A.P. Physics (Period 1) Assignments

Reminder, Chapter 18-19 Exam on Friday

Posted Below:

• Chapter 18-19 Electricity Practice Test

• Answers to 18-19 Practice Test

• Final Exam Study List

• Final Exam Practice Test

Copies of These Are in the Classroom

Hopefully You Will See This Request Before Thursday:

• Bring to Class, TWO AA (1.5 V) Batteries.  They will be needed in class for the Manila Folder Circuit Labette.

• Also Bring to Class, a Printed or Drawn Cover Sheet for your folder that includes Your Name, AP Physics, and Date, along with a Design or Image of some kind related to Series or Parallel Circuits.

Tomorrow is the BIG DAY!

I have attached a Worksheet with Five Problems on it.  I will give this out to everyone.

If you want to look at these five questions tonight, before tomorrow's AP EXAM, that would be helpful.  Otherwise, for periods 1 and 3, we can look at them quickly tomorrow in class and for periods 2 and 4, we can look at them together on Wednesday.

Remember, you still have a unit test on Electricity and a Final Exam.

 Answers are on page 2

For those who will be working through the AP Physics Free Response Questions from 2015 and 2016, the Scoring Guidelines (Solutions) are posted below:

2015

https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/ap-student/pdf/physics-1/ap15_physics_1_sg.pdf

2016

https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap16_physics_1_sg.pdf

Below are the Actual 2015 and 2016 F.R.Q. Questions:

 2015

https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/ap-student/pdf/physics-1/ap15_frq_physics_1.pdf

2016

https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap16_frq_physics_1.pdf

For those interested in watching the launch of the Insight Rocket on Saturday morning at 4:00 a.m., to the website below:

https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

Or you can just go outside and look to the West, Northwest and see it for yourself.

Homework List for Chapter 18 is posted below:

Homework Packet will be collected on Wednesday May 2 2018

Last Day to make up the Ohm's Law Lab is Thursday Afternoon 4-26-18

Last Day to make up the Electricity Quiz is Wednesday 4-25-18

Textbook Assignments

• 18 A Questions 1-3 & 7-13  and Problems 1-5

• 18 B Questions 16 & 17 and Problems 7-13

Chapter 18 Homework Packet Due Nest Week

For those who took the Practice FRQ from 2017, in class on Friday, the link below will take you to the solutions to this Exam.

Please look it over and grade/score your own FRQ

https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/ap/pdf/ap17-sg-physics-1.pdf

Homework:

• Complete front and back of CDE 35-1 and 35-2

• Complete the Analysis Questions from the Ohm's Law lab

• Complete the stapled Study Guide Questions.

• Complete Textbook Assignments 18 A and 18 B

Below is another link to a YouTube where Dan Fullerton goes through the solutions to the 2017 FRQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4og5vmDoDn0

Request for a tutor for a regular physics student who needs some help.  If interested, please let me know and I can pass on your email to the family and have them contact you.

Thank you.

• Test Corrections for Chapter 16 on Electrostatics will be happening all this week and will end on Friday April 20, 2018

Tuesday, after 2:30 I will not be here.

Homework:

• Read the three handouts given out in class.

• Begin the Stapled Study Guide Problems.

• Begin the front and back of the Review Worksheet 23 except problem #6

EXPECT A QUIZ ONE DAY NEXT WEEK  Monday or Wednesday

In Class Today:

• Short Lesson on Transformers, Resistivity, and 3 Way Light Bulbs and Car Headlights.

• Walk around lab tables to see various electrical devices.

• Lesson on Parallel Circuits with Demonstration Battery

Homework:

• C.D.E. Conceptual Worksheets 34-1 and 34-2 and Ohm's Law Worksheet (front and back)

• Begin reading Chapter 18 and begin the textbook assignment questions and problems

In Class on Tuesday:

• Video of MIT students being asked to make a light bulb light up with 1 wire and 1 battery.  Here is the link:  

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIhk9eKOLzQ

• Discuss the results of the light bulb and battery activity and how to connect two batteries in series.

• Demonstration with 12 Volt Battery and Series vs. Parallel Circuits

Chapter 16 Exam will be on Wednesday.  

There are 46 Multiple Choice Questions and there will be just ONE Free Response Question

In Class Today March 26, 2018:

• P.O.B.  Is the Electrostatic Force greater or weaker than the Gravitational Force?  By How Much?

• Demonstration of the Polarization of Water

• Demonstration of Charging by Induction with a Balloon.

