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