SI Prep -- AP Physics C Weblog 2007-08 Spring Semester

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AP Physics C 2007-08 / 2nd Semester

Most recent update May 11, 2008 9:23 PM

Schedule

Week of Monday, January 7: Review of Rotational Motion
- Day 1
  - Review of rotational kinematics
    - Work Textbook Ch 13 #s 3 & 7 in class
  - Review of center of mass
    - Work a problem similar to Ch 13 # 10 in class
  - Review of the definition of torque
    - Work Textbook Ch 13 # 13 in class
  - HW
    - Textbook Ch 13 #s 4, 5, 10, 11, 16 due Day 4
    - Review Ch 13 this week -- start with Sections 13.1 to 13.3
      - Reminder: in order to keep the amount of lecture time down so that we can do as many labs and demos as possible, I am pushing a lot of the content of this course onto the textbook. If you've never been much of a textbook reader, now's the time to learn how to do it. You'll rely on your textbooks heavily in college, and this is a college-level class. Remember that it's not about pounding through the pages -- learn to use the book as a resource; start with the end-of-chapter summary, move to the figures, and eventually read the text if you are not understanding.
      - This is a bit of an overgeneralization but there is some truth to it: people are educated to the extent that they love to read books
- Day 2
  - Review of rotational inertia
    - Work Textbook Ch 13 # 17
  - Review of 'alpha = torque / rotational inertia' equation (Newton's 2nd Law for rotation)
    - Work Textbook Ch 13 # 20
  - Review of rigid-body equilibrium
    - Work Textbook Ch 13 # 25
  - HW
    - Textbook Ch 13 #s 18, 23, 27 due Day 4
    - Continue review of Ch 13: Sections 13.4 to 13.6
    - Bring your textbook to class on Day 4
- Day 3
  - HW Q&A
  - Review of rotational energy
    - Work Textbook Ch 13 # 30
  - Review of rolling w/o slipping ("rolling motion")
    - Work a problem similar to Ch 13 # 34
  - Review of rotational angular momentum
    - Work Textbook Ch 13 #s 44 & 47
  - HW
    - Textbook Ch 13 #s 28, 29, 34, 46 due Day 4
    - Continue review of Ch 13: finish reviewing textbook Ch 13 for Day 4
    - Bring your textbook to class on Day 4
- Day 4
  - Problems from this week due
  - Begin working in-class: Ch 13 #s 56, 57, 67, 73, 81, 83, 86
  - HW
    - Finish today's problems as HW over the weekend due Day 1
    - Quiz on Day 1 of next week

Week of Monday, January 14: Review of Simple Harmonic Motion

Day 1
- HW - worked problems from Ch 13 due
- Quiz on material of last week
- Begin review of SHM: the fundamental differential equation / masses on springs
  - Work Ch 14 # 15 in class
- HW
  - Textbook Ch 14 #s 16 & 17
Day 2
- Continue review of SHM / deriving the period of a physical pendulum
  - Work Ch 14 # 26 in class
- HW
Day 3
- Practice problems mixing rotation and SHM
  - Begin 2006-07 Final Exam (Rotation and SHM) from AP Test Prep site, finish as HW
- HW
Day 4
- Exam on the Rotation and Simple Harmonic Motion material of these two weeks
- HW
  - Print out and skim the objectives worksheet for the Electricity & Magnetism AP exam
  - Check out the generic laboratory rubric for AP Physics
  - Work the following PhET Simulations:
    - Balloons & Static Electricity: play around with this one and verify the things we talked about in class. In particular, write down a sentence describing why both a positively charged balloon and a negatively charged balloon can stick to a neutrally charged wall.
    - John Travoltage: this is just fun; what is he saying?
    - Charges & Fields: make an electric dipole field; figure out how to plot equipotentials, use the tape measure, and plot electric fields. Learn to predict what the equipotential will look like given the electric field (we did this in honors physics -- if you don't remember, I'll review it)
    - Electric Field of Dreams: begin with two charges of equal mass and charge and try varying the external (applied) electric field. Get a feeling for this motion. Note that collisions are elastic so the energy is constantly divided between kinetic form and electric potential energy form.
    - Electric Field Hockey: get through as many levels as you can.

