Concepts of Physics
Chapter 7
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Green: Due/Test
Red: Homework
Blue: Related links
Updated 12.21.2007
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High speed photography See what really happens during collisions
Wednesday, December 5
- Understanding Car Crashes: It's Basic Physics video
- Intro. to My Car's Safety
Thursday, December 6
- Momentum Bashing Lab (in class activity)
- Discuss Momentum Bashing Lab
- Visit the other car safety web sites
- 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
Friday, December 7
- My Car's Safety in library with computers
Monday, December 10
- P. 100, 1–10 due today
- More time for My Car's Safety in the class with computers
- Law of conservation of momentum
- Elastic vs. inelastic collisions (happy & sad balls, air track demos)
- Do Chapter 7 Example problems in class
Wednesday, December 12
- P. 101, 19–22 due today
- Go over homework problems in class
- Edgerton
Thursday, December 13 – Snow day
Friday, December 14 – 2 hour delay schedule for assembly
- My Car's Safety Due
- bouncing
- Bouncing demonstration with dynamics track and projectile launcher (use ballistic pendulum catcher block on dynamics cart)
Monday, December 17
- P. 102, 33–37 due today
- Go over My Car's Safety combined data and car safety trends
- Pass out Chapter 7 Review
Tuesday, December 18
- Pass back homework
- More safety info.
- DVD demos from DVD 5
- Work on review and look at Sweet 16 letter in class
Thursday, December 20
Friday, December 21
Saturday, December 22 through Wednesday, January 2 – No school – Winter break
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