Wednesday, August 15, 2012

1st Semester Assignments 2012-13 (AP Physics C: Mechanics)

Friday, August 13
go over syllabus, math check, introduce WebAssign, etc.
remember the Summer work was to read chapter 1: Measurement and Vectors, and answer the following problems: pages 23-26 problems 8, 10, 61, 74. You were also to read chapter 2: Motion in One Dimension, and answer the following problems: pages 53-62 problems 12, 16, 60, 70

you will be quizzed on these problems on Wednesday, August 22

Monday, August 20
Chapter 2-Motion in One Dimension
2.1 Displacement, Velocity, Speed
ex p53 23, 32, 55
2.2 Acceleration
ex p58 63
2.3 Motion with Constant Acceleration
ex p58 86, 90
HW p58 87, 92
2.4 Integration
ex p60 103, 104, 106
HW p60 107, 116
the chapter 2 quiz will be Wednesday, August 22

Wednesday, August 22
go over HW
Quiz on Summer work
Lab-Free Fall of a Marble

Friday, August 24
chapter 2 MC and Free Response questions from Barron's
chapter 3-Motion in Two Dimensions
3.1 Displacement, Velocity, and Acceleration (vectors)
ex p86 42, 46, 50, 51
HW p86 52, 110
3.2 Projectile Motion
ex p88 72, 77, 84
HW p88 73, 80, 101
Lab-Projectile Motion: horizontal launches

Tuesday, August 28
go over HW
more projectile motion problems p91 81, 100
Lab-Projectile Motion: launched at an angle
concentrate on these problems for the chapter 3 test: 52, 84, 101

Thursday, August 30
Test - chapter 3

Monday, September 3 - NO School (Labor Day)

Tuesday, September 4
chapter 4-Newton's Laws
4.1 Newton's 1st Law: Law of Inertia
4.2 Force and Mass
4.3 Newton's 2nd Law
ex p118 36, 37, 40, 41
HW p118 31, 35, 38, 39
4.4 Weight
ex p119 43
Free-Body Diagrams and Static Equilibrium
ex p119 48, 52
HW p119 50, 53, 87
Lab-Force Components

Thursday, September 6
4.5 Contact Forces: Solids, Springs, Strings
ex p121 56, 57, 59, 65
HW p121 60, 61, 62, 79 (click here for pulley info which will help with #79)
4.6 Free-Body Diagrams
4.7 Newton's 3rd Law
Lab-Hooke's Law

Monday, September 10
4.8 Problems with 2 or more Objects
ex p122 67, 68, 74, 75, 82 (use #s), 84 (possibly skip for now)
HW p122 76, 77, 82, 90, 93
Lab-Masses Connected by a String with one Mass Hanging over an Incline

Wednesday, September 12
chapter 5-Additional Applications of Newton's Laws
5.1 Friction
ex p162 31, 43, 56
HW p162 45, 65
5.2 Drag Forces
ex p166 69
HW p166 70
Lab-Dropping Coffee Filters to Measure Air Resistance

Friday, September 14
5.3 Motion along a Curved Path and Centripetal Force
ex p166 76, 79, 80, 93, 130, 131 (different #s)
HW p166 75, 89, 94, 125, 131 and Vertical Circles Worksheet
Lab-Circular Motion

Tuesday, September 18
5.5 Center of Mass and Motion of the Center of Mass
ex p168 103, 105, 109, 110, 138 (also perform integration to obtain center of mass of a thin rod of non-uniform density)
HW p168 104, 107, 135, 139
Lab-Atwood's Machine and Motion of the Center of Mass

Thursday, September 20
Test - chapters 4 and 5

Monday, September 24
Chapter 6-Work and Kinetic Energy
6.1 Work done by a Constant Force
6.2 Work done by a Variable Force-straight line motion
6.3 Scalar Product (and Power)
ex p198 38,39,47,66 (40,41,65)
HW p198 70
6.4 Work-Energy Theorem
ex p196 27,30,32,33,68 (62)
HW p196 28,35,69

Wednesday, September 26
go over HW
Lab-Power (running stairs)

Friday, September 28
Chapter 7-Conservation of Energy
7.1 Potential Energy (integral form)
ex p238 21,24,27
HW p238 29,31,84
7.2 Conservation of Mechanical Energy (nonconservative forces)
ex p241 65,68
HW p241 66,67,83,102
Lab-Energy on an Incline with Friction

