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Honors Physics - Class Agenda
   
SUBTERM 1
SUBTERM 2
Unit 1: Introduction to Physics  
Unit 2: Motion in 1 and 2 Dimentions Unit 5: Waves & Sound
Unit 3: Newton's Laws Unit 6: Electrostatics
Unit 4: Work, Energy and Momentum Unit 7: DC Circuits
Unit 5: Circular Motion Unit 8: Magnetism
Unit 9: Optics
Midterm Exam Final Exam

Introduction to Physics

Chapter 1

Honors Physics

Date
Bellwork
Daily Schedule
Homework
Recieved/Collected

Wed.

8/27

Explain this quote: "Science is to see what everyone else has seen, but think what no one else has thought." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

5 minutes - Find Seats and Attendance

5 minutes - Bellwork

35 minutes - Class rules and expectations (ppt)

15 minutes - Textbooks

20 minutes - Math Pretest (Take)

Start Writing Prompt: What is Physics?

Fillout Student Info Sheet & Sign Class Agreement

Respond to writing prompt: What is physics?

Print Notes: Intro to Physics

DUE: Tues, Sept 1: Materials Check, Class Intro Quiz

Received: Syllabus, Late Passes, Bathroom Passes, Student Info Sheet, Class Agreement

Collected: Nothing

Thur.

8/28

Unusual Paragraph/ Finish Math Pretest

5 minutes - Collect Papers (what is phys, stud info, class agreement)

10 minutes - Bellwork

20 minutes - Math Pretest (Grade)

35 minutes - Notes: What is Physics & Measurements in Physics

10 minutes - WS: Scientific Notation

10 minutes - WS: Significant Figures

WS: Scientific Notation

WS: Significant Figures

Stamped: Notes

Received: Stamp Sheet, WS: Sci. Notation, WS: Sig Figs.

Collected: Student Info Sheet, Class Agreement, Webassign Dues

Fri

8/29

Develope and experiment based on the observation: Driving the speed limit saves gas.

10 minutes - Bellwork

10 minutes - Check HW

Talk about Webassign

15 minutes - Notes: The Language of Physics

10 minutes - WS: Conversion Factors

20 minutes - WS: Dimentional Analysis

20 minutes - Eyes of Nye - Sports

Finish WS: Conversion Factors & Dim. Analysis

Study for Class Intro Quiz and Physics Introduction Quiz (Tue.)

Materials Due Tuesday

Stamped: WS: Sci. Notation, WS: Sig Figs.

Received: WS: Conversion Factors, Dimential Analysis

Collected:Student Info Sheet, Class Agreement, Webassign Dues, Indiv. Exp.

Mon.

9/1

  No School Labor Day    

Tue.

9/2

Solve:

1) 8.0 x 9.05 / 10.2

2) 8.0 + 9.05 + 10.2

3)15b + 13 = 111

5 minutes - Bellwork

10 minutes - Check HW

10 miuntes - Materials Check

20 minutes - Quiz: Class Intro

20 minutes - Quiz: Intro to Physics

40 minutes - Force Concept Inventory

Finish FCI (password Tabbuly)

Print Notes: Motion in 1 and 2 Dimentions

Stamped:Conversion Factors, Dim. Analysis

Received:

Collected:

Motion in 1 and 2 Dimentions

Physics

Chapters 2 - 3

Date
Bellwork
Daily Schedule
Homework

Wed.

9/3

How are distance, velocity, and acceleration related?

5 minutes - Bellwork

10 minutes - Correct FCI

70 minutes - Notes: Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration & Time Graphs

Start WS: #4

Sign up for webassign.net

Read Ch. 2.1 - 2.4

 

Stamped: Notes

Received: WS: #4

Thur.

9/4

Using the graph...

5 minutes - Bellwork

20 minutes - Check HW

50 minutes - PASCO Lab: Position vs Time Graph

 

WS: #5

Finish Labs

Bring $10 Lab Free

Stamped: WS #4

Recieved: WS #5: Constant Velocity

Fri.

