IB Homework

Grading

Daily quizzes either 35% or 45 %, whichever gives the higher grade
Free reponse test (each Friday)  either 35% or 45% whichever gives the higher grade
Homework  20%

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Summer Assignment for 2008/2009

Calendar of Homework and labs

August  September  October  November  December         
Midterm exam notes
January  February  March  April  May
List of labs and instructions

Summer Assignment for 2008-2009
All summer assignments are from Schaum's Guide to College Physics
Tenth Edition
ISBN 0-07-144814-4
McGraw-Hill
You can get this book at Barnes and Noble
call them first

Now required for all AP/IB students
Osford University Press
the IB Physics Study Guide written by Tim Kirk
ISBN 0-19-914836-8

Summer study for 2008-2009

Things you  must know on the first day of class

Graphing and programmable calculators are not permitted on tests in this class
Buy a $10 calculator (make sure it has trig functions)
•  Gas laws  (Boyles, Charles, Combined, Ideal .  Chapter 16 of Schaums)
•  Rules of significant figures ( Appendix A of Schaums)
•  Reference angles and trig functions for 0° 30° 45°60° 90° and the corresponding angles in the second, third, and fourth quadrant.  You must know them to two significant figures as well as in terms of square root of two and three
•  Vector addition using i and j notation(components of vectors).  Chapter 1 of Schaums
Do these worksheets
vector_ addition.1
vector_addition.2
vector_addition.3

•  You must memorize the following physical constants to 3 significant figures (Appendix G of Schaums)
    •  Speed of light in free space
    •  Acceleration of gravity "g"
    •  Gravitational constant "G"
    •   Coulomb constant "k" or "ko" in Schaums
    •  Standard atmosphere in pascals (which is the same as newtons/m2)
    •  Avogadro's number (notice that schaums gives it in terms of kilo-moles instead of moles)  Be sure to learn it in moles as well as kilo-moles.
    •  Universal gas constant (learn in terms of kilo-moles (schaums) and moles)
    •  mechanical equivalent of heat (conversion factor between calories and joules)
    •  electron charge
    •  proton charge
    •  proton mass
    •  electron mass
   
   IMPORTANT FORMULAS YOU MUST MEMORIZE

•  velocity (pg.3)
Schaums problems 1.18, 1.20, 1.23, 1.24, 1.25


Kinetic energy  (pg. 75)

Do worksheet  kinetic energy


Newton's second law (you must memorize the first and third law in words)  pg.28


Schaums problems 3.39, 3.40, 3.43, 3.45, 3.46

•  momentum (pg. 93)
Schaums problems 8.21, 8.22, 8.23, 8.24

•  Gravitational Potential Energy

Schaums problems:  6.24, 6.25, 6.26, 6.34, 6.35


•  Hookes Law (pg.134)
Schaums problems:  11.18, 11.19, 11.20. 11.29
•   Elastic Potential Energy
Schaums problems:  11.20, 11.32, 11.21
•  density (pg. 145)
Schaums problems:  12.19, 12.20, 12.21, 12.22, 12.24
•  Work (page 75)
•  Power (page 76)
Schaums problems 6.46, 6.47, 6.48, 6.51
week of 8/26   Week 1
Monday, August 25
Tuesday, August 26
Wednesday, 8/27  Speed of wave on string
In class:  Treasure Hunt, conversion factors
22.19, 22.20, 22.21, 22.22, 22.23
Thursday. 8/28In class: 22.24, 22.25, 22.26, 22.27, 22.28
Friday, 8/29Heat gained or lost by a body whose phase does not change   double conversions18.19, 18.20, 18.21, 18.22, 18.23,18.24


Week of September 1 (week 2)

Monday, September 1heat lost or gained
Tuesday, September 2Begin Cooling of a cup of coffee lab18.25, 18.26, 18.27, 18.28, 18.29
Wednesday 9/3REMIND ME THAT I HAVE LUNCH DETENTION DUTY18.30, 18.31, 18.32, 18.33, 18.34
Thursday 9/4gas laws16.19, 16.20, 16.21, 16.22, 16.23
Friday 9/5lab safety contract, 16.26, 16.28, 16.33, 16.34, 16.35, 16.36

