Physics Assignments
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- 2016-17 School Year
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The purpose of the physics course is to provide a one year lab-based physics course which introduces students to the principal concepts of physics and the scientific methodologies used in physics. The tentative goals for this year are to study and explore:
- an array of forces and the laws about forces (Newton’s laws);
- linear motion and kinematics equations;
- work calculations, simple machines;
- the laws of conservation of energy and momentum;
- the reciprocal transformation of potential energy into kinetic energy and formulas to solve for potential energy and kinetic energy;
- the characteristics of waves (light, sound), differences between longitudinal and transverse waves, calculations involving wavelength, frequency, and waves speed the refraction and diffraction of light waves;
- the relationship between electric and magnetic phenomena and some applications (motors, generators);
- the transfer of energy as heat and heat flow and to measure it.
The following instructional strategies will be used for this course: labs & projects; online simulations; problems worksheets from the Holt Physics curriculum (California /Holt, Rinehart and Winston); homework practice worksheets pulled out from Conceptual Physics (11th edition Paul G Hewitt). Materials necessary to bring to class are a pencil, a ruler, line and graph paper, and a folder to keep all handouts.
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For the Quiz, review:
- Coulomb's law
- Questions #10 and 11 of chapter 22
- conceptual physics practice page on Coulomb's law
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Complete exercises #1 to 18 ( 5 and 12 optional). Document attached below.
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Complete review Questions #1 to #28 of Chapter 19 Vibrations and Waves. (attached below)
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Complete Review Questions #1 to #20 from chapter 15 distributed in class and attached below.
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- Complete Review questions #17 to 30; exercises 40 and 60 (more for extra credit); problems #5,6,7,8 of chapter 7 Energy.
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Read through chapter 7 pages 110 to 118 about concepts of work, power, mechanical energy and conservation of energy, and complete Review Questions # 1 to #16 + Problems #1, 2, 3, 4.
Chapter 7 attached.
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Complete the review questions about Newton's 3rd law: #1 to 20. In attachment
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X-tra credit: Read the article attached: The Pressure is on to make metallic hydrogen and answer to the questions attached.
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Review Conceptual Physics Practice on Newton's Second Law for Quiz on Monday
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Read Newton's second law of Motion chapter. Choose 20 Review Questions to complete among the questions #1 to #26. You have to review each of these topics: Force Causes Acceleration, Friction, Mass and Weight, Mass Resists Acceleration, Newton's Second Law of Motion. Chapter attached below.
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Finish Conceptual practice pages 9 &10 on Linear motion (see document attached).
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Complete #18 to 26 review questions of Linear Motion chapter
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Complete Questions 10 to 17 using the reading of chapter 2 on acceleration (chapter distributed in class).
Review on speed, velocity and instantaneous velocity for the quiz.
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Complete Questions 1 to 9 using the reading of chapter 2 on motion and speed (chapter distributed in class).
Review The Language of Physics (section 3 of chapter 1) for the quiz.
The quiz will ask you to interpret a graph, to know the meaning of symbols discussed in the reading, the abbreviation for SI units, to give 2 advantages of using equations, and know about order-of-magnitude calculations.
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Complete the Section Review Questions for Section 3 (Language of Physics) of chapter 1.
For the Quiz on Monday, review SI base units, accuracy, precision, scientific notation and significant figures. This from the section 2 of chapter 1 (scientific measurements). Also practice using dimensional analysis (buildiing conversion factors with the metric prefixes for powers of ten table).
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Read Section 1 of Holt Physics book ch 1 attached below and complete the Section 1 Review Questions at the end on a separate sheet of paper.
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Read over the Student Safety Contract. Read the Agreement and sign it. Show the contract to your parent(s) / guardian (s) and have them sign it. It is mandatory to turn in the safety contract signed by both parent and student to be able to participate in laboratory activities.
Read over the syllabus posted on the class page and handed in class. Have your parents read it and sign it. Turn in the signed top portion only.