• Electrostatic Activities

New: Practice Test is Below

Answers to Two Worksheets are Also Below:

Homework:

• Study and do some preparation for the Practice AP Exam on Thursday for Odd Periods and Friday for the Even Periods.

• Begin the new Coulomb's Law Worksheet

• Begin Assignment 16 A  Questions 2-9 and Problems 1-7 & 11-15

Below is a Copy of the Formula Sheet Used with the AP Exam

Tuesday (3/20/18

Begin Chapter 16 on Electrostatics

Thursday (3/22/18)

Our First Practice AP Exam (multiple choice) will be administered on Thursday.  It will cover Chapters 2-12 and maybe 16.  The questions pertaining to Electricity (Chapters 18-19) will be skipped, for now.

For those who were absent for the Chapter 12 Exam/F.R.Q., there is a make up test available tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. and working straight into the late start morning. 

Your absence however must first be cleared and excused before you will be allowed to take the make-up test.

Chapter 12 Exam and F.R.Q. are Friday March 16, 2018

• Homework Packet will also be collected.

• Don't forget to look over the practice test and review Open and Closed End Tubes and the Wave Patterns for Strings.

Answers to the Study Guide Problems are Below!

Homework:

• Study for Chapter 12 Quiz on Friday

• Finish Lab Calculations for Speed of Sound Exp. (Each Person)

• Read the Notes given out in class, including the new terms, such as infrasonic, etc.

• Complete the Study Guide Questions Handout

• Begin Assignment 12 B from Textbook

Homework List Below for Chapter 12 Sound

Homework:

• Read the Speed of Sound Handout Procedure

• Prepare a Calculation Table and bring it Wednesday so that calculations can be started right away.

• Continue Working on Text Book Assignment 12 A and begin soon Assignment 12 B

• Complete the Worksheet on Sound 12.1 from last Friday, if you have not yet completed it.

• Plan for a quiz on Friday

In Class today (Monday February 5, 2018

Day 2 lesson of Chapter 12:

• Demonstration of a Laser Light Beam carrying a Sound Wave from a Radio

• Demonstration of an Oscilloscope with Signal Generator and Speakers to Produce Sound Waves of Different Frequencies.  Testing who can hear the highest frequency.

• Lesson on Closed End Tubes and Open End Tubes

• Pre-Lab of Wednesday's Speed of Sound Lab with Tuning Forks

The answers to the Chapter 11 Practice Test were deleted accidentally.

Here they are back up!

Here are the other two Answer Keys!

In Class on Wednesday (2-21-18):

Chapter 11 Exam next Tuesday!

• Questions on Textbook Assignments?

• Lesson on the Energy of a Spring and Calculating Velocity of a Spring.

• Pre-Lab Slinky Labette #2

• Collect Data for the Slinky Labette with a partner.

HOMEWORK:

• Complete the Slinky "Labette" Calculations

• Complete the 2 Study Guide Questions on Springs and Pendulums

• Read Section 11-12 in Chapter 11 on Page 334 on Standing Waves and Harmonics

• Complete Wave Practice 11-1 Worksheet

• Read the handout on Law of Superposition and Constructive/Destructive Interference.

• Begin Chapter 11 Practice Test

Answers and worked out solutions to Concept Check are Below:

In Class on Thursday:

• Demonstration of a Strobe Wave machine, showing nodes and anti-nodes.

• Q.O.B.  What is the wavelength of a microwave?

• Do Cell Phones work in a microwave oven?  (Period 1 YES  Period 3 NO)

• Concept Check

Homework:

• Graph the new sample spring data and calculate the slope (new worksheet)

• Study the back side of the handout with sample spring data and complete

• Begin the new worksheet called Wave Practice 11.1

• Finish Textbook Assignment 11 B.

• Check to see if your cell phone can receive a call while it sits in your microwave oven.  It shouldn't.  Remember, don't turn on the microwave oven while the phone sits inside.

Day 2 of Chapter 11 Vibrations and Waves

In Class Today:

• Go over some of the homework answers

• Lesson on Hooke's Law with Data Collection of a Spring

• Lesson on Pendulum's and affect of Amplitude, Mass and Length on the Period

Homework:

• Complete the calculations and graph from the Hooke's Law Class Experiment

• Complete Textbook Assignment 11 A

• Begin Textbook Assignment 11 B

UPCOMING TELESCOPE NIGHT

• Wednesday February 21, 2018

• On the Field next to Parking Lot

• Pizza will be sold by the Astronomy Club

• Viewing of the Moon and the Orion Nebula

• All are Welcome

Correction to #12 d) on Quick Check Review:  Answer should not be 75 rotations but should be 37.5 or 38 rotations.

