Daily Assignments
for Physics 2
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(This is the page where you can find all of
the daily assignments for Physics 1, listed in order.
The most recent assignments will be listed last. Scroll down for
newer assignments or, if you're feeling a little lazy today, click on the
hyperlink below for the desired week: )
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Week #1: January 20th - January 24th (back to top)
Monday: No School Today: Martin Luther King's Birthday.
Tuesday: Hand out textbooks & textbook covers. Go over expectations for this class. Discuss differences between Physics 1 Physics 2. Discuss range of topics, labs and projects. Discuss the homework Web Site. Discuss the Lab Portfolio and the procedure for lab write-ups (Laboratory Report). Cover all of Chapter 1. Consider the Syllabus Exercises for Chapter 1 as having been assigned. Note: Classroom Management Plan (CMP) is the same as for Physics 1.
Wednesday: Don't forget the virtues of a well-written Laboratory Report; consider aspects/issues such as a well-constructed graph, proper scaling, calculation of slope, interpolation vs. extrapolation, independent and dependent variables, types of relationships (direct, inverse, etc), straight lines & curves, error, functions, etc. from Physics 1! Begin Chapter 2.
Thursday: Review Kinematic Equations for motion and uniform acceleration. Finish Chapter 2. Practice problems. Begin Chapter 3. Hand out the Mousetrap Car Challenge guidelines and timelines. Group test over Chapters 1 & 2.
Possibly spend 2nd half of period in the Library -- today or tomorrow -- for research on the Mousetrap Car Project?
Friday: Finish Chapter 3. Review Trig functions and Pythagorean Theorem. Do a practice problem adding three vectors in different directions. Hand out lab on Adding Force Vectors. split class into four groups. First two groups use force tables in the lab while the other groups do problem solving in the classroom. Reminder: Design Brief and two (2) sketches of your Mousetrap Cars are due at the beginning of the period on Wednesday!!
Week #2: January 27th -- January 31st (back to top)
Monday: First half of the period we will be in the Library doing research on Mouse Trap Cars. Second half of the period will be used for a Take-Home test that will be distributed, covering chapter 3. It will be Due Tomorrow! .
Tuesday: Collect Take-Home Tests. Go over answers to test questions. Part of period used to review Newton's Laws (sections 1-5 of Chapter 4) and to discuss forces applied at angles. Also - Gravity, the Normal Force, and Free-Body diagrams are discussed.
Wednesday: Discussion of Chapter 4 and Free-Body Diagrams; go over examples. Cover Sections 4-6 & 4-7. Develop the concept of Sum of the Forces and Mass of the System. End with a discussion of the Tension Force in a system of masses connected by a pulley. (see example page 91)
Time given to finish Data Taking for Lab. Discuss problems included in the Lab.
Thursday: Mouse Trap Car Design Brief is DUE! Students then break into 4 groups and begin either: Lab Data Taking or Problem Solving for Lab on "Adding Force Vectors."
Also remember that a minimum of two (2) "refined" sketches of your Mouse Trap Cars are due Monday...
Friday: Students given time to finish lab work as needed... This will be a work day... the operant word obviously being work. Lab will be due on Tuesday!
***Reminder: Next Thursday is the day that the Prototype Models of your mousetrap Car are due!!
Week #3: February 3rd - February 7th (back to top)
Monday: Final/Refined Design Sketches of Mouse Trap Car are due! Discussion of the Lab Exercises. Discussion of forces with objects on inclines and when there is friction involved. A final look at The Sum of Forces acting on an object. We'll look at forces acting at angles, objects on inclines... with friction, and objects on inclines when an Atwood apparatus is at work... For Tomorrow: Read Section 4-8 (p92 - 98) on problems involving friction and inclines.
Tomorrow's (BONUS?) Homework Problem... A bulldozer drags a 150 kg log along a skid road. The cable attached to the log makes an angle of 300 with the ground.
Tuesday: Collect Labs. Review the chapter and yesterday's homework problem and other questions concerning friction; go over the Syllabus Questions in preparation for the TEST Thursday!!
Wednesday: Use most of period to go over objects on inclines that are slowed by frictional forces. We'll also look at Syllabus Exercises # 43 & 53. Students receive TEST... over All of Chapter 4 to begin in class and finish for homework. Test will be do TOMORROW at the beginning of class.