Week of Tuesday, January 22: Electric Charges and Forces

Day 1
- Makeup exam on Rotation and SHM on Friday after school -- Room 310
- Shifting gears from mechanics to electricity & magnetism
- This is the material that supports all of chemistry, and, through that, all the scientific topics you can think of, including biology, engineering -- even, in a way, psychology
- We are not going to shy away from a complete classical description of the electromagnetic force. For this reason, the math level of this semester will be very high. Pay good attention in your Calculus class and ask good questions when learning how antiderivatives and integrals work.
- The Triboelectric sequence -- how to figure out what you rub on what to pick up some static charge
- Demo: electroscope & charge
- HW
  - Begin reading Ch 25
    - Ideas for reading:
      - Don't just read the chapter straight through. That's a ticket to Snoozeville. UNLESS you're the type that really likes doing that, then feel free. I know for a lot of people it is not an effective way to go about things.
      - Start with the Summary (for Ch 25 this is on Page 810)
      - Much of this is material from honors physics, so maybe you know more than you think?
      - If there is a something you think you need to review, then go to that part of the chapter.
      - Concentrate on the diagrams and worked sample problems
      - Go back again and again to the chapter in the coming weeks -- have it by your bedside and read small sections repeatedly for deeper understanding.
  - Begin Workbook Ch 25, due Day 3
  - Please bring your workbook to class on Days 2 and 3
Day 2
- We'll form tables today
- Makeup exam on Rotation and SHM on Friday after school -- Room 310
- What is an electric field? -- finding the electric field at any point near an arbitrary collection of "point" charges
  - E = kq/r^2
- Using Charges & Fields to test our understanding of the electric field and Coulomb's law / field of a dipole
- Demo: Van de Graf generator & rabbit fur / visualizing the electric field
- In-class lab: I'll have materials available to you to work with in analyzing the nature of electric charge (electroscopes, pith balls, rabbit fur, etc.) -- brainstorm answers to the following question: how can we use an electroscope to quantatively determine the amount of charge deposited?
- TIme-permitting: work on Workbook Ch 25 in-class
- HW
  - Continue Workbook Ch 25, due Day 3 -- you'll have about 30 minutes tomorrow as well to finish it up and ask questions
  - Continue reading Ch 25 // also check out this page of useful applets and lectures
Day 3
- We'll form tables today
- Makeup exam on Rotation and SHM on Friday after school -- Room 310
- Dynamics of charged particles and extended neutrally-charged objects in electric fields
- Time to work on Workbook Ch 25 in-class in groups as well as to use the in-class lab materials from yesterday
- In-class lab: I'll have materials available to you to work with in analyzing the nature of electric charge (electroscopes, pith balls, rabbit fur, etc.)
- Turn in Workbook Ch 25
- HW
  - Do Textbook problem Ch 25 # 68
  - Begin reading Ch 26 (remember my admonitions above!)
  - Begin Workbook Ch 26

Week of Monday, January 28: The Electric Field (Ch 26)

Day 1
- Electric charge density (linear, over area, and over volume)
- The electric field a distance r from the center of a charged rod of length L - using calculus!!!
- Electric field along the axis of a uniformly charged ring
- Using a bunch of the above to determine the electric field along the axis of a uniformly charged disk
- Begin Ch 26 # 45
- HW
  - Continue Workbook Ch 26, due Day 4
  - Work Textbook Ch 26 # 45
Day 2
- Form tables today -- groups of no more than 4
- Recap material of Day 1
  - Important point: there are only so many geometries for which this method is applicable, so we'll just do them all and you won't have to worry there are more
  - Two important integrals for yesterday & today - here's a Table of Integrals
    - See #s 15 and 16 at this site
      - The antiderivative of dx / (x^2 + a^2)^(3/2) is (x/a^2) / (x^2 + a^2)^(1/2)
      - The antiderivative of xdx / (x^2 + a^2)^(3/2) is -1 / (x^2 + a^2)^(1/2)
  - Work Textbook Ch 26 # 45 in small groups
- Begin Ch 26 # 49 in small groups -- note the integral will be trivial here!
- HW
  - Continue Workbook Ch 26, due Day 4
  - Finish Textbook Ch 26 # 49
Day 3
- What all this 4*PI*Epsilon_naught stuff is about
  - Table of dieletric constants
- Taking the limit of a fixed length charged rod to figure out the field of an infinite line of charge (eqn. 26.15 in your textbook)
- Recap material of Day 1
  - Field of a ring of charge
  - Field of a disk of charge
- Using an infinite disk as a plane of charge (taking limit of disk, above) to determine electric field of an infinite plane
- Electric field within a parallel plate capacitor
- Begin Ch 26 # 70 -- note this is an object with a nonuniform charge density (it is greatest at the two ends, and zero at the middle) -- you can still use symmetry in this problem to ignore the y-component of the electric field
- Begin Ch 26 # 50
- HW
  - Continue Workbook Ch 26, due Day 4
  - Continue working Ch 26 #s 50 & 70
Day 4
- Workbook Ch 26 & Textbook problems from Ch 25 & 26 due
- Quiz on material of Ch 25 & 26
- HW
  - Begin reading Ch 27
  - Begin Workbook Ch 27
  - Work Textbook Ch 26 # 53

