"There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago."— J. Robert Oppenheimer (Oppenheimer headed the Manhattan Project, his brother founded the Exploratorium.) 
Physics Honors
Spring Semester 2010 Course Weblog
- Week of Monday, January 4
- Faculty Retreat (Monday & Tuesday)
- Day 1: Activity Schedule (Wednesday)
- Recap 1st semester outcomes, performance, grading system & grade distributions, etc.
- Schedule a visit with your teacher if you'd like to go over the final exam (we will not be distributing them).
- Big ideas for 2nd semester - fun video
- Plan for 2nd Semester
- *** 3rd Quarter (9 weeks)
- 2 weeks- Conservation Laws
- 1.5 weeks - Gases & Liquids // Environmental Unit
- 3.5 weeks - Electrostatics
- 2 weeks - Electric Circuits
- *** 4th Quarter (9 weeks - 3 before Spring Break)
- 3 weeks - Magnetism & Electromagnetism
- ** Spring Break
- Introduce Exploratorium project
- 2 weeks - Light & Optics
- 2 weeks - Waves & Sound
- 2 weeks - Electric Circuits Project / AP exams
- There will be 6 graded units for this semester:
- Conservation Laws (including sub-unit on gases & liquids)
- Electrostatics
- Circuits (only partially finished by end of 3rd quarter -- will finish in 4th quarter)
- Magnetism
- Waves & Sound
- Light & Optics
- HW
- Check out PPB Ch 7
- Read Momentum & its Conservation in the Physics Classroom (both lessons)
- Day 2: Activity Schedule (Thursday)
- Activity: egg-toss -- long times decrease required force for a given momentum change
- Lecture & demo: momentum & impulse
- momentum as a vector
- Newton's 2nd Law revisited
- change in momentum in bouncing off vs. sticking
- "rain" / "machine-gun" type problems that generate an average net force through multiple small collisions (note connection to pressure of a gas)
- HW
- Work PPB Ch 7 #s 15 & 17
- Day 3: Activity Schedule (Friday)
- Lecture & demo: momentum conservation in two-cart inelastic collisions
- 2-dimensional collisions
- HW
- Work PPB Ch 7 #s 10, 11, 14, 19
- Week of Monday, January 11
- Day 1
- Lecture & demo: spring potential energy
- Quiz 6.1 on momentum
- HW
- Check out PPB Ch 8
- Work PPB Ch 8 #s 8, 15
- Read Work, Energy & Power in the Physics Classroom (both lessons)
- Day 2
- Lecture: define & use the concept of Work
- Work done by friction - "sliding to a stop"
- HW
- Work PPB Ch 8 #s 3, 11
- Day 3
- Work problems in class
- Mixed momentum-energy problems (ballistic pendulum, elastic collisions)
- Work PPB Ch 8 #s 17, 18, 20, 25, 26
- HW
- finish problems from today
- take practice exams in advance of Day 4
- Work problems in class
- Day 4
- AOK's classes: Practice Exam (due at the end of class for step 1)
- BJP's classes:
- Lab: two-cart collisions
- Use two range finders, two carts, and a variety of cart weights to verify
- momentum is conserved in a variety of inelastic AND elastic collision types (one moving, other still; both moving towards each other; one catching up to the other) - calculate a % difference between the momenta before and after the collision -- these should be relatively small
- kinetic energy is NOT conserved in either real-life inelastic collisions or elastic collisions. We'd expect a greater degree of KE conservation in real-life elastic collisions however. Calculate the kinetic energies of the system before and after the collision and calculate a % difference -- these should be large
- Writeup will be scored at Step 2
- Writeup due before unit exam (scheduled for just over 2 weeks from today) - here's the
Lab Rubric - Start your writeup & analysis early, and come back in to the lab room outside of classtime if you need to repeat or finish any collisions, measurements, etc.