Thursday: Collect Chapter 4 Test. Remainder of period is a Work Day! Students will be allowed to work on: 1) Syllabus Exercises, 2) Mousetrap Cars, 3) Final Report on Mousetrap Cars, or 4) to make corrections on the Chapter 4 Test. Students will be allowed some time to work independently and some additional time to work as a group to check answers. Extra Credit
*** The Prototype Design Test has been moved to tomorrow. ***
Friday:
Mousetrap Car Prototype Design Test. Testing, fine-tuning and re-design today! Final Reports will be due on Wednesday, February 12th.
Week #4: February 10th -- February 14th (back to top)
Monday: Discussion and review of the concept of momentum. (definition, conservation, change in.., etc) Sample problems on the board. Set up and begin data taking for "Momentum -- A Collision In Two Dimensions" Lab.
Tuesday: Seven students attend the WYSE Competition. Remainder of students use the period as a work day.
Wednesday: Mouse Trap Car competition (final design) is Today!! Any remaining time will be used to analyze data from Monday's lab.
Thursday: Discussion of the lab results and questions from the lab. Lab report will consist solely of the answers to the lab questions -- make sure they are complete and well written! Time to draw vectors to prove Conservation of Momentum. Problem Solving -- Momentum and Impulse -- from the chapter, including the ballistic pendulum. Also:
A .450 Kg block, moving with a speed of 3.0 m/s, has a head-on collision with a .900 kg block initially at rest. Assuming a perfectly elastic collision, what will be the speed and direction of each block after the collision??
Friday: Mouse
Trap Car Final Report is DUE!
Test,
Chapter 7: Start in class (open note and open friend);
take home remainder if necessary.
Week #5: February 17th -- February 21st (back to top)
Monday:
No School President's Day... No School President's Day (In case you're not sure... we're celebrating two Presidents' birthdays today!!) Assignment is to read selected sections from Chapter 8.Tuesday:
Wednesday: Begin Chapter 8, Rotational Motion of Rigid Bodies; Cover Sections 8-1 and 8-2: Conversion of degrees to radians and radians to degrees. Also, we'll look at angular velocity and acceleration.
Thursday: Start with some practice problems in angular velocity and acceleration and then come linear kinematics equations to their angular counterparts.
Friday:
Quiz covering sections 8-1 and 8-2. Then, the Dynamics of Rotational Motion: what is torque? We'll also take a look at Moment of Inertia and the angular equivalent of Newton's 2nd Law.
Week #6: February 24th -- February 28th (back to top)
Monday:
Quiz covering Sections 8-3 and 8-4.Tuesday: Work-and-Catch-Up-on-Syllabus-Exercises-Day.
Wednesday: Conservation of Angular Momentum, and Conservation of Rotational Energy.
Thursday: Begin 3-Lab Series: "Angular Motion"
Friday:
No School -- Teacher Institute Day ... but here's a little extra credit to see if you're still checking the page. (I hope I have gotten the "bugs" ironed out...) Consider a 40 cm. diameter wheel that is observed to accelerate uniformly from 80 rpm 20 300 rpm in a time of 3.6 seconds. How far will a piece of tape on the outer edge of the wheel have traveled in that time?? (Due 03-04-03 for 10 points ex cr)
Week #7: March 3rd -- March 7th (back to top)
Monday: Continue work on Labs.
Tuesday: Finish Labs and discuss results. Review chapter and Syllabus Exercises.
Wednesday:
Test Chapter 8.Thursday: Begin Chapter 16: Electrostatics.
Friday:
Week #8: March 10th -- March 14th 2001 (back to top)
Monday: Begin -- and finish -- Chapter 16; Discussion and notes covering Electric Charge, static electricity and Coulomb's Law. Quick Quiz.
Tuesday: Discussion and notes from sections 17-1 through 17-4. Explanation of Electric Field and equi-potential lines. Definition of the Electron Volt and sample calculations. Discussion and notes on the equations for charging and discharging a capacitor (see pages 541-543 in Giancoli). See also practice problem on page 543.