Week of September 8 (week 3)
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Monday, 9/8Ohms law page 265
26.20. 26.22, 26.23, 26.24, 26.25
Tuesday, 9/9
26.29, 26.30, 26.31, 26.34, 26.36
Wednesday. 9/10Electric power
UPDATE TEAM INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR USFIRST
27.11, 27, 12, 27.13, 27.14, 27.15
Thursday. 9/1127.16, 27.20, 27.22, 27.24, 27.25
Friday 9/12
Lab report due Monday
"Effect of temperature difference on the rate of cooling of a cup of coffee"
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Week of September 15 (week 4)
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Monday, 9/15
Centripetal Force pg. 108  (students need instruction on frictional force in order to do this homework)
9.17, 9.18,9.28, 9.29, 9.30, 9.37
will be done in class

IB SENIORS CANOE TRIP
Forces in Magnetic fields pg.298
30.14, 30.15, 30.16, 30.17, 30.18
Tuesday, 9/16Sources of Magnetic Fields (Ampere's Law) pg. 30831.11, 31.12, 31.13, 31.14, 31.15
Wednesday, 9/17Induced Emf.  Farraday's Law
pg.  314
OH LORD SAVE ME IT'S BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT!!!!
NO HOMEWORK!!!
Thursday, 9/18Catch up Day  REMIND ME THAT I HAVE LUNCH DETENTION DUTY32.14, 32. 15, 32.16, 32,18, 32.20
Friday 9/19Catch up Day

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Week of September 22 (week 5)

Monday, 9/22reflection of light  pg. 34836.12, 36.13, 36.15, 36.16
Tuesday 9/23refraction of light  pg. 35737.13, 37.14, 37.15, 37.16, 37.17
Wednesday 9/24Thin lenses38.15, 38.16, 38.17. 38.18, 38.19
ray diagrams
ray diagrams solutions
Thursday 9/2538.20, 38.21
Download practice test for 10/2.  Remember, no graphing calculators
Friday 9/26

Free Response test
Practice test
Practice test solutions
Lab:  Check to see if you can open your spreadsheet at home
Read "Clocks"  Get handout at Tutorial or at lunch

Week of September 29 (week 6)
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Monday 9/29
Pendulum lab:

Title page, Introdution with Research question and justified hypothesis, and spreadsheets due Tuesday
Tuesday 9/30
Pendulum lab:  Design Diagram
  graphs, conclusion with comparison to cited literature of your results.
Evaluation (how lab could be improved.   Where was  your % error higher than  your % uncertainty and what occurred that caused your % error to be higher than your % uncertainty)
Wednesday 10/1here is an example of how your % uncertainties and error spreadsheet and line graph should look
Pendulum Lab is due today
Thursday 10/2Nucei and Radioactivity REMIND ME THAT I HAVE LUNCH DETENTION DUTY
INITIAL REGISTRATION FOR USFIRST REGIONAL EVENT!!!!!!!
Interference and diffraction of light

45.28, 45.29, 45.330, 45.31
Free Response test
Practice test
40.16, 40.17, 40.18, 40.19, 40.20
Friday 10/3Break

Week of October 6 (week 7)
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Monday 10/6
40.16, 40.17, 40.18, 40.19, 40.20
Practice FR test
Tuesday 10/7Homework.  equivalent_circuits_1
Read this thoroughly and solve the last problem.  Then do schaums
28.18, 18.19, 28.20
Daily quiz hints.  Light bulbs and resistors in series and parallel.  Young's double slit.  Inversion of waves.  Distance between lines of diffraction grating
Wednesday 10/8Schaums 42.19, 42.20, 42.21, 42.22, 42.23
Daily quiz hints:  dart gun problem from FR, tonight's homework.  Know what Planck's constant and an eV are and what they represent
Thursday 10/9
Schaums  42.26 (see page 399 De Broglie wavelength.  The "p" in the formula stands for momentum), 43.9  (Use 1240)
Daily quiz hints.  Photo-electric effect.  Young's double slit.  Differences between ammeter and voltmeter.  Focal length of convex and concave lenses (sign, conditions for real or virtual  images, determining of focal length from image formed by distance object, relationship to radius of curvature)
Friday 10/10
Schaums 43.10, 43.11, 45.18, 45,19, 45.24, 45.25

Week of October 13 (week 8)return to top of the page
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Monday 10/13NO SCHOOL
Tuesday 10/14Newton's Laws
equivalent resistance.2
Wednesday 10/15On Thursday and Friday tutorial the following people will take the MC test: Amy
Anderson, Deana, Tate, Sarah
Thursday 10/16KICK OFF EVENT INFORMATION AND PICK UP INFORMATION DUE FOR USFIRSTStudy past daily quizzes for tomorrow
Friday 10/17REMIND ME THAT I HAVE LUNCH DETENTION DUTY

