Concepts of Physics
Chapter 4
Other Chapters

Course Info.
Syllabus
Class Rules
Class Rosters
Physics Top Ten
Writing Lab Reports
Formula Card

Contacts
Discussion Group
E-Mail Mr. Flint
AOL IM w/Mr. Flint

Other Links
Current Weather
Online Calculators

Color Key
Black: In Class
Green: Due/Test
Red: Homework
Blue: Related links

Updated 10.25.2009

Wednesday, October 28

  • Chapter 3 Test

Thursday, October 29

  • Buckle Up activity
  • Intro. to Chapter 4: Inertia (Newton's First Law)
  • Inertia Demonstrations: Eyore, tablecloth, headgear, pen in bottle, card/penny/glass, coin on elbow
  • Next time question 4–1

Friday, October 30

  • Read Chapter 4 by today
  • Answer Next Time Question 4-1
  • Concept Development 4-1 (1st page)
  • Mass is not weight! w=mg
  • Demonstrate calculating mass and weight (Concept Development 4-1 page 2)
  • Units of mass and weight; calculating weight
  • Physics Demonstration DVD inertia demonstrations

    Monday, November 2

    • Air track demos
    • Inertial balance demonstration
    • Net force (overhead transparency)
    • bird on a wire demonstrations - rope with weight and two people then 20 lb. dacron with 3.815 kg mass
    • Equilibrium and vector addition of forces
    • Aristotle's ideas of natural and violent motion
    • Concept development 4-2

    Tuesday, November 3

    • P. 56, 1-8 due (hand in)
    • Sports Figures video: That mu you do
    • Sports figures: Why do golf balls have dimples?
      • This video is from 1995 when Tiger Woods was an amateur
      • 32 ft/s2 is used as an acceleration instead of 9.8 m/s2

    Wednesday, November 4

    • Finish Concept development 4-2
    • Concept Development 4–3
      • Balanced forces - Equilibrium - no net force on object - object does not accelerate
      • Unbalanced forces - there is a net force on the object and it accelerates
    • Introduction to force lab

    Thursday, November 4

    • Force Lab

    Friday, November 6

    • Force Lab (continued)
    • Work on homework

    Monday, November 9

    • P. 57, 13-19 due
    • go over problems

    Tuesday, November 10

    • Force Lab due
    • Work on review problems and force lab

    Wednesday, November 11

    • Chapter 4 Review due
    • Go over review

    Thursday, November 12 and Friday, November 13

    • No school – Parent/Teacher Conferences

    Monday, November 16

    • Chapter 4 Test

    Tuesday, November 17

    • Intro. Lab: Constant Mass and Changing Force