Answers to Next Time Questions Worksheet and Concept Check and Study Guide Problems are below:

Homework:  8 A & 8 B Collected on Thursday

• Complete Textbook Assignments 8 A and 8 B

• 8 A Questions: 1,2,5,6,8,10,11  Problems: 1,5,6,9,11,29

• 8 B Problems: 30,34,35,37

• Study Guide Problems Stapled Worksheet

• Next Time Questions Stapled Worksheet

Super "Blue Moon" Lunar Eclipse TONIGHT late in the evening and ending before dawn tomorrow morning.

http://earthsky.org/tonight/super-blue-moon-eclipse-on-january-31

Homework:

• Read Sections 8-3 and 8-4 of Chapter 8

• Carefully read through the See-Saw Lab before Friday.

• Finish the Questions and Problems from Textbook Assignment 8 A listed on the back of the Study List.

• Friday you will have a substitute and you will collect data for the Lab that was discussed in class on Wednesday.
• There also may be a handout on Friday with problems.

Homework:

• Begin Reading Chapter 8 on Rotational Motion Sections 8-1 and 8-2

• Begin the Questions and Problems from Textbook Assignment 8 A listed on the back of the Study List.

Chapter 7 Exam on Momentum on Monday January 22, 2018

 There is a mistake on the answer key to the practice Test.  Non-Multiple Choice Question #4 should be 1.7 m/s

Answers to the Quick Check, Using Concepts Worksheet and Stapled Linear Momentum Problems Worksheet, Practice Test and Homework List are Below:

The Chapter 7 Quiz that was scheduled for Thursday has been CANCELLED.

The Chapter 7 Exam will be given next Monday, January 22.

The homework is to complete the following assignments:

• Using Concepts Worksheet given out on Tuesday

• Stapled Momentum Problems

• Textbook Assignments 7 A, 7 B, & 7 C which are written on the last page of the Study List.

Listed Below is a Power-point Slide Presentation on Momentum from Paul Hewitt 

Thursday January 11, 2018

• New Seating Chart.

• Discuss answers to Examples from homework and Worksheet 7.1 and Collect it.

• Discuss Answers to Conceptual Questions with Impulse Worksheet.

• Lesson on Collisions and Conservation of Momentum.

• Throw a raw egg into a bed sheet to demonstrate IMPULSE

Homework:

• Complete Textbook Assignment 7 A

• Complete CDE Worksheet 7-1

• Complete Worksheet 7.2 on Collisions

• Begin Stapled handout with problems on Momentum

Beginning of New Semester

Homework:

• Begin Reading Sections 7.1 and 7.2 of Chapter 7 on Momentum

• Begin Textbook Assignment 7 A  Questions 1-8 and Problems 1-11 Odd

• Complete the Conceptual Questions with Impulse Worksheet

• Complete Worksheet 7.1 (Collected on Thursday)

Chapter 6 Homework List on Work and Energy is Below:

The Answers to the Energy Problems Worksheet is Posted Below:

Posted below is the Midterm Practice Test that was Given Out in Class and the ANSWERS:

• Answers to Work and Energy Problems Worksheet (Stapled) are Below:

Homework:

• Study for Chapter 6 Work and Energy Quizzam next Wednesday

• Complete Textbook Assignments. 

  Homework Assignments

  Assignment 6 A              Questions                    1- 6

                                               Problems                     1-7

  Assignment 6 B              Questions        11-12, 15, 22, & 25 − 27       

                                                           Problems                     17 − 23

• Complete Worksheet on Work and Energy Problems.

• Complete Worksheet on Energy Problems.

• Begin Studying for Midterm Exam with Practice Test and Study List.

Answers to Worksheet 7.1 (Should be 6.1) Work, Power and Energy posted below:

Homework:

• Begin solving the questions on Worksheet 6-1 which was given out in class on Tuesday.

• Chapter 6 Quizzam next week!

The Second Part of the Chapter 5 FRQ will be on Friday December 1, 2017

The Chapter 5 Homework Packet will also be Collected.

After the FRQ, we will begin a lesson on Chapter 6 Work and Energy

HOMEWORK:

• Read pages 145-150 in chapter 6 on Work and Energy.