- HW
- BJP's classes: begin collisions lab writeup
- get caught up on HW and study for quiz on day 1
- plenty of practice quizzes and exams available on PPB site Ch 7 & Ch 8
- Day 1
- Week of Monday, January 18
- Monday - Martin Luther King Day (Monday)
- Day 1
- Introduce Fluids (Ch's 18 & 19) - Gases & Liquids & why we care
- Pressure Defined as Force / Area
- Demo: Bed of Nail
- Quiz 6.2 on conservation laws
- HW
- Read through the material of Ch 18 & Ch 19 in your textbook
- Finish any corrections or missing work
- BJP's classes: collisions lab writeup due in two weeks
- Day 2
- BJP (3rd & 6th periods):
- Mini-lecture: work re-envisioned as P(delta-V) [5-10 min]
- Time for lab work (for collisions lab)
- AOK (2nd & 4th periods):
- Kinetic Theory of Matter - practice problems (involving some chemistry)
- Demo: Mardi Gras Beads
- Gases: Ch 19
- Conceptual discussion of pressure of a gas (collisions of particles)
- Atmospheric Pressure
- In-Class Problems: PPB Ch 19 #s 8, 9,
- PhET: Gas Properties
- Ideal Gas Law
- In-Class Problems: PPB Ch 19 #s 22
- Work re-defined as P(delta-V)
- Kinetic Theory of Matter - practice problems (involving some chemistry)
- HW
- Work PPB Ch 19 #s 11, 21, 29, 32
- BJP (3rd & 6th periods):
- Day 3
- BJP (3rd & 6th periods): in addition to below, Demo: Mardi Gras Beads
- Kinetic theory of gases (average KE = 3/2kT)
- In class work: PPB Ch 19 #6
- Thermal Energy & Ideal Gas Law -- revisiting the ideal gas law from the perspective of the work-energy theorem
- PhET: Gas Properties
- How Engines Work
- HW
- Work PPB Ch 19 #s 6, 18, 19, 25(a-f)
- Work PPB Ch 19 #s 6, 18, 19, 25(a-f)
- Week of Monday, January 25
- Day 1
- Continued discussion of fluids (from last week)
- Gases vs Liquids
- One fundamental difference is that liquids are incompressible meaning that the volume does not change. This means that you can't really increase their internal energy by doing work on a liquid. Likewise, a liquid will only do work if you put an equivalent amount of energy into it at the same time (see hydraulics below)
- Demo: Syringes with Air & Water
- Hydraulics & Pascal's Principle
- The principle is that the pressure is the same everywhere in the liquid (assuming depth isn't at issue). This means you can 'leverage' force by using larger and smaller areas.
- Hydraulic Lift problem (one car on a lift -- two cars on a lift -- more force needed?)
- Bernoulli's Principle
- Work-energy theorem re-written as conservation of kinetic energy density, potential energy density, and pressure
- Demo: blowing above a piece of paper to get "lift"
- Thrust force, lift force and drag force for an airplane
- Conservation of flux -- the quantity velocity times area is conserved in a liquid moving through a pipe
- pressure in a pipe -- note that larger pipes require lower velocities (to conserve flux), and so have higher pressure (by Bernoilli's principle), which is why the walls are much thicker for big pipe
- Work-energy theorem re-written as conservation of kinetic energy density, potential energy density, and pressure
- HW
- Work PPB Ch 18 # 9, 10, 12, 14
- BJP's classes: collisions lab writeup due in one week
- Day 2 Meeting Day Tuesday
- Quiz 6.3 on Gases
- Introduce Care for Creation Project
- HW
- Work on Care for Creation Project (finish by Day 1)
- Day 3
- Pressure of a liquid increases with depth
- Weight of fluid above leading to this pressure
- Mariana Trench (deepest part of the ocean)
- Demo: Peeing Cylinder
- Buoyancy
- Buoyant force is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid (gases or liquids)
- Derivation using pressure considerations
- Conceptual derivation (from Hewitt): if you push 100 N of water out of the way, it'll push with 100 N of force back at you
