4 - 8 June
"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."
-Sam Keen
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."
-Calvin (Bill Watterson)
“A perfect day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.”
-James Dent
Monday, 4th
-2nd SEMESTER FINAL EXAM
Tuesday, 5th
-NO CLASS!
Wednesday, 6th
-SCHOOL'S OUT! FOR THE SUMMER!!
28 May - 1 June
"Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson."
-Vern Law
Monday, 28th
-NO SCHOOL!
Tuesday, 29th
-Review for 2nd Semester Final Exam (Monday, 4 June 2012)
-covers 3rd and 4th quarter material (chapters 32-37 and 25-30)
-your own calculator, and two 8.5" x 11" notesheets (both sides)
Wednesday, 30th
-SENIORS LAST DAY! Congrats!
-Review continued
Thursday, 31st
-Review continued
Friday, 1st
-LN2 ice cream and other demos
21 - 25 May
"There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago."
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (American Prometheus)
Monday, 21st
-CW: HW check @ bell, work on lab report (due Thursday)
Tuesday, 22nd
-TEXTBOOK RETURN
CW: Valleyfair prep, last day for Test retake
Wednesday, 23rd
-VALLEYFAIR (go to 1st hour, dismissal by announcement)
-CW: alternative assignment for those in class
Thursday, 24th
CW: Review for Test tomorrow
Friday, 25th
-TEST: Refraction and Lenses (parts of Chaps 29 and 30)
14 - 18 May
"About light I am in the dark."
-Benjamin Franklin
Monday, 14th
-CW: Video lecture on Refraction and Lenses (by Paul Hewitt); Chap 29/30 packets passed out (due Mon)
Tuesday, 15th
-L&D: How do Lenses Work?
-ray tracing diagram videos: Converging A, Converging B, Diverging
Wednesday, 16th
-LAB: Refraction of Light in Water and Oil
-HW: Read 29.6-29.8 Q#12,16,17,28-30 (due Fri)
Thursday, 17th
-LAB: Estimate focal length of a lens (formal lab report due Thur, 24 May)
-HW: Read 30.1-30.4 Q#1-4,7,8 (due Mon)
Friday, 18th
-LAB: continued
7 - 11 May
“Twinkle, twinkle little star
I don’t wonder what you are
For by the spectroscopic ken
I know you are hydrogen.”
-Lewis Fry Richardson
Monday, 7th
-NO SCHOOL!!
Tuesday, 8th
-CW: HW check
-L&D: Colored Shadows and Atomic Fingerprints
-HW: Read 28.5 - 28.7, 28.11 Q#13,14,,23,24,32,44
Wednesday, 9th
-LAB: Spectroscopic Ken
Thursday, 10th
-CW: HW check, Review for Test (Chaps 27 & 28)
Friday, 11th
-CW: TEST on Light & Color (Chaps 27 & 28)
30 April - 4 May
"The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself."
-Bertrand Russell
Monday, 30th
-L&D: What is light? and how do we know? (packets passed out, due Fri)
-Video: "The Secret Life of the Electric Light"
-HW: Read 27.1 - 27.5 Q#1,6,10,12,57,59 (due Wed)
Tuesday, 1st
-L&D: Why can we see through glass, and not through cinder blocks?
-HW: Read 27.6 - 27.8 Q#18,19,20,21,22,46 (due Thurs)
Wednesday, 2nd
-CW: HW check, packet time, RMIVUXG
Thursday, 3rd
-CW: HW check
-L&D: "Orange isn't a real color, There's no such thing as white light and Roy G Biv is dead"
-HW: Read 28.1 - 28.4 Q#1,2,3,6,8,9 (due Tues)
Friday, 4th
-GIZMO: Additive and Subtractive Color
23 - 27 April
"In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you."
-Frank Wilczek
Monday, 23rd
-LAB: cont'd
Tuesday, 24th
-CW: HW check @ bell, finish lab and packet time (both due today)
Wednesday, 25th
-CW: Review for Test on Friday (overview and Jeopardy)
Thursday, 26th
-CW: Review for Test tomorrow (writing and solving practice)
Friday, 27th
-TEST: Chaps 25 & 26
-3" x 5" card, your own calculator (no sharing, no cell phones, etc.)
16 - 20 April
"I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons."
