SI Prep -- Physics Schedule Summer 2006

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Physics: Summer 2006

Most recent update August 11, 2006 8:55 PM

Schedule

Week of Monday, June 12th
- Monday (Day 1): Unit I: One dimensional motion (Ch 1 in Hewitt) Wear comfortable shoes & clothes for activity outdoors
  - Important note: The textbook for the course will be handed out to you on the first day of class -- you do not need to go to the bookstore. Please bring a check on the first day made out to the SI Bookstore in the amount of $49.00. If you keep your book in excellent condition, you will likely have the opportunity to sell the book back to the physics department at the end of the summer.
  - Introductions [~20 min]: Welcome and introduction to the class, syllabus, rules and regulations, procedures. Textbook distribution. We will also introduce our expert TAs, Zoë and Max!
  - Pick up practice page 1-1 (due at end of day -- work on these when you finish other assignments early) (1st step)
  - Outdoor Activity [~40 min]: activating prior knowledge: what you learned in biology & chemistry, a walk around the block
  - Demo [~40 min]: examples of some of the mysteries of physics we're attempting to explain through the course
  - Lecture [~20 min]: Converting units / using the SI system of units / area & volume / clock reading t, position x, displacement delta-x, and velocity delta-x divided by delta-t
  - In-class work [~50 min]: work unit-conversion; area/volume (including scaling); ratios and division; and position, displacement, and speed problems. There are 30 problems total, and you'll have 90 minutes, so you will need spend about 3 min/problem on average to finish. This means you need to work seriously and quickly. Get in the groove -- this is like preliminary sports training, it makes things easier in the long run! (1st step)
  - Video [~40 min]: Cosmic Voyage (IMAX)
  - In-class work continued [~40 min]: as above; both TAs will be available to help out
  - Outdoor Activity [~30 min]: clocking our speeds running around on the practice field (2nd step)
  - In-class work [~20 min]: evaluating and writing up calculations & results of outdoor runs (2nd step)
  - Wrap-up [~10 min]: poster work: each day we will decide as a group what equations, formulas, big ideas, or values we want to write on a poster to be hung in the classroom. At the time of the exam these posters will still be hanging on the walls!
  - Today's websites: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 (in no particular order, sorry -- learning how to use the program =)
  - Reading HW: Read Ch 1, including Review, and Ch 2.1 to 2.5; bring cell phones Tue & Wed for outdoor project (remember to put them on silent mode and not to use them apart from these projects) (1st step)
  - HW Problems: Ch 1: Review Questions (RQ) 2 & 6; Think & Explain (TE) 2; Ch 2: RQ 5, 12; Plug & Chug (PC) 1 (2nd step)
- Tuesday (Day 2): Unit I: one-dimensional motion (Ch 2) Wear comfortable shoes & clothes for activity outdoors
  - Please turn HW in to box as you walk into class (today and every day)
  - Pick up practice page 2-1 (due at end of day) (1st step)
  - Go over the plan for today [~5 min]
  - Lecture/Demo [~30 min]: clock reading t, position x, average velocity v, and acceleration a defined mathematically; acceleration g due to gravity; verbally interpreting problems (the "word problem" problem); signs (+/-) as indicating direction rather than magnitude
  - Outdoor Activity [~60 min]: measuring the speed and acceleration of cars on Sunset Ave 1/2. (using synchronized stop watches and cell phones to communicate over large distances) (2nd step)
  - In-class work [~30 min]: work position and time problems; work acceleration problems (2nd step)
  - (Quiz cancelled)
  - Lab [~40 min]: Measuring the acceleration of a marble as a function of ramp angle; both TAs will be available to help out (2nd step)
  - Lecture [~20 min]: position, speed, and acceleration defined graphically
  - Lab [~80 min]: Range finder activity (2nd step)
  - Wrap-up [~10 min]: poster work
  - Exam Preparation: we'll have an exam every Wednesday and Friday for the entire course. The first exam will be tomorrow! Practice exam from last year: Day 3 (linear motion); be sure to also do your homework and reading assignment for tonight -- remember that each night we are doing a week's worth of homework!
