Physics Daily Agenda for summer 2014

Monday, June 23
Chapter 1-Representing Motion
1.2 Position and Time: Putting Numbers on Nature
ex p26 4-7
1.3 Velocity
ex p26 8-13
HW p28 48, 49
1.4 A Sense of Scale: Significant Figures, Scientific Notation, and Units
ex p27 18-20
1.5 Vectors and Motion: A First Look
ex p27 27-29
HW p27 31
Lab-Displacement


Chapter 2-Motion in One Dimension
2.1 Describing Motion
ex p61 6, 8, and MasteringPhysics(MP)-Phet: Moving Man
HW p61 5, 9
2.2 Uniform Motion
ex p62 11, 12
HW p62 14, 16
2.3 Instantaneous Velocity
ex p62 19, 20
2.4 Acceleration
ex p62 21,22
HW p62 25
2.5 Motion with Constant Acceleration
ex p62 27, 29
HW p63 32, 72
Activity-Tracking Speed-Usain Bolt's 100m WR from 2008 Olympics (100 m World Record from 2008) and his even faster 100m WR from the Berlin World Championships in 2009 (current 100 m WR from 2009)

Watch these videos before next class:
video tutorial - one dimensional motion
video tutorial - free fall

Tuesday. June 24
Lab-Marble Roll
2.6 Solving One Dimensional Motion Problems
classwork p63 35-37
2.7 Free Fall
ex p63 38, 40, 42, 45, 62, 64
HW p63 43, 44, 63, 74
Lab-Free Fall
study these problems for the chapter 2 test: p63 9, 19, 32, 43

Watch these videos before next class:
video tutorial - what is a vector and how do I work with them?
video tutorial - projectile motion (horizontal launches)

Wednesday, June 25
Chapter 3-Vectors and Motion in Two Dimensions
3.1 Using Vectors
3.2 Using Vectors on Motion Diagrams
3.3 Coordinate Systems and Vector Compounds
ex p97 6, 7, 8, 11
HW p97 9, 12
3.4 Motion on a Ramp (Incline)
ex p97 16, 19 (Laurel and Hardy), 47, 55
video-Motion on a Ramp
video demonstration-comparing two ramps
HW p97 17, 18, 53, 54
Lab-Acceleration on an Incline
3.6 Motion in Two Dimensions-Projectile Motion
3.7 Projectile Motion: Solving Problems - Horizontal Launches
ex p98 27, 30, 64, 67, 70, 73
HW p98 28, 31, 65, 72
Lab-Projectile Motion (horizontal launches)

watch these videos before next class:
video tutorial - projectile motion (launched at an angle)
video tutorial - circular motion

Thursday, June 26
3.7 Projectile Motion (launched at an angle)
ex p98 29, 32, 69
HW p98 33, 66, 68
Lab-Projectile Motion (angle launches)
video-range of a projectile (QR code on p88)Robbie Maddison Las Vegas Arc Jump analysis
video that leads from linear acceleration to centripetal acceleration
3.8 Motion in Two Dimensions: Circular Motion
ex p98 38, 40, 74
Lab-Circular Motion
HW p98 39, 41, 75, 76a, 78-79

watch these videos before next class:
video tutorial - Free Body Diagrams video tutorial - Newton's 3 Laws of Motion

Friday, June 27
Force Concept Inventory pretest (we will check your ideas about forces now and then again after finishing our unit about forces)
Chapter 4-Forces and Newton's Laws of Motion
4.1 What causes Motion?
ex p126 1-3
4.2 Force
ex p126 4-6
4.3 A Short Catalog of Forces
-give definitions
4.4 Identifying Forces
Force video: Objects and Agents (QR code on p111)
ex p127 7-9
HW p127 10-12
4.5 What do Forces do?
Force video: Newton's 2nd Law - regular vs. diet soda (QR code on top of p115)
ex p127 13-16
HW p127 18, 19, 66
Lab-Superball Bounce (like problem 64)
video: Newton's 2nd Law with agents and objects: table cloth (QR code on left at bottom of p115)
video: suspended balls-which string breaks? (QR code on right at bottom of p115)
video: cart with fan and sail (QR code at top of p116)
video: tension in string between hanging weights (QR code in middle of p116)
ex p127 21-23
HW p127 25, (worksheet "Physics Example Problems for Newton's 2nd Law") - we did not assign the worksheet
4.7 Free-Body Diagrams
ex p128 29-34
HW p128 53, 54, 60, 65
4.8 Newton's Third Law
video: weighing a hovering magnet (QR code on p121)
ex p128 36-38 (for #37, bring 3 students to the front to demonstrate)
HW p130 69-72 (Passage Problem)

