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Updated 8.26.2010

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

    • 1st
    • Parent Letter Slip due today
    • BES vs. SI – A cage match
    • Measurement standards
    • CGS vs MKS metric
    • Fundamental and derived units
    • All about the SI system of measurement | more
    • 5th
    • Parent Letter Slip due today
    • BES vs. SI – A cage match
    • Measurement standards
    • CGS vs MKS metric
    • Fundamental and derived units
    • All about the SI system of measurement | more
    • 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?
  • Wednesday, September 8

    • 5th/6th (no 6th due to assembly)
    • Height Lab
    • 7th (7th seriously cut short due to assembly)
    • Intro. to Sig. Digs with the Niagara Falls problem

    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

    • 5th
    • Chapter 1 Review due
    • Go over review
    • 7th
    • Chapter 1 Review due
    • Go over review

    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