  - HW Problems: Ch 2: RQ 22, 23, 24; PC 5 & 6; TE 4 & 5; Think & Solve (TS) 1 (2nd step)
  - Reading HW: Read Ch 2.6 to 2.9 and Ch 2 Review; you are to read everything in a given chapter, including, for instance, the "Hang Time" discussion on p. 22 (1st step)
- Wednesday (3): Unit I: one-dimensional motion (Ch 2)
  - Please turn in HW to box as you walk into class (today and every day)
  - Pick up practice page 2-2 (due at end of day) (1st step)
  - Go over the plan for today [~10 min]
  - Q&A [~20 min]
  - Unit 1 Exam Part I [~60 min] (Note to TAs: I will grade the exams for this course.) (3rd step)
  - (break: we'll always have an after-exam break)
  - Mini-quiz [~20 min]: Algebra and trigonometry diagnostic quiz (does not affect your grade in the course, but a low score will earn you extra assignments to 'catch you up')
  - In-class work [~60 min]: Algebra and trigonometry review, solving systems of equations, taking square roots (2nd step)
  - Lecture [~30 min]: The Big Three kinematic equations; instantaneous velocity vs. average velocity
  - In-class work [~60 min]: work Big Three problems (2nd step)
  - In-class work [~60 min]: work Big Three graphing problems (2nd step)
  - Wrap-up [~10 min]: poster work
  - HW Problems: Ch 2: RQ 25, Activity 2, PC 7 & 8, TE 6 & 8, TS 2 & 3 (2nd step)
  - Reading HW: Ch 3.1 to 3.3 (1st step)
- Thursday (4): Unit I: one-dimensional Motion & Unit II: two-dimensional (projectile) motion (Ch 2 & 3)
  - Please turn in HW to box as you walk into class (today and every day)
  - Pick up practice page 3-1 (due at end of day) (1st step)
  - Go over the plan for today [~10 min]
  - Q&A
  - Quiz [~15 min]: note that quizzes today and every day other than exam days will cover the material from the homework of the night before (2nd step)
  - Lecture/demo [~30 min]: Scalars and vectors, breaking vectors into components; meaning of horizontal, vertical, north, south, west, east, noon and midnight; using SOHCAHTOA (right triangles)
  - In-class work [~40 min]: Scalars and vectors (2nd step)
  - Lab [~40 min]: Measuring the acceleration of dropped objects with the range finders (1st step)
  - Demo [~15 min]: Shot vs. Dropped Ball / James Bond
  - Lecture [~40 min]: Projectile motion; "top of the flight" problems
  - In-class work [~90 min]: work vector, linear motion, and projectile motion problems (2nd step)
  - In-class work: practice test for tomorrow
  - Wrap-up [~10 min]: poster work
  - HW Problems: Ch 2: Activity 3, PC 3 & 4, TE 7, TS 4; Ch 3: RQ 2, 6, 8, 9, 12; PC 4, 9 (2nd step)
  - Reading HW: Ch 3.4 to 3.6 & Ch 3 Review (1st step)
  - Exam Preparation: we'll have an exam on Day 5 (tomorrow); here's last year's Day 5 (big three) exam
- Friday (5): Unit II: two-dimensional (projectile) motion (Ch 3)
  - Please turn in HW to box as you walk into class (today and every day)
  - Pick up special practice page (due at end of day) (1st step)
  - Go over the plan for today [~10 min]
  - Q&A [~20 min]
  - Unit 1 Exam Part II [~80 min] (3rd step)
  - Demos: Shoot the Monkey!
  - Outside Activity: Air Blasters!
