General Physics 2016-2017


Semester 1

June 2017

◄ May 2017

June  2017

July 2017 ►

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Assembly Schedule 

Video: Edison vs Tesla

 

HW: Start looking over review worksheet - final next Thursday

 

June 1

Group Quiz

 

Review: Electricity

Review key

June 2

Test: Electricity and Circuits

 

Study for final

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Review for final

 

Final Review Key

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No class

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Review

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Final Exam

Final Review ws

Final Review Answer Key

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Intro Project

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Work on Presentation

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Work on Presentation

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Work on Presentation

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Work on Presentation

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Final Presentations - 

Last Class

Have a great summer :)

Afternoon: Periods 1-2

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18 Father's Day

 

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Morning: Periods 1-2

Afternoon: Periods 3-4

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Morning: Periods 3-4

 

Have a great summer!

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April 2017

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Friday April 28:

Intro Charge – Demos and Phet Sims

 

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Notes: Charging by conduction vs induction

 

HW:

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Class Plans

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Class Plans

 

HW: Coulomb's Law Worksheet

 

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Group Quiz

5 Cinco De Mayo

Electric Fields:

Go to this interactive  and fill out this worksheet from your teacher

 

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Electric Potential

 

HW: Electric Potential ws #1-13, 15-17

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Notes: Electric Potential

 

Search and Rescue Problems

 

HW: Electric Potential Difference #1-4

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Intro Circuits

 

Know Your Potential Interactive-click on "Color Those Wires" and "Which Bulbs Light" - show instructor your screen with two trophies!

 

Circuit Builder interactive and worksheet

 

HW: Circuit Diagram ws #5-10

 

 

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Notes: Series and Parallel circuits, resistance

 

Electric Pressure interactive and worksheet

 

HW: Test corrections due 5/22

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14 Mother's Day

 

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Ohm's Law Interactive-finish?

 

Notes: Ohm's Law

 

Know your potential - Volt on It

 

HW: Ohm's Law ws

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Ohm's Law Calcs

 

interactive 

 

Instructions

 

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Notes: Series and Parallel Equivalent Resistance 

 

Building Real Circuits

 

HW: Equivalent Resistance ws

 

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Quiz

 

Finish Interactive from Wednesday 

 

HW: Series ws

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Solving Parallel Circuits 

In Class ws

 

HW: Circuits Worksheet Pages 1-2, EC: Pages 5-6

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Notes: Equivalent Resistance

 

HW: worksheet

 

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Compound Circuits

 

Brightness Interactive

 

Quizizz

 

HW: Lamp Brightness ws

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Quiz: Circuits

 

Intro: Magnetism

 

HW: Magnetism ws p1-2 (skip #5-6)

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29 Memorial Day:

 

NO SCHOOL

 

30 No blocks today

Assembly Schedule 

Video: Edison vs Tesla

 

HW: Start looking over review worksheet - final next Thursday

June 1

Review 

Test Friday

Notes: FINAL EXAM JUNE 8!! 

 

March

April  2017

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The EM Spectrum

 

HW: APlusPhysics ws #1-14 with a sentence explanation for each problem

 

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Notes

Doppler Effect Red Shift/Blue shift

 

Polarization of light ws

 

HW: Book p455 #20, 25-27

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Notes

Viewed in Another Light

 

Color Packet page 1 page 2 page 3

 

Simulation for page 2

HW: Finish Packet

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Finish Notes

colorblindness video

Plickers: Viewed in another light

 

HW: Quiz Monday

Practice Quiz

Answer Key

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Quiz 

Plane mirrors

Notes: First five slides

Curved Mirrors and Reflection

HW: Book p 467 #1-5 (draw diagrams if you need to!)

