Sunday, August 17, 2014

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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

1st semester assignments 2014-15 (AP Physics C: Mechanics)

Friday, August 15
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 20


Monday, August 18
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 20
go over HW
Quiz on Summer work
Lab-Free Fall of a Marble

Friday, August 22
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 26
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 28
Test - chapter 3

Monday, September 1 - NO School (Labor Day)

Tuesday, September 2
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 4
4.5 Contact Forces: Solids, Springs, Strings
ex p121 56, 57, 59, 65
4.6 Free-Body Diagrams
4.7 Newton's 3rd Law

Monday, September 8
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 10
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 12
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 16
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

Review these problems for the test: p120 53, p124 82, p162 43, p166 125

Thursday, September 18
 Test - chapters 4 and 5

Monday, September 22

Show these videos on the SmartBoard:

·        Work (9:52)

·        Work done by a variable force (9:59)

·        Work-Energy Theorem (2:44)

·        Work-energy Theorem – example problems (10:44)

Wednesday, 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



Friday, September 26

go over HW
Lab-Power (running stairs)

Tuesday, September 30
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

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

Monday, October 6
go over HW
Force, Work, and Energy Conservation of Springs
ex p240 44,96
HW p240 92
Lab-Conservation of Energy with Springs
review

Wednesday, October 8
Test - chapters 6-7

Friday, October 10
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 13 - NO SCHOOL (faculty in-service)

Wednesday, October 15 - Testing Day grades 9-11

Thursday, October 16
go over HW

Monday, October 20
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

Wednesday, October 22
Test - chapter 8

Friday, 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

Tuesday, October 28
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

Thursday, 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

Monday, November 3
Review
study these for the test: p320 41,44,76,108
Chapter 9 Test will be Wednesday, November 5
Lab-Moment of Inertia of a rolling soup can

Wednesday, November 5
Test - chapter 9
HW - watch the two following video clips before the next classs
torque and angular momentum
angular momentum tutorial


Tuesday, November 11
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)

Thursday, November 13
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

Monday, November 17
Test - chapter 10 - open book, but NO notes
background info for test question 4: What is a Pulsar?

Wednesday, November 19
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

Friday, November 21
11.4 The Gravitational Field
ex p393 61,63,65,69
HW p393 62,64,70

Tuesday, November 25
Test - chapter 11

Thursday, November 27-Sunday, November 30 (NO School - Thanksgiving Break)

Monday, December 1
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))

Wednesday, December 3
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

Friday, December 5
14.3 Some Oscillating Systems
Springs
ex p490 47,49,52
HW p490 48,51,94 (video: springs in series and in parallel) - useful for homework
Pendulums
ex p491 59,62
HW p491 60,61,63
Lab-Pendulum

Tuesday, December 9
Test - chapter 14

Thursday, December 11
Review

Monday, December 15 (1-7 schedule)
Review
The Physics of Santa - with the math worked out

Saturday, January 11, 2014

2nd Semester Assignments 2013-14 (AP Physics C: Electromagnetism)

Monday, January 13
Chapter 21: The Electric Field-Discrete Charge Distribution
21.1 Charge
21.2 Conductors
21.3 Coulomb's Law
ex p723 26,30
HW p723 27,31,35,69
21.4 The Electric Field
ex p723 37,41,45
HW p723 38,48
Lab-Coulomb's Law for charged balloons

Wednesday, January 15
21.5 Electric Field Lines
-diagrams on worksheet
21.6 Action of the Electric Field on Charges
ex p724 51,57,84,86
HW p724 52,87
Lab-Mapping Electric Fields (Electric Field of Dreams worksheet is here: Field of Dreams worksheet) or (Electric Field Hockey worksheet is here: Electric Field Hockey worksheet)

Friday, January 17
Test - chapter 21

Wednesday, January 22
Chapter 22: The Electric Field and Continuous Charge Distributions
22.1 Calculating E from Coulomb's Law
ex p757 13,14,16,17
HW p757 15,68,71,79

Friday, January 24
22.2 Gauss' Law
video intro to Electric Flux (10 min)
video intro to electric Flux - part 2 (8 min)
ex p758 27-30
HW p758 31,33
22.3 Using Symmetry to Calculate E with Gauss' Law
*spherical charge distribution*
video intro to Gauss' Law for a point charge (10 min)
video intro to Gauss' Law for a non-conducting sphere (10 min)
video to Gauss' Law for spherical shells (10 min)
ex p759 37,38,42,66
HW p759 39,40,43

Tuesday, January 28
22.3 Using Symmetry to Calculate E with Gauss' Law
*cylindrical charge distribution*
ex p759 46,48,50,54
HW p759 49,51,55

Thursday, January 30
22.5 Charge and E Field at Conductor Surfaces
ex p760 60,61
HW p760 59,63
review

Monday, February 3
Test - chapter 22

Wednesday, February 5
Chapter 23: Electric Potential
23.1 Potential Difference
23.2 Potential due to a System of Point Charges
ex p796 26,29,30,31
HW p796 27,32 (skip d)
23.3 Computing E from V
ex p797 35,36
HW p797 37-39

Friday, February 7
23.4 Calculations of V for Continuous Charge Distributions
ex p797 40,45,49
HW p797 44,48,58
23.5 Equipotential Surfaces
ex p798 60,61
HW p798 62,64
classwork problems
Electric Field/Potential applet