- Work PPB Ch 18 # 2 & 10
- HW
- Work on Care for Creation Project (finish by Day 1)
- Pressure of a liquid increases with depth
- Day 4
- Note: BJP will be out during 6th period -- you'll have Mr. O'Keefe
- warmup: Concept Development Sheet
- Lab: Verify Archimedes Principle
- When you finish the lab, work PPB Ch 18 # 18
- HW
- Work on Care for Creation Project (finish by Day 1)
- BJP's classes: collisions lab writeup due Day 1 of next week
- Exam on Day 1 of next week - covering all the material of this semester so far
- Use practice quizzes and exams on PPB website. Ch's 7, 8, 18, & 19
- Use practice quizzes and exams on PPB website. Ch's 7, 8, 18, & 19
- Day 1
- Week of Monday, February 1
- Day 1
- EXAM 6 - Momentum, Energy & Fluids
- HW
- None - take a break
- Day 2
- Discuss Option of taking AP Physics B Exam
- Begin Unit 7: Electrostatics
- Activity
- Scotch Tape
- Lecture:
- Review 4 fundamental forces
- introduce charge fundamentals
- e = 1.6x10^-19
- q = +/- N e
- conductors & insulators
- Demo: electroscope, charging with rabbit fur & silk, etc.
- Demo: charged balloon attracted to wall
- HW
- Day 3 Kairos
- Intro to Conservation of Energy involving Charges
- Repulsion, attraction, & polarization
- Lecture: electrical potential energy, voltage, U = qV, work required to move charges
- Demo: Van de Graf generator
- Practice problems involving electrical potential energy ("roller-coaster" type problems)
- HW
- PPB Ch 12 # 7
- Begin reading the Physics Classroom chapter on Static Electricity - you'll want to get through the first two lessons by Day 1 of next week - be sure to work the 'Check your understanding' problems
- Day 4 Kairos
- Advertise Senior Science Courses
- Lecture:
- symmetrical to gravitaty
- Electric Potential // Voltage, V = k Q / r
- Equipotential Lines
- Electric Potential Energy, U = q V
- Work, W = q (delta-V)
- HW
- PPB Ch 12 #s 21, 25
- Continue reading the Physics Classroom chapter on Static Electricity - you'll want to get through the first two lessons by Day 1 of next week - be sure to work the 'Check your understanding' problems
- Day 1
- Week of Monday, February 8
- Day 1
- Practice distinguishing between charge in Coulombs (q) and expressed as number of electrons in excess or deficit (N) using q = +/- Ne
- Lecture: Superposition of Voltage - voltage adding as scalars
- PhET: Charges & Fields
- Equipotential lines/surfaces
- Work problems using PhET
- HW
- Complete this worksheet on voltage and electric potential energy
- Continue reading the Physics Classroom chapter on Static Electricity - you'll want to get through lesson three by Day 4 of this week - be sure to work the 'Check your understanding' problems
- Day 2 Meeting Day Tuesday
- A Force Perspective: Electric Field & Electric Force
- E = k q / r^2 -- a vector not a scalar -- different in this way from potential (voltage)
- F = q E
- W = q E*delta-x
- from this, noting that E = delta-V / delta-x
- PhET: Charges & Fields
- HW
- Study for Quiz
- PPB Ch 12 #s 21 & 25 is good practice as are practice quizzes & exams. But you can always make your own problems with PhET: Charges & Fields
- 3rd & 6th periods: collisions lab final draft due Monday, March 1 (see e-mail from BJP)
- A Force Perspective: Electric Field & Electric Force
- Day 3
- Quiz 7.1 - Electrostatics
- HW
- PPB Ch 12 #s12, 13, 14, 24
- Finish reading the Physics Classroom chapter on Static Electricity - you'll want to get through lesson three by Day 4 of this week - be sure to work the 'Check your understanding' problems
- Fields are tough to understand. Check out these helpful pages:
