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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 5 - October 9:

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 4.4 - 4.5

Graphing and Calculus Quiz

Small Dose of Projectile Goodness (Solutions)

Uniform and Non-Uniform Circular Motion
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

Roundabout Goodness (Solutions)

 
AP-C Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
Oct. 5 Galileo Lab Report and
Graphing and Calculus Quiz
   
Oct. 6 Assignment 1-14 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 8 Assignment 1-15 (Solutions)
   
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. 5 Sections 4.4 - 4.5
   
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. 8 Assignment 1-1 (Solutions)
   
Sept. 11 Assignment 1-2 (Solutions)
   
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)
   
 
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 5 - October 9:

 

This Week's Reading:  Section 3-6 to 3-8 and Angled Projectiles and Vectors Reading

Monkey and Hunter / Projectiles Launched at an Angle
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

An Angled Launch Problem (Due Tuesday)

Complex Projectile Problems

Trajectory Goodness (Solutions)

2-D Motion Without Acceleration aka River and Wind Problems

River Problems Handout

River Problems Sample Questions (Solutions)

 

Textbook Links:

 
 Giancoli Textbook

 OpenStax Textbook
AP-1 Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
Oct. 5 Free Response Kinematics 3 (Rubric)
   
Oct. 6 An Angled Launch Problem (Solutions)
   
Oct. 8 Assignment 1-5 (Solutions)
   
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. 5 Section 3-6 to 3-8 and Angled Projectiles and Vectors Reading
   
Oct. 12 None This Week
   
AP-1 Some Recent Assignments:
Sept. 4 Keep Up with the Buggy Lab
   
Sept. 9 Assignment 1-1 (Solutions)
   
Sept. 11 Structured Acceleration on a Ramp Lab
   
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)
   
 
Current Unit: Unit 1: Waves & Sound

 

Unit 1 Calendar - Physics

 
Physics Plan For October 5 - October 9:

 

This Week's Reading:  None This Week
(Link to Textbook Page)

Prep for Waves Test / Make Index Card

Waves - Things to Consider (Solutions)

Waves and Sound Test

***If absent, you will take test in class the next day you are present***

 

Textbook Link:

 
 Textbook
Physics Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
Oct. 5 Speed of Sound Lab
   
Oct. 8 Waves and Sound Test
   
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. 5 None This Week
   
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. 8 Keep Up With the Buggy Lab
   
Sept. 11 A Swinging Good Time Lab
   
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)
   

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