-Douglas Adams
Monday, 16th
-CW: HW check @ bell, QUIZ, packet time (due today), chap 26 packets passed out
-HW: Read 26.1 - 26.4, Q#1,5,7,8,24,27 (due Friday)
Tuesday, 17th
-MCAs in the morning: periods 1,2,3
-CW: no class for 3rd hour, lab for 5th hour
Wednesday, 18th
-MCAs in the morning: periods 1,2,3
-CW: no class for 3rd hour, lab for 5th hour
Thursday, 19th
-L&D: Vibrations and Sound (by Paul Hewitt, book author)
-HW: Read 26.6 - 26.10 Q#11,13,15,17,23,53 (due Tuesday)
Friday, 20th
-CW: HW check @ bell
-LAB: Tones, Vowels and Cell Phones (yes, cell phones :)
9 - 13 April
"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms."
-George Wald
Monday, 9th
-CW: pre-test, chap 25 packet passed out (due Monday)
-L&D: Intro to Waves
-HW: Read 25.1 - 25.6, Qs#3,6,7,11,26,30 (due Wed)
Tuesday, 10th
-Virtual LAB: Characteristics of Waves
Wednesday, 11th
-CW: HW check @ Bell
-L&D: Making nothing out of something
-HW: Read 25.7 - 25.9, Qs#12,14,15,16,21,22 (due Mon)
Thursday, 12th
-CW: packet time
-mini-LAB: Estimating the speed of sound in natural gas using a Rubens Tube
Friday, 13th
-Virtual LAB: Doppler Effect ("GIZMO")
-(QUIZ on Monday)
2 - 6 April
SPRING BREAK!!
26 - 30 March
"We do not see the lens through which we look."
-Ruth Benedict
Monday, 26th
-TEST: Electromagnetism (Chaps 36 & 37)
Tuesday, 27th
-LAB: Building an Electric Motor
Wednesday, 28th
-LAB: Building an Electric Motor
Thursday, 29th
-Video: Quantum Leap
Friday, 30th
-NO SCHOOL!!
19 - 23 March
"A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King."
-Emily Dickinson
Monday, 19th
-L&D: What a Danish high school teacher figured out
-CW: Chap 37 packets passed out (due Thursday)
-HW: Read 37.1 - 37.2 Q#1-5,21 (due Wed)
Tuesday, 20th
-L&D: How to turn electricity into motion, and vice versa
-HW: Read 37.3 - 37.4 Q#6-10,24 (due Thurs)
Wednesday, 21st
-CW: HW check @ Bell
-Virtual LAB: Generators
Thursday, 22nd
-CW: HW check @ Bell, Chap 37 packets due
-CW: Review for Test tomorrow
Friday, 23rd
-CW: HW check @ Bell, Chap 37 packets due, Review for Test tomorrow (again)
-TEST postponed to Monday
12 - 16 March
"Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light."
-C.V.R. Thompson
Monday, 12th
-CW: pre-test, get chap 36 packet
-HW: Read 36.1-36.3 Q#1-5,23 (due Wed)
Tuesday, 13th
-CW: Video "NOVA: Magnetic Storm!"
Wednesday, 14th
-CW: HW check @ bell
-LAB: Complex Magnetic Fields
-HW: Read 36.4-.5 Q#6-11 (due Fri)
Thursday, 15th
-Virtual Lab: Magnetic Fields
Friday, 16th
-CW: HW check @ bell, QUIZ
5 - 9 March
"Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and the Force That Pulls Dogs To The Groins Of Strangers."
-Dave Barry
Monday, 5th
-CW: more practice with parallel and series circuits, and time to finish lab
Tuesday, 6th
-Video: "Fabric of the Cosmos: What is Space?"
Wednesday, 7th
-CW: Review for Test on Friday
Thursday, 8th
-COURSE FAIR (go to all your normal classes)
-CW: Review for Test tomorrow
Friday, 9th
-CW: TEST on Chaps 34 & 35
27 Feb - 2 March
"Nnoooo...not the magnet!"
-Bender
Monday, 27th
-brief L&D: Series & Parallel circuits
-LAB: Series and Parallel circuits
Tuesday, 28th
-CW: HW check @ bell
-LAB: cont'd
-Design LAB: Make a three-way switch
-HW: Read 35.4-35.5 Q#6-8,32-34
Wednesday, 29th
-LAB: Resistance of a light bulb (real equipment)
Thursday, 1st
-Parent/Teacher Conferences 4 - 8 pm in small gyms
-CW: HW check @ bell, packets due today
Friday, 2nd
-Parent/Teacher Conferences 8 am - noon in teacher classrooms
-NO SCHOOL!!