- Electric Force & Electric Field (read each of these pages and play with the applets)
- Day 4
- Warmup: concept. dev. sheet on Coulomb's law
- A Force Perspective: Electric Field & Electric Force
- Simple Superposition
- In-Class PPB Ch 12 # 15
- Electric field vectors vs. electric field lines
- In-Class PPB Ch 12 # 26
- PhET: Charges & Fields
- PhET: Electric Field Hockey
- Simple Superposition
- Java applet for electric fields in two dimensions
- HW
- PPB Ch 12 #s 28, 5
- 3rd & 6th periods: collisions lab final draft due Monday, March 1 (see e-mail from BJP)
- Fields are tough to understand. Check out these helpful pages:
- Electric Force & Electric Field (read each of these pages and play with the applets)
- Physics Simulations (Check the simulations in the folders "Charge and Force" & "Electric Field")
- PhET Simulations (check under Electricity, Magnets & Circuits)
- Day 1
- Week of Monday, February 15
- President's Day (Monday)
- HAPPY MARDI GRAS!...Where in the US did Mardi Gras begin? (Hint...AOK's Hometown)
- Day 1
- A Force Perspective: Electric Field & Electric Force
- Tough 2-D Problems
- In-Class PPB Ch 12 # 28, 17, 20
- PhET: Charges & Fields
- HW
- PPB Ch 12 #s 29
Mastering Physics - Electrostatics - due 3/1- Check out the Human Electroscope (image below)
- A Force Perspective: Electric Field & Electric Force
- Ash Wednesday
- Day 2
- Demo: Van de Graff generator - pose question (for warmup): why does it only spark when the two are close together? Explain how Van de Graff generator works; similarity to lightning
- Breakdown electric field of air: E = 3,000,000 N/C
- Using Work = force x distance to get E = -deltaV/deltax
- PhET: Charges & Fields - showing that electric field is strongest where equipotential lines are closest together
- A Force Perspective: Electric Field & Electric Force
- Begin working practice test from PPB Ch 12
- HW
- Study for Quiz - continue practice test from class today
- Review the material in the Physics Classroom chapter on Static Electricity - the 4th lesson has some great review material on electric field lines
- Mastering Physics - Electrostatics - due 3/1
- Demo: Van de Graff generator - pose question (for warmup): why does it only spark when the two are close together? Explain how Van de Graff generator works; similarity to lightning
- Day 3
- Quiz 7.2 - Electrostatics
- HW
- 3rd & 6th periods: collisions lab final draft due Monday, March 1 (see e-mail from BJP)
- Mastering Physics - Electrostatics - due 3/1
- Week of Monday, February 22
- Day 1 Junior Retreat
- Introduce electric current I = delta-q/delta-t
- Simple problems: how many electrons pass this point, etc.
- Microscopic model of copper wires
- valence electrons, electrons and "holes" (copper has one extra valence electron)
- why metals are equipotentials, and how you can get flow through wires despite this (compare to a flat tube)
- generating current with a power supply
- Demo: Lemon Battery - corresponding chemical reactions
- Measuring current and voltage with galvanometers
- Try to get a lemon for Day 2 for you and your partner.
- HW
- PPB Ch 13 #s 1
- Play around with this PhET Simulation: Batteries & Resistors
- Mastering Physics - Electrostatics - due 3/1
- Please bring a LEMON, a PENNY, and (if possible) a GALVANIZED NAIL
- Retreatants: read the Lemon Battery handout, catch up on all the homework, and get a friend to walk you through the Lab Activity from Day 2
- Introduce electric current I = delta-q/delta-t
- Day 2 Junior Retreat
- PhET Simulation: Magnets and Electromagnets
- Lab Activity
- Lemon batteries - hopefully you brought a lemon?
- Build a lemon battery and show us it works by hooking several up in series and lighting an LED!
