Advanced Physics

AUGUST 2009

Sunday

Monday

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Saturday

Optional Work Day

Optional Work Day

Professional Development

Staff Development Day

questions about Syllabus, web homework

Do "The Meaning of Graphs" Sheet

You should have EID by midnight tonight

Suggested Reading- Student Guide to Methods of  Graphical Analysis 

Whiteboard and Discuss  "The Meaning of Graphs" Sheet

Discuss why you can't just rely on statistics

Discuss methods of Graphical Analysis.

Suggested Reading- Student Guide to Methods of  Graphical Analysis 

discuss web-homework - due Sunday

hand out Graph Summary Sheet

Do re-graphs, Get Stats for lab ,Get Textbook Equation for Pendulum Lab, Finish lab analysis-

GA reference sheet

Lab sheet

Sample Data from Pendulum Lab

Staff Development Day

Web Homework #1 is due (11:59 pm Central Time)

Work on Data sets
Note:  On the test you
will have to analyze
a data set by yourself

At home?- Demo Copy of Graphical Analysis 

 class notes- pg 1, pg 2

extra information:
Data Example (and extra
practice)
Graphical Analysis (the computer program)
Information
user guide sheet for 
Graphical Analysis Program

Work on Data sets
Note:  On the test you
will have to analyze
a data set by yourself

At home?- Demo Copy of Graphical Analysis 

class notes

Finish Data sets; whiteboard data sets

At home?- Demo Copy of Graphical Analysis 

Present  Data sets
Turn in Data Sets

At home?- Demo Copy of Graphical Analysis 

Go over Practice Test

Practice- Demo Copy of Graphical Analysis 

Advanced Physics

SEPTEMBER 2009

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Lab Practicum

Unit 1 Test

Define- fact, law, and theory

Relate JFK conspiracy theories to scientific theory

Labor Day

e-mail self checks for group
Name: Hour__Group__ (or H__G___)
Ms. Gill’s e-mail address:
Karen.gill@fayette.kyschools.us

Chapter 2
Once you score 100% e-mail to Ms. Gill

Name: Hour__Group__ (or H__G___)
Ms. Gill’s e-mail address:
Karen.gill@fayette.kyschools.us
 

if you are absent e-mail results using your own name

5th and 6th hour Homerooms for Testing Pre-Administration

Lab group assignments

Lab Template

write Lab Conclusion  for battery powered car lab - turn in lab
("textbook") results:

x_f  and t are your variables.  You can do a % error analysis on x_i, but for  v you will discuss the reasonableness of the value.

Applet Graphing Activity -- relating motion and graphs-- Position Vs Time (1-5); Velocity vs time (1-4) - Do match -hit the "print screen" button and paste into a "Word" document- print and turn in

Extra Practice:

Understanding Positon-time graphs

Understanding Velocity-time graphs

Print x-t graph matches for #6-10 and v-t graph matches #5-10 (copy graphs and paste into word document-shrink, then print)

Groups whiteboard Problems
WS 1
U2W3 (#3 only)
U2W4 (#2 only)
U2W5  (all)

 motion maps example on board

Present Whiteboards from Friday

Class Example Problems- Smartboard (examples A, B, 1 from WS 6)

Extra Notes- Problems 1 and 2 (pg 1, pg 2, pg 3)

 

Note: You should be able to do all web homework problems at this point

if you finish early work on web homework.

Counselors meet with Seniors during 2nd and 3rd hours

Work on Web Homework
quest.cns.utexas.edu/

Constants - Conversions
 

Locked Password Help

Web Homework #2 Due
quest.cns.utexas.edu/

Constants - Conversions
 

Locked Password Help

Practice Test

Vocabulary

 STUDY PROBLEM SHEETS!

Go over Practice Test

Advanced Physics

OCTOBER 2009

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

"Graphs and Tracks" Program is located on Classroom Computers it is not online.

Note:  Grades for Acceleration Test have been entered into Infinite Campus, and updated grades sheets are posted on bulletin board in entryway (grades posted by student number)
 

Chapter 3 Accelerated Motion
Section 1: Self-Check Quiz
Section 2: Self-Check Quiz
Section 3: Self-Check Quiz

Name:  H_G_(Hour__Group__), if you are absent from class then use your own name

Ms. Gill’s e-mail address:
Karen.gill@fayette.kyschools.us

Video

Records day

No School

Whiteboard WS 3

Notes- Deriving kinematics equations graphically

Work on WS 4

Work on and turn in WS 4
 

Work on web homework when WS 4 turned in

turn in WS 4
example problems

speeder and patrolman: question, solution

 iSchool site (standard school log-in and password, access key Fizix)

Extra examples--  Accelerated Motion
 Problems"  (WS 5)

Solutions---
../Physics/Unit 3 Worksheets/Acceleration Problems 1&2.tif

../Physics/Unit 3 Worksheets/Acceleration Problems 6&7&8.tif

If you have trouble 
using your calculator
see the Calculator 
Tutorial *TI-83 Calculator Tutorial   *Using the Equation Solver

Problem 11 (gr 1)

Advanced Physics

NOVEMBER 2009

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practice test problems

practice test problem answers

Notes - Forces (pg 1)

Note:  You may Finish IMMEX Problem today and get an OMIT for the video grade

Read Chapter 4 in "Light and Matter - Newtonian Physics" (starts on pg 123)-- turn in reading questions

Notes- Newton's Laws F=ma, What is force?, What is mass? and What is the relationship between them? Discuss Fundamental
Forces, Gravitational Force,
difference between mass
and weight.

iSchool site - probe files

- force & symbol

- when present (negligible?)

-what object(s) exerts force

-direction of force?

-how measured

"Identifying forces" - print summary sheet
do the diagnoser 

do Worksheet Activity  "Recognizing 
Forces in 
Realistic Situations"

Web page Help

Finish "Free Body"

 Notes- Vector Components and how to get numerical values of
vector components-
Component notes

Extra: Read about Components

MC Key White

study from home:

WS3 solutions + look over web homework

No School

No School

No School

  Lab Sheet

Class Data

Advanced Physics

DECEMBER 2009

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

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Saturday

"That Mu You Do"- Video

Open Response Question

example problem

2 body Problem- example

problems WS 3 and 4

  Unit V Worksheet 3
 
Physics/Unit 5-WS4

 solutions WS3 (for 8a the answer is 4.2 m/s^2-- the answer is cut off on the bottom of the sheet)

solutions WS4

Practice Problems 17-26

Practice Problems 27-28

Solutions Problems 17-24

Solutions Problems 25-28

Login: Hour_Group_

Password: fizix

If working on your own use Web homework EID to login

Login: Hour_Group_

Password: fizix

If working on your own use Web homework EID to login

Last Day before Break

Review (conceptual questions); study problems from old tests; look over old web homeworks; work through Web Homework #6 

Review Sheet:
 Phys. 1st Sem Review

Advanced Physics

JANUARY 2010

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

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Friday

Saturday

Classes Resume

Martin Luther King Holiday

Advanced Physics

FEBRUARY 2010

Sunday

Monday

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Friday

Saturday

Staff Development

President's day- no school

Advanced Physics

MARCH 2010

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

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Friday

Saturday

Records Day

Professional Development day

Spring Break --->

Advanced Physics

APRIL 2010

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Monday

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Saturday

<---- Spring Break

Advanced Physics

MAY 2010

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Monday

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Professional Development

Last Day of School

JUNE 2010

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Saturday