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Current Unit: Unit 1: Kinematics

 

Unit 1 Calendar - AP-C

Unit Guide AP-C - Unit 1 - Kinematics

 
AP-C Plan For October 12 - October 16:

 

This Week's Reading:  Section 4.6

Relative Motion
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

Show Me the Goodness!  Two-Dimensional and Relative Motion (Solutions)

Appel's Projectile Motion Challenge (Score Sheet Due Friday)

Prep for Test

 
AP-C Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
Oct. 12 Assignment 1-16 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 13 Assignment 1-17 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 16 Assignment 1-18 (Solutions) and
Appel's Projectile Motion Challenge
   
Oct. 19 Test #1
   
Oct. 22 Assignment 2-1 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 23 Assignment 2-2 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 26 Assignment 2-3 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 27 Assignment 2-4 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 30 Assignment 2-5 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 2 Assignment 2-6 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 3 Pre-lab for Whirling Good Time (Solutions)
   
Nov. 5 Assignment 2-7 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 6 Assignment 2-8 (Solutions) and
Force Your Way Through Lab Quiz
   
Nov. 9 Assignment 2-9 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 10 Assignment 2-10 (Solutions) and
Key Mass'ter Lab Quiz
   
Nov. 12 Assignment 2-11 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 13 Test #2
   
AP-C Weekly Reading:
Oct. 12 Section 4.6
   
Oct. 20 Sections 5.1 - 5.6
   
Oct. 26 Sections 5.7, 5.8, and 6.1
   
Nov. 2 Sections 6.2 and 6.3
   
Nov. 9 None This Week
   
AP-C Some Recent Assignments:
Sept. 14 Assignment 1-3 (Solutions)
   
Sept. 15

Assignment 1-4 (Solutions)
   
Sept. 17 Assignment 1-5 (Solutions)
   
Sept. 18 Assignment 1-6 (Solutions)
   
Sept. 21 Assignment 1-7 (Solutions)
   
Sept. 24 Assignment 1-8 (Solutions) and Stamp of Approval for Galileo Data
   
Sept. 25 Assignment 1-9 (Solutions)
   
Sept. 28 Assignment 1-10 (Solutions)
   
Sept. 29 Assignment 1-11 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 1 Assignment 1-12 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 2 Assignment 1-13 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 5 Galileo Lab Report and
Graphing and Calculus Quiz
   
Oct. 6 Assignment 1-14 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 8 Assignment 1-15 (Solutions)
   
 
Current Unit: Unit 1: Kinematics

 

Unit 1 Calendar - AP-1

Unit Guide AP-1 - Unit 1 - Kinematics (CB Version)
Unit Guide AP-1 - Unit 1 - Kinematics (Nara Version)

 
AP-1 Plan For October 12 - October 16:

 

This Week's Reading:  None This Week

Bull's Eye Lab Quiz (Monday)

Practice 2-D Motion Without Acceleration

River Problems Handout

River Problems Sample Questions (Solutions)

Practice 1-D and 2-D Motion

Discuss Kinematics Quiz

ConcepTests
These have multiple choice questions on the topics indicated.  We borrowed this some another teacher, so some questions address things we do not cover.  And we cover topics not included in them.  That being said, they're still good practice.
One Dimensional Motion
Two Dimensional Motion

 

Textbook Links:

 
 Giancoli Textbook

 OpenStax Textbook
AP-1 Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
Oct. 12 Bull's Eye Lab Quiz
   
Oct. 14 Kinematics Test, Part 1:  Multiple Choice
   
Oct. 16 Kinematics Test Part 2: Free Response
   
AP-1 Weekly Reading:
Oct. 12 None This Week
   
AP-1 Some Recent Assignments:
Sept. 14 Assignment 1-3 (Solutions) and
Kinematics Equations Packet (Solutions)
   
Sept. 16 Assignment 1-4 (Solutions)
   
Sept. 21 Free Response Kinematics 1 (Rubric)
   
Sept. 28 Free Response Kinematics 2 (Rubric)
   
Sept. 30 Horizontal Projectile Goodness (Solutions)
   
Oct. 5 Free Response Kinematics 3 (Rubric)
   