• Study Examples 6-1 & 6-2 and Conceptual Example 6-3 (in those pages)

• Answer all of the questions on the two new worksheets "Lesson on Work"

• Chapter 5 Exam and FRQ will be this Wednesday (Nov. 29th)

• Chapter 5 Homework Packet will be Collected on Friday

• No late Homework will be accepted after Friday

Answers to Practice Test are at the end of the Practice Test

Updated Chapter 5 Homework List is posted below 

Below are TWO Power-point Presentations on Circular Motion and Kepler's Laws 

Circular Motion and Universal Law of Gravitation - Chapter 5

• Chapter 5 Quiz on Thursday

• Answers to Concept Check and Law of Universal Gravitation Notes Problems (4 pages) BELOW:

Homework:

• Study for Quiz on Thursday

• Read in Textbook Section on Kepler's Laws

• Just added the Concept Check Handout done in Class!

I have attached a Practice Test for Chapter 5 on Circular Motion and Gravitation.

We will be testing on this unit at the end of the week, after we return from Thanksgiving Break.

I went back over the F.R.Q. and gave credit for D on Question #6 regarding the physics textbook and math textbook.

Homework:

• Complete Worksheet 5.2 on Law of Universal Gravitation

• Finish Questions 5-10 from Stapled Handout Notes of Law of Gravitation.

• Do Study Guide Problems 1-3 from Worksheet

• Complete Textbook Assignment 5 A (Questions 1-5 & Problems 1-4)

Next Tuesday:  Quick Check

Next Thursday: Chapter 5 Quiz on Circular Motion and Law of Gravitation

Corrections to Homework List

• Assignment 4A has already been collected so only assignments 4 B and C will be collected on the day of the test, from the textbook.

• Also, the Study Guide Problems only went to problem #5, not #6 and does not need to be done on a separate sheet of paper.

During the Test, Remember to always THINK!

Below are a List of Equations that have appeared in Chapter 4 and can be reviewed.

Also below is a Concept Check as part of your review.

Also below is a short Practice Test from Princeton Review with Answers on Last Page

Answers below to Stapled Handout "Practice with Forces"

Below are Three Power-points, That May Be Helpful.

First one is on Friction.  The other two are by Paul Hewitt on Newton's Second Law and Newton's Third Law of Action/Reaction.

Also Listed Below are the Answers to the Practice Test

& Homework List which will be Available in Class to Pick Up

The Chapter 4 Exam (Multiple Choice) and FRQ will be Administered Next Thursday November 2, 2017

Period 1 Students Can Come Early and Begin the Exam at 7:30 a.m. or anytime later.

Period 3 Students may Begin the Test during Brunch and Stay into Lunch to Finish.

In Class Today (Monday October 23, 2017)

• Lesson on Forces Down an Inclined Plane (using a Force Demonstrator)

• Practice Problems

• Fan Cart Demonstration

HOMEWORK:

• Begin Practice FRQ Problems Given Out in Class Today

• Continue with Stapled Forces Worksheet

• Continue with Study Guide Problems

• Continue with Textbook Assignment 4 C

• Complete CDE 5-2 Worksheet

  Unit Test on Chapter 4 will be NEXT WEEK

• Answers to the Chapter 4 Study Guide Problems are Below:

• The Chapter 4 Newton's Laws of Motion PRACTICE TEST is also Below:  It has 100 questions because there are Three Different Laws and Many Different Concepts.  Answers will be posted later in the week.

Near the End of Chapter 4 Newton's Laws of Motion

• Carefully read section 8 of Chapter 4 on components of forces down a ramp.

• Continue with completing the questions on the Study Guide Problem Set and Stapled Handout on Forces.

• Complete All Lab Calculations

In Class Today:  (Tuesday October 17, 2017)

• Collect Newton's Second Law Worksheet

• Lesson on Friction

• Pre-Lab

• Collect Data for FOUR Labs: (Coffee Filter Lab, Inclined Plane with Gravity Experiments, Accelerated Motion down Incline and Friction Lab.

• Do Problem 12 from Textbook Assignment

HOMEWORK:

• Complete Calculations from Today's FOUR Labs

• Complete Friction Worksheet (Due on Thursday)

• Begin New Study Guide Problem Set

• Begin New Stapled Handout on Forces

• Begin Textbook Assignment 4 C  Questions: 16-22 & Problems 38-45, & 52 

Study for Chapter 4 Quiz on Thursday (Study all Labs and Lessons)

Reminder: Telescope Night on Thursday Night 6:30 ish to 8:00 p.m.

