Advanced Physics Calendar

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August 2004

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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12
Professional Development Day
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Records Day
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16
First Day of Classes for Students- Welcome to class Day 1 handout
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Take Force Concept Inventory- Circle Activity
 
 
18
Circle Activity
 
 
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Circle Activity
 
 
Graphical Analysis handout
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Records Day (no classes for students)
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23

 Introductions, Graphing Summary
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-"Graphical Analysis" Walk through- Work on Data Sets-- see an example here: Circle Example ; Data Example 
and user guide sheet

Web homework quick start #5 and #12
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-First Warm-up

Work on Data sets
26

 Work on data sets
 
27

 -Last day to Work on Data sets
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29

 Web Homework #1 due
 
30
 Present whiteboards - 
 
 
31
Notebook Check
 
Reading Questions
www.lightandmatter.com
 
 
 

September 2004

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

 
 
 
1
Review
 
 
2
Test  Unit 1
 
 
3
Beginning Unit 2--   discuss: position, displacement and distance; for extra reading click above

Battery Powered Car Prelab-- 
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Labor Day (schools and offices closed)
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Battery Powered Car Lab-- Data Taking 

Web homework #2 is posted
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Battery Powered Car-- Graph Data -- Present results and write conclusions-- 
 Lab Due
tests returned,
9
 notes on velocity and speed, start unit 2 wmups, 
  Worksheet #1
10
Motion Detector Activity
 
 
11

 
 
12

 Help with Motion Maps
 
13
Finish Motion Detector activity


 
 
14
DVD questions and Worksheet 5


U2W3 
 
U2W5

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Whiteboard and present WS 5, 
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Unit 2 problem sheet example
 
 Homework- Prelim unit 2 problem sheet

 
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Work on solving Unit 2 problem sheet
 
 
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Turn in Unit 2 problem sheet

Go over Problem Example
 You chasing your parents problem
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Work on 4 problems  

Assign 4 problems

Junior Meetings (2nd, 5th, 6th)
 
WS 6-

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Discuss 4 problems-- do examples 
 
23
Whiteboard 8 webhomework problems
 
 
 
Open house 6:30
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Present web homework problems 
 
 
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26

 
 Web homework #2 is due
27
Review
 
 
28
Test Unit 2
 
 
29
Begin Constant acceleration unit
 - Race Track with Limited Acceleration
 
30
Video- Sports Figures "Speed and Acceleration"- Discuss Vector addition and subtraction- Hmwk- vector worksheet
 
 

October 2004

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

 
 
 
1
Flexible Records/Conference Day (no classes for students)
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3
Web Homework for Unit 3 is posted- it is Hmwk #4
 
 
4

Turn in and discuss Vector Addition worksheet

 
Prelab Notes
 
 
Writing Assignment - Due Nov. 1st
5
Begin Acceleration Lab

 


 
6

Acceleration Lab Lab Conclusion-

Use program "Graphs and Tracks" to help with Worksheet #1 

(extra practice click here)

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WS 2 and WS 3 - whiteboard

 
8

Finish presenting WS2 and WS3 do Graphs and Tracks

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example- speeder and patrolman, and car chasing train Work on WS 4-

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Work on and Turn in WS 4

If you have trouble using your calculator see the Calculator Tutorial in the Appendix of the home page

13

"Accelerated Motion Problems"
 Work on "Accelerated Motion Problems"- Go over graphs for problems in class

 

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Turn in "Accelerated Motion Problems"- Discuss

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Whiteboard "Accelerated Motion Problems"- receive solutions
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IMMEX Problem- "Daredevil Train Jump"
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Discuss "Train Jump"- Vector Addition Revisited

Whiteboard some Web Hmwrk

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Present some Web Hmwk

 

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Present some web homework

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IMMEX Problem- "Daredevil Train Jump"

Demo version of "Train Jump"

Solution to "Train Jump"
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 Web Hmwk #4 (unit 3) is due
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Open Response Question
 Physics/Unit 3 Worksheets/Acceleration Open Response.doc
 
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 Lab Practicum 
How long will it take cart to roll from one spot to another...
27
Review
 
 
28

Test Unit 3- Uniform Acceleration
 
 
29
Last Writing Project Discussion

Begin Unit 4- Forces and Equilibrium

 Read Chapter 4 and answer questions
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November 2004

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

 
 
 
1
Writing Project Due
 
  Discuss Inertia--Receive Handout Packet on Mass, and Forces Prelab notes for "The Meaning of Mass" Lab-
2
Election Day (no classes for students)

 
3

Work on "The Meaning of Mass" Lab
Tests given back-- copies of each test are at the lab stations...

