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Current Unit:   Unit 3: Energy
AP-C Plan For This Week (Nov. 24 - Nov. 28):

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 7.5 - 7.8, 8.5

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

 

Work the UW Way (Solutions)

Work-Kinetic Energy the Appel Way
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

Optional / Extra Practice:
Work-Kinetic Energy Theorem the UW Way (Solutions)
Work and Energy Goodness (Solutions)

Power and Potential Energy
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

Work and Power Through to Your Potential Goodness (Solutions)

 
AP-C Homework and Upcoming Tests:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
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. 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. 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
   
Nov. 17 Assignment 2-11 (Solutions)
   
Nov. 21 Assignment 3-1 (Solutions)
   
 
Current Unit:  Unit 2: Forces
AP-1 Plan For This Week (Nov. 24 - Nov. 28):

 

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)

 

Some Recent Stuff:
Gravity and UCM Goodness (Solutions)
Universal Gravitation Problem Set (Solutions)
Kepler's Practice (Solutions)

Time to Prepare for Unit Exam

Test #2 (Wednesday)

 

Textbook Links:

 
 Giancoli Textbook

 OpenStax Textbook
AP-1 Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
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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. 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. 24 - Nov. 28):

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 30.5 - 30.7

Unit 3 Calendar - Physics

 

Physics Classroom Concept Builders

Law Enforcement aka Refraction Practice
Choose Either:
Light Speed or
Index of Refractions

L-O-S-T Art of Image Direction

Be Sure To Lens a Hand Lab (Due Monday)

 

Textbook Link:

 
 Textbook
Physics Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
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. 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)
   
Nov. 17 More Curved Mirror Math (Solutions) and
Solve Mirror Problems on Tables (Solutions) (Done In Class)
   
Nov. 19 Refraction Goodness (Solutions) and Refraction Shapes (Solutions)
   

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