1st Semester Assignments for 2013-14

Friday, August 16
go over syllabus, math check, MasteringPhysics, etc.

Monday, August 19 (5) and Tuesday, August 20 (2&4)
Chapter 1-Representing Motion
1.2 Position and Time: Putting Numbers on Nature
ex p26 4-7
1.3 Velocity
ex p26 8-13
HW p28 48, 49
1.4 A Sense of Scale: Significant Figures, Scientific Notation, and Units
ex p27 18-20
1.5 Vectors and Motion: A First Look
ex p27 27-29
HW p27 31
Lab-Displacement

Wednesday, August 21 (5) and Thursday, August 22 (2&4)
go over HW
Chapter 2-Motion in One Dimension
2.1 Describing Motion
ex p61 6, 8, and MasteringPhysics(MP)-Phet: Moving Man
HW p61 5, 9
2.2 Uniform Motion
ex p62 11, 12
HW p62 14, 16
2.3 Instantaneous Velocity
ex p62 19, 20
2.4 Acceleration
ex p62 21,22
HW p62 25
2.5 Motion with Constant Acceleration
ex p62 27, 29
HW p63 32, 72 (72 must be done on paper to turn in while the others are to be completed on MasteringPhysics)
Activity-Tracking Speed-Usain Bolt's 100m WR from 2008 Olympics (100 m World Record from 2008) and his even faster 100m WR from the Berlin World Championships in 2009 (current 100 m WR from 2009)

Friday, August 23 (5) and Monday, August 26 (2&4)
go over HW
Lab-Marble Roll
2.6 Solving One Dimensional Motion Problems
classwork p63 35-37

Tuesday, August 27 (5) and Wednesday, August 28 (2&4)
2.7 Free Fall
ex p63 38, 40, 42, 45, 62, 64
HW p63 43, 44, 63, 74
Lab-Free Fall
study these problems for the chapter 2 test: p63 9, 19, 32, 43

Thursday, August 29 (5) and Friday, August 30 (2&4)
Test - chapter 2

Monday, September 2 - NO School (Labor Day)

Tuesday, September 3 (5) and Wednesday, September 4 (2&4)
Chapter 3-Vectors and Motion in Two Dimensions
3.1 Using Vectors
3.2 Using Vectors on Motion Diagrams
3.3 Coordinate Systems and Vector Compounds
ex p97 6, 7, 8, 11
HW p97 9, 12
3.4 Motion on a Ramp (Incline)
ex p97 16, 19 (Laurel and Hardy), 47, 55
video-Motion on a Ramp
video demonstration-comparing two ramps
HW p97 17, 18, 53, 54
Lab-Acceleration on an Incline

Thursday, September 5 (5) and Friday, September 6 (2&4)
3.6 Motion in Two Dimensions-Projectile Motion
3.7 Projectile Motion: Solving Problems - Horizontal Launches
ex p98 27, 30, 64, 67, 70, 73
HW p98 28, 31, 65, 72
Lab-Projectile Motion (horizontal launches)

 Monday, September 9 (5) and Tuesday, September 10 (2&4)
3.7 Projectile Motion (launched at an angle)
ex p98 29, 32, 69
HW p98 33, 66, 68
Lab-Projectile Motion (angle launches)

Wednesday, September 11 (5) and Thursday, September 12 (2&4)
video-range of a projectile (QR code on p88)
Robbie Knievel Building Jump analysis

Friday, September 13 (5) and Monday, September 16 (2&4)
Robbie Maddison Las Vegas Arc Jump analysis

Tuesday, September 17 (5) and Wednesday, September 18 (2&4)
Evel Knievel jump analysis
study these problems for the chapter 3 test: p98 28, 32, 66

Thursday, September 19 (5) and Friday, September 20 (2&4)
Test - chapter 3

Monday, September 23 (5) and Tuesday, September 24 (2&4)
video that leads from linear acceleration to centripetal acceleration
3.8 Motion in Two Dimensions: Circular Motion
ex p98 38, 40, 74
Lab-Circular Motion
HW p98 39, 41, 75, 76a, 78-79

Wednesday, September 25 (5) and Thursday, September 26 (2&4)
video-Newton's Dark Secrets

