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Current Unit:   Unit 9: Rube Goldberg Project
AP-C Plan For This Week (May 18 - May 22):

 

This Week's Reading:  Done For the Year!

 

Work on the Project
Rules
Grading Rubric
Competition Scoring
Blank Energy List
Planning Calendar

Videos:
1. Honda ad
2. Japanese Rube Goldberg Contest
3. OK Go - This Too Shall Pass
4. Most Outrageous Way to Share a Coke
5. Jimmy Kimmel - National College Rube Goldberg Champions

 
AP-C Homework and Upcoming Tests:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
May 28 Initial Energy List (By End of Class)
   
June 11 (Seniors Only)
Final Energy List (At Beginning of Class) and Running of the Machines
   
June 18 (5th Period Only)
Final Energy List (At Beginning of Class) and Running of the Machines
   
June 22 (7th Period Only)
Final Energy List (At Beginning of Class) and Running of the Machines
   
AP-C Weekly Reading:
  Done For The Year!
   
AP-C Some Recent Assignments:
Apr. 27 Free Response Fun #1
   
Apr. 28 Free Response Fun #2
   
May 1 Free Response Fun #3
   
May 4 Free Response Fun #4
   
May 5 Free Response Fun #5
   
May 7 Free Response Fun #6
   
May 8 Free Response Fun #7
   
May 11 Free Response Fun #8
   
May 12 Free Response Fun #9
   
 
Current Unit:  Unit 9: End of Year Project
AP-1 Plan For This Week (May 18 - May 22):

 

This Week's Reading:  Done For the Year!

 

Work on Physics Phaire Project

Last Test of the Year (Wednesday)
(This One Counts)

 

Textbook Links:

 
 Giancoli Textbook

 OpenStax Textbook
AP-1 Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
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May 20 Practice Test
(This One Counts!)
   
AP-1 Weekly Reading:
  Done For The Year!
   
AP-1 Some Recent Assignments:
Apr. 14 Homework 7-1 (Solutions)
   
Apr. 15 Homework 7-2 (Solutions)
   
Apr. 17

Buoyancy Pivot Lab -- Pivot Interactives Link
Use Clever to sign in
   
Apr. 21 Homework 7-3 (Solutions)
   
Apr. 24 Homework 7-4 (Solutions)
   
 
Current Unit:  Unit 8: Momentum
Physics Plan For This Week (May 18 - May 22):

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 8.1 - 8.3

Unit 8 Calendar - Physics

 

Introduce Egg Drop (Initial Sketch and Thoughts Due Tuesday)

Build and Test Parachutes

Egg Drop (Quiz on Friday, May 29)

Impulse and Momentum Goodness (Due Thursday)

 

Textbook Link:

 
 Textbook
Physics Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
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May 18 Impulse and Momentum Sample Questions (Solutions)
   
May 19 Initial Egg Drop Sketch and Thoughts
   
May 27 Impulse and Momentum Goodness (Solutions)
   
May 28 Egg Drop Lab Quiz and
Pivot Lab Check-Off Sheet
   
June 2 Recoil and Explosions Sample Questions (Solutions)
   
June 4 Collisions Sample Questions Sample Questions (Solutions)
   
June 5 Conservation of Momentum Goodness (Solutions)
   
June 8 More Conservation of Momentum Goodness (Solutions)
   
June 11

Momentum Test
   
June 15 Retake a Test
   
Physics Weekly Reading:
May 18 Sections 8.1 - 8.3
   
May 25 None This Week
   
June 1 Sections 8.4 - 8.5
   
Physics Some Recent Assignments:
Apr. 20 MOP 41 - Recognizing Interactions
Questions / Answer Sheet
   
Apr. 21 MOP 45 - Recognizing Forces
Questions / Answer Sheet
   
Apr. 23 Heaviness of Mass Lab
   
Apr. 24 Weight of the Worlds (Solutions) and
Practice with Free-Body Diagrams (Solutions)
   
Apr. 28 Concept-Development 4-2 and 4-3 (Solutions)
   
Apr. 30 Stop... Tension Time! (Solutions)
   
May 1 Newton's Second Law PhET Lab
   
May 4 Newton's Second Law Practice (Solutions) and
More Newton's Second Law Practice (Solutions)
   
May 5 Friction and Air Resistance Sample Questions (Solutions)
   
May 7 Concept-Development 5-1 (Solutions) and
Friction Goodness (Solutions)
   
May 8 Friction Lab
   
May 11 Concept-Development 6-1 (Solutions) and
A Day at the Races (Solutions)
   

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