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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 9 - November 13:

 

This Week's Reading:  None This Week

Show Me the Goodness! Forces Free Response Fun (Solutions)

Key Mass'ter Lab Quiz

Forces and More Goodness (Solutions)

Discuss Test #1

Free Response Fun (Solutions)

Test #2 (Friday)

 
AP-C Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
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. 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. 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)
   
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)
   
 
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 9 - November 13:

 

This Week's Reading:  Section 5.8

Introduce Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
Notes
Sample Questions
PowerPoint
Solutions 

Discuss Last Test

Gravity and UCM Goodness (Solutions)

Introduce Kepler's Laws
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

Kepler's Practice (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. 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. 9 Section 5.8
   
Nov. 16 None This Week
   
Nov. 23 None This Week
   
AP-1 Some Recent Assignments:
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)
   
Nov. 2 Free Response Forces 1 (Rubric)
   
Nov. 4 Assignment 2-5 (Solutions)
   
 
Current Unit: Unit 3: Mirrors & Lenses

 

Unit 3 Calendar - Physics

 
Physics Plan For November 9 - November 13:

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 29.6 - 29.9, 29.12
(Link to Textbook Page)

Introduce Converging Mirrors
Notes
PowerPoint

Curved Mirror Principal Rays Note Sheet (Filled In Copy)

Converging Mirrors Ray Tracing (Due Tuesday)

Curved Mirror Handout

Discuss Curved Mirror Math / Equations

Whiteboard Notes

Whiteboard Notes v2

Ray Tracing and Calculation Problems  (Due Thursday)

More Curved Mirror Math (Due Friday)

Solve Mirror Problems on Tables (Due Monday)

 

Textbook Link:

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

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