Week of October 20  (week 9)
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Tuesday 10/21
Wednesday 10/22Be sure to include in your lab report
•  Clear definitions of voltage, current, and resistance
•  The different character and use of series (voltage divider) and parallel (current divider)
•  Instructions on how to use the multi-meters and the difference between use of the voltmeter and ammeter
•  Sample of circuit analysis for one series, one parallel, and one combination circuit
•  Design Diagram (procedure, number of trials)
•  well formatted data tables with relevant graphs or charts on same page
•  Samples of error analysis and percent uncertainties
Write introduction to lab report resistors in parallel, series, and combination circuits
Thursday 10/23Free Response test
REGISTRATION FOR SECOND USFIRST REGIONAL EVENT
Homework:  Lab report
•  Design diagram
•  data tables
Friday 10/24Homework
•  Full lab report due Monday including ammendments per my instructions


                                    Week of October 27  (week 10)

Monday 10/27Due tomorrow (Tuesday)
•  Title page with abstract
•  Introduction  (include instruction that you were given)
•  Design diagram (you will have a lot of opportunity for many trials with this lab)
Shaums  25.27, 25.28
Tuesday 10/28Free Response practice test for next Friday (Nov. 7)homework:
lab:  Make corrections as indicated to lab intro and design diagram
schaums:  24:19, 24.20. 24.21, 24.22(see example  24.5)
Wednesday 10/29Capacitor lab reprt due in final form next Wednesday (11/5)homework:  24. 23, 24.24, 24.25, 24.26
Thursday 10/30homework:  24.27, 24.28, 24.29, 24.30
Free Response test questions for Friday 11.07.08
Friday 10/31No Schoolhomework:  YES Homework
24: 31, 24. 32, 24.33, 24.34

                                   
Week of November 3 (week 11)


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Monday 11/3
Free Response practice test
elastic collison in two dimensions solution
Tuesday 11/4Homework:  Capacitor lab
•  Title page with abstract
•  hypothesis, research question
•  Indicate the amount of background instruction or not given by instructor
•  Design diagram, procedure
•  Graphs and data tables
relevant graphs should be on same page as data table
•  research and cite the definition of "time constant " of an RC circuit
•  research and cite the equation for the voltage and charge on a charging capacitor as a function of time for an RC circuit (chapter 34 of schaum's)
• Is this consistent with your results?
Wednesday 11/5
Thursday 11/6Practice AP test for Friday
Friday 11/7Leave for Ramp Riot

                                                    Week of November 10 (week 12)


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Monday 11/10homework:  look at examples 2:18, 2:19,  2:20, and 2.21 on page 23-25 of schaums
redo problem 2:18 with the following numbers
v = 25 m/s  height  = 250 m
redo problem 2:19 with v initial = 80 m/s at an angle of 35°
redo problem 2:20 with the angle as 44° above horizontal, the velocity 27 m/s and the distance between the walls equal to 75 m
redo problem 2:21 with intial velocity of 200 m/s and range of 1800 m
Tuesday 11/11
Wednesday 11/12
Thursday 11/13Homework:  Chapter 3:  problems 3.47, 3.48. 3.49, 3.50, 3.51
Friday 11/14AP Free Response practice test for next Thursday 11/20
problem 1
problem 2
problem 3
problem 4
problem 5


                                                Week of November 17 (week 13)


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Monday 11/17Homework.  
•  FR practice test due tomorrow
•  Introduction to photo gate lab due Tuesday (tomorrow)
This includes
•  research question
•  justified hypothesis
•  design diagram  (include IV, DV, constants and method for keeping constants constant).  There must be a minimum of five independent variables
•  materials
•  procedure
Tuesday 11/18Schaums: chapter 3:52. 3:53, 3:54, 3:55.3:56, 3:57
Wednesday 11/19a couple of practice problems
Thursday 11/20Schaums:  3.58, 3.59. 3.60, 3.61, 3.62
Friday 11/21Schaums: 3.63, 3.64, 3.65, 3.66, 3.67, 3.68, 3.69, 3.70

                                            Week of November 24 (week 14)   

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Monday 11/24
Tuesday 11/25
Wednesday 11/26Lab report due in full
Using the photogates to ...
Thursday 11/27
Friday 11/28

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Friday 12/5  PAYMENT DUE FOR INITIAL USFIRST REGIONAL (PAYMENT F0R SECOND REGIONAL AND NATIONALS DUE BY JAN 16)