  - Lab [~100 min]: Marble in the cup (bullseye) lab (2nd step)
  - Outside Activity: dropping dinosaurs off the building and timing them to get the height
  - Wrap-up [~10 min]: poster work
  - HW Problems: Ch 3: PC 8; TE 6, 7; TS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Ch 4: RQ 3, 4, 5, 19 (2nd step)
  - Reading HW: Ch 4 (1st step)

Week of Monday, June 19th
- Monday (Day 6): Unit III: Newton's laws of motion (Hewitt Chs 4, 5, and 6) Wear comfortable shoes & clothes for activity outdoors
  - Continue work on Marble in the cup lab (approx. 1 hr)
  - Please turn in HW to box as you walk into class (today and every day)
  - Pick up practice pages 4-1 and 3-2 (due at end of day) (1st step)
  - Progress reports (Unit I)
  - Go over the plan for today [~5 min]
  - Quiz [~10 min] (2nd step)
  - Lecture/demo [~60 min]: Challenging misconceptions about motion / buckets & sand demos / air carts
  - Outdoor Activity [~30 min]: walking with water
  - Lecture/demo [~60 min]: Focus on 1st law of motion; definition of force; examples of forces (contact, friction, air resistance, normal, gravity, tension)
  - Video [~60 min]: Isaac Newton
  - Lab [~60 min]: Air tracks: verify using photogates that the speed change of an object in motion is negligible; percent error (1st step)
  - In-class work [~60 min]: Conceptual problems using Newton's 1st law (2nd step)
  - Wrap-up [~10 min]: poster work
  - HW Problems: Ch 4: PC 1, 2; TE 1, 4, 6, 7, 9; Ch 5: RQ 1, 5, 6 (2nd step)
  - Reading HW: Ch 5 (1st step)
- Tuesday (7): Unit III: Newton's laws of motion (Hewitt Chs 4, 5, and 6)
  - Pick up practice page 5-1 (due at end of day) (1st step)
  - Go over the plan for today
  - We'll have half the class working a lab for 30 min, then switch, while the other half listens to a lecture
    - Lab: Fan carts! (2nd step) Measure the acceleration and mass of your cart. Increase the mass of the cart by adding a weight, and see how the acceleration changes.
    - Lecture/demo: Focus on 2nd law of motion: a = F / m; more examples of forces (newtonian gravity)
  - Lab: Brake Pad Laboratory due Thursday at start of class (3rd step -- note, this is a big one!)
  - In-class work: Working Newton's 2nd Law Problems (2nd step)
  - Wrap-up: poster work
  - HW Problems: Ch 4: TS 2; Ch 5: PC 1, 2, 3, 5; TE 2, 4; TS 1, 4; Ch 6: RQ 2, 4 (2nd step)
  - Reading HW: Ch 6 (1st step)
  - Studying: Here's the Practice test for tomorrow (proj. motion & Newton's Laws)
- Wednesday (8): Unit III: Newton's laws of motion (Hewitt Chs 4, 5, and 6)
  - Pick up practice page 6-1 (due at end of day) (1st step)
  - Go over the plan for today
  - Q&A
  - Units II (all) and III (part 1/2) Exam (3rd step)
  - Lecture/demo: Focus on 3rd law of motion; more examples of forces (spring, tension revisited, electric, magnetic, strong & weak nuclear)
  - In-class work: begin Working Newton's 3rd Law problems due Thursday at end of day (2nd step)
  - Video (50 min): The Mechanical Universe, High School Adaptation, Quad I
  - Wrap-up: poster work
  - HW Problems: Ch 4: TE 8, 10; Ch 5: PC 4; TE 8, 9, 10; TS 5, 6; Ch 6: RQ 6; TE 1, 2 (2nd step)
  - Reading HW: The Ultra-Secret Method for solving Newton's Laws problems (1st step)
- Thursday (9): Unit III: Newton's laws of motion (Hewitt Chs 4, 5, and 6)
  - Pick up practice page 4-2 (due at end of day) (1st step)
  - Go over the plan for today
  - Quiz (2nd step)
  - In-class work: Newton's Laws Worksheet #1 (2nd step)
  - Indoor/Outdoor activity: Tug O' War, Pulling a Cart
  - In-class work: Newton's Laws Worksheet #2 (2nd step)
  - Wrap-up: poster work
  - HW Problems: Ch 6: TE 3, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15; Ch 9: RQ 2, 4, 7, 8, 10 (2nd step)
  - Reading HW: Ch 9 (1st step)
  - Studying: Here's the Practice test for tomorrow (Newton's Laws),
- Friday (10): Unit IV: Circular and rotational motion (Hewitt Chs 9 and 11) Wear comfortable shoes & clothes for activity outdoors
  - Pick up practice page 9-2 (due at end of day) (1st step)
  - Go over the plan for today