- Magnets - tracing out magnetic fields with a compass
- Use small compasses to figure out the direction of the magnetic field vector at any point. Then, move the compass around to get a feeling for the 3-D field
- Demo: Kicking-wire
- Switch the power supply around -- what happens? Why?
- Hand-crank generators & light bulb experimentation
- Hook one up to a light bulb
- Hook one up to nothing
- Hook one up to another hand-crank generator!
- Black & white television & magnets (warning: do NOT do this with color televisions)
- Play around -- what do you think is going on?
- Demo: Hand-built electric motor (with magnet wire)
- We'll have one running - your job is to hypothesize about what's going on!
- Demo: Jacob's Ladder
- You know the breakdown electric field for air is 3 million N/C ... so can you figure out how much voltage there must be between the two vertical wires? Knowing that the wall plug is at 120 V, what is the job of the transformer?
- Why does the current arc rise? The answer is pretty simple...
- Lemon batteries - hopefully you brought a lemon?
- HW
- Mastering Physics - Electrostatics - due 3/1
- Retreatants: read the Lemon Battery handout, catch up on all the homework, and get a friend to walk you through the Lab Activity from Day 2
- Day 3
- Introduce Magnetism
- Calculating & Sketching Magnetic Field around a current-carrying wire
- Right Hand Rule (RHR) #1
- Superposition of Magnetic Field around two wires
- PhET: Magnet & Compass
- HW
- Mastering Physics - Electrostatics - due 3/1
- Introduce Magnetism
- Day 4
- Lorentz / Magnetic Force
on a single charge
- Calculating the magnetic force felt by a charge moving through a field made by a wire
- Right Hand Rule (RHR) #2
- How magnets work -- how they stick to metals, etc. Iron/nickel/cobalt vs. other metals
- HW
- Study for Exam on Day 1 - note that this exam is on electrostatics, NOT on magnetism/circuits
- Review the material in the Physics Classroom chapter on Static Electricity
- 3rd & 6th periods: collisions lab final draft due Monday, March 1 (see e-mail from BJP)
- Mastering Physics - Electrostatics - due 3/1
- Study for Exam on Day 1 - note that this exam is on electrostatics, NOT on magnetism/circuits
- Lorentz / Magnetic Force
on a single charge
- Day 1 Junior Retreat
- Week of Monday, March 1
- Day 1
- EXAM 7 - Electrostatics
- HW
- PPB Chapter 14 #s 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 - HW CHECK ON DAY 4
- Day 2
- Demo: hand-held Tesla coil and electron beam - deflecting beam with magnet
- Lorentz Force on a wire immersed in a magnetic field
- Attraction and repulsion of wires due to magnetism - like currents ATTRACT, opposite currents REPEL, strangely enough! Note that the language is backward from positive/negative charges
- How galvanometers (current meters and voltmeters) work
- Practice problems
- HW
- PPB Chapter 14 #s 9, 10 - HW CHECK ON DAY 4
- Day 3
- Warmup: charged particle moving towards or along-side a current-carrying wire
- Demo: Rare earth magnets
- Magnetic Force as a Centripetal Force
- Mass Spectrometer
- In-class: work this mass spectrometer problem (here's a key)
- HW
- PPB Chapter 14 #s 11, 12 - HW CHECK ON DAY 4 - bring your binder
- Check out this cool video on ferrofluid that Gina found
- Quiz on Day 4
- Day 4
- HW CHECK - bring your binder
- Quiz 8.1 - Magnetism
- HW
- Study for midterm - note that your midterm exam will be a Step 4 exam for the FIRST unit of this semester (Conservation Laws & Fluids) and will NOT include any material on electrostatics, circuits, magnetism, etc.
