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AP Physics C

AP Physics 1

Physics

Current Unit: Unit 2: Newton's Laws of Motion

AP-C Plan For This Week (Nov. 10 - Nov. 14):

This Week's Reading: None This Week

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

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

Optional Extra Practice (Last Year's Version): Show Me the Goodness! Forces (Solutions)

Key Mass'ter Lab Quiz

Forces and More Goodness (Solutions)

AP-C Homework and Upcoming Tests:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments

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. 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. 10	None This Week

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. 13	Assignment 1-16 (Solutions)

Oct. 14	Assignment 1-17 (Solutions)

Oct. 17	Assignment 1-18 (Solutions) and Projectile Challenge Score Sheet

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

Current Unit: Unit 2: Forces

AP-1 Plan For This Week (Nov. 10 - Nov. 14):

This Week's Reading: Section 5.8

Unit 2 Calendar - AP-1

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

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

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. 12	Free Response Forces 2 (Rubric)

Nov. 17	Assignment 2-7 (Solutions) and Force Your Way Through Lab Quiz

Nov. 26	Forces Multiple Choice Test

AP-1 Weekly Reading:

Nov. 10	Section 5.8

Nov. 17	None This Week

Nov. 24	None This Week

AP-1 Some Recent Assignments:

Oct. 6	Free Response Kinematics 3 (Rubric)

Oct. 7	An Angled Launch Problem (Solutions)

Oct. 13	Bull's Eye Lab Quiz

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)

Current Unit: Unit 3: Mirrors & Lenses

Physics Plan For This Week (Nov. 10 - Nov. 14):

This Week's Reading: Sections 29.6 - 29.9, 29.12

Unit 3 Calendar - Physics

Introduce Converging Mirrors
Notes
PowerPoint

Curved Mirror Principal Rays Note Sheet (Filled In Copy)

Converging Mirrors Ray Tracing (Due Friday)

Discuss Curved Mirror Math / Equations

Whiteboard Notes

Whiteboard Notes v2

Ray Tracing and Calculation Problems (Due Friday)

More Curved Mirror Math (Due Monday)

Textbook Link:

Textbook

Physics Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
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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)

Nov. 18	Last Mirror Practice

Nov. 19	Refraction Practice

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. 11	Solve Mirror Problems on Tables (Done In Class)

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)

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