A Reminder to submit to me a more detailed summary of what you presented for your project.  Include any diagrams or mathematics that you used.

AP Physics Final Exam Part 1 on Wednesday

(Questions 1-50) from Chapters 1-6

Part 2 is on Friday

In Class on Tuesday May 10,2016

• Turn in AP Project Ideas
• Select Your Presentation Date 
• Work on Final Review Practice Test

Chapter 18-19 Exam on Friday

Posted Below:

• Chapter 18-19 Updated Homework List with textbook assignments
• Chapter 18-19 Practice Test Answers
• AP End of the Year Project Description (Description Page due on Friday or next Tuesday.
• Hewitt Conceptual Physics Powerpoints
• Chapter 18-19 Practice Test

In Class Today:

• Announce to check on library door the change in room # for the AP Physics Test
• P.O.B./Demonstration  Calculate the max voltage for a 1.5 ohm resistor and then apply that voltage to observe the resistor burning up.
• Review Force of Friction and mu with a demonstration of different surfaces.
• Return Midterm Exam from semester 1 for Review
• Pick up new electricity handout and College Board Practice Test and FRQ

In class today (Friday April 22, 2016)

• Discuss Voltage Drop Lab
• Go over answers to three worksheets
• Take Princeton Review Practice Test 1

Homework:  

• Complete the Practice FRQ and the AP Style Problems Worksheet

Homework:

• CDE Worksheets 34-1 & 34-2 & 35-1 & 35-2
• Circuit Worksheet (Draw Circuit Diagrams on another sheet along with your work)
• Finish Graph and Slope Calculations and Analysis Questions from Ohm's Lab
• Continue working on textbook questions and problems

Tuesday April 12, 2016

Homework:

• Complete Worksheet "Practice with Electricity Calculations"
• Complete double-sided worksheet "Current Math" and "Ohm's Law"
• Begin Textbook Assignment 18 A
• Carefully read the Ohm's Law or Ohm's Approximation lab procedure before Thursday.

In Class Today:

• Quick Check
• Demonstration: Turning on a Light Bulb with no Glass Covering
• Pre-Lab Question and overview of Thursday's Lab
• Quick lesson on Resistance

In Class Today:

Homework:

Homework for Chapter 18 "Electric Currents"

Do MIT Graduates Know How To Make A Light Bulb Light?

Electrostatics Chapter 16 Test on Monday

Answers to homework worksheets posted below, along with homework list.

In Class Today (Friday 3-18-16)

• Sign up for ordering AP Physics prep books.
• Demonstration showing Conductors vs. Insulators
• Discuss answers to selected problems on Practice AP Exam.
• Exploration Activity with Electrostatics.
• Lesson on Coulomb's Law

HOMEWORK

• Complete front and back side of Enrichment Worksheet.
• Complete just back side of Review Worksheet
• Finish Text Assignment 16 A (on study list)

Homework:

• Finish going through the 27 questions on the Practice AP Exam
• Read Sections 1, 2 & 3 of Chapter 16
• Begin Assignment 16 A (Text Questions 1-6 and Problems 1-7)

Answers to the Modified AP Practice Exam from 1988 are posted below:

NOTES regarding Chapter 11-12 Exam on Monday

The multiple choice exam will have 52 questions.  Because this exam covers two chapters and there are more questions than normal, the FRQ will be on Wednesday.  This will give the whole period for just the multiple choice exam.

• On Monday, you can turn in your worksheets and text problems homework packet.  

• The Labs homework packet will be collected on Wednesday, so that you may keep them for studying.

For Wednesday's FRQ questions, you should study the labs that we have done.  This includes the labs for determining the speed of sound and the pendulum lab and the oscillating spring lab. Also review and understand the relationship between elastic potential energy and kinietic energy and velocity and position for a mass oscillating on a spring.