  - Q&A
  - Unit III Exam (part 2/2) (3rd step)
  - Lecture: circular motion & centripetal force
  - In-class work (finish as HW for Monday): Centripetal motion (2nd step)
  - Outdoor activity: West Sunset playground visit! (1st step)
  - Wrap-up: poster work
  - HW Problems: Ch 9: TE 1, 2, 3, 7, 9; TS 1, 2 and finish worksheet from today (2nd step)
  - Reading HW: Ch 11 & read about Egg Drop competition (below) (1st step)

Week of Monday, June 26th
- Monday (Day 11): Unit IV: Circular and rotational motion (Hewitt Chs 9 and 11)
  - Pick up practice pages (due at end of day) (1st step)
  - Q&A
  - Quiz (2nd step)
  - Demo: pulley with inner and outer radii
  - Lecture: Big Three with Rotation including worked problems
  - In-class work: rotational motion problems (work #3 only at this point) (2nd step)
  - Lecture: Torques and angular acceleration with worked problems (Guest lecture by Mr. Murphy)
  - In-class work: rotational motion problems (work rest of the problems) (2nd step)
  - Lab: weights on a yardstick ... pivots & balance
  - Demo: bicycle wheel demo
  - HW Problems: Ch 11: PC 1, 2; TE 5, 8; TS 2; Ch 7: RQ 2, 11 (2nd step)
  - Reading HW: Ch 7
- Tuesday (12): Unit V: Momentum and energy conservation (Hewitt Chs 7 and 8)
  - EGG DROP COMPETITION on FRIDAY: we will fabricate egg support devices using as much as you'd like of the following materials: 3 sheets of standard printer paper, up to 40 cm total of masking tape (up to 2.5 cm wide), six standard plastic drinking straws, 4 popsicle sticks or tongue depressers, 5 small rubber bands, and a large zip-lock plastic bag. The entire apparatus must be inside the plastic bag. If anything spills out of the bag during the competition, you lose points. The device will be dropped from the roof of SI. Rubric is as follows: egg lands unbroken is a 4; egg breaks within the container is a 3; egg spills out of the container is a 1. GROUPS OF TWO OK, but NO LARGER. (2nd step)
  - Pick up practice pages 4-3 & 7-1 (due at end of day) Note: two practice pages today (1st step)
  - Quiz
  - In-class work: Newton's Laws Review Question (do #s 1 & 2 today) (2nd step)
  - Lecture: define momentum (Guest Lecture by Mr. Murphy)
  - Discovery lab: colliding & sticking carts (2nd step)
  - Demo: colliding air-track carts (conservation of momentum defined) (Guest Lecture: Mr. Murphy)
  - In-class work: work momentum problems (2nd step)
  - Demo: egg against sheet (impulse)
  - In-class work: work momentum problems (2nd step)
  - HW Problems: Ch 7: RQ 17; PC 1, 2; TE 1, 4; TS 3, 4, 5; Ch 8: RQ 2, 6 (2nd step)
  - Reading HW: Ch 8
  - Studying: here's a practice quiz for momentum (from Phys H last year), and a practice test for Rotational Motion (from summer physics last year)
- Wednesday (13): Unit V: Momentum and energy conservation (Hewitt Chs 7 and 8)
  - Pick up practice page 8-1 (due at end of day) (1st step)
  - Demo: happy/sad ball
  - Q&A
  - Unit IV Exam and Unit V Exam (part 1/2) (3rd step)
  - Demo: bowling ball
  - Lecture: energy conservation, definitions of kinetic and gravitational (and spring) potential energy
  - Demo & problem: ballistic pendulum
  - In-class work: mixed momentum and energy problems (2nd step)
  - In-class work: Newton's Laws Review Question (do #s 3 & 4 today) (2nd step)
  - HW Problems: Ch 8: PC 1, 2, 4, 5, 8; TE 2, 3, 10; TS 1, 2, 3; Ch 5: RQ 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 (2nd step)
  - Reading HW: Ch 19
- Thursday (14): Unit VI: Gases and Liquids (Hewitt Ch 19)
  - Note: the test for this unit has been postponed until after the break
  - Newton's Laws Review: pick up practice page 5-2 (due at end of day) (1st step)
  - Q&A
  - Quiz
  - In-class work: Newton's Laws Review Question (do # 5 today)
  - Lecture/demo: P = F/A; bed of nails, popping balloons; microscopic view of pressure
  - Lecture/demo: buoyancy & displaced water
  - Lab: build a boat out of provided materials (aluminum foil, plastic cups, straws) that will carry the most weight without sinking.