Tuesday, October 2
7.3 Conservation of Energy (Work-Energy Theorem)
ex p238 34,55
HW p238 26,47,48,49,97
Lab-Conservation of Energy (Hot Wheels)

Thursday, October 4
go over HW
Force, Work, and Energy Conservation of Springs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooke's_law
ex p240 44,95
HW p240 92
Lab-Conservation of Energy with Springs
review

Monday, October 8 - NO School (Faculty Faith Formation)

Tuesday, October 9
Test - chapters 6-7

Thursday, October 11
Chapter 8 - Conservation of Linear Momentum
8.1 Conservation of Linear Momentum (dp/dt=ma)
8.3 Collisions in One Dimension  and Impulse (I=integral of Fdt)
ex p282 46,57,63
HW p282 51,66,67,103
Lab-Conservation of Momentum

Monday, October 15
go over HW

Wednesday, October 17 - NO School (Testing Day)

Thursday, October 18
8.3 Collisions in Two or more Dimensions
ex p282 85,88,101
HW p282 87,89
Lab-Ballistic Pendulum (or like #103)

Monday, October 22
Test - chapter 8

Wednesday, October 24
Chapter 9 - Rotation
9.1 Angular Velocity and Acceleration
ex p320 32,36
HW p320 33,38
9.2 Rotational Kinetic energy
9.3 Calculating Moment of Inertia and Parallel Axis Theorem
ex p321 41,42,51
HW p321 43,44,46,52

Friday, October 26
9.4 Newton's 2nd Law for Rotation (Torque)
9.5 Applications of Newton's 2nd Law of Rotation
ex p324 71,75,110
HW p324 73,76,108

Tuesday, October 30
9.6 Rolling Objects
without slipping
ex p325 85
HW p325 87
with slipping
ex p327 101,102,106,112
HW p327 104,105,107,119
Lab-Moment of Inertia of a Bicycle Wheel

Thursday, November 1
Review
study these for the test: p320 41,44,76,108
Chapter 9 Test will be Tuesday, November 6
Lab-Moment of Inertia of a rolling soup can

Friday, November 2 - NO SCHOOL (8th Grade Day)

Tuesday, November 6
Test - chapter 9

Thursday, November 8
Chapter 10 - Angular Momentum
10.1 Vector Nature of Rotation
ex p357 29
HW p357 33,71
10.2 Torque and Angular Momentum
ex p357 43,73
HW p357 46
10.3 Conservation of Angular Momentum
ex p359 49,52,53
HW p359 50,51,75,85
Lab-Conservation of Angular Momentum (weights and spinning chair)

Monday, November 12
Collisions with Rotation
ex p360 60,63
HW p360 64
Lab-like problem 63
Test Review: p357 29,49,71,85
Test is open book-but NO notes

Wednesday, November 14
Test - chapter 10 - open book, but NO notes

Friday, November 16
Chapter 11 - Gravity
11.1 Kepler's Laws
ex p390 24
HW p390 22
11.2 Newton's Law of Gravity
ex p391 35,37
HW p391 36,39
11.3 Gravitational Potential Energy
ex p392 51
HW p392 52,53
Lab-Solar Walk (finding Jupiter's Mass using the motion of its moons)

Tuesday, November 20
11.4 The Gravitational Field
ex p393 61,63,65,69
HW p393 62,64,70

Wednesday, November 21-Sunday, November 25 - NO SCHOOL (Thanksgiving Break)

Tuesday, November 27
Test - chapter 11

Thursday, November 29
Chapter 12 - Static Equilibrium
12.1 Conditions for Equilibrium
12.2 Center of Gravity
12.3 Some Examples of Static Equilibrium
ex p415 14,19,64
HW p415 56,57,70
Lab-Torque and Equilibrium

Monday, December 3
Quiz on Chapter 12
Chapter 14 - Oscillations
14.1 Simple Harmonic Motion
ex p490 29,31,32
HW p490 33,37,89
14.2 Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion
ex p490 41,43,46
HW p490 42,44

Wednesday, December 5
14.3 Some Oscillating Systems
Springs
ex p490 47,49,52
HW p490 48,51,94
Pendulums
ex p491 59,62
HW p491 60,61,63
Lab-Pendulum

Friday, December 7
Test - chapter 14

Tuesday, December 11
Review

Thursday, December 13
Review

Monday, December 17-Thursday, December 20 (Semester Exams)

Friday, December 21 - Sunday, January 13, 2013 (Christmas Vacation)

Sunday, May 13, 2012

May 20th Solar Eclipse and June 5th Transit of Venus-once in a lifetime event!

