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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 28 - October 2:

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 3.1 - 3.4, 4.1 - 4.3 and Vectors Reading

Introduction to Vectors
Pre-Test
Solutions
Notes

Introduce 2-D Motion and Horizontally Launched Projectiles
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

Horizontal Projectile Motion Goodness (Solutions)

Monkey Gun with a Focus on Angled Projectiles / Derive Height and Range Equation
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

More Projectile Motion Goodness (Solutions)

 
AP-C Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
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. 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)
   
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)
   
 
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 28 - October 2:

 

This Week's Reading:  Section 3-1 to 3-5 and Horizontal Projectiles Reading

Walk the Graph Lab Quiz

Introduction to Horizontally Launched Projectiles
Notes
Sample Question
Solutions

Horizontal Projectile Goodness (Due Wednesday)

Bull's Eye Lab (Lab Quiz Monday, 10/12)

Introduce Vectors / Vector Components

Pointing Every Which Way (Solutions)

Extended Projectile Problem (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. 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. 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)
   
Sept. 21 Free Response Kinematics 1 (Rubric)
   
 
Current Unit: Unit 1: Waves & Sound

 

Unit 1 Calendar - Physics

 
Physics Plan For September 28 - October 2:

 

This Week's Reading:  Sections 26.1 - 26.5
(Link to Textbook Page)

Discuss Harmonics for Soda Bottles (aka Open-Closed)

Harmonic Goodness XE Part 2 (Due Tuesday)

Discuss Sound

Stand By Your Wave (Due Wednesday)

Standing Wave Math (Due Wednesday)

Speed of Sound Lab (Due Monday and There Will Be a Lab Question on the Unit Test)

Discuss Speed of Sound Lab

Introduce Pan Phlutes (Performance on Monday)

Pan Phlutes Music Sheets

 

Textbook Link:

 
 Textbook
Physics Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments
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. 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)
   
Sept. 22 Concept-Development 25-2 (Solutions)
   
Sept. 23 Superposition of Waves (Solutions)
   
Sept. 25 Waves Can Stand? Lab
   

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