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Mr. Cannady, Dr. Dann, and Dr. Philhour
"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it." — Albert Einstein
Physics Honors (1°, 2°, 3°, 4°, 6° & 7°) 4th Quarter 2004-05
Most recent update August 10, 2005 1:44 PM
Schedule
- Week of Tuesday, March 15th: Electric
Charge and Coulomb's Law (short week due to faculty in-service
on Monday)
- Day 1
- Short introduction to electric charge (fundamental charge, neutrality, etc.)
- Demo: electroscope leaves
- Observing party on Thursday!
- HW: Read People's Physics Book Electrostatics Chapter on p.79; do Short Answer #s 1, 3 & 4
- Day 2
- HW questions [10 min]
- Charge by induction / contact / polarization
- Coulomb's Law (time to get your vectors straight again!!!)
- Vector example in class
- HW: Electrostatics Chapter #s 11, 13 & 19
- Day 3
- HW questions [10 min]
- Re-cap Coulomb's Law (vectors!)
- Demo: Van de Graff generator & hair-raising
- HW: Electrostatics Chapter #s 14 & 23
- Day 1
- Week
of Monday, March 21st: Electric Fields and
Electric Potential (short week due to Easter Break on Friday)
- Day 1
- HW questions [10 min]
- Electric Fields (1-d and 2-d)
- Electric field lines
- 1st period: BJP home sick; work on electroscope activity
- HW: Electrostatics Chapter #s 5, 9, 15, 17
- Day 2
- HW questions [10 min]
- Electric fields re-cap
- Introduction to electric potential (voltage)
- Do problems 22 (and if time 21) in class
- HW: Electrostatics Chapter #s 6,7, 16
- Day 3
- HW questions [15 min]
- Quiz on Electrostatics
- HW: over Spring
Break: Have Fun!
- Except for Mr. Cannady's
class...
- HW: page 82-84 #s 10,18,21,22
- Except for Mr. Cannady's
class...
- Day 1
**** Easter Break ****
- Week
of Monday, April 4th: Electric Currents & Magnetic
Fields
- Day 1
- Review Electric Fields & Electric Potential
- Define Electric Current
- Examples of typical electric currents & description of conditions that create lethal currents
- Magnetic fields
- Magnetic fields from current carrying wires
- HW: Electromagnetism p. 93 #s 5, 9
- Makeup Work: 1st and 7th periods: If your returned quiz reads 'HW Party', please print out and complete this make-up work and have a TA from the homework party sign off on it. This will be due Day 4.
- Day 2
- More Magnetism OR movie (depending on period)
- Day 3
- Warmup: Which way does the compass point in the following situations? (Drawn on board.)
- Demo: magnetic kicker
- Force on a wire in a magnetic field
- Force on a particle moving in a magnetic field
- RHR #2
- Force between two current carrying wires
- HW: Electromagnetism p. 93 #s 4, 6, 8, 9
- Day 4
- Warmup: Which direction will the electron turn as it enters a mag. field (draw) and with what Force?
- HW questions [15 minutes]
- Demo: Rebar Launcher
- Example problem: finding radius of an electron moving in a magnetic field
- Example problem: find current and direction necessary to suspend a conducting rod above a current-carrying wire
- HW: Electromagnetism p. 93 #s 7, 10, 11
- Day 1
- Week
of Monday, April 11th: Lorentz Force Law and Electromagnetic
Induction
- Day 1
- Making Electric motors and/or speakers, microphones
- HW: Electromagnetism pg. 93 #12 and read this description of how motors work
- Day 2
- Day 1
- 1st period: guest lecture on the Earth's magnetic field (induction moved to day 3)
- Magnetic Flux and Electromagnetic Induction
- How generators work
- How hydroelectric dams work
- Demo: Genencon-capacitor demo
- HW: Electromagnetism pg. 93 # 13, 14, 15 and read this short article
- Day 3
- Warmup: electron circulating in magnetic field, what is its speed?
- Review for test on Day 4
- Review Sheet & Answer key
- Practice test and Solutions page1 page2 page3 (do all except #4)
- HW: Work on Review Sheet (above) and check out this article on really big magnetic fields!
- Friday Night (April 15) Astronomical Observing: 8 PM, meet at Flagpole
- Day 4
- Test: Electrostatics, Magnetism, Magnetic Induction
- Week
of Monday, April 18th: Electric Circuits
- Day 1
- Warmup: What do these equations mean? (V = Ex, etc.)
