PHYSICS

Period 2  Fall 2009

September                    BRIDGE ASSIGNMENT

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
  1
-Intro
-Thumb Wars

HW:  Read and sign class guidelines
2
-Turn in guidelines
-Review Graphing
-Metric Review
    Metric practice sheet
-Begin Speed Demon lab

HW:  Metric practice sheet
3
-Check out Books
   Text intro
-Continue Speed Demons Part 1 &2
**Lab due Tuesday**

HW:  Read pg. 14-20 and Do p. 31 #1-8
4
WU:  What is relative motion?
-Review metric practice
-stamp/review hw
-Complete lab
-Notes on speed and velocity

HW:  Lab due Tuesday
Read pgs. 21-28
7  Labor Day Holiday 8
WU:  Graphing skills
-Review/turn in lab
-Notes on Acceleration (cont. from Fridays notes)
-Intro to part 1 of acceleration lab

HW:  p. 28 Q#'s 1-5 odd, 25,31,32 and p. 31 #16 & 17
9
WU: p. 31 #18
-Review hw
-Complete part 1 of ramp lab
-Understanding checklist
**Quiz on Friday**
HW: Complete Understanding checklist
10
-Review HW
-Ramp lab part II
-Arthur, Vickie, Dickie practice

HW:  1)  Complete part II
2)  Write out knowns, and unknowns on practice sheet
3)  Prepare for quiz tomorrow
11
**Quiz Today**
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Discuss ramp lab-Finish conclusion-Due Monday
*See Ramp part II link on Thursday*
-Work on Arthur Vickie and Dickie _Problem set up.

HW:  1)  Complete Ramp lab
2)  Complete Arthur, Vickie and Dickie practice
3) Read pgs. 23-28
14
-Turn in lab
-Review hw
-Freefall notes
-Mousetrap project

HW:  p. 30 #'s 39,51,54 and p. 31 #'s 19-24
15
-Pos. & Neg Acceleration review
-Review HW
-Stomp Rocket

HW:  Stomp Rocket
16
-Stomp Rocket question-Discuss with group
-Work on Mouse trap car/Computer research
-

HW:  Read pgs. 33-44
17
-Grade quiz
-Review Stomp Rocket
-Intro to vectors

HW: 1)  Finish girls's stomp rocket calculations.
2)Vector Practice problems-Set up triangles
18
-Review Vectors
-Intro to Newton's 1st and 2nd laws

HW:  p. 52 #'s 6,7,10,21,26 and p. 54 #'s 5,6,9-12
21
- warmup
-Review HW
-Work on mousetrap car

HW: study for test tomorrow
22 **Test #1**

HW:  Read pgs. 45-51
Do p. 54 #'s 18-21, 24
23
-Review hw
-Motion in 2 directions
-Conceptual Physics 3-1 handout

HW:  Motion in 2 directions handout
24
-Review hw
-Practice  problems

HW: p. 73 #'s 13,15,16
25
-Review hw

Bull's eye practice

HW:  Mouse trap car due Tuesday!
Have a great 3 day weekend!
28
No school
29
**Mouse trap car races**

HW: 
1) Mouse trap write-up (Due Friday 10/2
2) Comparing projectiles fired at angles
http://www.lon-capa.org/~mmp/kap3/cd060.htm
30
-Bull's Eye lab
 Write-up due tomorrow

HW:  Bull's eye write-up due tomorrow and Mousetrap car writeup due Friday
   

 

October

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
      1
-Turn in lab
-Review test
-Projectile at an angle notes

HW:  Projectile practice problems
2
-Turn in Mousetrap write-up
-"Invisible Force"

HW:  Read ch. 4 pgs. 57-69  Answer pgs. 71-72 #'s 32,34,36-38
5
-Review hw
-Projectile practice

HW: (optional) Castle and cannon problem
6
-Review castle & cannon
-Forces

HW:  Packet p. 2 #'s D,E,F
7
Review Hw-multiple objects and pulleys-and hw pulley problem
8
Review hw
Slopes and friction
*Test on Tuesday*
HW: Finish last two slop problems in packet.
9
-Review hw
-Coefficient of friction
-Circular motion
-Conceptual Physics ch. 9 Read and do questions.

HW:  p.73 #'s 7-10,18
12
-Review hw
-Universal Gravitation

HW:  Read p80 to end of ch.5
Do p. 89-90 #'s2,3,5,29,30 and p. 91 #'s 1,3-6,11,13

13
Review

HW: Force practice test
14  Late start
Review

HW:  Prep 3x5 notecard for test
15
Review
16
**Test**

HW: Read Chapter 6, Do p. 107 #'s 12-20 even
19
-Momentum notes-review hw
-Momentum balloon activity

HW:  p. 109 #1-13 odd
20
-Review hw
-BN:  Momentum
-Egg drop assignment

HW: Egg drop design
21

Conservation of Momentum

HW: p. 110 #'s 15,17,19,20
22
-review HW
-return/discuss test
-intro to energy & work

HW: Read ch. 7 Do p. 129 #'s 1-9 odd, and p. 132 #'s 1-9 odd **Due Monday*
23
-Conceptual Physics Ch. 8.  Answer #'s 1-29 odd, 33,35, 43,45
-Begin Elegant Universe

HW: 1)  see Thursday and
2) Work on Egg drop contraption
26
-Finish Conceptual Phys.
-Review HW
-Work on packet


HW:  packet p.63-75
#'s 1-6
27 **Retake Test after school**
Review hw
-Energy practice

HW: packet pgs. 77,78 #1-9 odd and p. 61,62 #1-11odd

28
Review
29
**Test on Momentum and Energy**
30
-work on review sheet
(Egg drop postponed til 11/4)

 

November

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
2
review game
3
**Midterm **
4 End of 1st quarter
Minimum day

**Egg drop due**
5
-Review midterm
-Bridge assignment
-Elegant Universe

HW:  Draw life-size face of bridge
6
-Finish Elegant Universe-Discuss

HW:  Draw 2nd life-size face of bridge (Make it very different from 1st drawing)
9
Turn in bridge drawings
-Elastic potential and more conservation of energy

HW: handout 5C-5D
10
-Review/discuss hw (see Monday's link)

HW: handout 5C-5D
11
Veteran's Day
No school
12
-Simple Machines
-Understanding Bridges (hand out bridge wood)
** Quiz on cons. of energy and simple machines on Tuesday 11/17**
HW:  Mechanical advantage and efficiency worksheet
13
-Review HW
-Begin straw bridge (will have short time to finish on Monday before testing)

HW:  Work on Balsa bridge
16
Straw bridge

HW: Quiz tomorrow
17
** Quiz on cons. of energy and simple machines **
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Density practice handout

HW:  Read p. 227-238
Do p. 242 #2-6 even and p. 246 #1-6
18
-Review HW
-Float Your Boat Activity

HW:  Handout 19-1/19/2
**Friday...Quiz on Density, Buoyancy, Bernoulli's principle and flight**
19
-Review Float your boat activity
-Practice problems
-Bernoulli's Principle and the principles of flight
_"Understanding Flight"

HW: Review for quiz tomorrow
20
-Review p. 246 # 17-20
-Turn in Float your boat
**Quiz on Density, Buoyancy, Bernoulli's principle and flight**
HW: Work on Bridge
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