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)