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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 September 7 - September 11:

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 1.3, 2.1 - 2.4

Dimensional Analysis
Notes
Handout
Filled In Copy

Uncertainty in Data Lab (Quiz and Tables Due Thursday, 9/17)
Introduction
Instructions
Sources of Uncertainty
Data Tables
Station Instructions

Introduce Displacement and Velocity
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

 
AP-C Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for 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) 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. 8 Sections 1.3, 2.1 - 2.4
   
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:
   
 
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 7 - September 11:

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 2-1 to 2-4

Introduce Scalars/Vectors, Displacement and Velocity
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

Introduce Acceleration
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

Structured Acceleration on a Ramp Lab (Due Today)

Kinematics Equations Packet (Due Monday)

 

Textbook Links:

 
 Giancoli Textbook

 OpenStax Textbook
AP-1 Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
Sept. 9 Assignment 1-1 (Solutions)
   
Sept. 11 Assignment 1-3 (Solutions) and
Structured Acceleration on a Ramp Lab
   
Sept. 14 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. 8 Sections 2-1 to 2-4
   
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
   
 
Current Unit: Unit 1: Waves & Sound

 

Unit 1 Calendar - Physics

 
Physics Plan For September 7 - September 11:

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 25.1 - 25.6 and Book of Phyz - Wave Notes
(Link to Textbook Page)

Introduce Period / Frequency / Amplitude
Blank Notes Sheet

More Get to Know You

A Swinging Good Time Lab (Due Friday)

Link to PhET Simulation: Pendulum Lab

Discuss Lab / Introduce Wavelength / Wave Speed
Warm-Up Question
Notes

Let's Do the Wave Lab (Due Monday)

Link to PhET Simulation: Pendulum Lab

 

Textbook Link:

 
 Textbook
Physics Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for 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 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. 7 Sections 25.1 - 25.6 and
Book of Phyz - Wave Notes
   
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:
   

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