20 - 24 February
"Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times."
-Napoleon Hill
Monday, 20th
-NO SCHOOL!!
Tuesday, 21st
-L&D: "Power corrupts, absolute power..."
-HW: Read 34.6-.11 Q#18,19,21,37,68,75
Wednesday, 22nd
-LAB: Ohm's Law (virtual)
Thursday, 23rd
-CW: HW check @ bell, chap 35 packets passed out
-L&D: "But what if there's more than one resistor??" (parallel and series circuits)
-HW: Read 35.1-35.3 Q#1,3,4,5,25,28
Friday, 24th
-LAB: Ohm's Law (real)
13 - 17 February
"There are three kinds of men. The one who learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence by themselves."
-Will Rogers
Monday, 13th
-L&D: Current basics (Guest Lecturer: Paul Hewitt, author of our textbook)
-Virtual Lab: Battery Resistor Circuit
Tuesday, 14th
-CW: HW check @ Bell
-L&D: When is a law not a law? When it's Ohm's
-HW: Read 34.4-34.5 Q#10,11,13,14,33,35
Wednesday, 15th
-Virtual Lab: Ohm's Law
Thursday, 16th
-CW: HW check @ bell
-Reading & discussion: Two very different uses of electricity in society
Friday, 17th
-CW: QUIZ (Ohm's Law and Electric Safety) and packet time
6 - 10 February
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
-Douglas Adams
Monday, 6th
-L&D: Batteries aren't the only thing that stores electric energy
-mini-LAB: Electric Field Game and Electric Field Hockey
-HW: Read 33.6-33.7 Q#18-20,33,34,44
Tuesday, 7th
-Video: "The Illusion of Time"
Wednesday, 8th
-CW: HW check @ bell, Review for Test tomorrow
Thursday, 9th
-during 1st & 2nd lunch: Presentation on the Kepler Mission (finding exoplanets) by Dr. Skillman from U of M.
-CW: TEST: Electrostatics (Chaps 32 & 33)
-3" x 5" card, your own calculator (no sharing, no cell phones, etc.)
Friday, 10th
-L&D: Electric safety
-mini-LAB: How many wires do you need??
-HW: Read 34.1-34.3 Q#3,4,7,8,9,39
30 Jan - 3 February
"If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron."
-Lee Trevino
Monday 30th
-CW: HW check @ bell, Quiz, then packet time (due at end of class)
-HW: Read 33.1-33.3 Q#5,6,8,21,22,28
Tuesday, 31st
-L&D: How do charges feel each other? What!? Action-at-a-distance you say? Blasphemy! Burn the witch!
-CW: Electric field drawing
Wednesday, 1st
-L&D: How to draw electric fields
-HW: Read 33.4-33.5 Q#13,15,35,39-41
Thursday, 2nd
-L&D: Remember GPE? There's an electric version of it ("voltage")
-CW: Math practice
Friday, 3rd
-CW: HW check @ bell, QUIZ on electric fields, finish electric field drawing and math practice (due at end of period)
23 - 27 January
"Well begun is half done."
-Aristotle
Monday, 23rd
-NO SCHOOL!
Tuesday, 24th
-Video: Lightning! (humanity's first interaction with electricity?)
-HW: Read 32.1 - 32.3 Q#1,10,11,25,26,27
Wednesday, 25th
-L&D: Intro to electrostatics, charge and the EM force
-CW: CD 32-1 (due at end of hour)
Thursday, 26th
-L&D: how to get stuff charged
-CW: CD 32-2 (due at end of hour)
-HW: Read 32.4 - 32.6 Q#14,15,18,23,36,38
Friday, 27th
-CR/NC contracts due (no exceptions)
-LAB: Follow the electrons!
3rd Quarter
2nd Quarter
16 - 20 January
"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."
-Albert Einstein
Monday, 16th (NO SCHOOL!)