watch these videos before next class:
video tutorial - forces in equilibrium
video tutorial - force components

Monday, June 30
complete "pre-lab questions" of Truss Lab before our next class
Chapter 5-Applying Newton's Laws
5.1 Equilibrium
ex p161 3, 5, 7
HW p161 4, 6, 41
5.3 Mass and Weight
ex p162 18, 19, 20
HW p162 21
Lab-Force Components (use Truss lab equipment)
5.2 Dynamics and Newton's Second Law
video: forces in jumping (QR code on p135)
video-use what you just saw to analyze Blake Griffin dunking
online Dunk Calculator
 ex p161 8, 10, 13, 15, 45, 51
examples worksheet : Newton's 2nd Law
Lunar Lander PhET simulation
Lunar Lander questions
HW p161 9, 43, 44, 46, 47, 52, 57


watch these videos before next class:
video tutorial - normal force
video tutorial - force of friction


Tuesday, July 1
5.4 Normal Forces
ex p162 23
HW p162 24
5.5 Friction
video: solving problems using Newton's Laws (QR code on p143)
ex p162 25-28
HW p162 55,70
Lab-Friction (flat and incline)
5.6 Drag
ex p162 31,68
HW p162 33,69
video clips-Joe Kittinger and Red Bull Stratos (jumped on Sunday, October 14, 2012)
Red Bull Stratos POV video
 finish Friction Lab (due next class)
(Lab-Parachute Army Men)

watch these videos before next class:
video tutorial - tension (trust me when I say that you will love this one!)
video tutorial - inclined plane (no friction)
video tutorial - inclined plane with friction

Wednesday, July 2
5.7 Interacting Objects
ex p162 34,35
HW p162 72
5.8 Ropes and Pulleys
ex p162 36,37,38,39,45
HW p162 46,65,74
Lab-Connected Masses
Lab-Friction on an Incline
Review
Study these for the test: p161 4,21,52,55

watch these videos before next class:
video tutorial - circular motion
video tutorial - vertical loops

Thursday, July 3
Chapter 6 - Circular Motion, Orbits, and Gravity
Circular Motion activities
 6.1 Uniform Circular Motion
6.2 Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration in Uniform Circular Motion
ex p196 11,13,16
HW p196 15
6.3 Dynamics of Uniform Circular Motion
video: Forces in Circular Motion (QR code at top of p174)
video: Demo-ball leaves circular track (QR code on left at bottom of p174)
video: car driving over a rise (QR code on right at bottom of p174)
ex p196 17,19,44,51
ex p177 EX 6.1
HW p196 20,21
Lab-Circular Motion
HW before your next class, read section 6.4 (pages 179-182) and watch the following video clip: forces in a vertical circle
6.4 Apparent Forces in Circular Motion
ex p197 23,24,50,52
Loop-the-Loop car stunt
Loop-the-Loop question (you can fast-forward to 1:42)
Loop-the-Loop answer part 1
Loop-the-Loop answer part 2
Physics of a Car driving around a banked turn
why race cars high in the turns can go faster than cars low in the turns
HW p197 25,45,53
vertical circles
handout-Vertical Circular Motion Examples and Homework
ex problems 1,2,6(a,b), 8 from handout

watch these videos before next class:
video tutorial - types of energy
video tutorial - conservation of energy
video tutorial - power

Friday, July 4 - no school (4th of July)