9/5

Using the Graph...

10 mintues - Check HW

10 minutes - Collect Lab Fee

50 mintues - PASCO Lab: Acceleration on an Inclined Plane

Finish Labs

Webassign Motion Part 2 DUE SUN @ 11:59 pm

Stamped: WS #5

Mon.

9/8

How are these graphs related?

X vs T, V vs T, A vs. T?

5 minutes - Bellwork

5 minutes - Review Key Concepts from labs

30 minutes - Notes: Velocity and acceleration Equations

60 minutes - WS: Motion in 1 Dimention

 

Read 2.5

Finish WS: Motion in 1D

Received: WS: Motion in 1D

Collected: Lab

Tue.

9/9

Signed up for Computer Lab E2, but kicked out

If a car is traveling eastward, can it's acceleration be westward? Explain.

30 mintues - Questions?

30 minutes - Notes: Free Fall

15 minutes - Activity - Reaction Time

Read 2.6

Finish Lab Reaction Time

Research Joseph Kittinger (Due: Thur)

Phet Vector Simulation (Due: Thur)

Phet Simulation's Website

Webassign Motion Part 2 DUE: Sun @11:59pm

Recieved:WS - Free Fall

Collected: Reaction Time activity

Wed.

9/10

A ball is thrown upward.

(a) what are its velecity and acceleration when it reaches the maximum altitude?

(b) What is the acceleration of the ball just before it hits the ground?

5 minutes - Bellwork

10 minutes - Check HW

45 minutes - Notes: Vector Math

WS - Phet Extension

Read

Phet Vector Simulation (Due: Thur)

Research Kittinger (Due: Thur)

Webassign Motion Part 2 DUE: Sun @11:59pm

 

Thu.

9/11

 

20 minutes - Demos: Monkey Hunter & Pasco Cannon Car & Dropped and shot balls

50 minutes - Notes: Projectile Motion

 

Webassign Motion Part 2 DUE: Sun @11:59pm

Collected: Kittinger answers, Phet Vectors

Fri.

9/12

A plane traveling 40m/s is 100 m off the ground when it drops a package. How far, relative from where it was dropped, does the package land?

HW Questions

75 minutes - Range of a Rocket

 

Webassign Motion Part 2 DUE: Sun @11:59pm

Collected: Range of Rocket Work

Mon.

9/15

A socer ball is kicked at a 30oangle w/ a velocity of 10m/s off a 10 m high cliff. How far from the base of the cliff does the ball land? (assume a ~10m/s2)

HW Questions

15 minutes - Notes: Relative Motion

Study Guide

 

Finish Study Guide

Key - Study Guide

 

Tue.

9/16

A projectile is fired at some angle to the horizontal with some initial speed vo and air resistance is neglected.

(a) Is the projectile a freely falling body?

(b)What is the velocity in the vertical direction?

(c)What is the velocity in the horizontal direction?

Test - Motion in 1 and 2 Dimentions

Print Notes: Newton's Laws  

Unit 2: Newton's Laws

Physics

Chapter 4

Date
Bellwork
Daily Schedule
Homework

Wed.

9/17

What do you know about Newton and his 3 laws?

30 minutes - Hand back/go over test

15 minutes - Activity - Coin on Card on Cup & 2 washers (one on the other)

25 minutes - Notes: Forces and Newton's Laws

10 minutes - Demo: Inertia of Dry Ice

20 minutes - P. 108 Concept Quest (1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11)

Read 4.1 - 4.4

Remind your parents to come to Back-to-School Night tonight

Concept Questions #1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11

Recieved: Stampsheet

Stamped: Notes

Thur.

9/18

none

10 minutes - Test Question Redo

20 minutes - Introduction to Excel

60 minutes - Lab - Inertial Balance

WS: Intro Newton's 3 Laws

Finish WS

Lab DUE Mon.

Received: How to use Excel - Part 1

Collected: Concept Questions

Fri.