Solar Eclipse on May 20th, 2012:
We will experience an annular (ring) eclipse on May 20, 2012 from approximately
5:30 pm until sunset. Watch this video to find out more:
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Here is an animation of what you'll see that day: solar eclipse animation

View the solar eclipse at Griffith Observatory: Griffith Observatory Solar Eclipse

Transit of Venus on June 5, 2012:
From approximately 3pm until sunset, Venus will move across the face of the Sun.
Here is a video with more info about the event: Transit of Venus
Watch this once-in-lifetime event live at this site: http://www.ccssc.org/transit2012.html

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Monday, April 2, 2012

Science Expo t-shirt

buy a Science Expo t-shirt at lunch this week-$7.50
(only taking orders through Wed., April 4)

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

AP Physics review assignments

Your work will consist of answering the Multiple Choice questions at the end of each chapter. You will answer by using a Word document and following this format:


Name

Chapter #

1. a

2. b

Etc.

You will submit your Word document to Net Classroom using the dropbox feature. All assignments are due by 8am on the due date, with the exception of chapter 5 which is due on Saturday, March 31 by 8pm.

Chapter 2 p47 2-12 even due Wednesday, March 28

Chapter 3 p75 2-12 even due Thursday, March 29

Chapter 4 p109 2-16 even due Friday, March 30

Chapter 5 p151 2-12 even due Saturday, March 31 (due by 8pm)

Chapter 6 p182 2-12 even due Sunday, April 1

Chapter 7 p219 4 due Sunday, April 1

Chapter 8 p254 2 due Sunday, April 1

Chapter 9 p312 2-12 even due Monday, April 2

Chapter 10 p346 6-12 even due Tuesday, April 3

Chapter 11 p378 2, 4, 8 due Tuesday, April 3

Chapter 12 p418 2-18 even due Wednesday, April 4

Chapter 13 p451 2-12 even due Tuesday, April 17

Chapter 14 nothing

Chapter 15 p524 2-8 even, 12, 14 due Wednesday, April 18

Chapter 16 p563 2-12 even due Thursday, April 19

Chapter 17 p588 2-6 even, 10, 12 due Friday, April 20

Chapter 18 p616 2-12 even due Monday, April 23

Chapter 19 p653 2-12 even due Tuesday, April 24

Chapter 20 p688 2, 4, 8-12 even due Wednesday, April 25

Chapter 21 nothing

Chapter 22 p752 2-10 even due Thursday, April 26

Chapter 23 p783 2, 4 due Thursday, April 26

Chapter 24 p816 2, 6-10 even due Friday, April 27

Chapter 25 nothing

Chapter 26 p866 8 due Friday, April 27

Chapter 27 p887 2-10 even due Monday, April 30

Chapter 28 nothing

Chapter 29 p932 8, 10 due Tuesday, May 1

Chapter 30 nothing

Sunday, January 8, 2012

2nd Semester Assignments for 2011-12

Monday, January 9
Start chapter 15-Electric Forces and Fields
Properties of Charges and Coulomb's Law
Ex p525 6,11,15
HW p525 7,12,13

Wednesday, January 11
Electric Field and Field Lines
Ex p525 19,22,28,26,30-32
click here to see interacting dipoles and a Quantum Mechanical reason for charges not hitting each other
HW p525 23,29,27

Friday, January 13
Lab-Charges on Balloons
additional chapter 15 problems: p525 52,60

Monday, January 16 - NO School (MLK Day)

Wednesday, January 18
Test for chapter 15

Friday, January 20
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

Tuesday, January 24
Capacitors in Series and Parallel
Ex p567 35,42
HW p567 38,44

Thursday, January 26
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)