Week of Monday, February 4: Electric Flux & Gauss's Law (Ch 27)

Day 1
- Hand out solutions to Textbook probs from previous week
  - Work practice problem with differential form of Coulomb's Law (Ch 26 #70)
- Simple definition of electric flux - using dot product
- Definition of electric flux as an integral of E dot dA
- Simple electric flux problems
- HW
  - Continue working on Workbook Ch 27 (due Day 4)
  - Continue reading Ch 27 (finish by Day 4)
Day 2
- Statement of Gauss's Law - relating electric flux to enclosed charge
- Deriving Coulomb's Law from Gauss's Law
- Gauss's Law and charge density (rho, sigma, lambda) "Gaussian surfaces"
- HW
  - Continue working on Workbook Ch 27 (due Day 4)
  - Continue reading Ch 27 (finish by Day 4)
Day 3
- [BJP out sick] Work on Ch 27 Workbook
- HW
  - Continue working on Workbook Ch 27 (due Day 4)
  - Continue reading Ch 27 (finish by Day 4)
Day 4
- [BJP out sick] Finish Ch 27 Workbook
- HW
  - Begin reading Ch 28
  - Begin Workbook for Ch 28
  - Check out these video demonstrations of physics concepts from MIT

Week of Monday, February 11: Gauss's Law continued (Ch 27) / Current and Conductivity (Ch 28)

Day 1
- [BJP out sick] Watch DVD on the Electric Field from Mechanical Universe series
- HW
  - none
Day 2
- Electric fields and conductors: zero inside, perpendicular to surface
- Fields of and between spherically symmetric charged conductors and insulators
- Insulators can maintain a nonzero internal charge distribution - this makes for fun Gauss's Law integral problems
- HW
  - Work Textbook Ch 27 # 45
  - Continue working on Workbook Ch 28 (due Day 1 of next week )
  - Continue reading Ch 28 (finish by Day 1 of next week )
Day 3
- Quiz on Gauss's Law
- Current as number density times area times average drift velocity i = nAv
- Why it is strange that E determines i but not di/dt
- HW
  - Continue working on Workbook Ch 28 (due Day 1 of next week )
  - Continue reading Ch 28 (finish by Day 1 of next week )
Day 4
- Current density J - current per unit area and conductivity sigma = J/E
- Kirchhoff's Laws
- resistivity as one over sigma / Plinko
- HW
  - Continue working on Workbook Ch 28 (due Day 1 of next week)
  - Continue reading Ch 28 (finish by Day 1 of next week)

Week of Tuesday, February 19: The Electric Potential (Ch 29)

Day 1
- Turn in Workbook Ch 28
- In-class work: Textbook Ch 27 #s 31, 39 & 55 / Ch 28 #s 35 & 49
- Define Electric Potential / scalar vs. vector field / new version of Conservation of Energy
- Potential energy of a system of point charges
- HW
  - Finish textbook problems from today (due Day 3)
  - Begin working on Workbook Ch 29 (due Day 3 of next week)
Day 2
- Potential energy of point charges
- Electric potential defined / volt defined
- Conservation of energy in a potential U = qV
- Visualizing potentials through graphs, equipotentials, contour maps, and elevation graphs
  - similarity between mgh and qEs
- Potential energy of a system of point charges
- HW
  - Continue working textbook problems from Day 1 (due Day 3)
  - Continue working on Workbook Ch 29 (due Day 3 of next week)
Day 3
- Textbook probs from Day 1 due
- Parallel plate capacitors
- Demo: flash-bang capacitor!
- HW
  - Work Textbook Ch 29 #s 39, 48, 78
  - Continue working on Workbook Ch 29 (due Day 3 of next week)

