Physics I Honors
Chapter 9
(Omit sections 2, 9 & 10)

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Updated 2.28.2010

Wednesday, February 17

  • 5th/6th
  • Pressure and density example problems
  • *Chapters 7 & 8 Test
  • 7th
  • Chapters 7 & 8 Test

Thursday, February 18

  • 5th/6th
  • Walking on broken glass/laying on a bed of nails
  • Pressure at depth
  • Caisson diseas
  • *Eureka Lab
  • 7th
  • Walking on broken glass/laying on a bed of nails
  • Pressure at depth
  • Caisson disease

Friday, February 19

  • 5th
  • Pressure and Density Problems due
  • Pressure at altitude
  • Gauge Pressure
  • Hints for Monday's problems
  • 7th
  • Pressure and Density Problems due
  • Pressure at altitude
  • Gauge Pressure
  • Hints for Monday's problems

Monday, February 22

  • 5th
  • P. 312; 14-15, 19-22 due
  • Go over problems
  • 6th/7th
  • P. 312; 14-15, 19-22 due
  • Go over problems
  • *Intro. to Sink or Swim? lab

Tuesday, February 23

  • 5th
  • Pascal's Principle
  • 6th/7th
  • Pascal's Principle
  • *Sink or Swim? lab

Wednesday, February 24

  • 5th/6th
  • Eureka! Lab due
  • Intro. to Sink or Swim? lab
  • *Sink or Swim? lab
  • Archimedes' Principle
  • 7th
  • Eureka! Lab due
  • Lab Q&A
  • Archimedes' Principle

Thursday, February 25 – No school – The roads were just fine

Friday, February 26 – No school – We got a little bit of snow

Monday, March 1

  • 5th
  • Pascal's Problems Due
  • Some more Buoyancy examples
  • Draft marks on ships Link 1 | Link 2
  • Proportion of object submerged as related to its density as proportional to the fluid's density
  • 6th/7th
  • Pascal's Problems Due
  • Proportion of object submerged as related to its density as proportional to the fluid's density
  • Some more Buoyancy examples One more buoyancy example: Volume of ballast tank for a submarine to accelerate upward with drag
  • Draft marks on ships Link 1 | Link 2
  • Proportion of object submerged as related to its density as proportional to the fluid's density
  • *One more buoyancy example: Volume of ballast tank for a submarine to accelerate upward with drag

    Tuesday, March 2

    • 5th
    • One more buoyancy example: Volume of ballast tank for a submarine to accelerate upward with drag
    • Dynamic fluid intro; laminar and turbulent flow; air resistance; water drag
  • 6th/7th
  • Dynamic fluid intro; laminar and turbulent flow; air resistance; water drag
  • *Field trip to vivarium
  • Finish Continuity of Flow
  • Volume flow rate
  • Continuity Equation example

    Wednesday, March 3

    • 5th/6th
    • P. 313; 26-28, 30-31 due
    • Go over problems
    • *Finish Continuity of Flow
    • Volume flow rate
    • Continuity Equation example
    • 7th
    • P. 313; 26-28, 30-31 due
    • Go over problems

    Thursday, March 4

    • 5th/6th
    • Sink or Swim? lab due
    • Ultimate Guide to Planes
    • *Finish Ultimate Guide to Planes
    • 7th
    • Sink or Swim? lab due
    • Ultimate Guide to Planes

    Friday, March 5

    • 5th
    • Drag
    • Continuity of Flow
    • Volume flow rate
    • Continuity Equation example
  • 7th
  • Mass flow rate
  • Power to lift fluids

    Monday, March 8

    • 5th
    • Use of eductor
    • Bernoulli's examples (Torricelli's equation and change in pressure due to change in velocity)
  • Intro. to Bernoulli's Principle (ball demos)
    • Show Bernoulli's formula
    • pitot tubes
  • 6th/7th
  • Finish Ultimate Guide to Planes
  • *Use of eductor
  • Bernoulli's examples (Torricelli's equation and change in pressure due to change in velocity)
  • Intro. to Bernoulli's Principle (ball demos)
    • Show Bernoulli's formula
    • pitot tubes

    Tuesday, March 9

    • 5th
    • P. 314; 40–46 due
    • go over homework
    • Air pressure and weather
    • 6th/7th
    • P. 314; 40–46 due
    • go over homework
    • Air pressure and weather
    • *Work on review problems

    Wednesday, March 10

    • 5th/6th
    • How airplanes fly
      • Model plane demonstration and X–Plane simulations
    • *Work on review problems
    • 7th
    • How airplanes fly
      • Model plane demonstration and X–Plane simulations
      • pitot tubes
      • air pressure and weather

    Thursday, March 11

    • 5th/6th
    • Chapter 9 Review Due
    • *Any more test questions?
    • 7th
    • Chapter 9 Review due

    Friday, March 10

    • 5th
    • Chapter 9 Test
    • 7th
    • Chapter 9 Test