 
4

  Finish the "Meaning of Mass" lab- will be turned in Friday
 
5

 Activity from Minds-On Physics "Recognizing Forces in Realistic Situations
 
Lab Due
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8


Discuss Components of forces-- work on WS 1
 
 U4WS1
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 Whiteboard WS 1
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Notes- numerical values of vector components-

Webhomework #6 is posted
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Free Body Program- Fill in sheet
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Handout WS 2+3, notes on solving problems 

Unit 4WS 2

Unit 4 WS 3

Finish Free Body Program - Turn in 

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Whiteboard WS 2+3
 
Present Whiteboards 
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Do IMMEX "Equilibrium Problem"

 
 
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Discuss "Equilibrium Problem"
 
Whiteboard Questions on
Web Homework
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 Present some web homework problems


 
 
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Web Hmwk due 		Practice MC 22 Questions
 Newton's 3rd law demo- discuss tug-o-war
 
 
23

 Review- Lab Practicum

 
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Test Unit 4

 
 
25
Thanksgiving Holiday (schools and offices closed)
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Thanksgiving Holiday (schools and offices closed)
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29

 Begin Unit 5 - Forces and Acceleration

Newton 2 - Lab
 
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Finish Newton 2 lab- Whiteboard and Discuss
 
 
 

December 2004

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

 
 
 
1
Discuss Elevators- Do W 1; Discuss Acc Problems Do WS 2 for Homework

 
2
Whiteboard WS 1 and 2
 
 
3
Friction Notes- "That Mu You Do"- Open Response Question
 
 
4
IMMEX Training, 8:00-12:00
 
 
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Notes on 2 body Problem-

Example 

 Work on WS 3 and 4
 Unit V Worksheet 3
 
Physics/Unit 5- worksheet/5ws-4.doc

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Work on WS 3 and 4- Turn in
 
 
8
IMMEX Problem "Slip-N-Slide"
 
(Assign Web Problems to Board) 
9
Whiteboard Web Homework
 
 
10
Lab Practicum- Atwood's Machine
 
 
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12
Unit 5 WEB Homework Due- Hmwk #7
 
 
Remember Notebooks are due the day of your final
13
Review
 Phys. 1st Sem Review
 
14
Finals- 3rd & 6

 
 
15
Finals 1st & 4th
 
 
Optional Web homework due--Hmwk #8 (can use to make up a missed webhomework)
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Finals 2nd and 5th

 
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Flexible Records/Conference Day
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January 2005

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

 
 
 
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3
Classes resume after Winter Break

Welcome back- new seats-new book- Tower building--
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Into to Energy; Feynman CD, Energy Lecture: Kinetic Energy, Potential Energy, Conservation of Energy.
 


 
5
Worksheet 1
   

Web homework log-in renewal

 

 
6
Whiteboard WS 1
   

Do Open Response question- "Jumping Toy"
 


 
7

 Energy Videos 
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10
Spring Lab- Find relationship between force on spring and the stretch of the spring.  Also find Elastic Potential Energy from resulting graph.  (Hint- Energy is measures in Joules) 
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Go over lab, Discuss derivation of energy equations,  
 
Turn in lab reports (7 questions)
12

Web homework #9 is posted - due 1/23

Finish Notes--- 

Force, Energy, Power  comparison

Do Worksheet 2




 
 
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Check WS 2

Discuss Bar graphs for representing energy  change

WS 3a and 3b
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WS 3a 
 WS 3b

Whiteboard
 

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday (schools and offices closed)
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Whiteboard- Present 3b

Discuss Power
 
WS 4 and WS 5- 
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Turn in WS 4 and 5 
 

 

 

 
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Whiteboard Web homework
 
 
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Energy Practicum
 
 
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23
Web Homework #9 due date
 
 
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Practice Test- Solutions page 1

Solutions page 2

Review
 
 
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Energy Test
 
 
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 Start Impulse and Momentum- 

"Lecture Notes"-- :Here is a nice explanation of impulse and momentum Here is an explanation of Conservation of Momentum

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Take "Energy Concept Inventory"
 
 
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Reading Questions Momentum - Download textbook
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CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM Activity
 
 
 
 
 

February 2005

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

 
 
 
1

 DUE-  Conservation of Momentum Activity-  


 
2

Worksheet #1

and

Impulsive Force Model Worksheet 2- Quantitative Conservation of Momentum


 
 
3

 Whiteboard and Present WS 1 and WS 2
 
4

 Video "Running with momentum, relaxing with impulse"
 
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Finish Presenting WS1 and WS2

 
 
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Do Impulse-Momentum   Lab "Bungee Jump"
 
 
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Finish Impulse Momentum Lab- Discuss Momentum in 2-D

Homework



 
 
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Discuss 2-D plus Energy problems
   
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examples--

worksheet 4

 




 
 
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  Whiteboard WS 4
 
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Present WS 4 
 
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Finish Presenting WS4: pg1, pg2, pg3, pg4 

Receive Worksheet 5
 
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Turn in WS 5
 
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Lab Practicum
 
 Solutions to WS 5: pg 1, pg2, pg3, pg4
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President's Day (schools and offices closed)

Web Homework due
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Review Momentum- Practice web homework #11
 
 
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Test Momentum
 
 
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Oscillating mass lab- find what affects the period of a mass on a spring
 
 
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Oscillating mass lab- find what affects the period of a mass on a spring
 
 
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Finish lab- whiteboard
 
 
 UK college of Arts and Sciences is having several activities for "Geek Week" (Feb 21-25). You can check out all the activities being offered here http://www.as.uky.edu/geekweek/release2.html .

