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 21
Monday, August 19
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 21
Wednesday, August 21
go over HW
Quiz on Summer work
Lab-Free Fall of a Marble
Friday, August 23
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 27
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 29
Test - chapter 3
Monday, September 2 - NO School (Labor Day)
Tuesday, September 3
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 5
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 (handout is here: Hooke's Law lab sheet)
Monday, September 9
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 11
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 13
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 17
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 19
Test - chapters 4 and 5
Monday, September 23
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 25
go over HW
Lab-Power (running stairs)
Friday, September 27
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 1
7.3 Conservation of Energy (Work-Energy Theorem)
ex p238 34,55
HW p238 26,47,48,49
Lab-Conservation of Energy (Hot Wheels)
Thursday, October 3
go over HW
Force, Work, and Energy Conservation of Springs
ex p240 44,96
HW p240 92
Lab-Conservation of Energy with Springs
review
Monday, October 7
Test - chapters 6-7
Wednesday, October 9
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
Friday, October 11
go over HW
Monday, October 14 - NO School (Columbus Day)
Wednesday, October 16 - NO classes (Testing Day)
Thursday, October 17
8.3 Collisions in Two or more Dimensions
ex p282 85,88,101
HW p282 87,89
Lab-Ballistic Pendulum (or like #103)
study these problems for the test: 66, 67, 85, 103
ex p282 85,88,101
HW p282 87,89
Lab-Ballistic Pendulum (or like #103)
study these problems for the test: 66, 67, 85, 103
Monday, October 21
Test - chapter 8
Wednesday, October 23
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
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
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 29
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, October 31
Review
study these for the test: p320 41,44,76,108
Chapter 9 Test will be Wednesday, November 6
Lab-Moment of Inertia of a rolling soup can
Friday, November 1 - NO School (8th Grade Day)
Monday, November 4 - NO School (observing Veterans' Day)
Wednesday, November 6
Test - chapter 9
HW - watch the two following video clips before Friday's classs
torque and angular momentum
angular momentum tutorial
Friday, 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)
Tuesday, 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
Thursday, November 14
Test - chapter 10 - open book, but NO notes
background info for test question 4: What is a Pulsar?
Monday, November 18
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-My Solar System
worksheet for My Solar System LAb
Wednesday, November 20
11.4 The Gravitational Field
ex p393 61,63,65,69
HW p393 62,64,70
Friday, November 22
Test - chapter 11
Tuesday, November 26
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 (Truss Lab - clockwise and counterclockwise torques))
Thursday, November 28-Sunday, December 1 - NO School (Thanksgiving Break)
Monday, December 2
Chapter 14 - Oscillations
14.1 Simple Harmonic Motion
video-SHM of a spring
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 4
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 6
Test - chapter 14
Tuesday, December 10
Review
Thursday, December 12
Review
The Physics of Santa - with the math worked out
Monday, December 16-Thursday, December 19 (Semester Exams)
Friday, December 20 - Sunday, January 12, 2014 (Christmas Vacation)