Monday, July 7
Chapter 10: Energy and Work
10.1 The Basic Energy Model
-The Law of Conservation of Energy
10.2 Work
ex p317 2,3,5,6,
HW p317 53,72
10.8 Power
ex p318 41,42,43
HW p318 45,71,74
Lab-Power
10.3 Kinetic Energy
ex p317 9,10
HW p317 68,80-84
10.4 Potential Energy
ex p317 15,18,19
HW p317 16,17,20
10.6 Using the Law of Conservation of Energy
video clip - Breaking Boards (QR code on p306)
Chin Basher? (QR code on p307)
ex p318 26,49,55,60
HW p318 27,29,30,59
Lab-Conservation of Energy with Hot Wheels

watch these videos before next class:
video tutorial - momentum and impulse
video tutorial - conservation of momentum

Tuesday, July 8
Chapter 9: Momentum
9.1 Impulse
video clip - Science of Speed: Momentum and Time
9.2 Momentum and Impulse: Momentum Theorem
ex p284 1,2,5,36
HW p284 3,38
9.3 Solving Impulse and Momentum Problems
ex p284 7,10
HW p284 9,11,47
9.4 Conservation of Momentum
ex p284 17,49
HW p284 18,44
10.7 Energy in Collisions
ex p318 37
HW p318 40,62
9.5 Inelastic Collisions
ex p285 22,24,55
HW p285 53,54,60
Lab-Conservation of Momentum

9.6 Momentum and Collisions in Two Dimensions
ex p285 26,29,58
HW p285 56,65

Wednesday, July 9

review

Final Exam for Semester One

Second Semester

Thursday, July 10
Chapter 15-Traveling Waves and Sound
15.1 The Wave Model
15.2 Traveling Waves
video-Traveling Waves (QR code on p479)
video-solving Traveling Wave problems (QR code on p486)
ex p502 1,3,4
HW p502 2,49,61
15.3 Graphical and Mathematical Descriptions of Waves
ex p503 11,13,14,17
HW p503 12,15,18,60
15.4 Sound and Light Waves
ex p503 21,23
HW p503 24,26
PhET simulation: Waves on a String
the worksheet for the above activity is found here: Waves on a String worksheet

watch this video before next class:
video tutorial - decibels

Friday, July 11
15.5 Energy and Intensity
ex p503 27,29,31
HW p503 28,32,70
15.6 Loudness of Sound
ex p504 34,35,36,37
HW p504 39,73,75
Lab-Sound Intensity and Distance ( online frequency generator )
you can find apps to measure decibels here: decibel 10th (iPhone) and here: Sound Meter (Android)

watch these videos before next class:
video tutorial - Coulomb's Law
video tutorial - Electric Fields

Monday, July 14
Chapter 20-Electric Fields and Forces
20.1 Charges and Forces
20.2 Charges, Atoms, Molecules
ex p670 1,7
HW p670 2,6
20.3 Coulomb's Law
ex p670 9.14
HW p670 15,17
20.4 Concept of the Electric Field
ex p670 19,22
HW p670 21,23
20.5 Applications of the Electric Field
ex p670 26
HW p670 27
Lab-Coulomb's Law

watch these videos before next class:
video tutorial - Electric Potential

Tuesday, July 15
20.6 Conductors and Electric Fields
20.7 Forces and Torques in Electric Fields
ex p672 47,65
HW p672 48,66
Chapter 21-Electric Potential
21.1 Electric Potential Energy and Electric Potential
21.2 Sources of Electric Potential
ex p706 3
HW p706 4,5
21.3 Electric Potential and Conservation of Energy
ex p706 6,9
HW p706 7,10
21.4 Calculating the Electric Potential (this is a big section)
ex p707 12,15,18
HW p707 13,16

watch these videos before next class:
video tutorial - Capacitors
video tutorial - resistance
video tutorial - Ohm's Law
video tutorial - electric current
video tutorial - Potential Difference