Oct. 6 An Angled Launch Problem (Solutions)
   
Oct. 8 Assignment 1-5 (Solutions)
   
 
Current Unit: Unit 2: Light & Color

 

Unit 2 Calendar - Physics

 
Physics Plan For October 12 - October 16:

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 27.1 - 27.3, 27.7 - 27.9
(Link to Textbook Page)

Optical Illusions

Shady Business Lab (Due Wednesday)

Polarization of Light by UCLA Video
Demo using a slinky showing polarization

Understand Polarization in 4 Minutes
This goes into more detail than you really need.  It still presents some good info

Electro-Magnetic Spectrum Research (Due Friday)

Powers of Ten Website

Discuss E-M Waves, Polarization, and Light in General
Notes

Light Goodness (Due Friday)

Pixel Peeping Lab (Due Monday)

Appel Colors File

Color Vision - Photons | Monochromatic Light | White Light - PhET Interactive Simulations (colorado.edu)

Color Thesaurus

 

Textbook Link:

 
 Textbook
Physics Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
Oct. 14 Shady Business Lab
   
Oct. 16 Light Goodness (Solutions) and
Electro-Magnetic Spectrum Research (Key)
   
Oct. 19 Pixel Peeping Lab
   
Oct. 20 Adding Colors (Solutions)
   
Oct. 23 Color Shadows (Solutions Part 1, Solutions Part 2),
Color Addition and Subtraction (Solutions) and
Concept-Development 28-1 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 26 Comic Time Lab (Handout, PowerPoint) and
Viewed in Another Light (Solutions)
   
Oct. 27 Primary Colors of Paint (Solutions) and
Light and Pigments and Paints (Solutions 1, Solutions 2)
   
Oct. 30 Unit 2 Mini-Test -- Light and Color
   
Nov. 3 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Lab
   
Nov. 4 Plane Mirror Practice (Solutions)
   
Nov. 6 Plane Mirror Goodness (Solutions) and
Where Can You See a Pencil? (Solutions)
   
Nov. 9 Diverging Mirrors Ray Tracing (Solutions)
   
Nov. 10 Converging Mirrors Ray Tracing (Solutions)
   
Nov. 12 Ray Tracing and Calculation Problems (Solutions)
   
Nov. 13 More Curved Mirror Math (Solutions)
   
Nov. 16 Solve Mirror Problems on Tables (Solutions)
 
Nov. 17 Curved Mirror Quiz and
Refraction Goodness (Solutions) and
Refraction Shapes (Solutions)
   
Nov. 20 Diverging Lens Practice (Solutions) and
Converging Lens Practice (Solutions)
   
Nov. 23 Lens Practice (Solutions) and
Number Crunching (Solutions)
   
Nov. 25 Lens Ray Diagram Practice (Solutions)
   
Nov. 30 Be Sure To Lens a Hand Lab
   
Dec. 1 Lens Fun (Solutions) and
Sample Lens Problems (Solutions)
   
Dec. 2 Wait, Is This AP Physics? (Solutions) and
Lens Ray Diagrams on Tables (Solutions) (Done In Class)
   
Dec. 4 Lens Quiz
   
Dec. 9 Unit 3 Test -- Mirrors and Lenses
   
Physics Weekly Reading:
Oct. 12 Sections 27.1 - 27.3, 27.7 - 27.9
   
Oct. 19 Sections 28.1 - 28.7
   
Oct. 26 None This Week
   
Physics Some Recent Assignments:
Sept. 14 Let's Do the Wave Lab
   
Sept. 16 Wave Goodness (Solutions) and Concept-Development 25-1 (Solutions)
   
Sept. 18 In Class Wave Problems Checked Off (Solutions)
   
Sept. 22 Concept-Development 25-2 (Solutions)
   
Sept. 23 Superposition of Waves (Solutions)
   
Sept. 25 Waves Can Stand? Lab
   
Sept. 28 Harmonic Goodness XE Part 1 (Solutions)
   
Sept. 29 Harmonic Goodness XE Part 2 (Solutions)
   
Sept. 30 Stand By Your Wave (Solutions) and Standing Wave Math (Solutions)
   
Oct. 5 Speed of Sound Lab
   

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