AP Physics
Chapter 24 Serway/Faughn
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Updated 12.7.2009
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Monday, November 2
- Mirror and Lens lab due
- Intro. to interference
- Demo: Two speakers with 6000 Hz tone set 2 m apart; move head side to side
Tuesday, November 3
- Interference formula derivation
Wednesday, November 4
Thursday, November 5
- P. 813, 7-12
- Go over yesterday's problems
Friday, November 6
- Reflection at low and high index of refraction surfaces
- Show reflection and interference demos on DVD 9
- Intro. to surface interference and thin film interference - Keynote
Monday, November 9
- More Keynote slides on interference by reflection
Tuesday, November 10 (elim 2010-11)
- More Keynote slides on interference by reflection
Wednesday, November 11
- Diagrams and formulas for thin film and intererface interference
Thursday, November 12 and Friday, November 13 No school Parent/Teacher Conference Days
Monday, November 16
- P. 814, 14 to 19 due
- Single slit diffraction
- Demonstrate single slit with laser - vary width of slit
- Example problems to solve for slit width and
Tuesday, November 17
- P. 814, 20 to 25 due
- go over yesterday's problems
Wednesday, November 18
- Go over Tuesday's problems
Thursday, November 19
- P. 815, 29 to 34 due
- Go over problems
Friday, November 20
- Diffraction gratings
- Demonstrate diffraction grating glasses (used them earlier in the year)
- show formula
- prisms vs. diffraction gratings
- steering beams on CDs and DVDs
- Reflection gratings (CDs)
Monday, November 23
- IMOD displays (Qualcomm device article from Popular Science)
- Polarization
- Malus' Law
- 3rd polarizer problem
- Intro. to Polarization lab
Tuesday, November 24
Wednesday, November 25
- More on Polarization lab
- Polarization and reflection
- Polarization by scattering
- Optical activity - acrylic demo
- LCDs
Thurday, November 26 Through Monday, November 30 No school Thanksgiving Break
Tuesday, December 1
- More polarization examples
Wednesday, December 2
- P. 815, 45, 4750 due
- Go over problems
Thursday, December 3 Mr. Flint out today due to illness
Friday, December 4
Monday, December 7
- Chapter 24 Test
- *Read Steven Hawking's Universe chapters 3 & 4
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