Physics I Honors
Chapter 1
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Updated 9.1.2008
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Chapter 1 Outline
Wednesday, August 27
- 5th
- First day of school
- Hand out books & fill out receipts
- Hand outs: syllabus, parent letter, Chapter IV notification
- Hand out True or False? and read as much as you can by Friday
- Can you switch to 7th period?
- 6th/7th (6th probably won't show up)
- First day of school
- Hand out books & fill out receipts
- Hand outs: syllabus, parent letter, Chapter IV notification
- Go over syllabus
- Hand out True or False? and read as much as you can by Friday
Thursday, August 28 – Classes disrupted by house assemblies
- 5th/6th
- Continue on syllabus - answer questions
- Look at MrFlint.com
- Hand out A Very Brief History of Science and the Universe (44k .pdf)
- Pass out Algebra review
- Current science news articles - how do scientists know what they know?
- *Red assembly
- News articles
- Work on True or False?questions
- 7th
- Until red assembly is finished: Current science news articles - how do scientists know what they know?
- Continue on syllabus - answer questions
- Look at MrFlint.com
- 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.
Friday, August 29
Monday, September 1 – No school (Labor Day)
Tuesday, September 2
Wednesday, September 3
- 5th
- Accuracy/precision, parallax
- Spaces in numbers, accuracy and precision
- 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
- Height Lab
- * Parallax
- practice calculations w/sig. digs.
Thursday, September 4
- 5th/6th
- Pass out Chapter 1 Review
- Height Lab
- *Rules for sig. dig calculations
- More significant digit examples
- Underline and decimal after zero notation
- 7th
- Pass out Chapter 1 Review
- Sig. digs with underline and decimal after zero notation.
- Fundamental & Derived units and their connection to dimensional analysis
- Conversion factor examples
Friday, September 5
- 5th/6th
- P. 19; 7, 9–14 due Go over in class
- Fundamental & Derived units and their connection to dimensional analysis
- Hand out review
- Conversion factor examples
- More conversion factor practice
- * 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.
- 7th
- P. 19; 7, 9–14 due Go over in class
- Graphing scientific data & interpreting graphs
- 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.
Monday, September 8
- 5th
- P. 20, 15 to 21 due
- Height Lab due
- Reaction Time Lab
- 7th
- P. 20, 15 to 21 due
- Height Lab due
- Reaction Time Lab
Tuesday, September 9
Wednesday, September 10
Thursday, September 11
- 5th/6th
- Chapter 1 Test
- *Kinematics vs. dynamics
- Our place in the universe
- Vectors vs. scalars (displacement vs. distance and velocity vs. speed)
- 7th
- Chapter 1 Test
Friday, September 12
- 5th/6th
- Reaction Time Lab due
- *See chapter 2 page for more about what we're doing today.
- 7th
- Reaction Time Lab due
- *See chapter 2 page for more about what we're doing today.
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