- Useful resources:
- Use practice quizzes and exams on PPB website. Ch's 7, 8, 18, & 19
- Day 1
- Week of Monday, March 8
- Monday, Tuesday, & Wednesday
- Midterms
- Step 4 for Unit 6 (Conservation Laws, Fluids, etc. -- not electrostatics or magnetism)
- 2nd period on Monday
- 3rd & 6th periods on Tuesday
- 4th period on Wednesday
- Step 4 for Unit 6 (Conservation Laws, Fluids, etc. -- not electrostatics or magnetism)
- Midterms
- Thursday
- Faculty Inservice
- Friday
- Quarter Break
- Quarter Break
- Monday, Tuesday, & Wednesday
- Week of Monday, March 15
- Monday is a holiday
- Day 1
- Magnetic Induction - conceptual
- Motors and generators -- using magnetic forces to "generate" voltages and vice-versa (motors and generators as inverse processes)
- PhET: Faraday's Electromagnetic Lab
- Demo: turning a coil in the Earth's magnetic field to generate electricity
- Demo: toroid with sparking copper wire
- Time permitting: begin building an Electric Motor!
- HW
- Mastering Physics - Magnetism - due Thursday 8:30 am (approx. 30 min in length)
- Work Practice Exam on Magnetism from the PPB Ch 14 - skip any questions about induced current or voltage, induction, Faraday's Laws, or Lenz's Laws
- Day 2
- Demo: ring and/or rebar launcher
- Build/finish Electric Motor
- Build a Speaker!
- HW
- Mastering Physics - Magnetism - due Thursday 8:30 am (approx. 30 min in length)
- Read this article on the future of wireless power using induction
- Prepare for EXAM on Day 3
- Work Practice Exam on Magnetism from the PPB Ch 14 - skip any questions about induced current or voltage, induction, Faraday's Laws, or Lenz's Laws
- Day 3
- 3rd & 6th Periods
- Exam 8.2 - Magnetism - note that this will not include any mathematical material on induction, so the practice exams from past years might look strange -- just a heads-up
- 2nd & 4th Periods
- Build a Speaker!
- Return to Circuits
- PhET Circuit Construction Kit
- Ohm's Law I = V/R
- Power, P = I V -- how it is derived from U = qV
- 1 kiloWatt-hour = 3.6 MJ
- Cost of Power: 1 kW-hr ~13 cents in San Francisco
- Demo: Power Meter & Hair Dryer
- HW
- Begin reading the Physics Classroom material on Electric Circuits
- 2nd & 4th Periods
- study for exam
- 3rd & 6th Periods
- Week of Monday, March 22
- Day 1 Junior Retreat
- 2nd & 4th Periods
- Exam 8 - Magnetism
- 3rd & 6th Periods
- Return to Circuits
- Circuit kits
- PhET Circuit Construction Kit
- Ohm's Law I = V/R
- Power, P = I V -- how it is derived from U = qV
- 1 kiloWatt-hour = 3.6 MJ
- Cost of Power: 1 kW-hr ~13 cents in San Francisco
- Demo: Power Meter & Hair Dryer
- Return to Circuits
- HW
- Use the PhET Circuit Construction Kit to build a simple circuit and display the voltage drops and currents in the circuit - print out a copy of your circuit and bring to class on Day 2 - this is evidence you played around with the program
- Continue reading the Physics Classroom material on Electric Circuits
- 2nd & 4th Periods
- Day 2 Junior Retreat
- Warmup: circuits kits
- Resistors in Series & Parallel - the why and the how
- Circuits Worksheet 1
- PhET Circuit Construction Kit
- HW
- Finish working the worksheet from today
- Continue reading the Physics Classroom material on Electric Circuits
- PPB Ch 13 #s 9, 12, 14
- Day 3 Kairos
- Warmup: circuits kits
- Complex Circuits
- Begin this Circuits Worksheet 2
- (Here's a Key but there's a mistake in #1 circuit B ammeter 2, the current should be 1.5 A, not 1.8 A).
