Semester Two Assignments for 2010

Tuesday, Jan 12
Start chapter 15-Electric Forces and Fields
Properties of Charges and Coulomb's Law
Ex p525 6,11,15
HW p525 7,12,13

Thursday, Jan 14
Electric Field and Field Lines
Ex p525 19,22,28,26,30-32
HW p525 23,29,27

Monday, Jan 18 - NO SCHOOL (MLK Day)

Tuesday, Jan 19
Lab-Charges on Balloons
additional chapter 15 problems: p525 52,60

Thursday, Jan 21
Test for chapter 15

Monday, Jan 25
Start chapter 16-Electrical Energy and Capacitance
Potential Difference and Electrical Potential
Electrical Potential and Potential Energy due to Point Charges
Ex p565 2,16
HW p565 6,17
Capacitance and Parallel Plate Capacitors
Ex p565 25
HW p565 29,32
Energy Stored in a Capacitor
Ex p565 48
HW p565 66

Wednesday, Jan 27
Capacitors in Series and Parallel
Ex p567 35,42
HW p567 38,44

Friday, Jan 29
Start chapter 17-Current and Resistance
1. current
2.Ohm's Law
3.resistivity
4.Electrical Energy and Power
Ex p590 7,19,37,47
HW p590 12,41,55
Lab-Electrical Appliances (take-home-due next class)

Tuesday, Feb 2
chapter 18-DC Circuits (resistors)
Ex p618 5,45
HW p618 13,48

Thursday, Feb 4
review chapters 16-18

Monday, Feb 8
test covering chapters 16-18

Wednesday, Feb 10
chapter 19-Magnetism
Earth's Magnetism (and South Atlantic Anomaly)
19.3 Magnetic Fields
Right Hand Rule
19.4 Magnetic Force on a Current Carrying Conductor
19.6 Motion of a Charged Particle in a B Field
Ex p655 2,4,12,21,36
HW p655 10,20,38

Friday, Feb 12
19.7 B Field of a long, straight wire
19.8 B force between two parallel conductors
Ex p658 44,48,57
HW p658 49,51,72,74

Monday, Feb 15 - NO SCHOOL (Presidents' Day)

Wednesday, Feb 17
chapter 20-Induced Voltages and Inductance
20.1 Induced EMF and Magnetic Flux
20.2 Faraday's Law of Induction
Lenz's Law
20.4 Lenz's Law Revisited
Ex p690 10,55,61
HW p690 17,62,63

Friday, Feb 19
chapter 22-Reflection and Refraction of Light
Energy of a Photon
22.3 Law of Refraction
Snell's Law
22.7 Total Internal Reflection
Ex p754 8,16,26,43
HW p754 17,27,44

Tuesday, Feb 23
test for chapters 19-20

Thursday, Feb 25
chapter 23-Lenses and Mirrors
Ex p785 11,20,28,44,52
HW Ray Diagram worksheets
Lab-Lenses

Monday, Mar 1
Chapter 24-Wave Optics
24.2 Young's Double Slit Experiment
24.7 Single Slit Diffraction
Diffraction Gratings
Ex p817 11,37,63
HW p817 2,7,36
Lab-Diffraction of a Laser Light
Quiz next class on chapters 23 and 24

Wednesday, Mar 3
Quiz on chapters 23 and 24

Chapter 26-Relativity
relativistic energy
Ex p868 16,18,20
HW worksheet "Relativistic Energy"

Friday, Mar 5
chapter 27-Quantum Physics
27.2 Photoelectric Effect
27.5 Compton Effect
27.6 Wave/Particle Duality
The Davisson-Germer Experiment (read through these web resources)
-this experiment is often asked about on the AP Exam

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/quantum/davger2.html

http://dev.physicslab.org/Document.aspx?doctype=3&filename=AtomicNuclear_DavissonGermer.xml

http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=DavissonGermer_Electron_Diffraction


Ex p889 12,26
HW p889 13,14,25,47

Tuesday, Mar 9
chapter 28-Atomic Physics
28.3 Bohr Model
Ex p911 12,14,19
HW p911 17,40,43

Thursday, Mar 11
test on chapters 26-28

Monday, Mar 15
chapter 29-Nuclear Physics and chapter 30-Nuclear Energy

chapter 29-Nuclear Physics
29.4 The Decay Process
Ex p934 23,24,29
HW worksheet "Chapter 29 Nuclear Physics Reactions"

chapter 30-Nuclear Energy
fission and fusion
Ex p958 2,9,12,23
HW p958 3,6,11

Wednesday, Mar 17
begin AP Physics Exam review (team competition)

Friday, Mar 19
review for AP Exam

Tuesday, Mar 23
review for AP Exam

Thursday, Mar 25
Magic Mountain calibration

March 29-April 11: NO School (Easter Break)

Tuesday, April 13
Magic Mountain PowerPoint and Ride Packet Preview

Wednesday, April 14 - Magic Mountain field trip
All Physics and AP Physics students
9:30am to 6:30pm
go to your first period class today

Thursday, Apr 15
review for AP Exam

Monday, Apr 19
review for AP Exam

Wednesday, Apr 21
review for AP Exam

Thursday, Apr 22
STEP Day

Monday, Apr 26
test-sample AP Exam (free response)-this is graded

Wednesday, Apr 28
test-sample AP Exam (multiple choice)-this is graded

Friday, Apr 30
Senior Breakfast-no seniors in class
review for AP Exam

Tuesday, May 4
review for AP Exam

Thursday, May 6
review for AP Exam

Monday, May 10
AP Physics B Exam

Wednesday, May 12
video-Trinity and Beyond

Friday, May 14
video-"BBC History of WWII:Hiroshima"

Tuesday, May 18
video-"Einstein" (from the History Channel)

Thursday, May 20
finish Einstein video
video-"The Elegant Universe"

Monday, May 24
finish "Elegant Universe"
modern physics-string theory, etc.

Wednesday, May 26
Final Exam

Friday, May 28
no seniors in class/last day of class