Monday, October 8 – No school – Teachers Inservice – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Tuesday, October 9 – Nobel Prize in Physics

• Chapters 5, 6 & 26 quiz

Wednesday, October 10 – Nobel Prize in Chemistry

• Nobel Prize information
• Read Chapters 7 & 8

Thursday, October 11

• Intro. to Nuclear Physics (look at chapters 27 & 28 for atomic physics)
• Review of atomic physics (Z, N, A numbers, isotopes, nucleons, unified mass unit)
• Size of the nucleus and nucleons
• Nuclear forces (review of four fundamental forces)

Friday, October 12 – Nobel Peace Prize

• Life cycle of stars that end up as brown dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes, novae and supernovae
• Degenerate matter in neutron stars (how p+ and e- turn into neutrons too)
• Calculate diameter and density of neutron stars
• Compare density of nucleus to density of atoms

Monday, October 15

• P. 967, 1, 3, 4, 8 due
• Binding energy and radioactivity

Tuesday, October 16

• Work on problems in class

Wednesday, October 17

• P. 968, 9-10, 12-13 due
• Go over problems in class

Thursday, October 18

• Radioactivity and intro. to half life
• Intro. to Radiation and Distance Lab

Friday, October 19

• Radiation and Distance Lab

Monday, October 22

• Half life calculations

Tuesday, October 23

• P. 969, 25-28

Wednesday, October 24

• More examples

Thursday, October 25

• More examples

Friday. October 26

• Radiation and Distance Lab due

Monday, October 29

• Work on more problems

Tuesday, October 30

• P. 968; 15-17, 19-21 due

Wednesday, October 31

• P. 970; 22-23, 34-35, 53-54 due

Thursday, November 1

• Steven Hawking's Universe film clip (Uranium on)

Friday, November 2

• Chapters 29 & 7 & 8 test