Astronomy/Telescope Night Coming Up Next Week

When:  Thursday October 19, 2017

Where: Field by the Parking Lot 

What: Viewing the planet Saturn and its Rings

Time: ~6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

In Class on Thursday October 12, 2017

• Return Chapter 3 FRQ Tests

• Discuss and Collect Assignment 4 A  Questions 1-8 and Problems 1-8

• Finish Collecting Data from the Second Laboratory Experiment (Either the Dynamics Cart Lab or the Mass of the Unknown Key Lab.

Homework: (should be completed by next Tuesday)

• Complete the Calculations and Analysis Questions for the Dynamics Cart Lab.

• Complete the Atwood Pulley Lab Calculation of the Mass of the Unknown Key.

• Complete the F=ma Worksheet.

• Complete the Friction Worksheet

• Begin Assignment 4B  Q 10-15. Problems 9, 10, 12, 13, 23, & 24

Chapter 4 Quiz at the end of next Week

Here is a video of the Demonstration of Inertia, shown in class with the 3 Eggs into the 3 Beakers. Video taken by Tony Chen

Wednesday (10-4-17) we started the next unit (Chapter 4 on Newton's Laws of Motion).

Homework:

• Begin reading the first three sections of chapter 4 in the textbook, (4-1, 4-2 & 4-3) on pages 77-80.

• Complete the questions on the Mass vs. Weight Labette done in class.

Don't neglect your physics homework while you are preparing for Color Day on Friday!

Slight Change in the Chapter 3 Exam Schedule

Monday will just be Part 1 of the Test (Multiple Choice Part).  There are 48 Questions.

Wednesday will be Part 2 FRQ Questions (9 Questions)

Answers to the Study Guide Problems Below:

Chapter 3 Quiz on Tuesday September 26, 2017

Quiz will have questions related to Vectors, Analytic Method and Projectile Motion.

Homework:

• Projectile Motion Problems for NOTES
• CDE Worksheet 3-1
• 2 T.I.P.E.R.S. Worksheets.
• Study Guide Problems
• Textbook Assignment 3 B
• Analysis Questions from "Ball in Cup" Lab

Answers to Several of the Chapter 3 Worksheets

Here are the three assignments from the end of the chapter 3 in the textbook.

Homework for Tonight

• Begin Textbook Assignment 3 A

• Complete the last problem from Notes on Analytic Method

• Complete the last handout from notes today.

In class Today:

Introductory Lesson on Vectors and How to Add them Graphically and Analytically

Remember that Tuesday is a LATE START MORNING

You may come to Period 1 Early (around 9:00 a.m) if you want to begin the Exam Earlier.

Period 3 students may also come earlier and you may stay 5 extra minutes into lunch if needed.

In Class Today on Wednesday (9-6-17)

• How Can We Measure the Acceleration due to Gravity on the Moon?

• Discuss the Answers to the TIPERS Ranking Worksheet with Strobe Pictures

• Do a "QUICK CHECK during class.

• Discuss Answers to the "Conceptual Questions" Worksheet

• Discuss a problem on the Study Guide Problems handout.

HOMEWORK:

• Begin Textbook Assignment 2B (Questions 10-12, 14-15, 18 & 19) and Problems 19, 21, 24, 25, 32-36, & 65
• Finish Study Guide Problems Handout
• Complete the worksheet "FUN WITH GRAPHS"

• Prepare for Chapter 2 QUIZ on Friday

• Study Study List as you prepare for next week's Unit 2 Exam

Posted Below is a Chapter 2 Practice Test

Homework List Posted Below for Next Week's Chapter 2 Exam

Answers Below for Conceptual Questions, Quick Check and Study Guide Problems

 Homework:

• Complete the Worksheet on "Conceptual Questions"
• Complete the TIPERS Ranking Worksheet
• Complete at least page 1 of stapled "Study Guide Problems"
• Continue working on Textbook Assignment 2 A Questions (1-3 & 6-9) and Problems (13-16)

Lesson in Class on Friday was:

• Demonstrate Coin & Feather in a Vacuum.
• Discuss Answers to Kinematics Worksheet Problems.
• Demonstration of Strobe light with Ball rolling down a ramp and with a rotating fan.
• Discuss answers to Graphical Analysis Wrorksheet
• Show beginning of Mechanical Universe LASER Disc on "Law of Falling Bodies"

As per the request of one of my students

Listed Below are pdf handouts from those given out in class:

For Friday:Day 2 August 18, 2017

• Quiz on Friday
• Study Summer Homework Packet
• Read Chapter 1 in Textbook
• Complete "Curiosity Questions handout
• Bring your Non-Programmable Scientific Calculator