April Assignments--IB Physics 1
2016-17 school year

Monday, Apr. 3
Lab, day 2:  Thermodynamic Cycles
Tuesday, Apr. 4
Work day--work on lab (questions for evaluation of the 4-process cycle, especially, due Wednesday)
Also:  Textbook, read pages 559-564 (thermodynamic processes) and work on questions 4, 5, and 6 on pages 589-590 (end of chapter questions).  whatever you can get done for these questions is due on Thursday.  You may not be able to complete them yet, but I want you to try all of them.
Wednesday,
Apr. 5
Notes and Demos:  Adiabatic processes--expansion and compressions
Thursday, Apr. 6
Notes: 1st law of Thermodynamics; practice problems in class
Talk about questions 4, 5, and 6 that were worked on for today.
Friday, Apr. 7
Monday, Apr. 10
No School--Spring Break
Tuesday, Apr. 11
No School--Spring Break
Wednesday
Apr. 12
No School--Spring Break
Thursday, Apr. 13
No School--Spring Break
Friday, Apr. 14
No School--Spring Break
Monday, Apr. 17
A little review, then right back into it!
notes:  Heat Engines and thermodynamic cycles
Tuesday, Apr. 18
Wednesday, Apr. 19
Thursday, Apr. 20
Finish discussion of engine efficiency and Carnot engines and cycles
HW:  WA--Thermodynamics, due Monday
Mid-term is on Monday.  40 multiple choice questions, approximately 50% from mechanics and 50% from Thermal and Thermodynamics.
Friday, Apr. 21
Work/study period
Monday, Apr. 24
Mid-term multiple choice test
Tuesday, Apr. 25
Intro to chapter 6: circular motion
Relay race reflection sheet--please put this in your journal.  If you were absent today, please wait to fill this out until you have a chance to run the course.
Start notes on circular motion concepts

Permission slip/behavior contract passed out to those of you attending the Silverwood field trip.  Please read, sign, and return before you lose it. :)
​If you did not pick one up, let me know in class--no worries.  Plenty of time to get them turned in.
Wednesday,
Apr. 26
Notes/discussion:  mechanics of circular motion
Thursday, Apr. 27
Lab Day--2 labs, but we're going to alternate who is doing each over the next 2 days (so today and tomorrow look the same...you have 2 activities to finish before Monday)

Lab A:  Hands-on lab-- Determine the relationship between a rotating bar's angular velocity (radians per second) and its tangential velocity (m/s)

Lab B:  Computer Simulation--Determine the relationship between the radial position (distance from the center of a disk) and the tangential velocity of a ladybug.
Friday, April 28
Lab Day--2 labs, but we're going to alternate who is doing each over the next 2 days (so today and tomorrow look the same...you have 2 activities to finish before Monday)

Lab A:  Hands-on lab-- Determine the relationship between a rotating bar's angular velocity (radians per second) and its tangential velocity (m/s)

Lab B:  Computer Simulation--Determine the relationship between the radial position (distance from the center of a disk) and the tangential velocity of a ladybug.

All analysis due on Monday for both activities.​