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Updated 10.17.2007

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