Friday, September 27 (5) and Monday, September 30 (2&4)
Force Concept Inventory pretest (we will check your ideas about forces now and then again after finishing our unit about forces)
Chapter 4-Forces and Newton's Laws of Motion
4.1 What causes Motion?
ex p126 1-3
4.2 Force
ex p126 4-6
4.3 A Short Catalog of Forces
-give definitions
4.4 Identifying Forces
Force video: Objects and Agents (QR code on p111)
ex p127 7-9
HW p127 10-12
4.5 What do Forces do?
Force video: Newton's 2nd Law - regular vs. diet soda (QR code on top of p115)
ex p127 13-16
HW p127 18, 19, 66
Lab-Superball Bounce (like problem 64)

Tuesday, October 1 (5) and Wednesday, October 2 (2&4)
4.6 Newton's 2nd Law
video: Newton's 2nd Law with agents and objects: table cloth (QR code on left at bottom of p115)
video: suspended balls-which string breaks? (QR code on right at bottom of p115)
video: cart with fan and sail (QR code at top of p116)
video: tension in string between hanging weights (QR code in middle of p116)
ex p127 21-23
HW p127 25, (worksheet "Physics Example Problems for Newton's 2nd Law") - we did not assign the worksheet
4.7 Free-Body Diagrams
ex p128 29-34
HW p128 53, 54, 60, 65
4.8 Newton's Third Law
video: weighing a hovering magnet (QR code on p121)
ex p128 36-38 (for #37, bring 3 students to the front to demonstrate)
HW p130 69-72 (Passage Problem)

Thursday, October 3 (5) and Friday, October 4 (2&4)
Test - chapter 4
complete "pre-lab questions" of Truss Lab before our next class

Monday, October 7 (5) and Tuesday, October 8 (2&4)
Chapter 5-Applying Newton's Laws
5.1 Equilibrium
ex p161 3, 5, 7
HW p161 4, 6, 41
5.3 Mass and Weight
ex p162 18, 19, 20
HW p162 21
Lab-Force Components (use Truss lab equipment)

Wednesday, October 9 (5) and Thursday, October 10 (2&4)
go over HW
finish Force Component Lab

Friday, October 11 (5) and Tuesday, October 15 (2&4)
5.2 Dynamics and Newton's Second Law
video: forces in jumping (QR code on p135)
video-use what you just saw to analyze Blake Griffin dunking
online Dunk Calculator
 ex p161 8, 10, 13, 15, 45, 51
examples worksheet : Newton's 2nd Law
Lunar Lander PhET simulation
Lunar Lander questions
 prepare for rocket launch
HW p161 9, 43, 44, 46, 47, 52, 57

Wednesday, October 16 - Testing Day (no classes)

Thursday, October 17 (5) and Friday, October 18 (2&4)
Lab-Rocket Launch
Rocket Altitude Calculator
 worksheet-rockets

Monday, October 21 (5) and Tuesday, October 22 (2&4)
5.4 Normal Forces
ex p162 23
HW p162 24
5.5 Friction
video: solving problems using Newton's Laws (QR code on p143)
ex p162 25-28
HW p162 55,70
Lab-Friction (flat and incline)

Wednesday, October 23 (5) and Thursday, October 24 (2&4)
5.6 Drag
ex p162 31,68
HW p162 33,69
video clips-Joe Kittinger and Red Bull Stratos (jumped on Sunday, October 14, 2012)
Red Bull Stratos POV video
 finish Friction Lab (due next class)
(Lab-Parachute Army Men)

Friday, October 25 (5) and Monday, October 28 (2&4)
5.7 Interacting Objects
ex p162 34,35
HW p162 72
5.8 Ropes and Pulleys
ex p162 36,37,38,39,45
HW p162 46,65,74
Lab-Connected Masses

Tuesday, October 29 (5) and Wednesday, October 30 (2&4)
Lab-Friction on an Incline
Review
Study these for the test: p161 4,21,52,55

Thursday, October 31 (5)
Test - chapter 5

Friday, November 1 - NO School (8th Grade Day)

Monday, November 4 - NO School (Veterans' Day observed)