Tuesday, 17th
-CW: Review for 1st Semester Final Exam (Chaps 2-10, 13)
Wednesday, 18th
-CW: Continue Review for 1st Semester Final Exam (Chaps 2-10, 13)
Thursday, 19th
-optional morning review 7:30 - 8:15
-CW: 1st Semester Final Exam (Chaps 2-10, 13)
Friday, 20th
-NO CLASS!
9 - 13 January
"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man."
-Benjamin Franklin
Monday, 9th
-CW: finish IP Measure phase (all four)
Tuesday, 10th
-CW: begin and finish IP Alter phase (just one, pick your favorite), begin IP Prove phase (pick fav w/ your lab partner)
Wednesday, 11th
-CW: continue IP Prove phase (Lab report due Friday)
Thursday, 12th
-CW: continue IP Prove phase
Friday, 13th
-CW: IP presentations, and Lab Reports due
19 - 23 December
"I can calculate the motion of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
-Isaac Newton (Solar System)
Monday, 19th
-CW: LAB: Gravity & Orbits (PhET)
Tuesday, 20th
-CW: Review for Test tomorrow
Wednesday, 21st
-CW: TEST on Circular Motion & Gravity (chaps 10 & 13)
Thursday, 22nd
-CW: begin Interactive Physics (IP) project: Build phase (lab report due Friday, 13 January)
Friday 23rd
-CW: finish IP Build phase, begin IP Measure phase
12 - 16 December
"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."
-Richard Feynman
Monday, 12th
-L&D: "Gravity with a BIG G"
-CW: chapter 13 packet passed out (due Friday)
-HW: Read 13.1 - 13.5, Q#1,2,8,10,21,31
Tuesday, 13th
-LAB: How does ... affect the force of Gravity? (PhET)
Wednesday, 14th
-L&D: "They ain't black and they ain't holes", and "Was Newton wrong about gravity?"
-HW: Read 13.10 - 13.11, Q#18-20,42,48,50
Thursday, 15th
-CW: Video "Black Holes: The Ultimate Abyss"
Friday, 16th
-CW: QUIZ on 13.1-13.5, 13.10-13.11, and then packet time (due today)
5 - 9 December
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother."
-Albert Einstein
Monday, 5th
-L&D: The math of circular motion
-HW: Read 10.3 - 10.5 Q#21,23,24,25,53,54 (due Thursday)
Tuesday, 6th
-(no HW check)
-LAB: Ladybug Revolution! (PhET)
Wednesday, 7th
-CW: HW check @ bell
-LAB: Toy Aircraft
Thursday, 8th
-CW: HW check @ bell, then packet time after Quiz (due Friday)
-QUIZ (10.1 - 10.5)
Friday, 9th
-CW: ACT Science practice, packet due today
28 November - 2 December
"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction, when it could be turned into momentum."
-Frances Willard
Monday, 28th
-CW: HW check @ bell, packet time (due at end of class today)
Tuesday, 29th
-CW: HW check @ bell
-LAB: NRG SK8R
Wednesday, 30th
-CW: Review for test tomorrow
Thursday, 1st
-CW: TEST on Momentum and Energy, Chaps 8 & 9 (3" x 5" card, own calculator, no cellphones, etc.)
Friday, 2nd
-L&D: "Round and Round We Go": Circular Motion
-CW: pre-test on circular motion and gravity, Chap 10 packets handed out (due next Thursday, 8 Dec)
-HW: Read 10.1-10.2 Q#2,3,5,6,15,27
21 - 25 November
"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."
-Jerome K. Jerome
Monday, 21st
-L&D: What do you get for your work? (Kinetic and Potential energy)
-HW: Read 9.3-9.5 Q# 7,8,26,27,39,40 (due Monday, 28 Nov)
Tuesday, 22nd
-L&D: Momentum isn't the only thing conserved
-CW: revisiting the crash video lab
-HW: read 9.6-9.7 Q#11,14,41,42,50,51
-looking ahead: Test on Chaps 8 & 9 Thursday, 1 Dec
Wednesday, 23rd
-NO SCHOOL!
Thursday, 24th
-NO SCHOOL!
Friday, 25th
-NO SCHOOL!
14 - 18 November
"You don't use science to show that you're right, you use science to become right."
-Randall Munroe
Monday, 14th
-CW: HW check @ bell, QUIZ (8.1 - 8.3) and then class time for Lab or packet
Tuesday, 15th
-CW: Video: "NOVA: Crash!" (history of vehicle safety)
Wednesday, 16th
-L&D: "Work, a curse or part of the plan?"
