September Assignments--IB Physics 2
2016-17 School Year
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Thursday, Sept. 1
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1st day of school!
Ice breaker game Please fill out the following survey before class next Tuesday! Beginning of the Year Survey! |
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Friday
Sept. 2 |
Review of last year's topics
Part 1: individual attempt at worksheet Part 2: group peer-check of same worksheet |
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Monday, Sept. 5
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No School--Labor Day!
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Tuesday, Sept. 6
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Mini-lab: effect of stretch distance on the spring force of a hanging spring
Due Thursday Beg. of Per. (BoP) |
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Wednesday
Sept. 7 |
Finish lab, work on analysis
Analysis and graph due in class tomorrow WA Spring Forces due Friday (it's a short assignment) There is 1 bonus question (the last question). That one is due by Monday. |
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Thursday
Sept. 8 |
Lab Due--correct in class
video demonstrations: Hooke's Law, Elastic Limit, Springs in series and parallel We will continue the demos (and filling in the note sheet) tomorrow |
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Friday, Sept. 9
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Video Demos and Notes:
Intro to Simple harmonic Motion (SHM) and oscillations |
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Monday, Sept. 12
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Exploratory lab: Day 1--Mathematical Model of SHM--today, just get used to the set-up.
save graphs and files so you can access them any day you're working on the lab answer Questions found in Evaluation sections in your journal in place of warm-ups for the next couple days. |
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Tuesday, Sept. 13
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Exploratory lab: Day 2--Mathematical Model of SHM
save graphs and files so you can access them any day you're working on the lab answer Questions found in Evaluation sections in your journal in place of warm-ups for the next couple days. |
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Wednesday
Sept. 14 |
Continue lab (Mathematical Model) if necessary
Begin Lab 2: Kinematics of SHM Again, put your observations/answers to Evaluation section questions in your Journal HW: post-lab for lab 1 (on WebAssign) due Friday |
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Thursday Sept. 15
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Friday, Sept. 16
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Lab work day--finish data collection, if necessary; work on analysis;
HW: Lab 2 analysis HW: WA: SHM 1--Kinematics of SHM--due next Wednesday |
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Monday, Sept. 19
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Tuesday, Sept. 20
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Practice drawing SHM graphs, derivation of graphs' equations
video demos: non-SHM oscillations; inertial balance; phase shift pre-lab--planning Please don't forget you have a WA due on Tuesday of next week (day of your quiz) |
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Wednesday, Sept. 21
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Lab: Inertial Balance--relationship between the mass and the oscillation frequency
Due on Monday, Oct. 3: Formal lab report--procedure through data analysis Tips for writing a procedure Grading rubric for Design/Data Analysis (don't worry about the last page of this--we will not be writing a conclusion for this lab. Stop after you've made a statement regarding the answer to your lab from your graph's results.) Please get enrolled in our class for www.turnitin.com: Period 2--enrollment code = 13638742, password = physicsrocks Period 4--enrollment code = 13639103, password = physicsrocks |
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Thursday, Sept. 22
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work on lab and/or WebAssign
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Friday, Sept. 23
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In-class review and practice
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Monday, Sept. 26
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work day on WebAssign and Lab. Expectation is that you are academically productive.
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Tuesday, Sept. 27
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Quiz: Simple Harmonic Motion
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Wednesday, Sept. 28
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Notes/discussion/demonstrations: Pendulum SHM behavior
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Thursday, Sept. 28
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Energy in SHM systems (notes/discussion)
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Friday, Sept. 30
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Notes/discussion: Damping in oscillating systems
HW: Inertial Balance lab is due on Monday. Please submit a copy to www.turnitin.com AND bring a hard copy in to class on Monday. You are to submit the procedure and the data analysis sections of the lab. |