Second semester physics assignments and activities:
| Date | Daily activities | Homework |
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| 1/4 | Go over website etc. Watch Bill Nye: Waves |
Read pages 362-367 in textbook |
| 1/5 | Discuss parts of wave and pages 362-367 | Complete worksheet Practicing Physics pg 81 do problems 1-8 pg 377 in textbook |
| 1/6 | Go over homework work problems 19.1-19.11 from Problem solving workbook |
Read pages 367-371 in textbook |
| 1/7 | No school/ snow | |
| 1/8 | No school/snow | |
| 1/11 | Lab: Slinky | Complete Worksheets Unit 2 1 and 5 , (key 1, key 5) |
| 1/12 | Go over homework | |
| 1/13 | Discuss 367-371 Watch video clips of standing waves |
Read rest of chapter 19, try Exercises 10-22 and 29 at end of chapter |
| 1/14 | Discuss rest of chaper 19 and homework Watch video clips of Doppler effect and shock waves |
Try more problems in workbook |
| 1/15 | Watch video: Mechanical Universe, Waves | Review for chaper 19 test |
| 1/18 | No school/Martin Luther King Holiday | |
| 1/19 | Review | |
| 1/20 | Chapter 19 test | |
| 1/21 | Movie: Speed of Sound vs Speed of Light Activity II D2 |
Read chapter 20 |
| 1/22 | Discuss up to page 384 | |
| 1/25 | No School Teacher in Service | |
| 1/26 | Speed of Sound Lab | |
| 1/27 | Finish Discussing chapter 20 Movie: Resonance in baseball |
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| 1/28 | Movie: Resonance Finish chapter 20 Work problems for chapter 20 |
Read chapter 21 |
| 1/29 | Discuss chapter 21 | |
| Review and finish 21 | Review for chapter 20-21 tes |
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| 2/1 | Review for test | |
| 2/2 | Review for chapter 20-21 test |
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| 2/3 | Chapter 20-21 test | |
| 2/4 | Discuss shadows Discuss Electromagnetism, Light |
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| 2/5 | No class |
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| 2/8 | Work problems at the end of chapter and in Practicing Physics Workbook | |
| 2/9 |
Light activity like a wave |
Elegant Universe Questions |
| 2/10 | Watch movie: Elegant Universe |
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| 2/11 | Watch movie: Elegant Universe | |
| 2/12 | Watch movie: Elegant Universe | |
| 2/15 | No School: President's day | |
| 2/16 | Pinhole Camera Lab | Read Chapter 26 through page 499 |
| 2/17 | Discuss chapter 26 | |
| 2/18 | Discuss chapter 26 problems | read through page 505 |
| 2/19 | Discuss chapter 26 problems | finish reading chapter 26 |
| 2/22 | Discuss chaper 27 | Read chapter 27, Color Activity I, |
| 2/23 | Discuss chapter 27 | Light of a different color article |
| 2/24 | review for chapter 26-27 test | |
| 2/25 | Chapter 26-27 test | |
| 2/26 | Activity II dI mirrors | Article summary due Monday |
| 3/1 | Discuss pages 530-535 | Read chapter 28 |
| 3/2 | Lab: Light reflection and refraction | |
| 3/3 | notes | |
| 3/4 | Work problems from chapter | |
| 3/5 | Movie:Bill Nye: Light and Optics Read and answer questions on Microwave article | |
| 3/8 | Lab: Bifocals | |
| 3/9 | Work problems | |
| 3/10 | Lab: Funland | |
| 3/11 | Discuss chapter 28 | |
| 3/12 | Movie: | |
| 3/13-3/21 | No school/Spring Break | |
| 3/22 | Work problems , Discuss Diffraction from chapter 29 | |
| 3/23 | Finish chapter 29 | |
| 3/24 | Work problems | |
| 3/25 | Review for test | Problem Solving workbook answers |
| 3/26 | Mechanical Universe Movie:Optics | |
| 3/29 | Review for test | |
| 3/30 | Review for test | |
| 3/31 | Chapter 28-29 Test | |
| 4/1 | Static Electricity Activity | Read chapter 22 |
| 4/2 | No school: Good Friday | |
| 4/5 | No school Easter Monday | |
| 4/6 | Discuss Chapter 22 | |
| 4/7 | Discuss chapter 22 | |
| 4/8 | Discuss chapter 22 | |
| 4/9 | Bill Nye Static Electricity | |
| 4/12 | Lab: Electricity | Read chapter 23 |
| 4/13 | Discuss Chapter 23 and more electricty activities | |
| 4/14 | Discuss chapter 23 | |
| 4/15 | Work problems from chapter 23 | |
| 4/16 | Bill Nye Electricity | |
| 4/19 | Bill Nye :Magnets | |
| 4/20 | Discuss Magnets | |
| 4/21 | Catch up day Review for test |
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| 4/22 | Review for test | |
| 4/23 | Bill Nye: Magnets | |
| 4/26 | Finish 22,23,24 | |
| 4/27 | Mechanical Universe Movie | |
| 4/28 | Review | |
| 4/29 | Mechanical Universe Movie, Review | |
| 4/30 | Chapter 22-24 Test | |
| 5/3 | Famous Physicis Report | |
| 5/4 | Famous Physicist Report | |
| 5/5 | Famous Physicist Report | |
| 5/6 | Review for final , Ice Cream Lab | |
| 5/7 | Review for final | |
| 5/10 | Review for final |