  - In-class worksheet: pressure and buoyancy (2nd step)
  - HW Problems: Ch 5: TS 3; Ch 6: RQ 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Ch 19: RQ 6, 12; Activity 2; TS 2 (2nd step)
  - Reading HW: none (STUDY FOR EXAM!)
  - Studying: here are last year's Midterm Exam Parts I, II, III (important: skip the last question on part II and the first two questions on part III)
  - Studying: here are all the exams from this term:
    - Day 3: kinematics exam (Unit I)
    - Day 5: kinematics exam (Unit I)
    - Day 8: projectile motion and Newton's Laws exam (Units II & III)
    - Day 10: Newton's Laws exam (Unit III)
    - Day 13: centripetal force, rotational motion, and momentum exam (Units IV & V)
- Friday (15): Midterm Exam
  - Here are the exam exemptions based on 4.0 scores on 3rd step material
  - Exam schedule is as follows
    - 12:15 pm to 12:50 pm (35 minutes): diagnostic exam
    - 12:50 pm to 1:25 pm (40 minutes): Unit I Final Exam (4th step)
    - 1:25 pm to 2:05 pm (40 minutes): Unit II Final Exam (4th step)
    - 2:05 pm to 2:35 pm LUNCH
    - 2:35 pm to 3:35 pm (60 minutes): Unit III Final Exam (4th step)
    - 3:35 pm to 4:15 pm (40 minutes): Unit IV Final Exam (4th step)
    - 4:15 pm to 5:00 pm EGG DROP (2nd step)
    - 5:00 pm to 5:40 pm (40 minutes): Unit V Final Exam (4th step)
    - You may leave after you have finished the last final exam.
  - Extra Credit Opportunity: see the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" (playing at the Embarcadero and UA Stonestown theaters) and return to me a 1-paragraph reaction with a ticket stub attached. The point of this exercise is not to indoctrinate you with left-leaning politics, but instead to expose you to an important intersection of scientific research and political life. (A small amount of extra-credit will be applied to 1st semester grade as follows: your lowest worksheet or other 2nd step grade will be overlooked.)
