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January Assignments--IB Physics 1


Tuesday, Jan. 3
Welcome back!
Mini-lab:  Newton's Laws of a Hopping Frog
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Q 1 and 2 due tomorrow--put the document in your journal.

Wednesday
Jan. 4
Discussion of results of the frog lab
​Discussion of momentum  (see notes)

Thursday, Jan. 5
Ms. Fowler out sick--Video: Crashes
There was a journal entry (essentially, to take notes on the forces and motion involved in crashes).
IF your were absent today, you do NOT need to make up the journal entry, as long as you make a dated entry, label it "Video Notes:  Crashes" and make a statement that you had an excused absence.

Friday, Jan. 6
Notes and Practice problems:  Impulse and Impulse-Momentum theorem

Monday, Jan. 9
Review Impulse and Momentum
Discussion of relevance to sports
Discussion of graphical analysis of impulse and momentum

HW:  WebAssign  Momentum, Impulse, and Collisions--Due on Friday by the end of the school day.
​Remember, Quiz on Friday, covering Momentum, Impulse and collisions  (we'll talk about collisions starting tomorrow)

Tuesday, Jan. 10
Notes/demos: impulse and collisions

Wednesday,
Jan. 11

Notes/demos:  collisions

Thursday, Jan. 12

Notes/practice problems:  Collisions and Impulse

Friday, Jan. 13
Quiz:  Momentum, Impulse, and Collisions

Monday, Jan. 16
No School--MLK, Jr. Day

Tuesday, Jan. 17
Review for finals
Journals need to be turned in by Friday.  Here's a list of what I'm expecting you to have in them:  Journals Qtr 2

Wednesday
Jan. 18
Finals--periods 5 and 6

Thursday, Jan. 19
Finals--periods (3) and 4

Friday, Jan. 20
​finals  (period 1 and 2)

End of Semester 1


Monday, Jan. 23
Energy, Work and Power--initial formative and pre-assessment :)

Tuesday, Jan. 24
Notes/discussion:  What is energy?  

Wednesday, Jan. 25
Journal Check--qtr 2.  When you get your journals returned, please keep them, but please remember to turn in your score sheet.  Make sure your name is on the score sheet with your grade.

Mini-Lab:  Day #1--Coasters, Swings, and Springs

Thursday, Jan. 26
Lab:  Day #2:  Coasters, Swings, and Springs
Finish up the lab.  When you are done, there is a post-lab WebAssign you should work on, but it may not be available yet (it will be by this weekend).  This WA will be due Tuesday evening

Friday, Jan. 27
work on lab questions; otherwise a study-hall--semester grades are due today.  Please check the accuracy of your WebAssign score transfers.

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