Tuesday, November 5 (2&4)
Test - chapter 5

Wednesday, November 6 (5) and Thursday, November 7 (2&4)
Chapter 6 - Circular Motion, Orbits, and Gravity
Circular Motion activities
 6.1 Uniform Circular Motion
6.2 Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration in Uniform Circular Motion
ex p196 11,13,16
HW p196 15
6.3 Dynamics of Uniform Circular Motion
video: Forces in Circular Motion (QR code at top of p174)
video: Demo-ball leaves circular track (QR code on left at bottom of p174)
video: car driving over a rise (QR code on right at bottom of p174)
ex p196 17,19,44,51
ex p177 EX 6.1
HW p196 20,21
Lab-Circular Motion
HW before your next class, read section 6.4 (pages 179-182) and watch the following video clip: forces in a vertical circle

Friday, November 8 (5) and Monday, November 11 (2&4)
6.4 Apparent Forces in Circular Motion
ex p197 23,24,50,52
Loop-the-Loop car stunt
Loop-the-Loop question (you can fast-forward to 1:42)
Loop-the-Loop answer part 1
Loop-the-Loop answer part 2
Physics of a Car driving around a banked turn
why race cars high in the turns can go faster than cars low in the turns
HW p197 25,45,53
vertical circles
handout-Vertical Circular Motion Examples and Homework
ex problems 1,2,6(a,b), 8 from handout

Tuesday, November 12 (5) and Wednesday, November 13 (2&4)
6.5 Circular Orbits and Weightlessness
6.6 Newton's Law of Gravity
ex p197 30,31
HW p197 33,58,60
6.7 Gravity and Orbits
ex p197 35,37
HW p197 38,39
Online Simulation-Newton's Law of Gravity
test review: study p196 19, 23, 50, 53

Thursday, November 14 (5) and Friday, November 15 (2&4)
Test - Chapter 6

Monday, November 18 (5) and Tuesday, November 19 (2&4)
Force Concept Inventory post-test (comparing your answers now to what they were before we studied forces)
Chapter 20 - Electric Fields and Forces
20.1 Charges and Forces
Charges and Forces: Demonstrations (QR code on page 645)
20.2 Charges, Atoms, and Molecules
20.3 Coulomb's Law
Charged Rod and Aluminum Can (QR code on the left of page 652)
Charges and Forces Warm-Ups (QR code on the right of page 652)
ex p670 1,9,14
HW p670 2,4,10,15
Lab-Coulomb's Law

Wednesday, November 20 (5) and Thursday, November 21 (2&4)
20.4 The Concept of the Electric Field
Electric Fields
20.5 Applications of the Electric Field
20.6 Conductors and Electric Fields
20.7 Forces and Torques in Electric Fields
ex p670 18,22,26,30
HW p670 19,23,27,31
complete the following worksheet using the PhET simulations in the link below
PhET simulations: electricity-magnets-and-circuits

Friday, November 22 (5) and Monday, November 25 (2&4)
Chapter 21 - Electric Potential
21.1 Electric Potential Energy and Electric Potential
Electric Potential and Electric Potential Energy (part 1)
Electric Potential and Electric Potential Energy (part 2)
21.2 Sources of Electric Potential
Sparks in the Air (QR code on page 678)
21.3 Electric Potential and Conservation of Energy
21.4 Calculating the Electric Potential
21.5 Connecting Potential and Field
ex p706 3,12,18
HW p706 4,13,59
PhET simulation: charges and fields
worksheet for charges and field PhET simulation

Tuesday, November 26 (5) and Wednesday, November 27 (2&4)
21.6 The Electrocardiogram
21.7 Capacitance and Capacitors
21.9 Energy and Capacitors
ex p706 20,24,30
HW p706 21,23,33,86-89
PhET simulation: capacitor lab
worksheet for capacitor lab simulation 

Thursday, November 28 - Sunday, December 1 (Thanksgiving Break)

Monday, December 2 (5) and Tuesday, December 3 (2&4)
Chapter 22 - Current and Resistance
22.1 A Model of Current
22.2 Defining and Describing Current
Effect of Electrical Current on the Human Body
ex p735 1,3,10
HW p735 6,9
22.3 Batteries and EMF
ex p735 13,18
HW p735 17

Wednesday, December 4 (5) and Thursday, December 5 (2&4)
22.4 Connecting Potential and Current (Resistance and Resistivity)
video-Determining Resistance (QR code on p721)
ex p735 24,62
HW p735 55,56
22.5 Ohm's Law
video-Basic Cicruits (Energy Ball) - QR code on p724
ex p736 30,51
HW p736 31,60,67
22.6 Energy and Power
video-Practical Electricity Applications (left QR code on p729)
video-Demo:Nichrome wire vs. Copper wire (right QR code on p729)
ex p736 36,40
HW p736 38,39
Lab-Electrical Appliances (take home) - due next class

