Concepts of Physics
Chapter 7
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Black: In Class
Green: Due/Test
Red: Homework
Blue: Related links
Updated 1.15.2009
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High speed photography See what really happens during collisions
Monday, December 21
- Understanding Car Crashes: It's Basic Physics video
- Intro. to My Car's Safety
Tuesday, December 22
- My Car's Safety with computers
Monday, January 4
- Momentum Bashing Lab (in class activity)
- Discuss Momentum Bashing Lab
- Defining impulse and momentum
- Increasing and decreasing momentum
- Demos and discussions: train couplings, pole vault onto concrete, jump onto the floor with locked knees, bungee jumping
Tuesday, January 5
- My Car's Safety due
- Law of conservation of momentum
- Do Chapter 7 Example problems in class
Wednesday, January 6
- P. 101, 19–22 due today
- Homework questions?
- Hand in problems
- Air track demonstrations (Elastic vs. inelastic collisions: happy & sad balls, air track demos)
- Law of conservation of momentum with inelastic collision of gliders (2 kg at 3 m/s hitting 2 kg at 0 m/s)
- Edgerton photos (didn't finish 1st period)
Thursday, January 7
- Go over yesterday's problems
- Pass out Chapter 7 Review
- Edgerton photos
- bouncing
- Bouncing demonstration with dynamics track and projectile launcher (use ballistic pendulum catcher block on dynamics cart)
Friday, January 8
- P. 100, 1–10 due today
- Go over My Car's Safety combined data and car safety trends
Monday, January 11
- P. 102, 33–37 due today
- Pass back homework
- More safety info.
- DVD demos from DVD 5
Tuesday, January 12
Wednesday, January 13
- Chapter 7 Review Due
- Go over review
Thursday, January 14
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