Week of Monday, February 25: Potential and Field (Ch 30)

Day 1
- BJP on Retreat
  - Retreat assignment:
    - Read Ch 30 (Potential and Field)
    - Begin working Workbook Ch 30 (due Day 4)
    - Work textbook Ch 30 #s 5, 6, 8,11, 20, 25, 26, 34, 39, 43, 85, 86 (due Day 4)
Day 2
- BJP on Retreat -- see above for retreat assignment
Day 3
- Ch 29 Workbook due
- Lecture on material of Ch 30
  - Derivative and integral relationship between potential and field
  - Connection to potential energy / force material of first semester
  - Conductors as equipotentials
  - Drawing equipotentials and field lines (rules & reasons)
- HW
  - continue work on retreat assignment, due Day 4
Day 4
- Ch 30 Workbook & Textbook problems due
- Practice problems / practice exams -- note exam has been moved to Day 1 of next week
- HW
  - begin preparations for Monday exam and midterm exam (covering all E&M material this quarter as well as a single Rotation/SHM problem along the lines of our last exam on the subject)

Week of Monday, March 3: Midterm Week

Day 1 Activity Schedule
- Exam on material of Chs 27, 28, 29, 30
- HW
  - prepare for Midterm Exam
Midterm Exam on Wednesday
- covering all E&M material this quarter as well as a single Rotation/SHM problem along the lines of our last exam on the subject

Week of Monday, March 10: Fundamentals of Circuits (Ch 31)

Day 1
- Lecture: use of power supplies, Voltmeters, and Ammeters (and how they can be ruined)
- Lab Day 1/4 -- - lab write-up due Day 2 of next week / so write-up as you go!
  - Do not turn on power supply until I have checked your circuit -- I don't want any blown ammeters!
  - Using the power supply, alligator clips (located at east end of room), a resistor of your choice (choose wisely depending on the voltmeter & ammeter settings you use), a voltmeter, and an ammeter, demonstrate Ohm's Law V = IR.
  - Let me check your results with you. Then, show that doubling the resistance by putting two equal resistors in series halves the current.
  - Let me check your results with you. Then, show that halving the resistance by putting two equal resistors in parallel doubles the current.
  - Make a V vs. I curve for a lamp (provided at each lab table). If the curve is a straight line, determine the resistance of the lamp. If not, explain what is happening to the resistance as the current changes (is it getting higher? lower? why?)
- HW
  - Begin reading Ch 31 & begin Ch 31 Workbook due Day 4
Day 2
- Lab Day 2/4
  - Continue work on anything you didn't finish on Day 1
  - Work problem 7 from this Honors Physics exam -- then BUILD this circuit and show it to me with the DIGITAL (LabPro) ammeter & voltmeter reading out the proper values ... again BE CAREFUL with these ammeters!!! Please check with me before running power if you have any doubts about whether you're going to blow out the ammeter. Note that you can make bigger resistors (450 Ohms, for instance) by stringing several smaller resistors in series if you need to.
- HW
  - Continue reading Ch 31 & working Ch 31 Workbook due Day 4
Day 3
- Lab Day 3/4
  - Capacitance: if you want to charge a capacitor, you need to pass a current into it through a resistor
    - Here's a site that shows the basic circuit for charging up a capacitor
      - First figure: the circuit diagram -- note that you need a "two pole" switch (there's one at your desk) that can be thrown from the top position (for charging the capacitor) to the bottom position (for discharging it).
      - Second figure: the voltage on the capacitor as it charges up
      - Third figure: the voltage on the capacitor as it discharges
    - The amount of time it takes an RC circuit to 'charge up' is t = RC.
    - Knowing the capacitance of your capacitor, choose a resistor so that the circuit will take about 10 seconds to charge up.
    - Then verify this by building this circuit and producing a chart of voltage vs. time similar to the second figure (above). You'll want to put an ammeter between the resistor and the capacitor and a voltmeter across the capacitor. These should be digital (electronic), not analog.
    - Use the analysis capability of Logger Pro to fit the function A(1 - Be^(-t/C)) to this charging graph. If the fit looks good, record values of A, B, and C -- we'll use these later -- and take a screenshot.
- HW
  - Continue reading Ch 31 & working Ch 31 Workbook due Day 4
Day 4
- Turn in Ch 31 Workbook
- Lab Day 4/4 - lab write-up due Day 2 of next week
  - Lab write-up expectations
    - For this lab, instead of formal error analysis, just write up how the behavior of the circuits differed (or did not differ) from your expectations. Since resistors and capacitors can vary a lot from their 'labeled' values, we shouldn't expect our values to be terribly precise. Also I am more interested in your conceptual understanding of these circuits.
    - If you need some circuit symbols, grab them from this Microsoft Word document
  - Continue work with capacitors as follows:
    - Demonstrate the third figure from the site from Day 3 - discharging the capacitor
    - Use the analysis capability of Logger Pro to fit the function Ae^(-t/C) to this discharging graph. If the fit looks good, record values of A and C -- we'll use these later -- and take a screenshot.
    - Put two capacitors in series and show that the total capacitance decreases by noting the the charge and discharge time gets less
    - Put two capacitors in parallel and show that the total capacitance increases by noting that the charge and discharge time increases
  - Begin using the PhET - Circuit Constructor Kit to build RC circuits that charge and discharge. You can simulate the circuits you built during this lab as well! This really helps you visualize the motion of the charge carriers, etc. THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER.
- HW
  - Write up the lab due Day 2
  - Learn to use the PhET - Circuit Constructor Kit to build RC circuits that charge and discharge.
  - Textbook probs: Ch 31 #s 43, 53, 60, 66 due Day 1

