Course Title: Honors Physics 17/18
Periods: White 6, 7
Instructor: P. Perry C129
Text: Contemporary College Physics w/ Online Learning Center
Previous Syllabus 15/16
Unit 1: Data Collection and Mathematical Modeling
Priority Standard: Systems & System Models
Supporting Standard: CCSS.Math.Content.HSF.LE.A.2 Construct linear and exponential functions, including arithmetic and geometric sequences, given a graph, a description of a relationship, or two input-output pairs (include reading these from a table).
Summative Assessment
Suite of Labs Graphical Analysis
Fri 9/1 White 6
Do Introductory Lab:Thickness of a Page - due next class.
Wed 9/6 White 6
1. Do the teacher moderated part of Cube It
2. Finish Introductory Lab:Thickness of a Page - pass in by the beginning of next class.
Fri 9/8 White 6
Finish Cube It - work in groups of 2 (one group of 3 is acceptable if there is an odd number of people in the room. Each group should make a cube (use pink templates on the desk in the center of the room) to exchange with another group. Follow the same procedure as modeled last class and write your report using the guideline on the handout.- pass in by the beginning of next class
Tue 9/12 White 6
1. Read pages Unit I Reading: Graphical Methods and Graphical Methods-Summary
2. Discuss Graphical Analysis Using Logger Pro 3.6
3. Begin Unit 1 WS I: Graphing Practice using the LoggerPro program. - finish next class
Thu 9/14 White 6
1. Finish Unit 1 WS I: Graphing Practice using the LoggerPro program. - pass in next class
2. Do Determining Relationships from Graphs (first page only) - due next class
Tue 9/19 White 6
1. Discuss Unit 1 WS 2 - Significant Figures
2. Do Unit 1 WS 2 - Significant Figures - due next class
3. Graphing quize next class
Thu 9/21 White 6
1. Go over Unit 1 WS 2 - Significant Figures
2. Graphing quiz
3. Begin diffraction grating lab to review for summative assessment when you are finished, see me and I will go over this with you personaly to make sure you are all set for the summative
* Alternative review: The Ball Bounce Challenge - Summative Assessment Review
Mon 9/25 White 6
1. Finish diffraction grating lab to review for summative assessment when you are finished, see me and I will go over this with you personaly to make sure you are all set for the summative
2. Begin writing hypothesis and taking data for Summative Assessment: Suite of Labs Graphical Analysis
Wed 9/27 White 6, Mon 10/2 White 6, Thu 10/6 White (5,7)
1. Continue work on Summative Assessment: Suite of Labs Graphical Analysis - final reports due Tue 10/10 and Wed 10/11 next week
2. Read 2.1 and 2.2 in textbook and do problems #1-19 odd - (solutions to #10 and #12 are here, solutions to 14, 16, and 18 are here) - due next class
Wed 10/11 White 6
1. Do Physics Lab Activity - Motorized Cars
2. Use these as a guide in writing your lab report: Thickness of a Page Lab Report and the Lab Report Grading Sheet
White 6
Finish Physics Lab Activity - Motorized Cars - lab report due next Wed (blue) and Thu (white)
Tue 10/17 White 6
Do the lab, "Graph Matching" (LabQuest Version, LabPro & Computer Version)
*IF SUB or if you are absent Instead do Unit 2 CP Lab 2 - The Moving Man - the simuation is below
Thu 10/19 White 6
1. Go over or read notes on converting position vs time to velocity vs time graphs and vice versa.
2. Finish the lab, "Graph Matching" (LabQuest Version, LabPro & Computer Version)
3. Do Constant Velocity: Position-Time Graphs #3, Constant Velocity: Velocity-Time Graphs #3 (check your answers online) - due next class
Mon 10/23 White 6
1. Go over any questions from homework
2. Do p. 52 #21-27 odd
3. Begin Motion on an Inclined Plane lab (do hypotheses)
Wed 10/25 White 6
DO Motion on an Inclined Plane lab
* If you are absent, use this simulation to take data. Note - this simulation has a lot of things on it that you will not need. To use this simulation for this lab: Set "Position" to 15.0m. The object should be at the top of the ramp. Click the box next to "Frictionless" and the object will begin to slide. Click "Pause" before you get to the bottom of the ramp. The new position will be in the box underneath "Position." Displacement will then be 15.0m minus this position. The time will be given in the upper left corner. Do ten displacements (you do not need to do multiple trials since this is a computer simulation). Keep the angle of your ramp constant.
Fri 10/27 White 6
Finish Motion on an Inclined Plane* - lab reports dueTue 10/24
*READ THE LAB HANDOUT FOR INSTRUCTIONS!!!! Also read these Post Lab notes. First make a graph of position vs time using Logger Pro. Include (0,0) as a data point (zero position at zero time). You will need to linearize this graph. Once you have your equation for position vs time, follow the instructions in the lab handout to use this equation and your TI-83 calculator to get slopes of tangents to this curve (slope of tangent to a position vs time curve - instantaneous velocity). Use these numbers to then plot a velocity vs time graph. Slope of v vs t graph will then give you an acceleration vs time graph.
