Concepts of Physics
Chapters 19 & 20
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Updated 3.15.2008
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Thursday, March 6
Friday, March 7
- Defining fluids
- Pressure demonstrations - bed of nails, rubber atmospheric pressure demo, person in a bag, barometer
- Pressure example problems
Monday, March 10
- Intro. to Eureka! Lab
- Eureka! Lab
Tuesday, March 11
- Finish Eureka lab (continued)
- Work on pressure problems in class
- Eureka! lab due
- Did you turn in your Eureka! Lab?
- ESPN Sports Figures: Math Under Pressure
- Pressure under a fluid
- Next time questions 19–1, 2 and 3
- Archimedes' Principle Concept Development II
- Archimedes' principle – buoyancy. Floating objects displace an weight of water equal to the weight of the object.
Thursday, March 13
- Pressure problems due
- Sink or Swim? lab
Friday, March 14
- Finish Sink or Swim? lab
- Hand in your lab if you finish it early
- Pascal's principle and some example problems
- Disk brakes - from trike and model
- Hydraulic jack demo
- DVD demos disk 12, #1–4, 7–22
- Syringe and tube demo
- Bernoulli's demonstrations - blowers and balls
Tuesday, March 18
- Sink or Swim? lab due
- Finish Pascal's Principle Examples
- Bernoulli's Principle
- Magnus effect
- How do curveballs curve?
- Air bag
Wednesday, March 19
Thursday, March 20
- Pascal's Principle Problems due
- More fluid demonstrations - DVD #11: 12 – 20; DVD #12: 1 – 3
- Water level, magdeburg hemispheres
- Work on review in class
Friday, March 21 and Monday, March 24 – No school – Spring Break
Tuesday, March 25
Wednesday, March 26
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