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Week of Monday, March 17: RC Circuits (Ch 31)

Day 1
- Textbook problems from weekend's homework due
- Lecture on RC Circuits and solving the differential equation
- PhET - Circuit Constructor Kit
- Work problems in-class: Ch 31 #s 73, 77
- HW
  - Prepare for circuits / RC circuits quiz on Day 2
  - Write up lab due Day 2
Day 2
- RC circuits lab due
- Quiz on material of Ch 31

HEY! Are you interested in taking part in the PhysicsBowl?

This is a nationwide competition that consists of taking a 45-minute multiple-choice exam here at SI in one of the first weeks of April. If you're interested, read more here then e-mail Mr. Philhour before Spring Break.

Spring Break -- NO HOMEWORK but if you are struggling now is a good time to review material from 1st, 2nd, and 3rd quarter using your AP Physics Prep Book (Barrons or whatever)

Week of Monday, March 31: The Magnetic Field (Ch 32)

Day 1
- Demo: kicking wire
- Review of Magnetism at the honors level
  - North and South poles - there are no magnetic monopoles
  - Sketching Magnetic field lines
  - Lorentz force equation and Right-hand rule
  - Using the right hand rule in a third version to get the direction of B-field pointing through a ring
  - Calculating the radius of circular orbit in a B-field by treating the B-field as centripetal
- Demo: rebar launcher
- Lack of a 'magnetic potential energy' - magnetic fields do no work, so there is only force perspective; this leads to centripetal motion problems
- Mass Spectrometers
- HW
  - Begin reading Ch 32 & working Ch 32 Workbook (due Day 4)
Day 2
- Demo: magnet and B&W TV // CRT as electron gun
- Common magnetic fields (long current-carrying wire, ring of radius R, ...)
  - Wire: mu*I/2*PI*R
  - Ring center: mu*I/2R
  - Ring on axis off-center: mu*I*R^2 / 2(z^2 + R^2)^3/2
- Crossed E and B fields so no net force
- Law of Biot-Savart (use like the differential form of Coulomb's Law)
  - Note the eqn. sheet uses r_VECTOR/r^3, we'll use r_HAT/r^2 .. same thing conceptually, but can be a bit tricky.
  - For wire, see Example 32.3
  - For ring, see Example 32.5
- HW
  - Continue reading Ch 32 & working Ch 32 Workbook (due Day 4)
Day 3
- Review Biot-Savart
- Ampere's Law (use like Gauss's Law)
- Using Ampere's Law to calculate the field outside a single straight wire
- Using Ampere's Law to calculate the B-field inside a SOLENOID and inside a TOROID
- HW
  - Continue reading Ch 32 & working Ch 32 Workbook (due Day 4)
  - Note if you need to makeup a test you can do so tomorrow
Day 4
- Ch 32 Workbook Due
- Makeup tests for retreatants, etc.
- Practice problems with magnetism & calculating magnetic fields (finish as HW)
  - Ch 32
    - # 14 (field of a wire)
    - # 22 (line integral)
    - # 23 (Ampere's law)
    - # 37 (circuit / B-field)
    - # 40 (torque on loop)
    - # 64 (microwave)
    - # 70 (mass spectrometer)
- HW
  - Finish problems from today as HW for Day 1
  - Begin reading Ch 33 & working Ch 33 Workbook (due Day 4)

