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Current Unit:   Unit 5: Rotation
AP-C Plan For This Week (Feb. 9 - Feb. 13):

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 10.4, 10.5, 10.7, 10.8

Unit 5 Calendar - AP-C

Unit Guide AP-C - Unit 5 - Torque

Unit Guide AP-C - Unit 6 - Rotational Energy and Momentum
Excluding 6.6

 

Introduce Torque
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

More Torque, Work, and Power
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

Bizarro World Fun (Solutions)

Pulley What? Lab (Quiz Thursday, 3/5)
Handout
Important Information

We're Still Torqued (Solutions)

The World is Spinning (Solutions)

 

Optional Extra Practice (Past Year's Version): 

We're Still Torqued (Solutions)

The World is Spinning (Solutions)

 
AP-C Homework and Upcoming Tests:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
Feb. 9 Assignment 5-3 (Solutions)
   
Feb. 10 Assignment 5-4 (Solutions)
   
Feb. 12 Assignment 5-5 (Solutions)
   
Feb. 24 Assignment 5-6 (Solutions)
   
Feb. 26 Assignment 5-7 (Solutions)
   
Feb. 27 Assignment 5-8 (Solutions)
   
Mar. 2 Assignment 5-9 (Solutions)
   
Mar. 3 Assignment 5-10 (Solutions)
   
Mar. 5 Assignment 5-11 (Solutions) and
Pulley What? Lab Quiz
   
Mar. 9 Assignment 5-12 (Solutions)
   
Mar. 10 Assignment 5-13 (Solutions)
   
Mar. 12 Test #5
   
AP-C Weekly Reading:
Feb. 9 Sections 10.4, 10.5, 10.7, 10.8
   
Feb. 23 Sections 10.9, 11.1 - 11.3
   
Mar. 2 Sections 11.4, 12.1 - 12.3
   
Mar. 9 None This Week
   
AP-C Some Recent Assignments:
Jan. 13 Assignment 4-2 (Solutions)
   
Jan. 15 Assignment 4-3 (Solutions)
   
Jan. 16 Pivot with Momentum Lab
   
Jan. 20 Assignment 4-4 (Solutions)
   
Jan. 22/23 Assignment 4-5 (Solutions)
   
Jan. 27 Assignment 4-6 (Solutions)
   
Jan. 29 Assignment 4-7 (Solutions)
   
Feb. 3 Assignment 5-1 (Solutions)
   
Feb. 5 Assignment 5-2 (Solutions)
   
 
Current Unit:  Unit 5: Rotation
AP-1 Plan For This Week (Feb. 23 - Feb. 27):

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 8.5 - 8.6

Unit 5 Calendar - AP-1

Unit Guide AP-1 - Unit 5 - Torque (CB Version)

Unit Guide AP-1 - Unit 6 - Rotational Energy and Momentum (CB Version)

 

 

Introduce Rotational Inertia
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

Rotation Terms Rosetta Stone (Including Rotational Inertia Equations)

Newton's Bizarro Second Law
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

Rotation Problem Walkthrough (Due Block Day)

Rotation Table Lab (Lab Quiz Wednesday, 3/4)

Rotational Inertia Goodness

 

ConcepTest: Rotation ConcepTest

 

Textbook Links:

 
 Giancoli Textbook

 OpenStax Textbook
AP-1 Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
Feb. 24 Assignment 5-3 (Solutions)
   
Feb. 25 Rotation Problem Walkthrough (Solutions)
   
Mar. 3 Assignment 5-4 aka WS-Rotational KE Goodness (Solutions Part 1; Solutions Part 2)
   
Mar. 4 Assignment 5-5 aka WA-Rotational Inertia Momentum KE (Solutions) and
Rotation Table Lab Quiz
   
Mar. 11 Rotation Test Part 1:  Multiple Choice
   
Mar. 13 Rotation Test Part 2:  Free Response
   
AP-1 Weekly Reading:
Feb. 23 Sections 8.5 - 8.6
   
Mar. 2 Sections 8.7 - 8.8
   
Mar. 9 None This Week
   
AP-1 Some Recent Assignments:
Jan. 27 HMWK 4-5 Center of Mass Goodness (Solutions)
   
Feb. 4 Assignment 5-1 (Solutions)
   
Feb. 6 Balancing Lab
   
Feb. 6 Complex Equilibrium Problems (Solutions) - Possible Extension to Due Monday
   
Feb. 10 Assignment 5-2 (Solutions)
   
Feb. 13 Rotation Pivot Lab Check-Off
   
 
Current Unit:  Unit 5: Linear Kinematics
Physics Plan For This Week (Feb. 9 - Feb. 13):

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 4.5, 4.6, 4.8, and 4.9

Unit 5 Calendar - Physics

 

Meaning in Graphs (aka Analyzing Graphs)
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

What Do They Mean? (Due Tuesday)

More with Graphs

Create and Analyze Graphs (Due Block Day)

Graphing on Tables (Checked Off Today)

Walk the Graph Lab Quiz (Friday)

Graphing Quiz (Friday)

 

 

Textbook Link:

 
 Textbook
Physics Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
Feb. 9 Acceleration Sample Questions (Solutions)
   
Feb. 10 What Do They Mean? (Solutions)
   
Feb. 12  Create and Analyze Graphs (Solutions) and Graphing on Tables (Done in Class) (Solutions)
   
Feb. 13 Walk the Graph Lab Quiz and
Graphing Quiz
   
Physics Weekly Reading:
Jan. 26 Sections 4.1 - 4.3
   
Feb. 2 Sections 4.4 and 4.7
   
Feb. 9 Sections 4.5, 4.6, 4.8, and 4.9
   
Feb. 23 Kinematics Reading (First 2 Pages) and Freefall Reading
   
Mar. 2 None This Week
   
Mar. 9 None Until Wednesday
   
Physics Some Recent Assignments:
Jan. 29 Position, Displacement, Velocity Sample Questions (Solutions)
   
Feb. 5 Constant Speed Billiard Ball Lab
   

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