The Week of 9/27-10/1 (with revised homework schedule)

• Monday 9/27:  Questions on LoggerPro?  Try downloading it from Ms. Wadkin's site if you haven't already.  Calculating average velocity and average acceleration.  HW#1 p. 44 1-5.  Work time.
• Tuesday 9/28:  Check off HW#1.  Acceleration.  HW #2 p. 49 1-5   LoggerPro graphs, data table, and discussion of cart lab due Thursday.  FLEX during lunch today.
• Wednesday 9/29:  Mid-day FLEX today.
• Thursday 9/30:  Turn in cart lab (data table, graphs, and discussion).  Check off HW #2.  Motion with Constant acceleration.  HW #3 p. 53 1-3 and p. 55 1-3.  Motion Detector Lab. 
• Friday 10/1:  Turn in Motion Detector Lab.  Check off HW #3.  Final Velocity after any displacement.  HW #4 p. 58 1-5.  Start Free-fall?

The Week of 9/20-9/24

Remember that there is a 2-hour late opening this week on Wednesday!

• Monday 9/24:  Check off Chapter 1 Worksheet and go over.  Questions on graphing?  Turn in graphs.  Short Chapter 1 test on significant figures, metric system, conversions, scientific notation, uncertainty and measuring tomorrow.
• Tuesday 9/25:  Short Chapter 1 Test.  Start chapter 2 on motion.
• Thursday 9/27:  Run trials for "Cart Lab".  Take your tapes and process the data.  Introduce the LoggerPro program for graphing.
• Friday 9/28:  Make 2-3 graphs using LoggerPro.

The Week of 9/13-9/17 (updated on 9/15)

• Monday 9/13:  Counting and calculating with significant figures.  Calculating with uncertainty.  Hand out practice worksheet.   Do more trials for measurement lab.  Practice worksheet due Monday.  Final data table for Measurement Lab due Friday.  Signed Safety Contract due tomorrow.
• Tuesday 9/14:   Turn in Safety Contract.  Uncertainty with multiplication and division.  Time to work on worksheet and measurement lab.
• Thursday 9/16:   Scientific notation, metric system, and conversions.  Continue working on worksheet.  Components of a good graph, including uncertainty.   Practice graphing 2 different sets of data on graph paper and turn in today during class.   Introduce LoggerPro.  Go to Ms. Wadkin's website to download "LoggerPro" for use at home.   Please download if possible by next Tuesday.
• Friday 9/17:  Turn in Measurement Lab data.  More on graphing and LoggerPro.  Any questions on significant figures, uncertainty, conversions, or scientific notation?  Worksheet due Monday.  Short test on this material on Tuesday. 

The Week of 9/7-9/10

• Tuesday 9/7:  First day of School!  Introductions.  Demonstrate Early Work.  Fill out Student Information Sheet.  Hand out Classroom Expectations.  HW:  Read Expectations and bring in questions Wednesday.
• Wednesday 9/8:  Questions on Classroom Expectations?  Hand out Safety Contract. Due back signed by yourself and a parent by Tuesday 9/14.  What is Physics? How do we do it? Begin Measurement Lab.
• Thursday 9/9:  Discuss uncertainty and continue with Measurement Lab.  Include uncertainty in your measurements.
• Friday 9/10:  Significant Figures, how to count them and compute with them.  Add significant figures to your measurements.

Hold on to your measurement lab for now.  We have a few more things to talk about before it will finally be due next Thursday.

Welcome to the 2010-2011 School Year!

Greetings new students! This website will be very important in keeping you updated and informed about this class. If you are absent or have any questions about what is going on in class, please check here! Most of the class documents will be available here and I will include links that we used in class or that I just think are really cool. Please feel free to comment here, although I prefer if you include some identifying information, like "Hannah from 5th period" or "HB from 5th". You can also e-mail me and I will get back to you as soon as I can (if you go to the 'view my complete profile' tab under 'About Me', you will find a link to my e-mail).

Frequently students find links and resources that they think will be helpful to other students. If I agree, I will add the link and give a few points of extra credit to the student. Many of my best resources and suggestions have come from students.

I'm looking forward to having an incredible year of learning Physics with all of you!