9/19

A soccer ball is kicked 20m/s at 30 degrees relative to the ground. What is Vx and Vy and what do they mean?

Questions

Review Projectile Motion

WS: Projectile Motion

Finish WS

Lab DUE Mon.

Recieved: WS: Projectile Motion

Mon.

9/22

 

Questions

15 minute - Demo: Which string will break?

10 minutes - Introduce Car Challange

55 minutes - Notes: Everyday Forces

30 minutes - WS: Newton's 2nd Law: As Viewed from a Frictionless World

Read 4.5

Finish WS

Webassign Newton's Laws DUE Sun 9/28 @ 11:59pm

Received: Car Challange, WS: Newton's 2nd Law (Frictionless)

Collected: Lab - Inertial Balance

Tue.

9/23

Explain why what happened in the demo happened.

15 minutes - Check HW

25 minutes - Projectile Motion Quiz

30 minutes - Check HW

20 minutes - Nye - Friction

15 minutes - Work on HW (webassign)

Read 4.6

Webassign Newton's Laws DUE Sun 9/28 @ 11:59pm

 

Wed.

9/24

 

30 minutes - Bellwork & Questions

45 minutes - Notes: Friction, Air-resistance & Common Misconceptions

40 minutes - WS: Friction #7

Finish WS

Webassign Newton's Laws DUE Sun 9/28 @ 11:59pm

Recieved: WS #7

Thur.

9/25

A 20.0 kg mass is on a 30 degree incline. Find the components of the gravitational force that is parallel and perpendicular to the incline.

30 minutes - Questions

Work on Car

Work on Lab or Car

Webassign Newton's Laws DUE Sun 9/28 @ 11:59pm

 

Fri.

9/26

How is the pace of this class (too fast, too slow, just right)?

5 minutes - Friction Song

30 minutes - Questions

60 mintues - WS: Friction Filled World

10 minutes - Pop Quiz

Work on Car

 

Webassign Newton's Laws DUE Sun 9/28 @ 11:59pm

Received: WS: Newton's 2nd Law: In a Friction Filled World

Collected: Bellwork

Mon.

9/29

20kg block on table w/ mu=0.5 connected to mass off table. What is mass off table so that just starts to move?

20 minutes - Questions

60 minutes - Lab: Mini-Rockets

20 minutes - Study Guide

Finish Study Guide

Key #1-4

Key #5-9

 

Tue.

9/30

  ~ No School ~    

Wed.

10/1

  Test Chapter 4 - Newton's Laws Print Notes: Work, Energy & Momentum  

Unit 3: Work, Energy & Momentum

Physics

Chapter 5 & 6

Date
Bellwork
Daily Schedule
Homework

Thur.

10/2

What is KE? What is PE?

15 mintues - Hand Back Test

Notes: Work/Energy (potential/kinetic)

WS: This is a lot of Work (Work & KE)

Phet - Skate Park - Due: Mon. 10/6

Finish WS

Received: WS Work, Stampsheet

Collected:

Stamped: Notes

Fri.

10/3

A 0.75kg block slides down a 20 degree 1.28m ramp w/no acc. What is Friction force? What is work done by friction?

Notes: Potential Energy

Work on Car

Phet - Skate Park - Due: Mon.

Car DUE: Wed

Car Paper DUE: Fri

Received: none

Collected: none

Stamped: WS: Work

Mon.

10/6

A man lifts a 20.0 kg blucket at constant velocity from a well. If he does 6.0 kJ of work, how deep is the well?

Collect Phet - Skate Park

60 minutes - Notes: Conservation of Energy & PE of Spring

WS: KE, PE, & Conservation (WS 1 & 2)

Finish WS

Car Due WED (Paper due Fri)

Webassign Energy 1 DUE: Sun 10/12 @ 11:59pm

Received: WS: KE & PE (1&2)

Collected: Phet Skate Park

Stamped: none

Tue.