Tue 10/31 White 6
1. Go over lab results and the derivation of kinematics equations
2. Do Kinematics Equations #1 - due by the end of the period
3. *Read 2.5 and 2.6 and do p. 52-53 #27-41 odd (solutions to evens are here)-due next class
*If you need extra help, you may also want to try Kinematics Equations #2. Also if you need help with unit conversion (like mi/h to m/s), check this out.
Thu 11/2 White 6
1. Go over work from last class
2. Do Tables Graphs and Ramps on computers, link to the website is here - pass in next class (finish as homework)
***USING JAVA APPLETS:
You MUST open the web page in Internet Explorer (NOT Chrome)
If the applet won't load, copy the URL.
Go to the icon at the bottom left of the Windows screen, click and open the "Control Panel" and then open "Java" (this can take a few seconds to open, so wait.) Go to the "Security" tab. Click "Edit Site List" and then "Add" in the new window. Paste in the URL and then click "OK" and "OK" on the next window.
Close Internet Explorer and reopen the web page. You will get two Java notices. In "Java Update Needed", choose "Later." In "Security Warning," choose "Run."
Mon 11/6 White 6
1. Read Review Sheet: Constant Velocity Graphs, SVA: Slopes and Area Relationships and Summary: Graph Shapes for Uniformly Accelerated Motion
2.To review for the quiz next class, do Converting s-t and v-t Graphs, Accelerated Motion: Analyzing Velocity-Time Graphs, Accelerated Motion: Graph Shape Patterns, and Position-Time Graph "Story" Combinations - check your answers online, due at the end of next class
Wed 11/8 White 6
1. Quiz on graphs for constant velocity and constant acceleration
2. Begin the lab "Picket Fence Free Fall" (LabQuest Version, LabPro & Computer Version) - due next class at the end of the period
Fri 11/10 White 6
1. Finish "Picket Fence Free Fall" (LabQuest Version, LabPro & Computer Version), including "Extensions" and pass in lab
2. Do Freefall: Projectiles in 1-Dimension (click arrows to check answers) and Freefall #1 (check answers here, if the viewing answers option is not available on the website), due next class
Wed 11/15 (White 6)
1. Discuss free fall
2. Do Freefall #3: Honors (check answers here, if the viewing answers option is not available on the website), due next class
3. Read 2.7 and do p. 53 #43-51 odd (solutions to evens arehere)
*dates above changed to give time for extra practice
Tue 11/21 (White 6)
1. Go over homework
2. Do Ch. 2 Review - test next Wed
Mon 11/27 (White 6)
1. Go over questions on Ch. 2 review (test next class)
2. Read Finding the Components of a Vector
3. Do the virtual lab Vector Components Lab. The simulation is below.- due next class
Wed 11/29 (White 6)
Ch. 2 Test
Fri 12/1 White (6)
1. Read sections 3.1-3.3 and Vector Operations
2. Begin Addition of Vectors Lab - due next clas
Tue 12/4 White (6)
Read 3.1 and do p. 79 #1-9 odd (do these problems using scale drawings NOT trig) - pass in
Remainder of vector unit:
1. Do Vector Math v.2, the simulation is here
2. Read 3.2 and do p. 80 #11-19 odd
3. Do Relative Motion, the simulation is here
4. Read 3.3 and do p. 80-81 #21-29 odd
5. Do vector review
6. Ch. 3 test on vectors only
Projectile motion unit:
1. Do video lab Basketball Throw
2. Do Freefall: Horizontally Released Projectiles (2D-Motion) and Horizontally Released Projectiles #2 (check answers here)
3. Do Horizontally Launched Projectile Problems (the link for the simulation is here, the one on the handout is incorrect)
4. Read sections 3.4 and 3.5 and do p. 81-83 #31,33,37, odd (here are the solutions to #32 and #34)
5.Do Algodoo Projectile Motion - counts as 10 point bonus on projectile motion test
6. Discuss range of a projectile and do Vertically Launched Projectile Problems.The link for the simulation is here.
7. Read section 3.6 and do p. 82 #43-53 odd
8. Do projectile motion assessment (Piggie Poppers and Projectile Motion Spreadsheet)
Wed 1/24 (W6)
1. Finish rocket prelab from last class and be ready to take data on Friday
2. Work on Projectile Motion Problem Spreadsheet (if you don't have one, print a copy) - this is a summative! Do it on Google Sheets and share this with me today even if you don't finish.
Static Equilibrium activities
1. Do Unit IV - Force Table Lab. No formal lab report - just fill out the sheets provided. Each person must draw one diagram (one trial). Get data for the other 3 trials from any other 3 people. Force tables are on the table in the middle of the room and protractors, rulers and white paper on on table in front
2. Do Static Equilibrium - you must show your work to get credit, check answers online
3. Do Ropes and Pulleys in Static Equilibrium - check answers online and show your work!
4. Do p. 124-125 #45-53(part (a) only on #53) odd*
*Here are some problems with solutions to help you with the above - Forces in Equilibrium - Practice Problems.