Wednesday, July 16
21.5 Connecting Potential and Field
ex p707 21,22
HW p707 20,23
21.7 Capacitance and Capacitors
ex p708 30
HW p708 33
21.9 Energy and Capacitors
ex p708 39
HW p708 40
Chapter 22-Current and Resistance
22.1 A Model of Current
22.2 Defining and Describing Current
ex p735 1,9
HW p735 2,10
22.3 Batteries and EMF
ex p735 15
HW p735 16
22.4 Connecting Potential and Current
ex p735 21,29
HW p735 20,24
22.5 Ohm's Law and Resistor Circuits
ex p736 33
HW p736 34

watch these videos before next class:
video tutorial - resistors in series
video tutorial - resistors in parallel
video tutorial - capacitors in series
video tutorial - capacitors in parallel

Thursday, July 17
22.6 Energy and Power
ex p736 36,39
HW p736 38,40,46
Chapter 23-Circuits
23.1 Circuit Elements and Diagrams
ex p769 1
HW p769 2
23.2 Kirchoff's Laws
ex p770 5
HW p770 8
23.3 Series and Parallel Circuits
ex p770 10,11
23.4 Measuring Voltage and Current
23.5 More Complex Circuits
ex p770 17,25
HW p770 18, 26
23.6 Capacitors in Parallel and Series
ex p772 36,38
HW p772 37,39
23.7 RC Circuits
RC Circuits
ex p772 40,44
HW p772 41,74

Friday, July 18
Chapter 27-Relativity
27.1 Relativity: What's it All About?
27.2 Galilean Relativity
ex p917 2,4
HW p917 3,5
27.3 Einstein's Principle of Relativity
ex p918 7,9
HW p918 8
27.4 Events and Measurements
27.5 The Relativity of Simultaneity
ex p918 11,13,16
HW p918 10,12,15
27.6 Time Dilation
ex p918 17,19,47
HW p918 20,46
27.7 Length Contraction
ex p918 22,23,52
HW p918 24,25,54

Monday, July 21
27.10 Relativistic Energy
ex p919 34,37,68,75
HW p 919 61,72,73,74
video: Mass-Energy Equivalence (QR code on p911)
General Relativity/Black Holes
video: Through the Wormhole-The Riddle of Black Holes

watch these videos before next class:
video tutorial - photoelectric effect
video tutorial - De Broglie wavelength

Tuesday, July 22
Chapter 28-Quantum Physics
28.1 X Rays
28.2 The Photoelectric Effect (Einstein's Noble Prize winning work!)
video-Photoelectric Effect (QR code on p926)
ex p949 8,9,10
HW p949 12,51
28.3 Photons
ex p949 16,23
HW p949 20,54
28.4 Matter Waves
ex p949 27
HW p949 28
PhET Simulation-The Photoelectric Effect
click here for the PhET photoelectric effect worksheet

watch these videos before next class:
video tutorial - quantum physics
video tutorial - Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principal

Wednesday, July 23
28.5 Energy is Quantized
video-Energy is Quantized (QR code on p937)
ex p950 34,37
HW p950 36,73
28.6 Energy Levels and Quantum Jumps
ex p950 38,39
HW p950 41
28.7 The Uncertainty Principle
ex p950 42,43
HW p950 46
28.8 Applications and Implications of Quantum Theory
PhET Simulation-MRI
click here for PhET MRI worksheet

watch these videos before next class:
video tutorial - nuclear reactions
video tutorial - radioactivity
video tutorial - half life

Thursday, July 24
Chapter 30-Nuclear Physics
http://www.nucleartourist.com/
30.1 Nuclear Structure
ex p1019 1
HW p1019 2
video: Nuclear Physics Notation (QR code on p992)
30.2 Nuclear Stability
30.3 Forces and Energy in the Nucleus
30.4 Radiation and Radioactivity
video: Radioactive Decay (QR code on p999)
ex p1020 16-18,21
HW p1020 19,20
30.5 Nuclear Decay and Half-Lives
ex p1020 24,28,29
HW p1020 30,33
30.6 Medical Applications of Nuclear Physics
video: Positron-Emission Tomography (QR code on p1011)
30.7 The Ultimate Building Blocks of Matter
PhET Simulation-Alpha Decay
click here for the PhET Alpha Decay worksheet

Friday, July 25
review and final exam