10/7

Hiker A climbs straight up the hill while Hiker B uses switchbacks. Who does more work? Why are switchbacks used?

5 minutes - Bellwork

15 minutes - Questions (Check HW)

15 minutes - Notes: PE of Spring (ex.1)

60 minutes - Lab - Shoot for your Grade

Finish WS

Shoot for your Grade due Fri if you did not hit the bulls eye.

Car due Tomorrow!

Webassign Energy 1 DUE: Sun 10/12 @ 11:59pm

Received: none

Collected: none

Stamped: WS KE & PE

Wed. 10/8 An athlete jumps straight up at 9.0 m/s. What is the max height he jumps? What is the speed half way?

Questions

Notes: PE of Spring (ex. 2 & 3)

Test Car

Group Paper Due Friday!

Webassign Energy 1 DUE: Sun 10/12 @ 11:59pm

Received: none

Collected: none

Stamped: none

Thur.

10/9

  ~ No School ~    

Fri.

10/10

The rubber band in a toy car can store 75 J of energy. If the friction force on the car is 10.0 N, how far can the car go?

Car Project Group Paper Due

Collect Lab (if you didn't hit the bulls-eye)

45 minutes - Notes: Power

WS: Power

Finish WS

Webassign Energy 1 DUE: Sun 10/12 @ 11:59pm

Recieved: WS: Power

Collected:Group Paper, Bulls-eye lab (if you missed)

Stamps: None

Mon.

10/13

A 70. kg skier is pulled 60. m up a 30 degree frictionless slope at 2.0 m/s. How much work is done & What is power of the motor?

Bellwork/Pop Quiz

10 minutes - Check HW

20 minutes - Notes: Momentum and Impulse

60 minutes - WS: Momentum, Impulse, and Energy

Finish WS

Webassign Momentum DUE: THURS. 10/17 @11:59 pm

Recieved: WS: p, I & E

Collected: none

Stamped: WS Power

Tue.

10/14

A 75 kg stunt man falls 25 m onto a mattress which compresses 1.0 m before he comes to a stop. What is the force from the mattress?

60 minutes - Notes: Conservation of Momentum and Collisions

Demo - Swinging Wonder

Demo - Ball + Ball Drop

20 minutes - WS #3 and WS #4

Webassign Momentum DUE: THUR. 10/17 @11:59 pm

Received: WS: #3 & 4

Collected: none

Stamped: WS p, I, E

Wed.

10/15

An ice skater is coating across a frictionless pond when his little bro jumps on hit back. What happens to the velocity of the skater?

Questions

Group 1 - Lab: Conservation of Momentum

Group 2 - WS #4 & Study Guide

Webassign Momentum DUE: Thur 10/17, TOMORROW, @11:59 pm

Key - WS #4 p.1

Key - WS #4 p.2

Received: none

Collected: none

Stamped: none

Thu.

10/16

 

30 minutes - Questions

20 mintues - Video: Mythbusters (Bullets in oven)

Group 1 -WS #4; Study Guide

Group 2 - Lab: Conservation of Momentum

Work on Study Guide & Webassign

Finish Lab or Study Guide

Webassign Momentum DUE: TONIGHT @11:59 pm

Key - Study Guide p.1

Key - Study Guide p.2

Received: Study Guide

Collected: Lab

Stamped: none

Fri.

10/17

 

~ Late Start Day ~

Test: Work, Energy and Momentum - Chapter 5 - 6

Print Notes: Circular Motion

Received: none

Collected: Stampsheet, Bellwork

Stamped: Study Guide

Unit 4: Circular Motion

Physics

Date
Bellwork
Daily Schedule
Homework

Mon

10/20

What do you know about radians?

Hand Back Tests

Notes - Intro to Rotation: Circular vs. Linear Motion & Centripetal Acceleration

WS: Circular Motion Part 1

Webassign Circular Motion DUE: Sun 10/26 @ 11:59 pm

Finish WS

Received: Stamp Sheet; WS: Circular Motions Part 1

Collected: none

Stamped: Notes

Tues.