  - Reading HW part II: Chemistry review: read Ch 20.1, 20.2, 20.5, 20.6 & Ch 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 21.5 & Ch 22.7
  - HW: Ch 20: RQ 1, 5, 8; Ch 21: RQ 3, 6, 7; Ch 22: RQ 20

Week of Monday, July 3rd
- Monday: no school - holiday
- Tuesday: no school - holiday
- Wednesday (Day 16): Unit VI: Gases and Liquids
  - Pick up concept development practice page (due at end of day) (1st step)
  - Lecture: average kinetic energy and temperature -- determining the speeds of molecules // heat
  - Worksheet: begin People's Physics Book Ch 19 -- at this point you'll do problems 1-6 (2nd step)
  - Lab: use the Vernier pressure probe to determine the relationship between pressure and volume (2nd step)
  - (Here's the Tang et al. pressure vs. volume graph)
  - Worksheet: do # 9 (2nd step)
  - Lecture: the ideal gas law (in physics format) -- this is something you will likely remember from Chemistry
  - Check out this ideal gas law java applet
  - Worksheet: work on #s 12, 18, 19, 22 & 25 (2nd step)
  - Lecture: adiabatic, isothermal, isobaric, and isochoric processes
  - Worksheet: work on #s 13-17 (2nd step)
  - Time permitting: Video on thermodynamics
  - Reading HW: Ch 24 & begin handout (1st step)
  - Reading HW part II: read the "Selfish Genes and Selfish Memes" handout by Richard Dawkins (non physics-related) and write a 1-paragraph reaction to turn in on Day 19 (1st step)
  - HW: Ch 24: RQ 1, 3, 5, 21 & continue working on problems from worksheet ... on Friday you will be asked to turn in problems 1-6, 9, 12-19, 22, 25, 27 & 29-31 (2nd step)
- Thursday (17): Unit VI: Gases and Liquids
  - Go over plan for today
  - Q&A
  - Quiz on homework from night before
  - Lecture: The Three Laws of Thermodynamics & Entropy
  - Activity: three laws & entropy
  - Lecture: Carnot & other heat engines, steam engines, car engines, refrigerators, and other thermodynamic devices
  - Begin car engines worksheet
  - Check out this Carnot engine java applet
  - Worksheet: work on #s 29, 30, 31 (2nd step)
  - Demo: 4-stroke engine
  - Lecture: Carnot efficiency
  - Worksheet: work on # 27 (2nd step)
  - Presentation: Einstein's gravity, black holes, Hawking radiation, and entropy considerations -- the arrow of time
  - Time permitting: Video on thermodynamics
  - Reading HW: Ch 25 (1st step)
  - Reading HW part II: read the "Selfish Genes and Selfish Memes" handout by Richard Dawkins (non physics-related) and write a 1-paragraph reaction to turn in on Day 19 (1st step)
  - HW: continue working on problems from worksheet ... On Friday you will be asked to turn in problems 1-6, 9, 12-19, 22, 25, 27 & 29-31 (2nd step)
- Friday (18): Field Trip to Chabot Space & Science Center
  - We'll be heading to the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland for a museum tour, planetarium show, and
    (time permitting) star gazing. On this day only we will begin class at 5 PM, leave SI at 6 PM, and return to SI by 11 PM. Admission will cost $10; transportation will be provided by SI. Students should bring a “sackdinner.” Students will not be allowed to arrange their own transportation.
  - Bring layers so you can be warm outside.
  - Reading HW: Ch 26; Ch 27.1, 27.3, 27.4; Ch 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, 28.4, 28.8, 28.9
  - Reading HW part II: read the "Selfish Genes and Selfish Memes" handout by Richard Dawkins (non physics-related) and write a 1-paragraph reaction to turn in on Day 19
  - HW: prepare for Monday's exam using this practice exam

Week of Monday, July 10th:
- Monday (Day 19): Unit VII: Sound & Light Waves
  - Pick up practice pages
  - Q&A
  - Unit VI Exam (3rd step)
  - Go over plan for the day
  - Informal lab: relating the period of a pendulum to the (1) length of the string; (2) mass of the bob (15 min) (1st step)
    - Data from Stupi et al.
