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Updated 12.21.2007

High speed photography See what really happens during collisions

Wednesday, December 5

  • Understanding Car Crashes: It's Basic Physics video
    • Egg and sheet demo
  • 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

Tuesday, December 11

  • 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
  • Pelton wheel and bicycle helmet (exposed foam vs. plastic cover)
  • 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

Wednesday, December 19

Thursday, December 20

  • Chapter 7 Test

Friday, December 21

Saturday, December 22 through Wednesday, January 2 – No school – Winter break