Wednesday: Lab "Brown Out" Data taking. Also - Capacitors connected in series and parallel. Discussion of capacitor charge and discharge time and possible reasons for the exponential relationship between charge and time. Lab Write-Up is to include:
Title Page
Explanation as to the Concept being investigated
Data
Answers to the Questions
Thursday: Correct and collect yesterday's homework assignment. notes and discussion of capacitors. Equations and units used for Capacitance. Hand out on how to make a simple capacitor. Class time used to construct a capacitor and measure charge on stored on it. Quiz Tomorrow on Capacitance!
Friday: Quiz; Notes and discussion on dielectrics and the work/energy required to charge a capacitor.
Week #9: March 17th -- March 21st (back to top)
Monday: Work
Day to finish Syllabus Exercises; make sure to have read Sections 17-7
thru 17-9 for tomorrow.
TEST over the chapter on Wednesday!
Tuesday: Review chapter and syllabus exercises in preparation for TEST Tomorrow! Quiz covering sections 17-1 through 17-4 and 17-7 through 17-9.
Wednesday: Syllabus exercises are due for Chapters 1,2,3,4,7,8 and 16.
Test: Chapter 17.Here are the 2 extra credit questions (you will need some info that's in your text to solve these problems...):
1. There is an electric field near the earth's surface whose intensity is approx. 150 volts per meter. How much energy is stored per cubic meter in this field??
2. A lightning
flash transfers 4.0 Coulombs of charge and 4.6 MJ of energy to the
earth.
A) Between what potential difference did it travel??
B) How much water could this boil, if the water
starts at room temperature??
Thursday:
First
Day of Spring!! (8:00pm
EST) Begin
Chapter 18 with a review of electric current and a discussion of the concept of
work... Pre-Lab
followed by beginning of Data Taking for a Lab:
"Electrical Work and Changes in Internal Energy"
Friday: Lab "Electrical Work and Changes in Internal Energy"... Continue Data Collection. This lab will require a full write-up including Title Page, Theory, Data, Graph (with slope) Answers To Questions and Analysis/Conclusion. Make sure to include your guess and supporting evidence as to the nature of the material of the heat sink! Assignment for Friday: Bring to class a rough graph of Change in Temperature vs. ITV
Week #10: March 24th -- March 28th (back to top)
Monday: Notes on Sections 18-2 and 18-3.
Tuesday: Notes on Sections 18-4, 18-6 and 18-7 (Power, Alternating Current and Peak Voltage & Peak Current).
Wednesday: "Brown-Out" Labs are due at the beginning of the period. Quiz -- 3 Questions, open book -- today. We'll also take time after the quiz to go over the Syllabus Exercises from Chapter 18 in order to help prep for the TEST tomorrow.
Thursday: "Work and Changes in Internal Energy Lab write-up is due today! Also: TEST over all of Chapter 18.
Friday: Spring Break Starts at 2:30 today... Have a Great Break -- see ya on April 7th!!
March 31st -- April 4th (back to top)
Monday: NO
Tuesday: School.........
Wednesday: Spring
Thursday: Break
Friday: All Week!!
Week #11: April 7th -- April 11th (back to top)
Monday:
Welcome back... The good news is: only 8 weeks left!!
Begin Chapter 19. We'll review the specifics for series, parallel and
complex circuits and then take time to solve some problems with these types of
circuits. For tomorrow, read sections 1, 5 6 and 7 of Chapter 19.
Quiz tomorrow over sections 19-1 & 19-5.
Tuesday: Quiz - Chapter 19, sections 1 & 5. We will then look at capacitors and resistors in the same circuit. Here's an extra credit problem that you may have tried before... now you should be able to solve it! Despite the date on the page, this one will be due by Friday, April 11th.
Wednesday: R-C Circuits; Problem Solving.
Thursday:
Friday Take-Home Test - Chapter 19.
More extra Credit.............. click here!
Week #12: April 14th -- April 18th
(back to top)
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday: Notes and a discussion of the quantitative aspect of the magnetic field created by a current in a long, straight wire (Section 20-5). Some examples are given. Chapter Syllabus Exercises are assigned. We'll go over these problems on Monday and take a TEST over Chapter 20 on Tuesday!!