                                            Week of December 8 (week 16)

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cooling of a cup of coffeeSept 3 through Sept 11

Period of a pendulumSeptember 15 through  

Summer Assignment 2009

Summer Assignment for 2000-2010
All summer assignments are from Schaum's Guide to College Physics
Tenth Edition
ISBN 0-07-144814-4
McGraw-Hill
You can get this book at Barnes and Noble
call them first

Now required for all AP/IB students
Osford University Press
the IB Physics Study Guide written by Tim Kirk
ISBN 0-19-914836-8

Summer study for 2008-2009

Things you  must know on the first day of class

Graphing and programmable calculators are not permitted on tests in this class
Buy a $10 calculator (make sure it has trig functions)
•  Gas laws  (Boyles, Charles, Combined, Ideal .  Chapter 16 of Schaums)
•  Rules of significant figures ( Appendix A of Schaums)
•  Reference angles and trig functions for 0° 30° 45°60° 90° and the corresponding angles in the second, third, and fourth quadrant.  You must know them to two significant figures as well as in terms of square root of two and three
•  Vector addition using i and j notation(components of vectors).  Chapter 1 of Schaums
Do these worksheets
vector_ addition.1
vector_addition.2
vector_addition.3

•  You must memorize the following physical constants to 3 significant figures (Appendix G of Schaums)
    •  Speed of light in free space
    •  Acceleration of gravity "g"
    •  Gravitational constant "G"
    •   Coulomb constant "k" or "ko" in Schaums
    •  Standard atmosphere in pascals (which is the same as newtons/m2)
    •  Avogadro's number (notice that schaums gives it in terms of kilo-moles instead of moles)  Be sure to learn it in moles as well as kilo-moles.
    •  Universal gas constant (learn in terms of kilo-moles (schaums) and moles)
    •  mechanical equivalent of heat (conversion factor between calories and joules)
    •  electron charge
    •  proton charge
    •  proton mass
    •  electron mass
   
   IMPORTANT FORMULAS YOU MUST MEMORIZE

•  velocity (pg.3)
Schaums problems 1.18, 1.20, 1.23, 1.24, 1.25


Kinetic energy  (pg. 75)

Do worksheet  kinetic energy


Newton's second law (you must memorize the first and third law in words)  pg.28


Schaums problems 3.39, 3.40, 3.43, 3.45, 3.46

•  momentum (pg. 93)
Schaums problems 8.21, 8.22, 8.23, 8.24

•  Gravitational Potential Energy

Schaums problems:  6.24, 6.25, 6.26, 6.34, 6.35


•  Hookes Law (pg.134)
Schaums problems:  11.18, 11.19, 11.20. 11.29
•   Elastic Potential Energy
Schaums problems:  11.20, 11.32, 11.21
•  density (pg. 145)
Schaums problems:  12.19, 12.20, 12.21, 12.22, 12.24
•  Work (page 75)
•  Power (page 76)
Schaums problems 6.46, 6.47, 6.48, 6.51
week of 8/26   Week 1

Monday, 
Tuesday, 
Wednesday,  Speed of wave on string
In class:  Treasure Hunt, conversion factors
22.19, 22.20, 22.21, 22.22, 22.23
Thursday. In class: 22.24, 22.25, 22.26, 22.27, 22.28
Friday,Heat gained or lost by a body whose phase does not change   double conversions18.19, 18.20, 18.21, 18.22, 18.23,18.24

Week 2
Monday, September 1heat lost or gained
Tuesday, September 2Begin Cooling of a cup of coffee lab18.25, 18.26, 18.27, 18.28, 18.29
Wednesday 9/3REMIND ME THAT I HAVE LUNCH DETENTION DUTY18.30, 18.31, 18.32, 18.33, 18.34
Thursday 9/4gas laws16.19, 16.20, 16.21, 16.22, 16.23
Friday 9/5lab safety contract, 16.26, 16.28, 16.33, 16.34, 16.35, 16.36


Week 3

Monday, 9/8Ohms law page 265
26.20. 26.22, 26.23, 26.24, 26.25
Tuesday, 9/9
26.29, 26.30, 26.31, 26.34, 26.36
Wednesday. 9/10Electric power

27.11, 27, 12, 27.13, 27.14, 27.15
Thursday. 9/1127.16, 27.20, 27.22, 27.24, 27.25
Friday 9/12
Lab report due Monday
"Effect of temperature difference on the rate of cooling of a cup of coffee"