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Updated 5.26.2008

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Tuesday, May 20

  • Light, Color and Reflection test

Wednesday, May 21

  • Light Intensity Lab due
  • Defining electrostatics - parts of the atom and charges of subatomic particles. Opposites attract, likes repel - this is true with electricity and magentism.
  • Law of conservation of charge – for every postive charge there is a negative charge, for every cation there is an anion, etc.
  • Electroscope demonstrations
    • Charging by friction, conduction and induction
    • rubber and silk hold onto electrons very strongly; glass and fur don't
    • Van de Graaff generator
    • Charging by friction, conduction and induction

Thursday, May 22

  • Reflectivity Lab due
  • Static Cling lab - hold on to your lab paper for our discussion tomorrow

Friday, May 23

  • P. 515, 1–11 due
  • Discuss static cling lab
  • Watch DVD demos Disc 16, #21 to 26 and Disc 17 # 1 to 17

Monday, May 26 – No school – Memorial Day

Tuesday, May 27

  • Comparing relative strengths of electrical and gravitational forces
    • Comparison of formulas
    • Comparison of constants
  • Semicondutors, superconductors, conductors
  • Basic unit of charge is the Coulomb (about the number of electrons that pass through a 100 Watt light bulb in 1 second. It is 6.24 x 10^18 electrons).
  • Laser printers and ink jet printers - their printhead and how it relates to static electricity
  • Next time question 32-1 (do now) Next time question 32-2 show first slide

Wednesday, May 28

Thursday, May 29

  • Final Exam: Part II

Friday, May 30

  • Final Exam makeups
  • Information on motors and electromagnets (chapter 36)

Monday, June 2

  • World's Simplest Motor Lab

Tuesday, June 3

  • World's Simplest Motor Lab (Hand in at the end of the period)

Wednesday, June 4

  • Who killed the electric car?

Thursday, June 5

  • Who killed the electric car? (continued)

Friday, June 6

  • Who killed the electric car? (continued)