Friday, December 6 (5) and Monday, December 9 (2&4)
Chapter 23 - Circuits
23.1 Circuit Elements and Diagrams
23.2 Kirchoff's Laws
ex p770 5,6
HW p770 7,8
23.3 Series and Parallel Circuits
video-Circuits: Warm-Up Exercises (QR code on p745)
video-Demo: Bulbs Connected in Series and Parallel (QR code on p748)
ex p770 10,11,51
HW p770 52,58
23.5 More Complex Circuits
video-Analyzing More Complex Circuits (QR code on p746)
ex p770 17,23
HW p770 18,26

Tuesday, December 10 (5) and Wednesday, December  11 (2&4)
23.6 Capacitors in Parallel and Series
video-Demo: Capacitors in Series and Parallel (QR code on p754)
ex p772 36,38
HW p772 37,39
23.7 RC Circuits
ex p772 40,70,72
HW p772 41, 81-83
PhET simulation - circuit construction
PhET circuit worksheet
Christmas Light Physics
LED physics
LED basic operation
Saving Electricity
How Stuff Works - LEDs
Christmas Tree Lights
Christmas Tree Lights part 2
old-style Blinking Lights
Christmas Lighting Technology

Thursday, December 12 (5) and Friday, December 13 (2&4) - last class meeting before final exam
final exam review (chapters 22 and 23 are on final)
finish online circuit simulation
The Physics of Santa
The Physics of Santa - more info
The Physics of Santa - with the math worked out



2nd Semester Assignments for 2013-14

Monday, January 13 (5) and Tuesday, January 14 (2&4)
Chapter 10: Energy and Work
10.1 The Basic Energy Model
-The Law of Conservation of Energy
10.2 Work
ex p317 2,3,5,6,
HW p317 53,72
10.8 Power
ex p318 41,42,43
HW p318 45,71,74
Lab-Power

Wednesday, January 15 (5) and Thursday, January 16 (2&4)
10.3 Kinetic Energy
ex p317 9,10
HW p317 68,80-84
10.4 Potential Energy
ex p317 15,18,19
HW p317 16,17,20
10.6 Using the Law of Conservation of Energy
video clip - Breaking Boards (QR code on p306)
Chin Basher? (QR code on p307)
ex p318 26,49,55,60
HW p318 27,29,30,59
Lab-Conservation of Energy with Hot Wheels

Friday, January 17 (5) and Tuesday, January 21 (2&4)
10.5 Thermal Energy
ex p318 22,25
HW p318 23,24
Chapter 12 - Thermal Properties of Matter
12.5 Specific Heat and Heat Transformations
ex p400 32,38
HW p400 36,39
Heating Water and Aluminum (the left QR code on p381)
Water Balloon held over Candle Flame (the right QR code on p381)
12.6 Calorimetry
ex p400 42,45
HW p400 44,46
Lab-Calorimetry
review - study these problems: p317 27,41,55,71 and p400 42

Wednesday, January 22 (5) and Thursday, January 23 (2&4)
Test-chapters 10 and 12

Friday, January 24 (5) and Monday, January 27 (2&4)
Chapter 9: Momentum
9.1 Impulse
9.2 Momentum and Impulse: Momentum Theorem
ex p284 1,2,5,36
HW p284 3,38
9.3 Solving Impulse and Momentum Problems
ex p284 7,10
HW p284 9,11,47
9.4 Conservation of Momentum
ex p284 17,49
HW p284 18,44
10.7 Energy in Collisions
ex p318 37
HW p318 40,62
9.5 Inelastic Collisions
ex p285 22,24,55
HW p285 53,54,60
Lab-Conservation of Momentum

Tuesday, January 28 (5) and Wednesday, January 29 (2&4)
9.6 Momentum and Collisions in Two Dimensions
ex p285 26,29,58
HW p285 56,65
HW - Investigating a Meteor Impact
video-Asteroid Apocalypse

Thursday, January 30 (5) and Friday, January 31 (2&4)
video analysis-Armageddon