- Recap voltage, current, conductors, insulators
- Measuring devices: voltmeter ("in parallel"), ammeter ("in series"), wires
- HW: Read pp. 97 - 99 in PPB. Do problems #1 and read about Ohm's Law
- Day 2
- Warmup: Why is the electric potential (voltage) at both ends of a wire always the same?
- Lightbulbs
- Voltage sources
- Resistance & Ohm's Law
- HW: Take the online Ohm's Law Quiz and read this article about Einstein
- Day 3
- Warmup: How many Joules per second are emitted in thermal radiation and heat by an idealized 60 W light bulb?
- Recap Ohm's Law (check out this resistor java applet)
- Power dissipated in a resistor
- HW: Problems 2, 3, and 5 on p. 101
- Day 4
- Warmup: None (Lab)
- 7th period: Series & parallel resistors
- HW: Problems 4 & 6 on pp. 101 & 102
- HW: 1st and 7th periods: Please catch up on reading and do problems 1 through 6 over the weekend in the Electric Circuit chapter. Also, be sure to take the Ohm's Law Quiz and check out the Ohm's Law java applet.
- Day 1
- Week
of Tuesday, April 26th: Electric Circuits (short
week due to magazine drive holiday on Monday)
- Day 1
- Warmup: Circuit diagram ... find current.
- Ohm's Law laboratory
- HW: Problems 7, 8, 9, 10 on pp. 102 & 103 [Note: there are example problems, with solutions, starting on p. 133]
- Day 2
- Warmup: None (Lab)
- 1st period: Thevenin equivalent circuits
- Demo: which light bulb is brighter?
- 1st period: Series & parallel resistors
- Ohm's Law laboratory continued
- HW: Finish laboratory
- Day 3
- Go over HW
- More Laboratory (finish Ohm's Law and/or begin Electric Circuits Project)
- HW: prepare for lab quiz next week and find a PG&E bill to find the price of energy
- Day 1
- Week
of Monday, May 2nd: Electric Circuits (AP exam
week)
- Day 1
- Warmup: circuit problem involving batteries and resistors
- More Laboratory (finish Ohm's Law and/or begin Electric Circuits Project)
- HW: Problems 11, 12 and 13 on pp. 102 & 103; also check out this cool site
- Day 2
- Warmup: None (quiz)
- Lab quiz (Note we moved this to Day 2 because of the AP English exam on Day 1)
- HW: Read Capacitor Handout and get a head start on the homework if you have time!
- Day 3
- Warmup: circuit problem involving batteries and resistors
- Capacitors & calculating capacitance
- Demo: flash-bang capacitor!
- RC Circuits (conceptual)
- HW: Capacitor Handout #s 1, 2, 3; check out the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Science Day, coming soon!
- Day 4
- Warmup: capacitance problem
- Go over HW from Day 3
- Capacitance laboratory
- HW: Capacitor Handout #s 4, 5, 6, and 7
- Day 1
- Week
of Monday, May 9th: Electric
Circuits Project (AP exam week)
- Day 1
- Warmup: circuit problem involving capacitors and resistors
- Go over HW from Day 4 of last week
- Finish capacitance laboratory as needed
- Electric Circuits Project
- HW: Begin Final Exam Review Sheet (with numerical answers) and hand-written solution (note that these are misnumbered after #19 due to the fact that we added another problem this year) and Final Exam Equation Sheet
- Days 2, 3, 4: Electric Circuits Project
- Day 1
- Week of Monday, May 16th: Electric
Circuits Project (short week due to faculty in-service on friday;
activity schedule week)
- Please check your project with your teacher to make sure your methods & write-up are up to snuff
- Day 1: Electric Circuits Project
- Days 2 & 3: Review for final exam
- Week of Monday, May 23rd: Final
Exam Week
- Final exam will cover the following topics: electric forces and fields, magnetic forces and fields, magnetic induction, simple harmonic motion, wave motion and sound, and electric circuits, as per the review sheet; note that this means we are leaving out the quantum mechanics, particle physics, pressure and thermal physics sections; here is the final exam equation sheet
- 1st and 7th periods: senior exemptions: Stephanie L., Meghan M., Stephanie T., Ciara V.