October Assignments--IB Physics 1
2016-17 School Year
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Monday, Oct. 3
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Tuesday, Oct. 4
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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 |
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Thursday, Oct. 6
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Lab: Relative Velocity (get through as much as possible)
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Friday, Oct. 7
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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 |
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Monday, Oct. 10
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Columbus Day--No School for Students
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Tuesday, Oct. 11
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Practice Problems: Vector Addition and Relative Velocity
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Wednesday
Oct. 12 |
Quiz: Vector Addition
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Thursday, Oct. 13
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Lab, day 1: Graphing Motion
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Friday, Oct. 14
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Lab, day 2: Graphing Motion
Post-lab (WA) due next Tuesday |
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Monday, Oct. 17
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Notes/Discussion: Graphical analysis of motion
pre-lab: uniform accelerated motion |
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Tuesday, Oct. 18
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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 |
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Wednesday, Oct. 19
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PSAT: No class
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Thursday, Oct. 20
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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. |
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Monday, Oct. 24
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notes/practice problems: kinematic equations (continued from Friday)
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Tuesday, Oct. 25
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group practice problems: uniform accelerated motion
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Wednesday, Oct. 26
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mini-lab: Free-Fall
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Thursday, Oct. 27
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Study hall/work period on uniform accelerated motion lab
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Friday, Oct. 28
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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 |
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Monday, Oct. 31
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Notes/practice problems: free-fall
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