10/21

A wheel has a radius of 4.1 m. How far (in m) does a point on the edge travel after: 20 degrees, 20 rad, 20 rev.?

5 minutes - Bellwork

15 minutes - Check HW (WS Circular Motion Part 1)

30 minutes - Notes: Centripetal acceleration & force (concepts)

15 minutes - Demos: Water in Bucket

Concept Questions #1, 3, 4, 6, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19

Webassign Circular Motion DUE: Sun 10/26 @ 11:59 pm

Watch: Extream Basejumping in Wingsuits (youtube.com video)

Writting Prompt: Are these people flying or falling in style? Explain. Could they do this on flat ground? (0.5 page min) DUE: Friday

Received: WS: Circular Motion 2

Collected: None

Stamped: Circular Motion 1

Wed.

10/22

In your own words, define angular acceleration, centripetal acceleration, linear acceleration & centripetal force

10 minutes - Check HW

70 mintues - Lab: Centripetal Force

Work on HW

Lab DUE: Monday

Webassign Circular Motion

 

Thur.

10/23

A centrifuge rotates at 3600 rev/min. When turned off it will rotate through 50. rev before coming to rest. What ist he angular acceleration of the machine

45 minutes - Notes: Centripetal Force Equations

20 minutes - WS: Circular Motion 2

Finish WS (Due: Fri)

Writing Prompt (Due: Fri)

Lab (Due: Mon)

Webassign (Due: Sun)

Recieved: WS. Circular 2

Collected:none

Stamped: none

Fri.

10/24

In 1903 Wilbur Wright was the first man ever to fly. His flight lasted 12 sec. How do we know he was flying and not falling with style?

45 minutes - Notes: Orbital Motion

WS: Gravity

Finish WS

Lab DUE: Monday

Recieved: WS. Gravity; Final Study Guide

Collected:Writing Prompt

Stamped: WS: Circular 2

Mon.

10/27

Why is it easier to determine the mass of a planet if it has a moon?

5 minutes - Bellwork

10 minutes - Check HW

60 minutes - Study Guide

20 minutes - Organize Binder

Study for Test

Organize Binder

Key - Study Guide #1-8

Key - Study Guide #9-10

Recieved: Study Guide, Binder Checklist

Collected: Lab

Stamped: WS: Gravity

Tue.

10/28

A bucket is swung in a vertical circle. Where in the bucket's path is the tension in the string the least? most? explain.

TEST: Circular Motion

FCI - (passwork Tabbuly)

 

Finals

End of Subterm 1

Date
Bellwork
Daily Schedule
Homework

Wed.

10/29

 

30 mintues - Correct FCI

Study For Finals

Key - Study Guide #1-5

Key - Study Guide #6-13

Key - Study Guide #14-18

 

Thur.

10/30

 

Period 4 - Take Final

Period 2 & 3- Video - When We Left Earth

Print Notes: Waves  

Fri.

10/31

  Period 2 & 3- Final    

Unit 5: Waves and Sound

Physics

Date
Bellwork
Daily Schedule
Homework

Mon.

11/3

 

15 minutes - Hand Back Tests

15 mintues - How to: Fc Lab & Pendulum Lab

30 minutes - Notes: Simple Harmonic Motion

20 minutes - Design Procedure for Pendulum Lab (Story board procedure)

Phet: Springs & Masses (Due: Wed.)

Webassign Waves DUE: Sunday 11/9 @ 11:59 pm

 

Received: Stampsheet, WS: Hook's Law

Collected: none

Stamped: Notes

Tue.

11/4

A 50. N load will stretch a vertical spring 5.0 cm. What is the force in the spring if it is placed horizontally and then stretched 11 cm?

70 minutes - Lab: Pendulum

Lab: Due Wed. 11/12

Phet: Springs DUE Wed.

Webassign Waves DUE: Sunday 11/9 @ 11:59 pm

Received: none

Collected: none

Stamped: none

Wed.

