Physics I Honors
Chapter 1
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Updated 8.26.2010
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Chapter 1 Outline
Monday, August 30 (1st period is 1 hour in length; rest are ~15 minutes)
- 1st/2nd
- First day of school
- Hand outs: syllabus, parent letter, Chapter IV notification
- Hand out True or False? and read as much as you can by Friday
- 5th/6th
- First day of school
- Hand outs: syllabus, parent letter, Chapter IV notification
- Hand out True or False? and read as much as you can by Friday
- 7th
- First day of school
- Hand outs: syllabus, parent letter, Chapter IV notification
- Hand out True or False? and read as much as you can by Friday
Tuesday, August 31
- 1st/2nd
- Student information sheet
- Hand out books & fill out receipts
- Look at MrFlint.com
- Any more syllabus questions?
- *Hand out A Very Brief History of Science and the Universe (44k .pdf)
- Pass out Algebra review
- What is truth? How should we go about life? Don't believe everything you hear or read!!!
- True or false? To test something scientifically (experimentation) requires that you have a hypothesis to prove something true and another hypothesis to prove it false.
- Current physics news articles - how do scientists know what they know?
- 5th/6th
- Student information sheet
- Hand out books & fill out receipts
- Look at MrFlint.com
- Any more syllabus questions?
- *Hand out A Very Brief History of Science and the Universe (44k .pdf)
- Pass out Algebra review
- What is truth? How should we go about life? Don't believe everything you hear or read!!!
- True or false? To test something scientifically (experimentation) requires that you have a hypothesis to prove something true and another hypothesis to prove it false.
- Current physics news articles - how do scientists know what they know?
- 7th
- Student information sheet
- Hand out books & fill out receipts
- Look at MrFlint.com
- Any more syllabus questions?
Wednesday, September 1
Thursday, September 2
- 6th/7th
- Parent Letter Slip due today
- Infinity clip
- Science vs. technology
- Intro. to Height Lab
- A little about True or False?
- Accuracy/precision
- *Height Lab
Friday, September 3
- 1st
- Algebra Review due
- Significant digits (Niagara falls is 150 000 gal/s and 1 gal.=3.7854 L) ixnay on the actionsfray and plus/minus notation
- practice calculations w/sig. digs
- Intro. to Height Lab
- 5th
- Algebra Review due
- Significant digits (Niagara falls is 150 000 gal/s and 1 gal.=3.7854 L) ixnay on the actionsfray and plus/minus notation
- practice calculations w/sig. digs
- Intro. to Height Lab
Monday, September 6 – No school (Labor Day)
Tuesday, September 7
- 5th
- Algebra Review due
- Significant digits (Niagara falls is 150 000 gal/s and 1 gal.=3.7854 L) ixnay on the actionsfray and plus/minus notation
- practice calculations w/sig. digs.
- 6th/7th
- Algebra Review due
- A word or two about
- Science vs. technology
- Intro. to Height Lab
- A little about True or False?
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Wednesday, September 8
Thursday, September 9
- 5th/6th
- Rules for sig. dig calculations
- More significant digit examples
- Underline and decimal after zero notation
- *Parallax
- Reaction time
- Intro. to Reaction Time Lab
- 7th
- Significant digits - school to home problem
- Sig. Dig rules
- Addition and subtraction
- practice calculations w/sig. digs.
Friday, September 10
- 5th
- Conversion examples
- Collect Reaction Time Lab data
- 7th
- Significant digit examples
- Parallax
- Reaction Time
Monday, September 13
- 5th
- P. 19; 7, 9–14 due Follow significant digit rules!
- Go over problems
- Intro. to graphing issues
- 6th/7th
- P. 19; 7, 9–14 due Follow significant digit rules!
- Go over problems
- Intro. to Reaction Time Lab
- *conversion examples
- Conduct Reaction Time Lab
Tuesday, September 14
- 5th
- P. 20, 15 to 21 due
- Go over problems
- 6th/7th
- P. 20, 15 to 21 due
- Go over problems
- *Graphing scientific data & interpreting graphs - hand out "how to graph scientific data"
- Slope-intercept line forms; slope units
- Always fill the page, use lines of best fit, and good labels
- Answer questions on homework, work on Height Lab and Interpreting Graphs W.S.
Wednesday, September 15
- 5th/6th
- Height Lab due
- Hand out review
- Graphing scientific data & interpreting graphs - hand out "how to graph scientific data"
- Slope-intercept line forms; slope units
- Always fill the page, use lines of best fit, and good labels
- Answer questions on homework, work on Height Lab and Interpreting Graphs W.S.
- *Work on Interpreting Graphs
- 7th
- Height Lab due
- Hand out review
- Work on Interpreting Graphs
- Work on review
Thursday, September 16
- 5th/6th
- Interpreting Graphs due
- Go over Interpreting Graphs
- *Intro. to mechanicss
- Kinematics vs. dynamics vs. statics
- Coordinate systems and directions
- 7th
- Interpreting Graphs due
- Go over Interpreting Graphs
- Work on review
Friday, September 17
Monday, September 20
- 5th
- Chapter 1 Test
- 6th/7th
- Chapter 1 Test
- *Intro. to mechanicss
- Kinematics vs. dynamics vs. statics
- Coordinate systems and directions
- Vectors vs. scalars (displacement vs. distance and velocity vs. speed)
Tuesday, September 21
- 5th
- Reaction Time Lab due
- Relative Motion
- What change means.
- Actual formula for v
- Constant velocity vs. instantaneous velocity vs. average velocity
- 6th/7th
- Reaction Time Lab due
- Relative Motion
- What change means.
- Actual formula for v
- Constant velocity vs. instantaneous velocity vs. average velocity
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