Week of Monday, April 7: Electromagnetic Induction (Ch 33)

Day 1
- Ch 32 problems due / hand out solutions
- Introduction to EM induction
- Transformers (conceptually)
- Demo: Transformer
- Demo: Tesla Coil
- HW
  - Continue reading Ch 33 & working Ch 33 Workbook (due Day 4)
Day 2
- Practice problems with EM Induction
  - Ch 33 Workbook
  - Ch 33 Textbook #s 1, 2, 10, 12, 35, 44, 46 (finish as HW, due Day 4)
- HW
  - Continue reading Ch 33 & working Ch 33 Workbook & Textbook problems (due Day 4)
Day 3
- Demos
  - magnetic induction in a loop of wire (200 turns) using the Earth's magnetic field and a permanent magnet
  - Faraday's Induction Lab Java Applet (PhET)
  - Faraday's Law Java Applet (PhET)
- Continue working practice problems with EM Induction
  - Ch 33 Workbook
  - Ch 33 Textbook #s 1, 2, 10, 12, 35, 44, 46 (finish as HW, due Day 4)
  - Note: the lengths of the solenoids in #35 are 2 cm as well
- HW
  - Continue reading Ch 33 & working Ch 33 Workbook & Textbook problems (due Day 4)
Day 4
- Ch 33 Workbook & Textbook problems due
- Inductors in circuits
- HW
  - Ch 33 Textbook #s 14, 19, 21, 71, 72, 81 due Day 3 of next week

Week of Monday, April 14: LC and LR circuits & Review of Electricity & Magnetism

Day 1
- Inductors in circuits
- Work Ch 33 problems in class
- HW
  - Ch 33 Textbook #s 14, 19, 21, 71, 72, 81 due Day 3
  - Begin final exam review using an AP Test Prep guide (Barrons, etc.)
Day 2
- Maxwell's Equations
- Exam review: use of equation sheet
- HW
  - Ch 33 Textbook #s 14, 19, 21, 71, 72, 81 due Day 3
  - Continue final exam review using an AP Test Prep guide (Barrons, etc.)
Day 3
- Practice exam in preparation
- Objectives worksheet for 2nd semester
- Ch 33 textbook problems due
- HW
  - Review for exam on Day 4
  - Continue final exam review using an AP Test Prep guide (Barrons, etc.)
Day 4
- Exam on Ch 32 & 33
- HW
  - Read and Review Ch 5.5 (Drag)
  - Continue final exam review using an AP Test Prep guide (Barrons, etc.)

Week of Monday, April 21: Mechanics: Calculus Supplemental Material

Day 1 (Activity Schedule)
- Short Lecture: use of differential equations in air resistance / drag / terminal velocity problems (see Ch 5.5 on Drag in your textbook)
- Here are my notes for solving the differential equation and calculating terminal velocity
- In-class project: Begin Telegraph Project writeup due Day 2 of next week
- HW
  - Use my notes to set up and solve the differential equation that describes an LR circuit powered by a DC voltage supply. This is basically the same math steps, just in a different application.
Day 2 (Activity Schedule)
- Short lecture: use of integrals when finding center of mass or moment of inertia
- In-class project: Continue Telegraph Project -- writeup due Day 2 of next week
- HW
  - Using no notes, just the definition of rotational inertia, show that the rotational inertia of a disk is 1/2MR^2 and that the rotational inertia of a rod is 1/3ML^2 measured from the end. Practice solving these in advance of the final exam.
Day 3 (Activity Schedule)
- Video: Mechanical Universe & Beyond -- Torques and Gyroscopes
- HW
  - Begin preparations for final exam -- past College Board exams are available at the test prep site.
Stewardship Day
Magazine Drive Holiday