Tuesday, February 11
23.6 Electrostatic Potential Energy
ex p798 21,23,65,69,79
HW p798 24,66,70,81
review

Thursday, February 13
Test - Chapter 23

Monday, February 17 - NO School

Tuesday, February 18
Chapter 24-Capacitance
problem 87 is interesting
24.1 Capacitance (including parallel plate and cylindrical capacitors)
ex p832 16,17,40,44
24.2 Storage of Electrical Energy
Lab-Capacitors ( online PhET Capacitor simulation )
the lab worksheet can be found here: Capacitors: Two Plate Special
ex p832 19,21,22,23,77
HW p832 20,25,74

Thursday, February 20
Spherical Capacitors
ex p832 24,48
24.3 Capacitors, Batteries, Circuits
ex p832 26,28,34,79
HW p832 29,32,35,75
Lab-A Homemade Capacitor -p821 Example 24-11 ( how-to video )

Monday, February 24
Disconnected and Reconnected Capacitors
ex p834 52,53,55
HW p834 54,56,59
24.4 Dielectrics
ex p835 61,69
HW p835 63,67

Wednesday, February 26
Test-chapter 24

Friday, February 28
Chapter 25-Electric Current and Direct Current Circuits
25.1 Current and Motion of Charges
25.2 Resistance and Ohm's Law
ex p879 39,41,45
HW p879 38,42,46,47
25.3 Energy in Electric Circuits
ex p880 61,65,67
HW p880 62,66
Lab-Appliance Lab (take home)

Tuesday, March 4
25.4 Combinations of Resistors
ex p881 70,72,74
HW p881 75,76,77
25.5 Kirchoff's Rules
ex p882 81,85, worksheet
HW p882 82,86, worksheet
Lab-PhET simulation of DC Circuits (DC circuit simulation)
the worksheet for this lab is found here: DC Circuits lab worksheet

Thursday, March 6
25.6 RC Circuits
ex p883 95,97,98
HW p883 96,99,103
Lab-RC Circuits ( PhET simulation of RC circuits )

Monday, March 10
Review

Wednesday, March 12
Test-chapter 25

Friday, March 14
Chapter 26-The Magnetic Field
26.1 The Force Exerted by a Magnetic Field
ex p911 14,17,18,24,74
HW p911 21,23,70,75
26.2 Motion of a Point Charge in a Magnetic Field
ex p912 27,35,39
HW p912 34,36,40
video-Force on a Current Carrying Conductor
Lab-Magnetic Force on a Current Carrying Wire

Tuesday, March 18
26.3 Torques on Current Loops and Magnets
video-Torque on a Current Carrying Loop
ex p913 47,49
HW p913 48,50,51
Lab-Torques on Current Loops

Wednesday, March 19
ITED Testing - all grades (NO Classes)

Friday, March 21
Science Expo judging
your poster board and paper are due today

Tuesday, March 25
Chapter 27-Sources of the Magnetic Field
27.2 The Magnetic Field of Currents: Biot-Savart Law
video lesson-Biot Savart and Ampere's Law
ex p951 19,21,27,33,95
HW p 951 18,29,76,79,81
Lab-Force Between Two Current Carrying Wires
27.3 Gauss’ Law for Magnetism
27.4 Ampere’s Law
HW p953 47,49,84,94

Thursday, March 27
Chapter 30-Maxwell’s Equations and Electromagnetic Waves
30.1 Maxwell’s Displacement Current
30.2 Maxwell’s Equations
video lesson-Maxwell's Equations
documentary - Maxwell's Equations
-know the implications of each equation (you will NOT be doing calculations with them)
30.4 Electromagnetic Radiation

Monday, March 31
Chapter 28-Magnetic Induction
28.1 Magnetic Flux
ex p989 20,23,24,28 (different #s)
HW p989 22,25,28
28.2 Induced EMF and Faraday's Law
ex p989 30
HW p989 31
28.3 Lenz's Law
video lesson-Electromagnetic Induction and Lenz's Law
28.4 Motional EMF
ex p990 36,38,77,78
HW p990 37,39,43,82
Demo-Lenz's Law

Wednesday, April 2
Magic Mountain field trip prep work-calibration, ride packet Power Point, practice measurements

Friday, April 4
AP Exam review work

Monday, April 7
Magic Mountain field trip - leave at 9:30am
bring at least $30 for food

Tuesday, April 8
go over HW
Lab-Faraday's Law and Lenz's Law
Lab-Right Hand Rule Roller

Wednesday, April 9 - Science Expo

Thursday, April 10
28.5 Eddy Currents
-demo
28.6 Inductance
ex p991 49
HW p991 50
28.7 Magnetic Energy
ex p991 54
HW p991 57
28.8 RL Circuits
ex p991 59,60,67
HW p991 61,62,64

Monday, April 28
sample AP Exam-Mechanics multiple choice

Wednesday, April 30
sample AP Exam-Mechanics free response

Friday, May 2
sample AP Exam-E&M multiple choice

Tuesday, May 6
sample AP Exam-E&M free response

Thursday, May 8
review

Monday, May 12 - AP Exam starts today at 12 noon
NO Class today
get a good night sleep on Sunday night
relax, answer everything

Wednesday, May 14
Relativity (Special and General)
video-Einstein Revealed

Friday, May 16
finish Einstein Revealed

Tuesday, May 20
Final Exam