- If you have trouble come to a HW party or use the public folders...this stuff takes practice but isn't too bad once you understand the rules
- HW
- Continue reading the Physics Classroom material on Electric Circuits
- PPB Ch 13 #s 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 (for some problems, you can check your answers by buiding the circuits and taking measurements with the PhET Circuit Construction Kit)
- Day 4 Kairos
- Warmup: circuits kits
- Work on Electric Circuits project
- Work Project 1 in the Electric Circuits project; if you finish early, move on to Project 6 (BUT DO NOT TURN ON POWER until your teacher has checked the placement of your ammeter!!!!!)
- Remember not to destroy the ammeters: they must ALWAYS be in series with a resistor!!!
- You can continue to work this project on your own time throughout the 4th quarter
- HW
- Study for quiz on Day 1
- Mastering Physics - Circuits - Due Monday am
- Finish reading the Physics Classroom material on Electric Circuits
- Day 1 Junior Retreat
- Week of Monday, March 29
- Day 1
- Quiz 9.1 - Circuits
- HW
- None
- Day 2
- Special Activity: Educational philosophies
- HW
- None - have an enjoyable and relaxing break
- If you are taking the AP Physics B Exam - use this break to review material from last semester
- Day 1
Spring Break (Thursday Apr 1 - Sun Apr 11)
- Week of Monday, April 12
- Day 1 (Activity Schedule)
- Continue Electric Circuits project
- Circuit kits
- Work on Practice Exam
- HW
- Continue working practice exam
- Day 2 (Activity Schedule)
- Circuit kits
- Review Electric Circuits
- HW
- Study for Exam
- Day 3 (Activity Schedule)
- EXAM 9 - Circuits
- HW
- TBA
- Day 4 Special Schedule TBA
- Day 5 Special Schedule TBA
- Day 1 (Activity Schedule)
- Week of Monday, April 19
- Day 1
- Begin Light & Optics
- HW
- TBA
- Day 2 (Meeting Day Tuesday)
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- Day 3 Kairos
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- Day 4 Kairos & (Prayer Service Thursday)
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- TBA
- Week of Monday, April 26
- Day 1 Junior Retreat
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- Day 2 Junior Retreat
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- Day 3 BJP Ignatian evening Wednesday
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- Day 4
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- TBA
- Day 1 Junior Retreat
- Week of Monday, May 3 - BJP Student Center proctor
- Day 1 AP Exams Monday - US Gov & Politics
- Begin Waves & Sound
- HW
- TBA
- Day 2 AP Exams Tuesday - Computer Science, Spanish, Statistics
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- Day 3 AP Exams Wednesday - Calculus
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- Day 4 AP Exams Thursday - English Lit & Comp / Friday - US History
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- TBA
- Day 1 AP Exams Monday - US Gov & Politics
- Week of Monday, May 10 - BJP Student Center proctor
- Day 1 AP Exams Monday - Biology, Physics
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- Day 2 AP Exams Tuesday - Chemistry, Psychology
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- Day 3 AP Exams Wednesday - English Lang & Comp
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- Day 4 AP Exams Thursday - World History / Friday
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- TBA
- Day 1 AP Exams Monday - Biology, Physics
- Week of Monday, May 17 - BJP Student Center proctor
- Day 1
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- Day 2
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- Day 3
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- Short Day 5
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- Faculty Inservice (Friday)
- BJP - proctor senior prom (Saturday)
- Day 1
- Week of Monday, May 24 - BJP Student Center proctor
- Day 1 (Activity Schedule) - Senior class holiday
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- Day 2 (Activity Schedule)
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- Day 3 (Activity Schedule)
- TBA
- HW
- TBA
- Transition Liturgy (Thursday)
- Awards Assembly (Friday)
- Day 1 (Activity Schedule) - Senior class holiday
- Week of Monday, May 31
- Memorial Day (Monday)
- Final Exams (Tuesday)
- Final Exams (Wednesday)
- Final Exams (Thursday)
- Baccalaureate Mass (Thursday evening)
- Graduation (Saturday)