Physics by Appel 2026-2027 ... Four More Years!

Sept. 14	Assignment 1-3 (Solutions)

Sept. 15	Assignment 1-4 (Solutions)

Sept. 17	Assignment 1-5 (Solutions) and Uncertainty in Data Tables and Lab Quiz

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)

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:

Sept. 14	Sections 2.5 - 2.7 and Freefall Reading

Sept. 21	Section 2.9

Sept. 28	Sections 3.1 - 3.4, 4.1 - 4.3 and Vectors 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)

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 September 14 - September 18:

This Week's Reading: Sections 2-5, 2-6, and 2-8

Take the Big Five for a Drive (Solutions)

Motion Represented by Graphs. x vs t, v vs t, a vs t. Slope and Area
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

How to Create a Graph

Creating and Analyzing Graphs (Solutions)

Converting Graphs (Solutions)

Walk the Graph Lab (Lab Quiz Monday, 9/28)
Handout
Basic Shapes
Challenge Shapes

LoggerPro Files (Right click each file and save it to your laptop)
Position vs Time Graph
Velocity vs Time Graph
Both Graphs

Textbook Links:

Giancoli Textbook

OpenStax Textbook

AP-1 Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for 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. 23	Acceleration on a Ramp Lab Using Graphs and Kinematics Free Response and Multiple Choice Quiz

Sept. 25	Acceleration of a Falling Object Mini-Lab Whiteboard Directions Data Table

Sept. 28	Free Response Kinematics 2 (Rubric) and Walk the Graph Lab Quiz

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)

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:

Sept. 14	Sections 2-5, 2-6, and 2-8

Sept. 21	Section 2-7 and Freefall Reading

Sept. 28	Section 3-1 to 3-5 and Horizontal Projectiles 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

Current Unit: Unit 1: Waves & Sound

Unit 1 Calendar - Physics

Physics Plan For September 14 - September 18:

This Week's Reading: Book of Phyz - Wave Notes
(Link to Textbook Page)

Discuss Let's Do the Wave and Introduce Waves
Notes
Wave Picture
Wave on a String PhET Simulation
Transverse and Longitudinal Waves Demo

Wave Goodness (Due Wednesday)

Concept-Development 25-1 (Due Wednesday)

Solve Wave Problems on Tables (You'll Be checked off during class, or if not checked off will do the work as homework)

Ranking Pendulums and Waves (Due Friday)

Short Waves Quiz

Work on Wave Concept Builders
Frequency and Period
Period and Frequency of a Pendulum
Rocking the Boat
Wave Basics
Matching Pairs: Wave Characteristics
Wavelength
Waves - Case Studies

Textbook Link:

Textbook

Physics Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments

Sept. 14	Let's Do the Wave Lab

Sept. 16	Wave Goodness (Solutions) and Concept-Development 25-1 (Solutions)

Sept. 18	Short Waves Quiz and In Class Wave Problems Checked Off (Solutions) and Ranking Pendulums and Waves (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 and Pan Phlute Concert

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:

Sept. 14	None This Week

Sept. 21	Sections 25.7 - 25.11, 26.6 - 26.10

Sept. 28	Sections 26.1 - 26.5

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

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