum Mechanics, the photoelectric effect, and nuclear physics. ||  ||   ||
 * || __**Modern Physics**__, including Atomic Theory, Bohr's Atomic Radii, E= mc2, Quantum Mechanics, the photoelectric effect, and nuclear physics. ||  ||   ||
 * || __**Modern Physics**__, including Atomic Theory, Bohr's Atomic Radii, E= mc2, Quantum Mechanics, the photoelectric effect, and nuclear physics. ||  ||   ||