March 2005

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

 
 
 
1
Present Whiteboard

Video- Harmonic Motion
 
 
2
Worksheet 1 - Whiteboard
 
 
3
Flexible Records/Conference Day (no classes for students)
4
Flexible Professional Development Day (no classes for students)
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7
Discuss GPE and horizontal oscillation- present WS 1
 
 
8
New Seats- Begin Warmups
 
 Notes- Resonance, Transverse, Longitudinal- Wave demo/experiment
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Finish wave demo/ experiment

Notes- speed of waves
 
 http://www.kineticbooks.com
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Worksheet #2 and Ranking Tasks
 
 
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Video - Waves
 
 
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Go over Ranking Tasks, Check WS2

Changing Mediums
 The Physics Classroom http---www
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Finish Activity
 
 Changing Mediums
 The Physics Classroom http---www
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Open note quiz- Boundary Behavior

Notes: Superposition of waves 

Reading- Interference

Reading- Doppler
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Doppler example problem

Activity- speed of sound and beats
 
 
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 Finish activity- questions about we homework
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Web homework #12 is due
 
 
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Review
 Answers to problems: 1) 504 Hz, 2)263 Hz, 3)262 Hz 
22
Wave test 
 
 
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Intro to Cosmology- Video
 
 
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Electromagnetism and electromagnetic induction
 Notes- mini lab- handout sheet
 
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Book questions
 
 on the back of Thursday's sheet
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Electromagnetic spectrum- prepare presentations


 Electromagnetic Spectrum Presentations
 
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Present EM spectrum information...
 
 
Summary of EM wave information

 
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Finish Presenting EM spectrum 
 
 
CATS homeroom
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Tesla video
 
 
 
 

April 2005

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

 
 
 
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Flexible Records/Conference Day (no classes for students)
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4
Spring Break (schools and offices closed)
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Spring Break (schools and offices closed)
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Spring Break (schools and offices closed)
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Spring Break (schools and offices closed)
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Spring Break (schools and offices closed)
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Finish Tesla Video
 
 
12
Spectra Lab
 
 
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Spectra Lab
 
 
14

Discuss Spectra - electron transitions in Hydrogen, Pachen Balmer and Lyman series in Hydrogen
 
 
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Lecture- We are stardust- the life of stars. Fill in Star Life Tables- Look at Stellar Evolution Poster 

Homework- read packet
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Star Video


 Big Bang-- what is the theory-- what is the evidence  calculate time passed based on background radiation  
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 CATS Testing Begins

1st, 2nd, 3rd in afternoon

Powers of 10 and Cosmos "The Life of Stars"
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 4, 5, 6 in afternoon

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 1,2,3 in afternoon
Web Homework 
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 No first hour 2,4,5,6 
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 Web homework #13 due
25
 Review
 
26

 
 Test Cosmology
27

 Projectile Motion- Do Virtual Lab follow this link to a projectile simulation 

find the relationship between x position and time

find the relationship between y position and time
 
Data-graphs-equation-discussion
28

  Projectile Motion-Notes-  

hmwk: WS 1 and 2 and 3
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 Projectile Motion- Work on Worksheets 1,2,3--
 
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May 2005

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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2
Whiteboard or Turn in WS 1,2,3
 
 
3
DO Lab Practicum... Given the height of a launcher and its range calculate the needed height to hit a specific target range
 
4
Intro to Circular Motion- Lecture and Reading
5
Lecture Centripetal Motion 
 
 
Hmwk- WS 1 
 
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Work on Web Homework 

 
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9
Whiteboard worksheet 1 and 2
 
10

Work on Web Homework

11
Ws 4- work on
 
 
 
 
12
Turn in WS 4

Lab  Practicum- Bee Going in a Circle
 
Physics/Unit8- Circular/Bee Data/bee bottom view.MPG

Physics/Unit8- Circular/Bee Data/bee side view.MPG

Bee photo

Make-up for missed Practicum- Print- Complete- Turn in
13
Questions on Web homework
 
 Circular Motion Video
14

 
 
15
Web Homework- 2D motion due (Projectile and Centripetal)- #14
 
16

 Review 2D motion
 
17

 2D motion test
 
18
 Work on "Accident Reconstruction" - 25 test points-- keep working until you get it correct in under $3000


 See Units for Content to help review for written final

Also look over the reviews for each semester test
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3rd- class
 2nd Final
 6th class
5th final
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1st class
 3rd final
 4th class
6th final
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 Optional Web homework due (#15)-- may also help  review for final
 
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2nd class
 1st final
 5th class
4th final

TURN IN "ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION" Worksheets
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Last day of school for students

Reading Day-- Bring a book

NO EXTRA CREDIT!
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Records Day
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Flexible Professional Development Day
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