Chapter 11-12 Exam on Monday March 14, 2016

Homework:

• New Review 15 Worksheet
• Finish Speed of Sound Calculations on separate paper.
• Finish reading assignment from textbook on closed and open end tubes.
• Do Problems 6, 7 & 12 from Review 16 Worksheet
• Answer the NTQ that was on the white board:  Here is the question:  Suppose you are at a concert and the singer's voice is being broadcast around the world on a radio that you have next to your ear.  If you are close to the singer, you will hear her voice through the air before hearing it from the radio.  If you are too far, you will hear her voice through the radio first.  How far away from the singer must you be so that the two sounds will be heard simultaneously.  Earth radius is 6.38 x 1000 km and assume speed of sound in air is 340 m/s

In Class Today:

• Lesson on closed end tubes and resonances.
• Speed of Sound Experiment using tuning forks.
• Cell phone activity outside, comparing time of travel for sound wave and cell phone wave.
• Lesson on Shock Waves and Mach #

Homework:

Homework:

• Complete the Calculations for the Speed of Sound Experiment 
• Complete the selected problems from the "Review" Worksheet (Problems 1-5 & 10-11)

In Class Today (March 2, 2016):

• Short Lesson on Creating Sounds and Tuning Forks
• Collect Data for Speed of Sound Experiment Using a Microphone
• Finish Going through the "Sound Activity Stations"

Chapter 11 Quizzam on Monday (Feb. 29th)

• Quizzam will have ~ 20 questions with a couple of Free Response Questions
• Chapter 11 Homework will be collected later.

Homework:

• Begin Text Assignment 11 C (Listed in your Chapter 11 Study List)

• Do 3 Problems from Study Guide Handout. (Answers are NOW Posted)
• Complete the Velocity calculations for the Slinky Lab
• Study for Monday's Quizzam

In Class Today: (Thursday Feb. 25)

• Demonstrate Glass on U.V. Light
• Calculate the wavelength of a microwave.
• Slinky Lab
• Return Chapter 8 Exams

Homework:

• Finish the Spring Constant Graphs and Calculations and Questions
• Begin Assignment 11 B from Textbook:  Questions 6, & 8-10, Problems 6,7 & 10-12
• Complete the "Vibrations and Waves" worksheet (front and back)
• Complete the "Wave Ideas and Math" Worksheet, showing work on separate paper.

In Class (on Tuesday 2/23/16)

• Discuss graphs from Spring Lab
• Demonstration and Lesson on Wave Pulses Using Long Spring Across Room
• Lesson on the Parts of a Wave and Calculating frequency, wavelength and velocity

Two of the Homework Handouts given out in class are listed below:

Slinky Lab on Thursday

Chapter 11 Quizzam Next Monday Leap Day Feb. 29th

Last Friday:

• Spring Constant Lab was done in class.

Homework:

• Complete the two graphs of Force (in grams) vs. Stretch Distance (in cm) for the spring and the rubber band.
• Answer the Analysis Quesitons

In Class Today:  (Wednesday Feb. 17, 2016)

• Lesson on Springs and Hooke's Law.
• P.O.B.  Example 11-1 from text.
• Walk around and check graphs.
• Go outside and measure the height of the balcony.
• Discuss the graphs and how to derive the equation of period of pendulum from data.
• Demonstrate small vs. medium vs. large amplitude for a pendulum
• Use equation and measured length of pendulum to determine its period.
• Quick introduction to examples of waves

Homework:

• Finish graphs and extrapolating the data to find the height of the balcony.
• Finish Text book Assignment 11-A  (Questions 1-4 and Problems 1-4)
• Handout:  Graph the sample data given out on handout to calculate the spring constant, k.

Friday:  Hooke's Law Lab

In Class: on Thursday

• Pendulum Lab

Homework:

• Plot data from Length vs. Period squared
• Extapolate graph to determine the height of balcony from Period of Pendulum swung over balcony.

Attachments Below:

• Chapter 11 Study List 
• Pendulum Lab

In Class on Tuesday (2/9/16)

• Turn in Chapter 8 Homework Packet
• Take Chapter 8 Exam on Rotational Motion

Homework:

• Read Section 11-1 of Chapter 11
• Know the terms cycle, period, frequency, amplitude and simple harmonic motion

• Chapter 8 Exam will be Next Tuesday February 9

• Below are the Homework List and the Practice Test with Answers.

Suggestion:  In your preparation for the exam, try the practice problems and practice questions from the Giancoli site:

Homework:

• Complete the 3 page stapled handout on "Cylinders Rolling Down Hills"
• Complete the stapled handout with problems.
• Wednesday: New Lab on Torques
• In period 2, John will bring in rope for outside activity of "Tight Rope Walking"

Chapter 8 Test will be Tuesday February 9th.