11/5

A pedulum is made with a spherical bob filled with water. If the water slowly leaks out, what happens to the period of the pendulum?

Turn in Phet Springs & Masses

30 minutes - Notes: Waves: Labels and Velocity of...

30 minutes - Lab Wave on a Spring

15 minutes - WS: Wave Speed

Finish Lab - Waves on a spring

Finish WS: Wave Speed

Webassign Waves DUE: Sunday 11/9 @ 11:59 pm

Lab - Pendulum DUE: Wed (11/12)

Received: WS: Wave Speed

Collected: Phet - Springs

Stamped: None

Thur.

11/6

If you pluck a rubber hose a wave pulse will travel through it. What happens to the wave speed if you pull the hose tighter? What if you quadruple of hose's mass?

30 minutes - Notes: Reflection, Standing waves, interference

http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/beats.htm

Phet - Waves on a String

10 minutes - WS: Concept Review/Graphing

15 minutes - Sound

15 minutes - Activity: Speed of Sound through a medium

WS: Wave Properties/Graphing Practice

Finish WS (Both & both sides)

Webassign Waves DUE: Sunday 11/9 @ 11:59 pm

Lab - Pendulum DUE: Wed (11/12)

Received:

Collected: Lab Waves on a Spring

Stamped: WS: Wave Speed

Fri.

11/7

A 50 cm string has a mass of 3.0 g. A wave travels at 5 m/s on the string. What ist he speed of a wave on a second string (1/2 mass, same length and tesion)?

10 minutes - Go over WS: Diagraming waves

30 minutes - Notes: Sound Intensity & Decibles

60 minutes - WS: Intensity & Relative Loudness

Finish WS: Intensity & Relative Loudness

Webassign Waves DUE: Sunday 11/9 @ 11:59 pm

Lab - Pendulum DUE: Wed (11/12)

Received: WS: Intensity

Collected: none

Stamped: Concept Questions

Mon.

11/10

One toadfsh can make a sound as load as 110 dB. How loud would 3 toadfish be all together?

10 minutes - Go over WS: Intensity & Relative Loudness

40 minutes - Notes: Doppler Effect

http://www.lon-capa.org/~mmp/applist/doppler/d.htm

20 minutes - Nye: Astrobiology

Finish WS: Doppler Effect

Lab - Pendulum DUE: Wed (11/12)

Received: WS: Doppler

Collected: Video Questions

Stamped: WS Intensity

Tue.

11/11

  ~ No School ~ Veteran's Day ~    

Wed.

11/12

A train passes a platform at 40m/s. At rest the horn is 340 Hz. If you are standing on the platform, what change is frequency do you hear as the train approaches and leaves?

10 minutes - Go over WS: Doppler Effect

45-50 minutes - Notes: Beats, Standing Waves, Resonance

15 minutes - Mythbusters - Breaking a Glass

30 minutes - WS: Beats, Standing Waves, Resonance

WS: Beats, & Standing Waves

 

Received: WS: Beats

Collected: Lab: Pendulum

Stamped: WS Doppler Effect

Thu.

11/13

Per 2 - Explain Demo

Per 4 - Myth Breaking Glass

30 minutes - Lab: Tuning fork frequency

60 minutes - Study Guide

Finish at least half of Study Guide (9 questions of your choosing)

Key - Study Guide

Finish Lab - Speed of Sound

Received: Study Guide

Collected:Lab

Stamped: WS: Beats

Fri.

11/14

The human ear is 2.8 cm long. It is like a pipe, closed on one end and open at the ear drum. What fundamental frequency would we be most sensitive to at 20. deg. C?

Test: Waves & Sound

Print Notes: Electrostatics

Print Lab: Electrostatics

Received: none

Collected: Stampsheet, Lab, Bellwork

Stamped: study guide

If Time

 

 

45 minutes - Notes: Bernulli's Principle

Demos: Blow over paper, Straw Sprayer, funnel/soda bottle with ball (4-6inch).

