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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 21- September 25:

 

This Week's Reading:  Section 2.9

Next Level Graphing Techniques and Analysis
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

Day o' Calculus
Intro / T-Shirt Image
I Will Derive Video (YouTube)
Notes
Handout

** If you have already completed a class in calculus, please bring something to quietly work on. **

Galileo Lab (Data Checked Today, Lab Report Due Monday, 10/5)
Introduction
Handout
Data Tables

Linear Motion Free Response Fun (Solutions)

 
AP-C Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
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. 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)
   
Sept. 14 Assignment 1-3 (Solutions)
   
Sept. 15

Assignment 1-4 (Solutions)
   
Sept. 17 Assignment 1-5 (Solutions)
   
Sept. 18 Assignment 1-6 (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 21 - September 25:

 

This Week's Reading:  Section 2-7 and Freefall Reading

Graphing Goodness aka Solving Problems with Graphs (Solutions)

Acceleration on a Ramp Lab Using Graphs (Due Wednesday)

Kinematics Free Response Quiz

Kinematics Multiple Choice Quiz

Introduce Freefall
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

Falling for UAM (Solutions)

 

Textbook Links:

 
 Giancoli Textbook

 OpenStax Textbook
AP-1 Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
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. 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
   
Sept. 14 Assignment 1-3 (Solutions) and
Kinematics Equations Packet (Solutions)
   
Sept. 16 Assignment 1-4 (Solutions)
   
 
Current Unit: Unit 1: Waves & Sound

 

Unit 1 Calendar - Physics

 
Physics Plan For September 21 - September 25:

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 25.7 - 25.11, 26.6 - 26.10
(Link to Textbook Page)

Discuss Wave Interference / Doppler Effect / Shock and Bow Waves
Notes
Flipping Physics Superposition Video (YouTube)
Next-Time Question 25-2 with Answer

Concept-Development 25-2 (Due Tuesday)

Introduce Resonance / Beats / Standing Waves
Notes
Next-Time Question 25-1 with Answer
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Video (YouTube)
Millenium Bridge Wobble Video (YouTube)
Flipping Physics Standing Waves Video (YouTube) -- Jump to 4:40

Superposition of Waves (Due Wednesday)

Waves Can Stand? Lab (Due Friday)

Link to PhET Simulation: Wave on a String

Introduce Harmonics for Guitars (aka Fixed-Fixed or Closed-Closed) and Bathtubs (aka Open-Open)

Harmonic Goodness XE Part 1 (Due Monday)

 

Textbook Link:

 
 Textbook
Physics Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
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. 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
   
Sept. 14 Let's Do the Wave Lab
   
Sept. 16 Wave Goodness (Solutions) and Concept-Development 25-1 (Solutions)
   
Sept. 18 In Class Wave Problems Checked Off (Solutions)
   

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