  - Lecture: simple harmonic motion
  - Worksheet: SHM do #s 1, 6, 7, 10, 11 -- these problems due Wed Day 21 (2nd step)
  - Lecture: wave motion and sound waves / wave interference
  - Demo: wave train & online Ripple Tank -- exploring the nature of waves
  - work on conceptual development sheet (interference)
  - Demo & lecture: standing waves on a string
  - Worksheet: begin wave motion and sound do #s 1, 2, 6, 7, 10 (don't need to turn in #10), 11, 15, 16 -- these problems due Wed Day 21 (30 min to 4:30 pm) (2nd step)
  - Reading HW: Ch 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, 29.8, 29.9, 29.11; Ch 30.1, 30.2, 30.3, 30.4; Ch 31.3 & 31.4 (1st step)
  - HW: Ch 25: RQ 9, 10; PC 1, 2, 5; TE 6; TS 1; Ch 26: RQ 1, 2, 3, 5, 6; A 2 & continue working on worksheets for Wed (2nd step)
- Tuesday (20): Unit VII: Sound & Light Waves
  - Go over plan for the day & pick up practice pages for light
  - Lecture: standing waves in air: closed and open-ended pipes
  - Continue work on wave motion and sound worksheet from yesterday (in particular, #s 11 & 16) (2nd step)
  - Lab: making music! (2nd step)
  - Lecture: how light waves relate to ray diagrams // refraction & the principle of least time // Snell's Law (applet) and reflection
  - Worksheet: Light do #s 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 16, 18 -- these problems due Wed Day 21 (2nd step)
  - Lecture: interference and wavelength (pre-lab)
  - Lab: interference with red laser. measuring wavelength (3rd step)
  - Reading HW: Ch 32 (1st step)
  - HW Problems: Ch 27: RQ 17, TE 4; Ch 28: RQ 10, 14; A3; TE 2, 12; Ch 29: TE 8, 10; Ch 30: TE 7; Ch 32: RQ 1, 2, 3 & continue working on worksheets for Wed (2nd step)
  - Here's some practice problems for tomorrow's exam: test 1 (skip #s 3 & 6), test 2 (do #s 1, 2 & 3 only)
  - The photo gallery has been updated with our Chabot trip
- Wednesday (21): Unit VIII: Electricity
  - Pick up practice pages 32-1 and 32-2
  - Q&A
  - Unit VII Exam (3rd step)
  - Short video: Mechanical Universe High School Adaptation: Fundamental Forces
  - Lecture: rabbit fur, rubber, and electroscopes (the Triboelectric sequence)
  - Lab: Electric Field Hockey! (Computer game...)
  - Capacitor flash-bang demo
  - Lecture: insulators, conductors, electric charge (positive & negative), electrical neutrality & the electric force (Coulomb force)
  - Worksheet: electric force do #s 3, 4, 11, 14, 19 (due at end of day)
  - For extra help, check out this site provided by the physics classroom -- the important links are on the left
  - Reading HW: Ch 33 (1st step)
  - HW: bring art supplies (colored paper, glue sticks, colored pens or pencils, watercolors, etc.) for an art project tomorrow!
  - HW Problems: Ch 32: RQ 7, 10, 13, 14, 21; TE 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10; Ch 33: RQ 1, 2, 10 (2nd step)
- Thursday (22): Unit VIII: Electricity
  - Pick up practice pages 33-1 and 33-2
  - Q&A
  - Quiz
  - Lecture: Electric fields (for force) and electric potentials (for energy)
  - Electric field demonstration online
  - (Light as caused by accelerating electric charges)
  - Play the game where one partner draws the potentials, the other draws the field lines
  - Worksheet: electric force do #s 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 16, 17
  - Art project
  - HW Problems: Ch 33: RQ 16; TE 3, 4, 8; TS 1, 2; Ch 34: RQ 1, 4, 5, 6; Ch 35: RQ 1, 2, 3
  - Reading HW: Ch 34 & Ch 35
  - Here's some practice problems for tomorrow's exam: summer 05 test (skip #s 1, 2 & 3)
- Friday (23): Unit VIII: Electricity
  - Pick up practice pages 34-1 and 34-2
  - Q&A
  - Unit VIII Exam Part 1/2 (3rd step) and here's the second version
  - Lecture: Electric current and resistance
  - Lab: measuring current and voltage to determine resistance
  - Lecture: Power
  - Lab: measuring power consumption
  - Lecture: Series & parallel circuits
  - Lab: measuring resistance of series and parallel circuits
  - Worksheet: Electric Circuits #s 1, 2 & 3 (in-class)
  - HW Problems: Ch 34: RQ 11, 12, 13; A1; PC 1, 2, 3, 4, 7; Ch 35: RQ 4, 5, 6, 7; PC 1, 2; Ch 36: RQ 1, 2, 4 *and* Electric Circuits worksheet #s 5, 6, 7, 8
  - Reading HW: Ch 36

Week of Monday, July 17th:
- Monday (Day 24): Unit IX: Magnetism
  - Pick up practice page 36-1
  - Q&A
  - Quiz on electric circuits
  - Play with magnets
  - Lab: magnets and iron filings
  - Lecture & demo: Relationship between current and magnetic field
  - Lecture & demo: Magnetic domains / refrigerator magnets
  - Magnetism worksheet #s 1, 4 - 12
  - Video: the Elegant Universe (Part 1/3)
  - HW Problems: Ch 36: RQ 12; TE 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; Ch 37: RQ 1, 2, 3, 4 & begin final exam review -- also, if you are doing your corrections for last Friday's test, note that both versions are available above on Day 23 =)
  - Reading HW: Ch 37
- Tuesday (25): Unit IX: Magnetism
  - Q&A
  - Quiz on magnetostatics
  - Lab: building motors
  - Lab: building speakers
  - Electromagnetic Induction java applet
  - Demo: ring launcher, rebar launcher, power generator
  - Magnetic induction (lecture)
  - Magnetism worksheet (same worksheet as yesterday) problem #s 2, 3, 13, 14, 15
  - Video: The Elegant Universe (Part 2/3)
  - HW Problems: Ch 37: TE 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11 & begin final exam review (use this time wisely!!!)