5. Do "Prelab and Atwood Machine Lab - online version - you may work on this lab in groups of 2 or 1. If you work in groups of 2, you must do both the Atwood and the Modified Atwood (4 graphs total, 2 each of acc vs net force and acc vs total mass). If you work by yourself pick one machine or the other (2 graphs total). Use the simulations here: Atwood Machine (note, you will have to hit "pause" before the block hits the bottom to get the acceleration and "reset" in between trials), Modified Atwood Machine
6. THURSDAY before vacation - Quiz on static equilibrium
Mon 2/26 (W6)
Finish your lab reports for Atwood Machine Lab - online version and share them with me on Google. When you are writing your conclusion, compare the slope of your acc. vs net force lab to the total mass that you held constant and the slope of your acc. vs total mass graph to the net force that you held constant. Remember that 1 N = 1 kg m/s. If you are having trouble, looking up Newton's 2nd Law and solve it for acceleration. Do your results give Newton's 2nd Law?
Wed 2/28 (W6)
1. Only one lab report has been shared with me. Please get these to me via Google.
2. Read section 4.4 and do p. 121 #1-7 odd (Note - you have to use your kinematics formulas from your equation sheet along with Newton's 2nd Law. If you are having trouble here are the solutions to the even problems)- due by the beginning of next class, we will go over these at the beginning of the period
Fri 3/2 (W6)
1. Only one lab report has been shared with me. Please get these to me via Google.
2. Do Elevator Mini Lab - Formative Assessment (Newton's 2nd Law), link to simulation is here - due next class, finish as homework
***USING JAVA APPLETS:
You MUST open the web page in Internet Explorer.
If the applet won't load, copy the URL.
Go to the icon at the bottom left of the Windows screen, click and open the "Control Panel" and then open "Java" (this can take a few seconds to open, so wait.) Go to the "Security" tab. Click "Edit Site List" and then "Add" in the new window. Paste in the URL and then click "OK" and "OK" on the next window.
Close Internet Explorer and reopen the web page. You will get two Java notices. In "Java Update Needed", choose "Later." In "Security Warning," choose "Run."
Tue 3/6 (W6)
Online Lesson - Friction link to the first simulation is here and the second is here - pass in
***USING JAVA APPLETS:
You MUST open the web page in Internet Explorer.
If the applet won't load, copy the URL.
Go to the icon at the bottom left of the Windows screen, click and open the "Control Panel" and then open "Java" (this can take a few seconds to open, so wait.) Go to the "Security" tab. Click "Edit Site List" and then "Add" in the new window. Paste in the URL and then click "OK" and "OK" on the next window.
Close Internet Explorer and reopen the web page. You will get two Java notices. In "Java Update Needed", choose "Later." In "Security Warning," choose "Run."
remainder of the unitMbr>
1. Do sliding lab and write report
2. Do Systems of Bodies and the last five questions (dealing with the inclined plane) on Freebody Diagrams #4 and check answers online - you must show work to get credit, due next class
3. Read section 4.7 and do #25-31 odd (need help? look at the solutions to the even problems here)
4.. Do Freebody Diagrams #2 - you must show work to get credit, due next class
5. Read section 4.8, do p. 123 # 33-41 odd (need help? look at the solutions to the even problems here)
6. Do Vernier Labs on Newton's 1st and 3rd laws.
7. Read section 4.6 and do p. 122 #16,17,19,21,22
8. Review for test
9. Take test.
Mon 3/26 W6
1. Finish packet from last class Systems of Bodies and Freebody Diagrams #4 and check answers online - you must show work to get credit, pass in by the end of the period
2. Read section 4.7 and do #25-31 odd (need help? look at the solutions to the even problems here)
last two classes before April vacation
1. Do Spring has Sprung - If you are absent or if there is a sub, use this simulation to do this lab. NOTE - you won't see anything until you click "Increase Load". When you click on the rectangle that the spring is hanging from and hold the mouse down and drag, a measuring tape will appear. Do springs of two different stiffnesses. Don't forget to record the initial spring length. - pass in
2. Read 6.1 and 6.2 and do #1-13, odd (solutions to evens are here)
Rest of Ch. 6
1. Do lab, "Energy of a Tossed Ball" - pass in
2. Read 6.4 and 6.5, do p. 182-183 #21-33, odd (solutions to evens are here)
3. Discuss conservation of energy & power and read 6.7 & 6.9, do p. 183-185 #39,41,43,49 (note: Fc=2mg in this case since N=W and Fc=N+W),59,63,65,69 (solutions to evens are here)
4. . Read 6.8, do p. 184 #53, 55, 57 (solutions to evens are here)
5. Ch. 6 review
6. Ch. 6 test
