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Current Unit:   Unit 2: Newton's Laws of Motion
and Unit 3: Energy
AP-C Plan For This Week (Nov. 17 - Nov. 21):

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 7.1 - 7.4 (For Thursday)

Unit 2 Calendar - AP-C

Unit Guide AP-C - Unit 1 - Kinematics

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

Unit 3 Calendar - AP-C

Unit Guide AP-C - Unit 2 - Forces
Only 2.8

Unit Guide AP-C - Unit 3 - Energy
Excluding 3.3.A.7.ii

 

Discuss Test #1

Free Response Fun (Solutions)

Work no Calculus, and Dot Product
Notes
PowerPoint
Sample Questions
Solutions

Importance of Springs and Springs in Parallel and Series
Notes
Video
Sample Questions
Solutions

Work Using Calculus
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

 
AP-C Homework and Upcoming Tests:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
Nov. 17 Assignment 2-11 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 18 Test #2
   
Nov. 20 Spring Mini-Lab Checked Off (Done in Class)
   
Nov. 21 Assignment 3-1 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 24 Assignment 3-2 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 25 Assignment 3-3 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 1 Assignment 3-4 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 2 Assignment 3-5 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 4

What's the k? Lab (Done in Class) ***
   
Dec. 5 Assignment 3-6 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 8 Assignment 3-7 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 9 Assignment 3-8 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 11 Assignment 3-9 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 12 Assignment 3-10 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 15 Assignment 3-11 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 16

Assignment 3-12 (Solutions)
   
Dec. 18 Test #3
   
AP-C Weekly Reading:
Nov. 20 Sections 7.1 - 7.4
   
Nov. 24 Sections 7.5 - 7.8, 8.5
   
Dec. 1 Sections 8.1 - 8.4
   
Dec. 8 Section 7.9
   
Dec. 15 None This Week
   
AP-C Some Recent Assignments:
Oct. 23 Assignment 2-1 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 24 Assignment 2-2 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 27 Assignment 2-3 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 28 Assignment 2-4 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 31 Assignment 2-5 (Solutions )
   
Nov. 3 Assignment 2-6 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 4 Pre-lab for Whirling Good Time (Solutions)
   
Nov. 6 Assignment 2-7 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 7 Assignment 2-8 (Solutions) and
Force Your Way Through Lab Quiz
   
Nov. 13 Assignment 2-9 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 14 Assignment 2-10 (Solutions) and
Key Mass'ter Lab Quiz
   
 
Current Unit:  Unit 2: Forces
AP-1 Plan For This Week (Nov. 17 - Nov. 21):

 

This Week's Reading:  None This Week

Unit 2 Calendar - AP-1

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

 

Force Your Way Through Lab Quiz

Discuss Test #1

Time to Prepare for Unit Exam

Universal Gravitation and Kepler's Goodness

Free Response Goodness

Work on AP Classroom MC Questions

 

Textbook Links:

 
 Giancoli Textbook

 OpenStax Textbook
AP-1 Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
Nov. 17 Force Your Way Through Lab Quiz
   
Nov. 26 Forces Multiple Choice Test
   
AP-1 Weekly Reading:
Nov. 17 None This Week
   
Nov. 24 None This Week
   
AP-1 Some Recent Assignments:
Oct. 23 Heaviness of Mass Lab
   
Oct. 24 Assignment 2-1 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 27 Everybody Likes Newtons (Solutions)
   
Oct. 28 Assignment 2-3 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 29 Pulley My Finger Lab
   
Nov. 3 Friction Goodness
   
Nov. 4 Assignment 2-4 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 5 Assignment 2-5 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 12 Free Response Forces 2 (Rubric)
   
 
Current Unit:  Unit 3: Mirrors & Lenses
Physics Plan For This Week (Nov. 17 - Nov. 21):

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 30.1 - 30.4

Unit 3 Calendar - Physics

 

Solve Mirror Problems on Tables (Checked Off Today)

Introduce Refraction / Critical Angle
Notes
Next-Time Question 29-5
PhET Simulation

Refraction Goodness (Solutions) (Due Block Day)

Refraction Shapes (Solutions) (Due Block Day)

Introduce Diverging Lenses
PowerPoint 1
PowerPoint 2

Lens Principal Rays Note Sheet (Filled In Copy)

Diverging Lens Practice (Due Monday)

Real vs. Virtual Images

Introduce Converging Lenses
PowerPoint

Lens Principal Rays Note Sheet (Filled In Copy)

Converging Lens Practice (Due Monday)

 

Textbook Link:

 
 Textbook
Physics Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
Nov. 17 More Curved Mirror Math (Solutions) and
Solve Mirror Problems on Tables (Done In Class)
   
Nov. 19 Refraction Goodness (Solutions) and Refraction Shapes (Solutions)
   
Nov. 20 Curved Mirror Quiz
   
Nov. 24 Diverging Lens Practice (Solutions) and Converging Lens Practice (Solutions)
   
Nov. 25 Lens Ray Diagram Practice (Solutions)
   
Dec. 1 Be Sure To Lens a Hand Lab
   
Dec. 2 Lens Practice (Solutions) and
Number Crunching (Solutions)
   
Dec. 4

Lens Ray Diagram Practice (Solutions) and
Lens Ray Diagrams on Tables (Done In Class)
   
Dec. 8 Lens Fun (Solutions) and
Sample Lens Problems (Solutions)
   
Dec. 9 Wait, Is This AP Physics? (Solutions)
   
Dec. 12 Lens Quiz
   
Dec. 18 Unit 3 Test -- Mirrors and Lenses
   
Physics Weekly Reading:
Nov. 3 Sections 29.1 - 29.4
   
Nov. 10 Sections 29.6 - 29.9, 29.12
   
Nov. 17 Sections 30.1 - 30.4
   
Nov. 24 Sections 30.5 - 30.7
   
Dec. 1 Sections 30.5 - 30.7
   
Dec. 8 None This Week
   
Dec. 15 None This Week
   
Physics Some Recent Assignments:
Oct. 16 Shady Business Lab
   
Oct. 20 Light Goodness (Solutions) and Electro-Magnetic Spectrum Research and Pixel Peeping Lab and Shady Business Lab
   
Oct. 23 Adding Colors (Solutions)
   
Oct. 24 Color Shadows (Solutions Part 1, Solutions Part 2), Color Addition and Subtraction (Solutions), and Concept-Development 28-1 (Solutions)
   
Oct. 27 Comic Time Lab (Handout, PowerPoint) and
Viewed in Another Light (Solutions)
   
Oct. 28 Primary Colors of Paint (Solutions) and
Light and Pigments and Paints (Solutions 1, Solutions 2)
   
Nov. 4 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Lab
   
Nov. 6 Plane Mirror Practice (Solutions)
   
Nov. 7 Plane Mirror Goodness (Solutions) and
Where Can You See a Pencil? (Solutions)
   
Nov. 13 Diverging Mirrors Ray Tracing (Solutions)
   
Nov. 14 Converging Mirrors Ray Tracing (Solutions) and
Ray Tracing and Calculation Problems (Solutions)
   

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