In Class Today:

• Announcements:  Physics Bowl Sign Ups and Volunteers needed to speak at the upcoming AP Physics Lunch meeting for next year's AP Physics students.
• Quick Check
• Lessons on "Moment of Inertia", "Angular Momentum" and "Law of Conservation of Momentum"
• Multiple demonstrations: PVC pipe, metal bars, disc vs. ring race, race with soup cans, rotating on stool with weights in hand, etc.

In Class Today (Thurs. 1-28-16)

• Q.O.B. with torque
• Discuss answers to homework problem #1 (from stapled handout)
• Collect Data for "Torque Lab"

Homework:

• Continue with problems from stapled handout.
• Continue with Text Assignment 8 A
• Continue reading in text: Moment of Inertia and Angular Momentum

• The entire Midterm Practice Test is attached below.  The answers are at the end of the test.  There are 40 questions.

• Also, the Midterm Review Topics is attached.

• Correction to Practice Test:  Problem 34 should be "D"

First Day Back from Christmas Vacation

Homework:

• Assignment 7 A   (from text)    Questions: 1-8   &   Problems: 1 − 11 (odd)
• Worksheet 7.1
• Begin Worksheet 7.2

In Class:

• Write Down an Example of applied physics from vacation
• Overview of Chapter 7 (5 Big Ideas)
• Lesson on momentum and impulse
• Lesson on equations of elastic/inelastic collisions and explosions

Another Note:

On the first practice test, FRQ Question 3 b) should be 4.7 N, not 23.5 N

• On Monday 12-14-15, I will have a review/help session in room 221 at 4:00 p.m. for anyone.

• Chapter 6 Exam is on Tuesday!

Homework:

• Complete CDE 8-2 Worksheet
• Complete Textbook Assignment 6 B (Questions 11-12, 15,22 & 25-27 and Problems 17-23
• Complete the two sides of the "Review" Worksheet
• Complete the Work/Energy Problems Stapled handout.
•  Try the practice questions from the Giancoli website:

• Also try these Practice Problems from the Giancoli website:

• Pass out Progress Report Gradesheets
• Return old homework
• Show examples of the three types of Potential Energy
• Go over some questions to the homework worksheet
• Lecture Experiment:  Predicting the landing spot of a steel ball using a razor blade.

 Answers Below to Stapled Work/Energy Problems Worksheet

Chapter 6 Exam Next Tuesday Dec. 15

• Quick Review of Ramp Math with sine and cosine
• Check and Discuss Homework from Worksheet "Review" Problems
• Pre-Lab Conservation of Energy Lab
• Collect Data for Conservation of Energy Lab

HOMEWORK:

• Complete solutions to "REVIEW" Worksheet
• Begin Textbook Assignment 6 B
• Begin working out solutions to Stapled Work and Energy Problems Worksheet (given out in class today)

Homework:

• Continue reading Chapter 6 in textbook, including the shown examples.
• Complete the worksheet given out in class called "REVIEW Chapter 11"

In Class:

• Review Chapter 6 Equations
• Questions from Textbook Homework Assignment 6 A
• Class Experiment of Predicting Landing Spot of a Steel Ball Using Conservation of Energy.
• Show Examples of Different Types of Potential Energy
• Return Chapter 5 Exams

Homework:

• Begin Reading Chapter 6
• Start Textbook Assignment 6 A  Questions 1-6 and Problems 1-7

In Class Today:

• 11 Work/Energy Activities in Groups
• Lecture Experiment: "Pendulum of Doom"
• Lesson on Conservation of Energy and Formulas in this chapter

For those who missed the Test just before the Thanksgiving Break, the Make Up Test will be on Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. in room 221

Below are two powerpoints on Circular Motion and Kepler's Laws 

Chapter 5 Test on Friday

Below is the Chapter 5 Practice Test with Answers

In Class Today:

• Question on the Board
• Solution to Jupiter Distance to Sun 
• Quick Check
• Return Chapter 4 Exam and FRQ

Answers to Gravitation Worksheet 5.2 are Below:

Homework:

• Prepare for Quiz on Friday (on Circular Motion Problems)
• Tackle Question #10 on Worksheet.
• Read over Centripetal Force Lab handout carefully.  In chapter 4, students were not well prepared for the dynamics cart/pulley lab.
• Begin the new worksheet given out on Wed. on Circular Motion with 9 problems.