5 minutes - Watch Tacoma Narrows Bridge

45 minutes - What happened to the bridge?

Story Book - What happened to the bridge and why?

 

 

Unit 6: Electrostatics

Chapter 15

Physics

Date
Bellwork
Daily Schedule
Homework

Mon.

11/17

 

15 minutes - Hand Back Tests

60 minutes - Notes - Start Electrostatics - Charge and how charge flows

30 minutes - Start Lab: Electrostatics

Read Ch. 15 p. 497-500 (15.1-15.2)

Concept Questions p. 524 #1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 17, 19

Received: Stampsheet

Collected: nothing

Stamped: Notes

Tues.

11/18

 

30 mintues - Notes - Coulomb's Law

30 mintues - Finish Lab: Electrostatics

WS: Coulumb's Law

Finish WS: Coulonb's Law (FRONT ONLY)

 

Received: WS: Coulomb's Law

Collected: Concept Questions; Lab

Stamped:

Wed.

11/19

 

An alpha particle (2 p+) is sent towards a gold nucleus (79 p+). What is the electric force on the alpha particle 2E-14 m away?

45-60 mintues - Notes - Electric Field & Drawing Electric Field lines

Demo - Van de Graaff Generator

20 minutes - WS: Electric Force/Electric Field (HOLT)

Finish WS (BOTH sides)

Phet - Electric Field Hockey Due: Friday

 

Received: WS: E- Force & Field

Collected: none

Stamped:WS: Coulomb's Law

Thur.

11/20

 

10 mintues - Questions

10 mintues - Go over WS: Electric Force/Electric Field

30 mintues - Start WS: Electric Field

45 minutes - Notes - Electric Potential

Finish WS: Electric Field (BACK side of Coulomb's Law)

Received: WS: Electric Field

Collected:

Stamped:WS: E-force & Field

Fri.

11/21

 

Notes - Electric Potential Energy

WS - Electric Potential/Electric Potential Energy

Finish WS: Electric Potential (FRONT ONLY)

Phet - Electric Potential

Received: WS: E- potential

Collected: Phet - Field Hockey

Stamped: WS: E- Field

Mon.

11/24

 

15 minutes - Finish Notes: Thoughts on Potential

45 minutes - Study Guide

Finish Study Guide

Received: Study Guide

Collected: Phet - Electric Potential

Stamped: WS: Electric Potential

Tues.

11/25

  Test Print Notes: Circuits

Received:

Collected: Bellwork, Stampsheet

Stamped:Study Guide

Wed.-Fri.

11/26-28

  ~ Thanksgiving Break ~    

Unit 7: DC Circuits

Physics

Date
Bellwork
Daily Schedule
Homework

Fri.

12/14

 

5 minutes - New Seats

15 minutes - Hand Back Tests

10 minutes - Participation Points

30 minutes - Notes: Start Resistance

WS: Electric Current Concept Questions (Mine)

Mon.

12/17

 

10 minutes - Check Concept Questions

45 minutes - Notes: Ohm's Law and Power

Lab: V = IR (NEED TO FIND THIS...)

WS: Ohm's Law and Power

Finish WS

Tues.

12/18

 

30 minutes - Period 2: PSAT Scores/ Period 3: Decorate the Door or watch Video/ Period 4: Video (or Nye?)

10 minutes - Go over WS

60 minutes - Notes: Circuits w/ Series and Parallel circuit relay race

WS: Holts - Diagraming Skills

Ch. 18 Concept Questions

p. ??? (#????)

Wed.

12/19

 

45 minutes - Notes: Finish Circuits

Lab: Circuit Creation Challange

WS: Holts - Resistors in series and parallel/Mixed circuit review

Finish WS

Thur.

12/20

 

~Rally Schedule~

WS: Mixed Review (Holts)

Finish WS: Mixed Circuits (Mine)

Fri.

12/21

  Winter Break Starts Finish WS: Mixed Circuits

Mon.