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Demo: Curved Mirrors

Curved Mirror ws

Mirror Equation 

 

HW: ws #1-2

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Finish Curved mirror ws

The mirror equation notes

Practice Calculations 

 

HW: Practice Quiz

Answer Key

 

 

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Refraction Lab

 

HW: Book p494 #1-2

Look at page 493 for n values

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16 Easter

 

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Refraction Lab

 

Absent? Make up lab worksheet and simulation 

Total Internal Reflection

 

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Snell’s Law

refraction video and total internal reflection

 

Notes

 

HW: Snell's Law ws

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Lens Ray Diagrams 

 

Lab: Lenses 

Absent? Collect data from online simulation and answer questions

 

HW: Finish Lab calculations

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Lens Equation

 

HW: finsih ws

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Being Nearsighted and Farsighted

Climb the Ladder

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Review for test tomorrow

Review key

All work from this unit due tomorrow

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Reflection and Mirrors: 025045

Refraction and Lenses: 238958

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review ws answer key

Test: Light’s properties, reflection, and refraction

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Intro Electricity

 

Phet Simulations and answer Questions 

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February 2017

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Test: Energy and Momentum

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Hooke’s Law and Spring Constants

Spring Mini-Lab

Displacement-Force Graphs

 

HW: Book p385 #1, 3 and  p407 #2, 3

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Spring Compression, Elongation, and Potential Energy

Displacement-Energy Graphs

 

HW: Spring ws #1-5, 9-13, 15 (14=EC)

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Notes: Simple Harmonic Motion 

Online Simulation and instructions

 

 

Book p 402 #46-48

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Warm Up: Ranking Task

 

Notes: Pendulums and SHM

 

Pendulum Phet - do with a partner or on your own 

 

HW: Finish simulation if you don't in class

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Robotics Competition 

Notes: Pendulum Equation

Quiz: Springs

 

HW: Book p 402 #49-50

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12 Daylight Saving Begins

 

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Phet Lab

Simulation

 

HW: Watch video and take notes

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HW Quiz

Notes: Intro Waves (similar to video) 

 

Wave Basics #1-25 with a partner-must write down WHY with each answer

 

Quiz Point Make Up?

 

HW: Watch video 1 and video 2 - open note hw quiz at beginning of class

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Wave Interference Problems #1, 2, 5, 9, 12, 15, 18, 23, 24, 31, 34, 35, 41, 49, 51, 57

 

Wave Equation Problems #1,6, 7, 19 - 25, 34 - 36, 48 - 50, 54-57

 

Write answers on a separate paper in a complete sentence with explanation why

 

 

HW: Video: Sound Waves

Video: Standing Waves

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Notes: Standing Waves

 

HW: Wave Speed ws

 

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Demo: Standing Waves and Resonance in Pipes

 

HW: Standing wave ws (due Thurs)

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Oak Testing

 

Give Review ws

 

 

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Notes:  Open Pipes

Review ws

 

Answer Key

 

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HW: Test tomorrow

You may have a 3x5 notecard (both sides)

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Test: Periodic Motion and Waves

 

Extra Credit Lab: Straw Quartets - Due Monday 4/3

Extra Credit Lab: Calculating the Speed of Light - take a picture and calculate your percent error - Due Monday 4/10

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SPRING BREAK

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January 2017

February  2017

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Finals

2 Groundhog Day

Finals

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Finals

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5 Super Bowl

 

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NO SCHOOL: Grading Day

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Intro to Energy

Energy of a Roller Coaster

Activity 

worksheet p1-2

worksheet p3

 

HW: Book p 313 #58-59

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Graphing Changes in Potential Energy on Google Classroom

 

HW: Finish through analysis

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Finish Graphing Changes in Potential Energy Lab

Notes: Potential Energy

 

HW: Book P312 #50, 51 and 53

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Collect Data for Kinetic Energy Lab (On Google Classroom)

 

HW: Book p 313 #61, 64, 65a-b

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Notes: Kinetic Energy Calcs

Share Kinetic Energy Data (Lab Due-end of day)

 

 

HW:

Conservation of Energy Worksheet-due Thurs

Take Kill-a-Watt Home

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Quiz: Energy

 

Conservation of Energy

 

Work Interactive

 

HW: Finish Conservation of Energy ws

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Work and Power

 

HW: Work(sheet), 2 problems with explanations 

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Mechanical Advantage

and Video

Notes: Momentum and Impulse

 

HW: Book p 243 #110-14

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NO SCHOOL

 

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Law of Conservation of Momentum

 

HW: Conservation of Momentum worksheet

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Quiz: Work and Power

 

Impulse Lab Data Analysis

 

HW: Finish Lab Data Analysis

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Momentum and Collisions Lab

 

HW: Finish 5 problems with a partner - answers with a sentence explanation 

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Review

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Review

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Test: Energy, Work, Power, and Momentum

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