In class today:

• Quick Check
• Go over answers to Monday's Worksheet.
• Quick lesson on frequency vs. period
• Short pre-lab discussion of Friday's Centripetal Force Lab.

Homework for the Weekend

• For the Centripetal Force Lab, Complete the Calculations and the two Graphs. (Remember to include the mass of the paper clip ~ 1.0 grams)
• Continue working on Textbook Assignment 5 B
• Work on the questions/problems from the two Law of Gravitation Handouts from class.  (Answer to Question 2 a) on Gravitation Worksheet 5.2 is 9.8 x 10-8 N)

• Lesson on Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
• Kepler's Three Laws
• Discuss answers to the two worksheets from class on Universal Gravitation

Homework:

• Begin Textbook Assignment 5 A (Questions 1-5 and Problems 1-4) at the end of Chapter 5 
• Finish Questions 6, 8 & 9 from the handout given out in class (Optional: try Q 10)

In Class:

• Demonstration of Spool and rope
• Introductory Lesson on Circular Motion
• Key Terms:  Rotate vs. Revolve, Linear Speed vs. Rotational Speed, Centripetal Acceleration, Centripetal Force

• Short Black/White Video "A Million to One"
• Return old graded homework and chapter 4 quizzes
• Two demonstrations with hanging mass and 2 threads and lead weight
• Work on practice test!

• Below are the answers to the CDE 5-2 Worksheet and the Newton's Laws Programmed Problems Answers and the three pages for the stapled handout.
• Also listed: Answers to the practice test (Correction to # 26: Answer is zero)
• Also Listed below is the Chapter 4 Homework List

Chapter 4 Homework

• Worksheet on Newton's Second Law  (F = ma Easy Problems)
• Newton's Third Law Worksheet
• Finish Text Assignment 4 C (Questions 16 - 22 and Problems 38-44, & 52)
• Finish Stapled Newton's Laws Handout

Homework:

• Complete Newton's Second Law "Notes" handout.
• Continue working on Stapled Newton's Laws Problems Handout.
• Complete CDE 5-4 Worksheet
• Begin Textbook Assignment 4 C Questions 16-22 and Problems 38-45, & 52

In Class Today:

• Demonstration of Ballistics Cart and Steel Ball
• 2 short video clips from Mechanical Universe.
• Lesson on Friction and inclined ramps.
• Chapter 4 QUIZ
• "Greek Waiter" Activity on balcony

Chapter 4 Quiz on Tuesday

Homework:

• Complete the questions and graph for the Mass vs. Weight Activity
• Complete the worksheet on calculating net force from length measurements
• Begin the stapled handout on Newton's Second Law calculations
• Complete Assignment 4 B from textbook.
• Assignment 4 C will be assigned on Tuesday

Homework:

• Continue reading Chapter 4 (Newton's Laws of Motion)
• Start Assign. 4B   Questions 10 - 15 and Problems 9-10, 12-13, & 23-24

In Class Today:

• Q.O.B.
• Introduce Newton's First Law of Motion (Inertia)
• In groups, do the 9 Inertia Activities
• Lesson on Mass vs. Weight and Balance vs. Scale

Homework:

• Begin Assignment 4 A Questions 1-8 and Problems 1-8 in Chapter 4                                                   (Newton's Laws of Motion)

• Chapter 3 Exam and turned in Chapter 3 Homework Packet

Homework:

• Answer the 5 Lab Analysis Questions (on a separate sheet of paper)
• Solve the Projectile Motion Problem below:

• Range vs. Angle Lab

Friday:

• Chapter 3 Exam
• Homework List is shown below:

• Watch Steel Ball Lab done again
• Go over homework (2 TIPERS worksheets, CDE 3-1, Vector Math Problems)
• POP Quiz
• Quick Pre-Lab of Range/Angle lab for Monday

New Homework:

• TIPER Worksheet
• Monkey/Hunter Questions
• Finish Textbook Assignment 3 C
• Go to the textbook website (shown below) and click on Chapter 3 and try the "Practice Questions" and "Practice Problems".  This might be a good way to start your studying for next weeek's Chapter 3 Test

Homework:

• Read carefully the handout for the "Predicting the Landing Spot of Steel Ball" Lab
• Begin (and hopefully finish) Assignment 3B
• Assignment 3 A should already be finished.