Friday: No Classes..... School Improvement Day
Week #13: April 21st -- April 25th (back to top)
Monday: No Classes..... School Improvement Day
Tuesday: Go over Chapter 20 Syllabus Exercises; review right-hand rules and main chapter concepts. Take test over selected sections.
Wednesday: Prairie State Achievement Tests. No official assignment.
Thursday: Prairie State Achievement Tests. No official assignment.
Friday: A short look at how the "Permeability of Free Space" and the "Permitivity of Free Space" are related. Then we'll begin Chapter 23 with a brief review of the speed of light and its properties, and a review of the Index of Refraction. Discussion and notes on plane mirrors and spherical mirrors. Class will then draw the five cases of the images/characteristics produced by objects placed at various locations relative to a spherical mirror. Hand out and explain "Optics Project". Also, hand out lab "The Index of Refraction of Glass".
Assign reading Sections 1 - 4 of Chapter 23.
Week #14: April 28th -- May 2nd (back to top)
Monday: Discussion of image position and characteristics for objects in a spherical mirror.
Select topics for Optics Project. Go to Library for research. Project paper & Presentation will be due on Monday, May 5th.
Tuesday: Pre-lab and begin Data Collection for "The Index of Refraction of Glass". Lab write-up is to include Title Page, Data Table, Graph with Slope, Your Guess as to Type of Glass, Determination of Speed of Light in the Glass and Answers to Questions. End of period discussion on Critical Angle and Total Internal Reflection. Problems assigned for homework... due tomorrow. Assign reading Sections 5 & 6 of Chapter 23.
Wednesday:
"Going Further" in the Index of Refraction Lab. Lab
Write-Up Due Thursday, May 1st.
Lenses,
characteristics of images formed by lenses and the lens maker's equation.
Practice Problems. Assign reading Sections 23-7 and 23-8 in Giancoli.
Thursday: Collect Lab Write-Up. Go over problem from text, then go over Syllabus Exercises from the end of Chapter 23; Review for Quest tomorrow.
Friday: GROUPQUEST - Chapter 23 - 10 Questions. (Groups will be randomly selected...) Any additional time to be used to work on Syllabus Exercises!
Week #15: May 5th -- May 9th (back to top)
Monday: Presentations of Optics Projects. Assign reading in Chapter 24
Tuesday: Begin Chapter 24...
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday: Chapter 24 Test given as an in-class assignment.
Week #16: May 12th th -- May 16th (back to top)
Monday: Intro Chapter 27: Quantum Theory. Begin with discussion of the discovery of the electron and end with Einstein's analysis of the photoelectric effect according to particle/photon theory. Include discussion on Wien's Displacement Law. Assign reading sections 27-1 thru 27-3.
Tuesday: Young's Double-Slit Experiment and determining wavelengths of various colors of light.
Wednesday: The photo spectrometer and emission spectra of various gases. Also, the "work function' of a metals and what happens to photons that strike metallic surfaces.
Thursday: "The Photosynthetic Process" and its efficiency; why do trees loses their leaves in the winter?
Friday: The period will be dedicated to problem-solving associated with the photo electric effect, the work function of metals, cutoff frequency and maximum kinetic energy of ejected electrons.
Final Exam - Semester Summary First Half of Exam
Week #17: May 19th -- May 23rd (back to top)
Monday: Finish Chapter 27: Quantum Theory. Assign reading sections 27-7 thru 27-10. Class time taken to review the chapter.
Tuesday:
Senior Syllabus Exercises are due. Remainder of Final Exam.
Seniors work together as a group; all others work together in other groups.
Wednesday: Farewell and Good Luck to the class of 2003!
Thursday:
Friday:
Week #18: May 26th -- May 30th (back to top)
Monday: No School... Memorial Day Holiday
Tuesday: Lab - Measurement of the wavelength of laser light.
Wednesday: Review
Thursday: Exams for Blocks I & II
Friday: Exams for Blocks III & IV
NOTE: Any Assignments listed beyond this point are NOT VALID... DUH!!
Week #19: June 2nd -- June 6th (back to top)
Monday: Make-up Day for Missed Exams!
Tuesday: That's all for this year... King - this case is closed!!
Have a great summer!
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