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October Assignments--IB Physics 1
2016-17 School Year


Monday, Oct. 3

Tuesday, Oct. 4

Wednesday,
Oct. 5


​Notes/discussion:  displacement, distance, speed and velocity

*We are now in the Mechanics unit.  You will find all notes posted on the syllabus page for topic 2: Mechanics

​watched video clip of a cheetah running in slow motion and then against Usain Bolt

Thursday, Oct. 6

Lab: Relative Velocity (get through as much as possible)

Friday, Oct. 7
Lab: Relative velocity--finish data collection (#11) for 2-d example

HW:  reminder--WA 4 (Vectors) due on Tuesday
HW:​  Post-Lab WA: Relative Velocity due on Thursday (change from what I said in class :) )

Quiz next Wednesday on vectors and vector addition

Monday, Oct. 10
Columbus Day--No School for Students

Tuesday, Oct. 11
Practice Problems:  Vector Addition and Relative Velocity

Wednesday
Oct. 12
Quiz:  Vector Addition

Thursday, Oct. 13
Lab, day 1:  Graphing Motion

Friday, Oct. 14
Lab, day 2: Graphing Motion
Post-lab (WA) due next Tuesday

Monday, Oct. 17
Notes/Discussion:  Graphical analysis of motion
​pre-lab: uniform accelerated motion

Tuesday, Oct. 18
Lab, Day 1: Uniform accelerated motion--prompt = Determine the acceleration of the cart through the relationship of velocity with respect to position.
Use this LoggerPro file--please remember to save it to your own resources
Formal data analysis due on Friday, October 28

Wednesday, Oct. 19
PSAT:  No class

Thursday, Oct. 20
Lab, Day 2: Uniform accelerated motion
Finish data collection (if necessary) and begin working on the analysis.  This is your only guaranteed day to work in class.

Friday, Oct. 21
Notes/Practice problems:  Uniform accelerated motion and Kinematic Equations

Notes: graphing motion examples  (ppt)  (pdf)
​Notes: Kinematic Equations  (ppt)  (pdf)

Monday, Oct. 24
notes/practice problems:  kinematic equations (continued from Friday)

Tuesday, Oct. 25
group practice problems:  uniform accelerated motion

Wednesday, Oct. 26
mini-lab:  Free-Fall

Thursday, Oct. 27
Study hall/work period on uniform accelerated motion lab

Friday, Oct. 28
mini-lab discussion.  Journal entry: discuss the accuracy and the precision of the class determination of the acceleration of free-falling objects (class determination = 9.88 m/s^2, accepted worldwide average = 9.81 m/s^2)

​Quiz:  Kinematic Equations

Monday, Oct. 31
Notes/practice problems:  free-fall
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