  - BRING YOUR $10 CHECK MADE OUT TO ST. IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP ON WED OR THU!!!
  - Here's last year's test covering much of the material for tomorrow's exam; also, here's last years physics honors magnetic induction exam if it helps
  - Reading HW: Ch 15 & 16
- Wednesday (26): Unit X: Special Relativity (courtesy Max & Zoë)
  - Q&A
  - Unit VIII Exam Part 2/2 & Unit IX Exam (3rd step)
  - Lecture: Ch 15 -- special relativity, length contraction & time dilation [2:40 - 2:55 PM]
  - Here's a great java applet for time dilation (the light clock!)
  - Worksheet: special relativity #s 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 [2:55 - 3:30 PM]
  - Lecture: Ch 16 -- special relativity, mass-energy equivalence (E=mc^2) [3:30 - 3:45 PM]
  - Worksheet: #s 12, 13, 14 & 15 [3:45 - 4:30 PM]
  - Video: The Elegant Universe (Part 3/3)
  - Note that material from Unit X will not be tested at 3rd or 4th step -- instead, the worksheets and such from today will be scored in Unit IX.
  - HW: prepare for final exam ... here are last year's Final Exam Parts II & III as well as last year's Midterm Exam Part III (do #s 1 & 2 only); complete worksheet from class today if not finished
  - BRING YOUR $10 CHECK MADE OUT TO ST. IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP ON WED OR THU!!!
  - Note: tomorrow, if possible, please bring a camera phone (learn how to download the pictures, if you need to), a digital camera, or find a friend in the class who has one. It is not required for tomorrow, but may make your life much easier.
- Thursday (27): Field trip to Exploratorium
  - Thursday, July 20th, depart SI 12 noon, return to SI by 3:30 pm, to the Exploratorium in San Francisco
  - Your assignment and a map
  - Alpha lab -- typed write-ups are due by the end of today so you have time to study for the final exam tonight!
  - HW: prepare for final exam
- Friday (28): Final Exam
  - Exam exemptions based on 4.0 scores on 3rd step material :
    - Unit VI (Gases & Liquids): Stanley & Andrew
    - Unit VII (Sound & Light Waves): Peter, Paolo & Andrew
    - Unit VIII (Electricity) Part 1: None
    - Unit VIII (Electricity) Part 2: Andrew & Roy
    - Unit IX (Magnetism): Paolo
  - Exam schedule is as follows
    - 12:15 pm to 1:15 pm (60 minutes): Unit VI Final Exam (4th step)
    - 1:15 pm to 1:30 pm 15 min BREAK
    - 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm (60 minutes): Unit VII Final Exam (4th step)
    - 2:30 pm to 3:15 pm 45 min LUNCH
    - 3:15 pm to 4:15 pm (60 minutes): Unit VIII Final Exam (4th step)
    - 4:15 pm to 4:30 pm 15 min BREAK
    - 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm (60 minutes): Unit IX Final Exam (4th step)
    - You may leave after you have finished the last final exam.
  - Here are your 1st and 2nd Semester Grades

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