Week of Monday, April 28: Mechanics Review and Final Exam

Day 1
- Mechanics review: AP 2006 FR Exam in groups
- HW
  - Prepare for final exam
  - Objectives worksheet for 1st semester
  - Note that flashcards are available at my test prep site -- print or photocopy double-sided
Day 2
- Telegraph project writeup due
- Mechanics review: grading AP 2006 FR Exam (solo)
- Here's the grading policy for the final exam
- HW
  - Prepare for final exam
  - Here's the grading policy for the final exam
Day 3
- Mechanics Part 1 (45 min MC - table of information only, no calculators)
- HW
  - Prepare for final exam
Day 4
- Mechanics Part 2 (45 min FR - calculators, equation sheet OK)
- HW
  - Prepare for final exam by taking the E&M 2004 multiple choice exam (available soon at test prep site) and grading it
  - Objectives worksheet for 2nd semester
  - Note: Students who are taking the Computer Science A and/or Spanish Language exam must schedule a makeup time with me for the multiple choice part of the final exam. This can be Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday before or after school or at lunch.

SATURDAY, MAY 10, 7 PM -- optional AP Physics B & C Pizza Party & Movie -- Location TBA. Movie will help you with the material for the AP Exam on Day 1

MONDAY, MAY 5, 6 PM -- AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism Review -- Room 310 or meet at flagpole for entry

Week of Monday, May 5: E&M Review and Final Exam (AP Exams begin this week)

Day 1 - MONDAY
- Most students gone for AP Exam: Government & Politics
- Any remaining students will have a study period
- HW
  - Prepare for final exam by taking and grading the 2006 E&M Free Response exam, available at my test prep site and/or the 2004 MC exam available at the test prep site
  - Here's the grading policy for the final exam
  - Objectives worksheet for 2nd semester
  - Note that flashcards are available at my test prep site -- print or photocopy double-sided
  - Please e-mail me immediately =) if you need to reschedule the Tuesday or Thursday portions of the final exam

MONDAY, MAY 5, 6 PM -- AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism Review -- Room 310 or meet at flagpole for entry

Day 2 - TUESDAY
- E&M Part 1 (45 min MC - table of information only, no calculators)
  - Note: Students who are taking the Computer Science A and/or Spanish Language exam must schedule a makeup time with me for this part of the final exam. This can be Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday before or after school or at lunch.
  - Reschedules: Loos, Leonard, and Tsui will take this part on Wednesday after school; AP Computer Science students will take this part on Friday during 6th period AP CS
- HW
  - Prepare for final exam
  - Here's the grading policy for the final exam
Day 3 - WEDNESDAY
- Most students gone for AP Exam: Calculus AB/BC
- Any remaining students will have a study period
- HW
  - Prepare for final exam
Day 4 - THURSDAY
- E&M Part 2 (45 min FR - calculators, equation sheet OK)
- Reschedules: Avella will take this part on Wednesday after school
- HW
  - Prepare for AP exam

SATURDAY, MAY 10, 7 PM -- optional AP Physics B & C Pizza Party & Movie -- CHORAL ROOM. Movie will help you with the material for the AP Exam on Monday

Week of Monday, May 12: AP Exam & Decompression (AP Exams this week)

Day 1
- AP Physics B & C exam -- good luck everyone!!!
Day 2
- Decompression -- TBA -- note that Beach Trip has been moved to Wednesday to accomodate a few schedule problems I was having
Day 3
- Decompression & LAST DAY OF CLASS - Beach trip with JOEY (this might extend into 5th period lunch! - I should already have a signed permission slip from the start of the year from you - let me know if I don't

Week of Monday, May 19: Decompression - NO SENIORS THIS WEEK

Day 1 (Activity Schedule)
Day 2 (Activity Schedule)
Day 3 (Activity Schedule)
Transition Liturgy
Awards Assembly

Week of Tuesday, May 27: Final Exams Week

There is no final exam for AP Physics during this exam period -- our final was during the week of May 5

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