-HW: Read 9.1-9.2 Q#1,2,33,34,36,37
Thursday, 17th
-LAB: NRG SK8R (PhET, click here or open Hand Outs folder)
Friday, 18th
-LAB: How may horses are you worth?
7 - 11 November
"The product of the human brain has escaped the control of human hands. This is the comedy of Science."
-Karel Capek (co-inventor of the word 'robot')
Monday, 7th
-L&D: "A piece of sand going 30,000 m/s or a bus going 10 m/s?"
-HW: Read 8.1-8.3 Q#14,20,26,27,60,62
Tuesday, 8th
-CW: Egg Toss and packet time
Wednesday, 9th
-CW: HW check @ bell
-L&D: "It's a fish-eat-fish world"
-HW: Read 8.4-8.5 Q#15,17,57,63-65
Thursday, 10th
-LAB: Crash test video analysis (DUE tomorrow)
Friday, 11th SUB
-CW: HW check @ bell, QUIZ (8.1 - 8.3) and then class time for Lab or packet
-class time to finish Crash test video lab (DUE Monday)
start of 2nd Quarter
end of 1st Quarter
31 Oct - 4 November
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted"
-Albert Einstein
Monday, 31st
-L&D: "Putting the cart before the horse? (and why Grul isn't an art teacher)"
-HW: Read 7.5-7.7 Q#15-17,20,40,45
Tuesday, 1st
-LAB: Sir Isaac's 3rd Law
-CW: Packet time (due today)
Wednesday, 2nd
-CW: HW check @ Bell and Review for Test tomorrow
Thursday, 3rd
-CW: TEST on Chapters 6 & 7 (3" x 5" card and your own calculator)
Friday, 4th
-NO SCHOOL!
24 - 28 October
"Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions."
-Vera Rubin
Monday, 24th
-L&D: Freefall Revisited
-CW: packet time (DUE tomorrow)
-HW: Read 6.5-6.7 Q#14,15,16,18,20,23
Tuesday, 25th
-LAB: Throwin' stuff off the roof (DUE tomorrow)
-DUE: Chapter 6 packet
Wednesday, 26th
-CW: HW check @ Bell
-LAB: cont'd (DUE today)
Thursday, 27th
-L&D: Completing the Trilogy: Sir Isaac's 3rd Law and a cautionary tale from Mr. Grul's dark past
-CW: Chapter 7 packets passed out
-HW: Read 7.1-7.4 Q#1,3,6,8-10
Friday, 28th
-CW: QUIZ and packet time
17 - 21 October
"The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life."
-Ernest Renan
Monday, 17th
-LAB: Find the Mystery Mass! (due tomorrow)
Tuesday, 18th
-Parent-Teacher conferences: 4:00 - 8:00 pm in small gyms
-CW: HW check @ bell, then finish lab from yesterday
Wednesday, 19th
-Parent-Teacher conferences: 8:00 am - noon in teacher's rooms
-NO SCHOOL!
Thursday, 20th
-NO SCHOOL!
Friday, 21st
-NO SCHOOL!
10 - 14 October
"I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates."
-Steve Jobs
Monday, 10th
-CW: continue working on lab report (due tomorrow)
Tuesday, 11th
-CW: Bowman Tournament and packet time
-DUE: HW from Friday, Measuring g lab report and Bowman tourney sheet
Wednesday, 12th
-CW: Review for Test tomorrow
-DUE: chapter 5 packets
Thursday, 13th
-CW: TEST (chaps 4&5, 3" x 5" card, your own calculator (no sharing, no cell phones, etc.)
Friday, 14th
-L&D: So, what happens to things that break Newton's 1st Law of Motion?
-CW: chapter 6 packets passed out (due Tues, 25 Oct)
-HW: Read 6.1-6.4 Q#4,6,26,27,29,30
3 - 7 October
"But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."
