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Current Unit: Unit 2: Newton's Laws of Motion

 

Unit 2 Calendar - AP-C

Unit Guide AP-C - Unit 2 - Forces
Excluding 2.1, 2.6, 2.8, 2.9

 
AP-C Plan For November 2 - November 6:

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 6.2 and 6.3

Finish Uniform and Non-Uniform Circular Motion
Notes
Solutions
Sample Questions
Pictures

More Circular Motion and Accelerated Frames of Reference
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

Key Mass'ter Lab (Lab Quiz Tuesday, Nov. 10)

Force Your Way Through Lab Quiz

 
AP-C Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
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
   
Nov. 17 Assignment 3-1 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 19 Assignment 3-2 (Solutions) / Spring Mini-Lab (Done in Class)
   
Nov. 23 Assignment 3-3 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 24 Assignment 3-4 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 1 Assignment 3-5 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 3 What's the k? Lab (Done in Class)
   
Dec. 4 Assignment 3-6 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 7 Assignment 3-7 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 8 Assignment 3-8 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 10 Assignment 3-9 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 11 Assignment 3-10 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 14 Assignment 3-11 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 15 Assignment 3-12 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 17 Test #3
   
AP-C Weekly Reading:
Nov. 2 Sections 6.2 and 6.3
   
Nov. 9 None This Week
   
Nov. 16 Sections 7.1 - 7.5
   
Nov. 23 Sections 7.6 - 7.8, 8.5
   
Nov. 30 Sections 8.1 - 8.4
   
Dec. 7 Section 7.9
   
Dec. 14 None This Week
   
AP-C Some Recent Assignments:
Oct. 2 Assignment 1-13 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 5 Galileo Lab Report
   
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. 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)
   
 
Current Unit: Unit 2: Forces

 

Unit 2 Calendar - AP-1

Unit Guide AP-1 - Unit 2 - Forces (CB Version)
Unit Guide AP-1 - Unit 2 - Forces (Nara Version)

 
AP-1 Plan For November 2 - November 6:

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 5.1 to 5.3, 5.5 to 5.7

Introduce Inclines and Static Friction

Inclined Plane Analysis (Solutions)

Solve It! (Inclined Planes) (Answers Only, Solutions)

Physics Classroom -- Inclined Plane Practice

Uniform Circular Motion Goodness (Solutions)

 

Textbook Links:

 
 Giancoli Textbook

 OpenStax Textbook
AP-1 Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
Nov. 2 Free Response Forces 1 (Rubric)
   
Nov. 4 Assignment 2-5 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 9 Free Response Forces 2 (Rubric)
   
Nov. 13 Assignment 2-6 (Solutions) ***
   
Nov. 16 Force Your Way Through Lab Quiz
   
Nov. 25 Forces Multiple Choice Test
   
AP-1 Weekly Reading:
Nov. 2 Sections 5.1 to 5.3, 5.5 to 5.7
   
Nov. 9 Section 5.8
   
Nov. 16 None This Week
   
Nov. 23 None This Week
   
AP-1 Some Recent Assignments:
Oct. 5 Free Response Kinematics 3 (Rubric)
   
Oct. 6 An Angled Launch Problem (Solutions)
   
Oct. 8 Assignment 1-5 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 21 Heaviness of Mass Lab
   
Oct. 23 Assignment 2-1 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 26 Everybody Likes Newtons (Solutions)
   
Oct. 27 Assignment 2-3 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 30 Assignment 2-4 (Solutions)
   
 
Current Unit: Unit 3: Mirrors & Lenses

 

Unit 3 Calendar - Physics

 
Physics Plan For November 2 - November 6:

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 29.1 - 29.4
(Link to Textbook Page)

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Lab (Due Tuesday)

Introduce Plane Mirrors
Notes
PowerPoint

Plane Mirror Practice (Due Wednesday)

More Plane Mirrors
Notes
Next-Time Question 29-1
Next-Time Question 29-4
Next-Time Question 29-3
Option 1 PowerPoint
Option 2 PowerPoint

Plane Mirror Notes

Plane Mirror Goodness (Due Friday)

Where Can You See a Pencil? (Due Friday)

Introduce Diverging Mirrors
Notes
PowerPoint 1
PowerPoint 2

Curved Mirror Principal Rays Note Sheet (Filled In Copy)

Diverging Mirrors Ray Tracing (Due Block Day)

Curved Mirror Handout

 

Textbook Link:

 
 Textbook
Physics Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
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:
Nov. 2 Sections 29.1 - 29.4
   
Nov. 9 Sections 29.6 - 29.9, 29.12
   
Nov. 16 Sections 30.1 - 30.4
   
Nov. 23 Sections 30.5 - 30.7
   
Nov. 30 None This Week
   
Dec. 7 None This Week
   
Physics Some Recent Assignments:
Oct. 5 Speed of Sound Lab
   
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)
   

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