In Class Today (Friday September 18, 2015)

• Concept Check with adding vectors 
• Demonstration of Projectile Motion using a dart gun
• Return Chapter 2 Tests
• Discuss upcoming lab
• Begin Demonstration of How to determine the landing spot of a projectile.

Homework:

• Complete Worksheet CDE 3-2
• Complete as best you can, Textbook assignment 3A

In class today:

• Introduction to Vectors using Wind velocity impact on Jet's Air Velocity
• Lesson on Vector Basics
• Lesson on How to Add Two Vectors Graphically and Analytically
• Student Demonstrations of Dart Gun and Metal Washer and Two Steel Ball Projectiles.
• P.O.B. on adding two vectors analytically

In Class Today:

• Chapter 2 Test and Chapter 2 Homework turned in.

New Homework:

• Read Chapter 3 summary at the end of chapter 3
• Read the first few sections of chapter 3
• Try Examples 3-1 & 3-2 in the chapter.
• Begin answering Questions 1-10 of Assignment 3A

Homework:

• Study for Chapter 2 Quiz on Thursday September 10, 2015
• Complete the TIPER worksheet on Ranking Tasks
• Complete Assignment 2B

Chapter 1-2 Test will be on Monday Sept. 14, 2015

In class today, Wednesday (9-2-15)

• Discussed answers to Acceleration Worksheet and Graphical Analysis Worksheet.
• Short Lesson on the meaning of the slope and area of distance, speed and acceleration vs. time graphs.
• In groups, class did the "Graph Matching" activity with the Vernier Motion Detectors.

Homework

• Finish Assignment 2 A 
• Begin Assignment 2 B  Questions 10, 11,12, 14, 15, 18, & 19 and Problems 19, 21, 24, 25, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 & 65

• Demonstrations 
• Laser Disc
• Collect Labs from last week

Homework:

• Complete Acceleration Worksheet
• Complete the stapled, two sheet "Graphical Analysis"Handout
• Complete the "Falling Objects Chart" as part of your notes.
• Complete the velocity and acceleration calculations from your Steel Ball Lab
• Begin Assignment 2A  Questions 1,2,3, & 6,7,8,& 9 and Problems 13, 14, 15 & 16  (Problems 1-5 & 7-9 have been taken off since they were already assigned on the summer homework packet)

Homework:

• Complete the calculations and questions/analysis for the "Dropping Balls from Balcony" lab.
• Complete the three graphs of Data Tables 1, 2 & 3 for the "Steel Ball and Ramp" lab. Also answer the analysis questions.
• Over the weekend, think about the Columbo puzzle and consider different scenarios for how you might make only one weighing to determine which bag of gold contains the fake gold.

Here is a summary of the 6 Tips for Graphing:

• Choose values for the two axes that make the data from the tables fill most of the paper, vertically and horizontally.
• Title your two graph papers with a "Descriptive Title" that helps the reader to have an idea what event was being measured.
• Label both axes (vertical and horizontal) with correct units and name of units.
• Ensure all of your data points are still visible after you draw the connecting line.
• The connecting line does not necessarily have to go through each data point. Draw the best smooth curve through the data points that "averages" the data.
• Make a "Legend" that explains what the two sets of data points represent, on your first graph that plots Data Table 1 and Data Table 2.

Homework:

• Complete the 5 Pre-Lab Questions for the "Dropping Balls" Lab
• Carefully read the handouts for the two lab experiments we will do on Thursday.
• Try to come up with a solution for the "Columbo" Puzzle.
• Answer the "Curiosity Questions" as best you can.
• Complete the Reading of Chapter 1 (Introduction)

In Class Today:  (Tuesday Aug. 25, 2015)

• Created a Seating Chart
• P.O.B. on Scientific Notation and Metric Conversions.
• Look at the "Class Data" from the Measuring Height of Goalposts Lab.
• Discuss the Questions to the Mathematics Homework and check answers.
• Discussed the Columbo Puzzle.
• Pre-Lab discussion of the two labs scheduled for Thursday.

• Complete Questionnaire
• Collect Summer Physics Assignment
• Go to Football Field to determine the height of the Goal Posts.

• Finish calculations from lab activity of Goal Post Height
• Complete Chapter One Math Homework (Don't use a calculator for questions 1-3, although you can check your answers with a calculator)