-Stephen Hawking
Monday, 3rd
-LAB: Measuring g (video analysis); we'll write our first lab report for this experiment (DUE Monday, 10 Oct)
-DUE: HW from this past Thursday
Tuesday, 4th
-CW: class time for lab report
-HW: Read 5.1-5.3 Q#4,5,18-21
Wednesday, 5th
-L&D: "To Point or not to Point, that is the Question" (getting more serious about vectors)
-DUE: chapter 4 packet
Thursday, 6th
-L&D: "How to win at Bowman" (projectile motion)
-DUE: HW from Tuesday
-HW: Read 5.4-5.6 Q#7,8,10,13-15
Friday, 7th
-CW: QUIZ (5.1 - 5.3), and class time for lab report
26 - 30 September
"Not only is the Universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."
-Sir Arthur Eddington
Monday, 26th
-CW: Pre-Test for Chaps 4 & 5, and chap 4 packet (due Monday)
-L&D: So...what if we're not in equilibrium?
-HW: Read 4.1-4.4, Q#6,9,20,21,31,36
Tuesday, 27th
-LAB: Intro to Motion Detector
Wednesday, 28th
-LAB: finish Motion Detector lab
-CW: class time for chapter 4 packet (due Monday)
Thursday, 29th
-L&D: "Tom Petty physics", aka dropping stuff
-HW: Read 4.5-4.9 Q#11,12,14,15,19,22
Friday, 30th
-CW: QUIZ (4.1-4.4), and then packet time
19 - 23 September
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
-Aristotle
Monday, 19th
-CW: class time to finish packet and video: "The Scientific Revolution" (more on Aristotle and friends)
Tuesday, 20th
-Review for TEST tomorrow
-DUE: chapter 3 packet
Wednesday, 21st
-TEST on chapters 2 & 3 (3" x 5" card, calculator)
Thursday, 22nd
-CW: 8 steps to a great graph (DUE tomorrow)
Friday, 23rd
-CW: continue 8 steps to a great graph (DUE today)
12 - 16 September
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
-Albert Einstein
Monday, 12th
-L&D: "Have you heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Morons!"
-CW: chapter 3 packet (due Friday)
-HW: Read 3.1-3.4 Q#1,2,5,8,28,29
Tuesday, 13th
-CW: QUIZ (on 2.1-2.4)
-LAB: begin virtual force lab
Wednesday, 14th
-HW check @ Bell
-LAB: finish virtual force lab
Thursday, 15th
-L&D: "How do we know the Earth is moving?"
-HW: Read 3.5-3.6, Q#9,15,19,21,22,26
Friday, 16th
-CW: QUIZ (3.1-3.4), and packet time
5 - 9 September
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
-Mario Andretti
Monday, 5th
-NO SCHOOL!
Tuesday, 6th
-CW: QUIZ on Chapter 1 and the syllabus
-HW: Read 2.1 - 2.4 Qs# 1,4,6,8,9,25 (due Thursday)
Wednesday, 7th
-L&D: "To point or not to point, and learning some Greek" (vectors and the Sum)
-CW: Chapter 2 packet (due Monday)
-HW: Read 2.5 Qs# 12,14,16,21,22,28 (due Friday)
Thursday, 8th
-L&D: "What everyone else is that your are not" (the "normal" force, dynamic equilibrium, adding vectors)
-CW: Chapter 2 packet (due Monday)
-DUE: HW from Tuesday
Friday, 9th
-L&D: HW check @ bell, ACT science questions
-CW: ACT science question practice
-DUE: HW from Wednesday
29 August - 2 September
"In Science, there is only Physics, all the rest is stamp collecting."
-Ernest Rutherford (btw, he won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
Monday, 29th
-Lecture&Discussion (L&D): Intro to Physics, syllabus and safety
-Classwork (CW): student survey, mechanics pre-test
-Homework (HW): get safety contract signed (due Friday)
-DUE: student survey, mechanics pre-test
Tuesday, 30th
-CW: check out physical textbook (bring your student ID), register for online textbook, "Is it a Theory?" packet
-HW: Read 1.1 - 1.8, Qs#1-14 (due Friday), cover book and get a scientific calculator w/ your name on it (due Friday)
Wednesday, 31st
-CW: evaluating scientific arguments, video "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?" (sheet due Friday)
Thursday, 1st
-CW: evaluating scientific arguments continued, video "Mythbusters: Moon Myths" (sheet due Friday)
Friday, 2nd
-CW: HW check @ bell, Fishbowl on the Moon Landings
-DUE: "Is it a Theory?", both video sheets, covered book, scientific calculator w/ your name on it, signed safety contract
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