Monday, January 30
chapter 18-DC Circuits (resistors)
Ex p618 5,45
HW p618 13,48

Wednesday, February 1
review chapters 16-18

Friday, February 3
test covering chapters 16-18

Tuesday, February 7
chapter 19-Magnetism
Earth's Magnetism (and South Atlantic Anomaly-http://srag-nt.jsc.nasa.gov/SpaceRadiation/What/What.cfm)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Atlantic_Anomaly
What if Earth's poles flipped?
19.3 Magnetic Fields
Right Hand Rule - http://physicsed.buffalostate.edu/SeatExpts/resource/rhr/rhr.htm
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

Thursday, February 9
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, February 13
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

Wednesday, February 15
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

Friday, February 17
test for chapters 19-20

Monday, February 20-NO School (Presidents' Day)
 
Wednesday, February 22
chapter 23-Lenses and Mirrors
Ex p785 11,20,28,44,52
HW Ray Diagram worksheets
Lab-Lenses
 
Friday, February 24
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
click here for a double slit demo
click here for a single slit demo
Lab-Diffraction of a Laser Light
Quiz next class on chapters 23 and 24
 
Tuesday, February 28
Quiz on chapters 23 and 24
Chapter 26-Relativity
relativistic energy
Ex p868 16,18,20
HW worksheet "Relativistic Energy"

Thursday, March 1
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

Monday, March 5
chapter 28-Atomic Physics
28.3 Bohr Model
Ex p911 12,14,19
HW p911 17,40,43

Wednesday, March 7
test on chapters 26-28

Friday, March 9
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

Tuesday, March 13
Chapter 10-Thermal Physics
10.1 Temperature and the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
10.4 Macroscopic Description of an Ideal Gas
10.5 Kinetic Theory of Gases
Ex p349 32,35,40,43
HW p349 37, 39,42

Thursday, March 15
Chapter 11-Energy in Thermal Processes
11.1 Heat and Internal Energy
11.2 Specific Heat
11.3 Calorimetry
Ex p379-380 1,19,20
HW p379-380 6,16,18

Monday, March 19
Chapter 12-The Laws of Thermodynamics
12.1 Work in Thermodynamic Processes (PV diagrams)
12.2 The First Law of Thermodynamics
12.3 Thermal Processes (Adiabatic-no energy enters or leaves by heat; Isothermal-temp doesn't change)12.4 Heat Engines and the Second Law (also Carnot Engine)
12.5 Entropy
Ex p419-423 4,5,18,24,29,31
HW p419-423 10,17,26,30

Wednesday, March 21
Test on chapters 10-12

Friday, March 23 - NO School (Bishop Holiday)

Monday, March 26 - NO School (Bishop Holiday)

Tuesday, March 27
Magic Mountain Calibration and measurement practice

Thursday, March 29
Magic Mountain Ride Packet Preview

Friday, March 30 - Magic Mountain Field Trip
All Physics and AP Physics students who registered
9:30am to 6:30pm (we will back to campus by 6:30pm)
go to your first period class today

Tuesday, April 3
work on Magic mountain Ride Packet or alternate Roller Coaster Design assignment

Thursday, April 5 - Easter Vacation begins

Monday, April 16
begin AP Physics Exam review (team competition)

Wednesday, April 18
practice AP Physics multiple choice test

Friday, April 20 - Special Schedule (Science Expo)

Monday, April 23
practice AP Physics multiple choice test

Wednesday, April 25
practice AP Physics multiple choice test

Friday, April 27
practice AP Physics multiple choice test

Tuesday, May 1
GRADED AP Physics multiple choice test (counts toward exam grade)

Thursday, May 3
GRADED AP Physics free response test (counts toward exam grade)

Monday, May 7
go over exams/review

Wednesday, May 9
review
 
Friday, May 11
review
 
Sunday, May 13 - the day before the official AP Physics B Exam
get a good night sleep-last minute cramming will not help, but a lack of sleep will hurt your score
you have studied and prepared all year and increased your focus during the last month, so relax at this point
 
Monday, May 14 - The AP Physics B Exam (12 noon)
Good Luck!
-answer every MC question (don't spend more than 1 minute on a question before moving on...you can always come back to it later)
-read through every Free Response question before beginning that portion (answer the easy ones first...a 10 point question should take 10 minutes, and a 15 point question should take 15 minutes...budget your time...attempt everything...leave nothing blank)

Tuesday, May 15
video-Fabric of the Cosmos (modern physics)

Thursday, May 17
video-Fabric of the Cosmos (continued...)

Monday, May 21 - special schedule (every class meets)
review

Tuesday, May 22
Final Exam in class