1/7

 

40 minutes - Go over WS

30 minutes - Jeopardy Review

10-15 minutes - Study Guide

Finish Study Guide

Tues.

1/8

  Test: Circuits Print Notes: Magnitism

Unit 8: Magnetism

Physics

Date
Bellwork
Daily Schedule
Homework

Wed.

1/9

 

10 minutes - Hand Back Test

30 minutes - Notes: Magnetic Field, Magnetic Field Lines,

5 minutes - Demos - Magnet in a bottle (field lines), Magnetic Field Lines of Earth

20 minutes - Nye: Magnitism

30 minutes - Lab: Magnetic Field Lines

15 minutes - WS: Holt - Magnets and Magnetic Fields

Read 19.1 & 19.2

Finish WS

Webassign

Thur.

1/10

 

10 mintues - Go over the Concept Questions

10 minutes - Demos - Magnetic Field of a Current

45 minutes - Notes - Right Hand Rule 1& 2, Calculate Force

30 minutes - WS: Holt - Magnetic Force

 

Read 19.3

Finish WS

Webassign

   

30 minutes - PRS: Right Hand Rule Review (NEED TO MAKE THIS)

60 minutes - Video: NOVA - Earth's Magnetic Field

Webassign
   

20 minutes - Questions

40 minutes - Notes - Motion of Particles & Force on a Wire

20 minutes - Start WS: It's Attractive (CHECK FOR AMPIER"S LAW)

Read 19.6

Fri.

1/11

 

15 minutes - Questions

45 minutes - Notes: Ampier's Law

10 minutes - Equation Chart (Put all the equations for the chapter so far together)

30 minutes - Finish WS: It's Attractive/Work on Webassign

Read 19.4 & 19.7

Webassign DUE Sun @ 11:59 pm

Mon.

1/14

 

10 minutes - Go over WS: Its Attractive (Front side)

40 minutes - Finish Notes - Force on 2 wires (add to chart)

WS - More Magnets

Read 19.8

WS: More Magnets (Front side)

Webassign Due Thur @11:59 pm

   

30 minutes - How Bells/buzzers/alarms work (force between two wires)

Notes - Electric Motors (NEED TO MAKE)

40 minutes - Build an Electric Motor (NEED TO LOOK INTO www.scitoys.com)

 

Tues.

1/15

 

45-60 minutes - Lab - Building a Better Electromagnet

15 minutes - Finish Back side of WS: More Magnets

 

Finish WS: More Magnets

Webassign Due Thur @11:59 pm

    Test - Magnets  

Wed.

1/16

 

20-30 minutes - Questions (WS and Webassign)

45 minutes - Notes - Induction

20 minutes - Demo - Current induced in a coil (Galvinometer on over head), Magnet in a pipe (Portal to another universe)

WS: Induced Currents

Finish WS (Front Side Only)

Webassign Due Thur @11:59 pm

Thur.

1/17

 

15 minutes - Questions (WS and Webassign)

30 minutes - Notes - Transformers

10 minutes - Demo - Jumping Rings, Magnet in Pipe (may be)

15 mintues - WS - Holt: Inductance

30 minutes - WS: Study Guide for Quiz

Webassign DUE Thur @ 11:59 pm

Study for Quiz tomorrow

Finish Study Guide

Fri.

1/18

  Quiz on Magnetism Start Studying for Final

Subterm 2 Final

Physics H

Date
Bellwork
Daily Schedule
Homework

Mon.

1/21

  ~ No School ~

Study Guide

Even though this study guide is short, it should help you in your reviewing of the units we have covered in subterm 2.

Tues.

1/22

  Review: Break up into groups and each group summarizes key parts of the unit.  

Wed.

1/23

 

Review Jeopardy

Study for Final

Make and 8.5" x 11" Cheat sheet for the final

Thurs.

1/24

 

~Finals~

Period 3 FINAL

 

Fri.

1/25

 

~Finals~

Period 2 & 4 FINAL

Good Luck in your classes next term
End of the course.