"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it." — Albert Einstein
Physics Honors (1°, 3°, 7°)
Schedule (2nd semester)
- Week of Monday, March
22: Electric Charge and the Electric Force (short week)
- Day 1
- Quiz corrections for Thermodynamics & Pressure (due end of class)
- HW: Begin reading Ch 16-1 to 16-4
- Special note: Kairos retreatants, turn this in Day 1 of next week
- Day 2
- Electric charge, static electricity, polarization of materials, fundamental electron charge
- Reading: finish reading Ch 16-1 to 16-4
- HW: Ch 16 Questions 2, 4, and 5; Problem 1
- Special note: Kairos retreatants, have this done by Day 1 of next week (reading will help)
- Day 3
- Electric force, Coulomb's Law
- Reading (optional): Ch 16-5 & 16-6
- HW: Ch 16 Question 8; Problems 2, 5, 6 (see inside cover of book for charges)
- Special note: Kairos retreatants, have this done by Day 3 of next week
- Day 1
- Week of Monday, March 29: Electric Force, Electric Fields,
and Electric Field Lines
- Day 1
- Electric Charge hands-on work
- pull two pieces of clear tape off of a wood table -- before doing so, predict whether they will attract or repel one another, then test to see what happens
- rub your head with a balloon then raise your hair with it -- explain in a drawing what is happening
- rub your head with a balloon then bring it near a stream of water -- before doing so, predict what, if anything, should happen, then test to see what happens
- charge the electroscope (the thing with two hanging leaves) with a glass rod and rabbit fur: charge through induction (bring the rod up, but not touching) and see what happens when you remove the rod; charge through contact (touch the rod to the top of the electroscope) and see what happens when you remove the rod. Sketch the apparatus and your experiments.
- rub the balloon with rabbit fur -- this will charge it negatively. Use its negative charge to figure out the charge of the glass rod after it has been rubbed with wool; do the same for the black rod; repeat both experiments rubbing with rabbit fur
- HW: Ch 16 Problem 11
- Special note: Junior retreatants, you may come in Wed lunch or Thu after school to make this up
- Electric Charge hands-on work
- Day 2
- Coulomb's Law continued (vector problems)
- HW: Read Ch 16-7, 16-8, and 16-9; Do Ch 16 Problems 13 & 14
- Special note: Junior retreatants, have this done by Day 4 of this week
- Day 3
- Electric Fields (I of II)
- HW: Ch 16 Questions 18 & 19; Problems 21 & 26
- Day 4
- Electric Fields (II of II)
- HW: Ch 16 Problems 29, 33 & 34
- Day 1
- Week of Monday, April 5: Electric Potential (short
week)
- Day 1
- Electric potential and the unit of voltage
- Useful reading: Ch 17-1 to 17-5
- HW: Chapter 17 Questions 6 & 9; Problems 6 & 8
- Day 2
- Review of concepts
- HW: Study for quiz on Day 3
- Day 3
- Quiz, covering material on Electric Charge, Coulomb's Law and Electric Fields
- Day 1
- Week of Monday, April 12: no class or assignments; Spring Break!
- Looking to get ahead? Go ahead and read Chapter 18 in your textbook.
- Week of Monday, April 19: Electric Currents, Voltage, and
Resistance
- Day 1
- Electric potential and electric fields
- Work on in-class conceptual assignment
- HW: finish assignment; read Ch 18-1 and 18-2
- Day 2
- Electric Currents
- Useful reading: Ch 18-1 to 18-2
- HW: Chapter 18 Question 3; Problems 1 & 2
- Day 3
- Resistances and "Voltage Drops"; Ohm's Law
- Useful reading: Ch 18-3 and 18-4
- HW: Chapter 18 Problems 4, 5 & 8
- Day 4
- Electric Energy and Electric Power
- Work on in-class computational assignment
- Useful reading: Ch 18-6 & 18-7
- HW: Chapter 18 Question 8; Problems 30, 32, and 36
- Day 1
- Week of Monday, April 26: Magnetic Force & Magnetic Fields
- Day 1
- Magnetic fields and their relationship to electric current; magnetic force; right-hand rules
- Useful reading: Ch 20-1, 2, 3 & 4
- HW: Chapter 20 Questions 15 & 18; Problems 7 & 8
- Day 2
- More of Day 1; magnetic field of a wire; attractive and repulsive forces between wires
- Useful reading: Ch 20-3, 4, 5 & 6
- HW: Chapter 20 Problems 9 (use centripetal force), 10, 19
- Day 3
- Magnets & their uses
- Useful reading: Ch 20-10, 20-13, 20-14
- Special note for retreatants: be sure to do this reading and homework to stay caught up!
- HW: Chapter 20 Question 30; Problem 58
- Day 4
- Electromagnetic induction & Faraday's Law
- Useful reading: Ch 21-1 & 2
- Special note for retreatants: be sure to do this reading and homework to stay caught up!
- HW: begin work on review sheet handed out in class
- Day 1
- Week of Monday, May 3: Electromagnetic Induction
- Day 1
- Review of induction
- Useful reading: Ch 21-2, 3 & 4; Ch 21-7
- HW: work on review sheet for quiz
- AP Exam missing students: be sure to download the electromotor handout (see below) so you can participate on Day 2. You will need to bring a small styrofoam or wood block and two D-cell batteries. Also print out a circuits handout.
- Day 2
- Lab: build your own electromotor! (bring supplies as detailed in class)
- Useful reading: Ch 21-5
- HW: work on review sheet for quiz
- AP Exam missing students: you will need to make up this lab on Day 3 or Day 4.
- Day 3
- Review for quiz
- Quiz for students who know they will be out of class on Day 4
- Day 4
- Quiz, covering material on electric currents, voltage, resistance, magnetic forces & fields, and induction
- Day 1
- Week of Monday, May 10: DC
Circuit Projects
- Day 1 (not in lab)
- We will learn about the various components needed to start our DC circuits projects: how to use a voltmeter; how to use an ammeter (these are easy to destroy by accidently putting too much current through them); how to use alligator clips and electrical tape to wire a nice circuit; what a resistor looks like and how to read its resistance by color or by using a multimeter; how to operate a power supply; what a switch looks like; what a diode looks like; etc.
- Day 2 lab
- Begin supervised work on DC circuit projects -- you do not have to do the projects in order, although they are roughly ranked from easiest to hardest
- Day 3 lab
- Work on DC circuit projects
- (Dr. Philhour out on Thursday, May 13th: watch DVD)
- Day 4 lab
- Work on DC circuit projects
- (Dr. Philhour out on Thursday, May 13th: watch DVD)
- Day 1 (not in lab)
- Week of Monday, May 17 (short week): DC
Circuit Projects
- Day 1 lab
- Work on DC circuit projects
- Day 2 lab
- Work on DC circuit projects
- Day 3 (not in lab)
- Frontiers in physics
- Final exam review
- Day 1 lab
- Week of Monday, May 24 (activity schedule week): Review &
summation
- Day 1
- Frontiers in physics
- Final exam review
- Day 2
- Final exam review
- Thoughts and Q&A for college physics and college science courses
- Day 3
- Senior day
- Final exam review
- DC Circuit project write-ups due
- Day 1
- Week of Monday, May 31: Final Exam Week
- Seniors with an A (90.0+) in the class do not have to take the final exam
- All students who took the AP-B test and who took our practice exam and scored 3 or more do not have to take the final exam