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Current Unit:   Unit 3: Energy
AP-C Plan For This Week (Dec. 1 - Dec. 5):

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 8.1 - 8.4

Unit 3 Calendar - AP-C

Unit Guide AP-C - Unit 2 - Forces
Only 2.8

Unit Guide AP-C - Unit 3 - Energy
Excluding 3.3.A.7.ii

 

Conservative & Non-Conservative Forces
Notes
PowerPoint
Sample Questions
Solutions

Conservation of Energy
Notes
PowerPoint
Sample Questions
Solutions

Conservation of Energy "Lab Quiz"

What's the k? Lab

Non-Conservative Work
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

 
AP-C Homework and Upcoming Tests:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
Dec. 1 Assignment 3-4 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 2 Assignment 3-5 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 4

What's the k? Lab (Done in Class)
   
Dec. 5 Assignment 3-6 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 8 Assignment 3-7 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 9 Assignment 3-8 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 11 Assignment 3-9 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 12 Assignment 3-10 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 15 Assignment 3-11 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 16

Assignment 3-12 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 18 Test #3
   
AP-C Weekly Reading:
Dec. 1 Sections 8.1 - 8.4
   
Dec. 8 Section 7.9
   
Dec. 15 None This Week
   
AP-C Some Recent Assignments:
Nov. 3 Assignment 2-6 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 4 Pre-lab for Whirling Good Time (Solutions)
   
Nov. 6 Assignment 2-7 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 7 Assignment 2-8 (Solutions) and
Force Your Way Through Lab Quiz
   
Nov. 13 Assignment 2-9 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 14 Assignment 2-10 (Solutions) and
Key Mass'ter Lab Quiz
   
Nov. 17 Assignment 2-11 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 21 Assignment 3-1 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 24 Assignment 3-2 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 25 Assignment 3-3 (Solutions)
   
 
Current Unit:  Unit 3: Energy
AP-1 Plan For This Week (Dec. 1 - Dec. 5):

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 6-1 to 6-4, 6-6, 6-10

Unit 3 Calendar - AP-1

Unit Guide AP-1 - Unit 3 - Energy (CB Version)

 

Introduce Work, Kinetic Energy, and Work-KE Theorem
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

Introduce Power
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

Work-Kinetic Energy Goodness (Due Block Day)

Introduce Springs, Work by a Variable Force, Work from Graphs
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

"Working" with Graphs (Due Friday)

Introduce Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

 

ConcepTest: Work and Energy

 

Textbook Links:

 
 Giancoli Textbook

 OpenStax Textbook
AP-1 Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
Dec. 2 Assignment 3-1 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 3 Work-Kinetic Energy Goodness (Solutions)
   
Dec. 5 "Working" with Graphs (Solutions)
   
Dec. 8 Free Response Energy 1 (Rubric)
   
Dec. 9 Assignment 3-2 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 10 Energy My Goodness (Solutions) and Checked Off on Both Labs (Done in Class)
   
Dec. 12 Bar Graph Energy (Solutions)
   
Dec. 15 Free Response Energy 2 (Rubric) and Assignment 3-3 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 16 Orbital Energies (Solutions) and
Bonus Gravitational Goodness (Solutions)
   
Dec. 17 Energy Test Part 1:  Multiple Choice (65 Minutes)
   
Dec. 19 Energy Test Part 2:  Free Response
   
AP-1 Weekly Reading:
Dec. 1 Sections 6-1 to 6-4, 6-6, 6-10
   
Dec. 8 Sections 6.5, 6.7 to 6.9 and Universal Gravitational Supplement
   
Dec. 15 None This Week
   
AP-1 Some Recent Assignments:
Nov. 3 Friction Goodness
   
Nov. 4 Assignment 2-4 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 5 Assignment 2-5 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 12 Free Response Forces 2 (Rubric)
   
 
Current Unit:  Unit 3: Mirrors & Lenses
Physics Plan For This Week (Dec. 1 - Dec. 5):

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 30.5 - 30.7

Unit 3 Calendar - Physics

 

Lens Practice (Due Tuesday)

Number Crunching (Due Tuesday)

Lens Ray Diagram Practice (Due Block Day)

Lens Ray Diagrams on Tables (Checked Off Today)

Lens Fun (Due Monday)

Sample Lens Problems (Due Monday)

 

Textbook Link:

 
 Textbook
Physics Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
Dec. 1 Be Sure To Lens a Hand Lab
   
Dec. 2 Lens Practice (Solutions) and
Number Crunching (Solutions)
   
Dec. 4

Lens Ray Diagram Practice (Solutions) and
Lens Ray Diagrams on Tables (Done In Class)
   
Dec. 8 Lens Fun (Solutions) and
Sample Lens Problems (Solutions)
   
Dec. 9 Wait, Is This AP Physics? (Solutions)
   
Dec. 12 Lens Quiz
   
Dec. 18 Unit 3 Test -- Mirrors and Lenses
   
Physics Weekly Reading:
Nov. 3 Sections 29.1 - 29.4
   
Nov. 10 Sections 29.6 - 29.9, 29.12
   
Nov. 17 Sections 30.1 - 30.4
   
Nov. 24 Sections 30.5 - 30.7
   
Dec. 1 Sections 30.5 - 30.7
   
Dec. 8 None This Week
   
Dec. 15 None This Week
   
Physics Some Recent Assignments:
Oct. 27 Comic Time Lab (Handout, PowerPoint) and
Viewed in Another Light (Solutions)
   
Oct. 28 Primary Colors of Paint (Solutions) and
Light and Pigments and Paints (Solutions 1, Solutions 2)
   
Nov. 4 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Lab
   
Nov. 6 Plane Mirror Practice (Solutions)
   
Nov. 7 Plane Mirror Goodness (Solutions) and
Where Can You See a Pencil? (Solutions)
   
Nov. 13 Diverging Mirrors Ray Tracing (Solutions)
   
Nov. 14 Converging Mirrors Ray Tracing (Solutions) and
Ray Tracing and Calculation Problems (Solutions)
   
Nov. 17 More Curved Mirror Math (Solutions) and
Solve Mirror Problems on Tables (Solutions) (Done In Class)
   
Nov. 19 Refraction Goodness (Solutions) and Refraction Shapes (Solutions)
   
Nov. 24 Diverging Lens Practice (Solutions) and Converging Lens Practice (Solutions)
   

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