A.P. Physics (Period 2) Assignments

Please bring with you to class tomorrow a CD and a DVD for our lab tomorrow.

They can be blank.  One of each is needed for each group.

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

Homework Before Friday:

• 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.

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

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.

Chapter 16 Exam will be on Thursday. 

In Class Tomorrow March 27, 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

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

For those students who missed the Chapter 12 Exam, there will be another opportunity to take the make up test tomorrow morning at 7:30 A.M. during the late start period.(Wednesday March 21, 2018)

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.

Homework:

• Study for Chapter 12 Quiz on Tuesday

• 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

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 Thursday (2-22-18):

Chapter 11 Exam next Wednesday!

• 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

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

Chapter 7 Exam on Momentum on Tuesday January 23, 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, Homework List & Practice Test are Below:

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:

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

• Chapter 5 Exam and FRQ will be this Thursday (Nov. 30th)

• Chapter 5 Homework Packet will be Collected on Monday

• No late Homework will be accepted after Monday

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

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.

In Class on Thursday (Nov. 9)

• Return Chapter 4 F.R.Q.
• Discuss Answers to Circular Motion Worksheet
• Lesson on Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
• Activity: Swirl Cup of Water in a Circle

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 Wednesday:  Quick Check

Next Friday: 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!

The homework packet may be turned in on Friday just before our FRQ on Friday.

You may also turn it in on Wednesday, if you like.

Mr. Papadakis

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) will be Administered Next Wednesday November 1, 2017

The Chapter 4 FRQ will be Administered Next Friday November 3, 2017 (Homecoming)

For Period 2 and Period 4 Classes:

• Today, Friday I passed out two handouts.  One was a list of the Equations of Chapter 4 and in class we labeled each equation with what the equation is used for.

• The second handout was a Concept Check Worksheet that we discussed in class.

If you get this message today (Friday) you can come by and pick them up.  Otherwise, you can pick them up on Monday and I will plan on posting them on my website this weekend.

• 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

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 Friday October 13, 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 Wednesday)

• 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 (Friday)

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

Answers to the Study Guide Problems Below:

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 Wednesday Night

• Begin Textbook Assignment 3 A

• Complete the last problem from Notes on Analytic Method

• Complete the last handout from notes today.

In class Today:

• Updated Seating Chart.
• Q. O. B. on Flight times for West bound vs. East bound air flights.
• Introductory Lesson on Vectors and How to Add them Graphically and Analytically

Posted Below is a Chapter 2 Practice Test

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

In Class Today on Thursday (9-7-17)

• 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 Monday

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

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

Lesson in Class for Tuesday September 5, 2017 will be:

• 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"

Homework for Tuesday:

• Homework for Tuesday Night will be:

  • 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)

As per the request of one of my students

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

For Monday:Day 2 August 21, 2017

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