Warm-Up: How'd things go yesterday? Any questions regarding the spring-mass investigation?

Agenda:

- Finish up analysis of spring-mass video clips

- Share and compare results on whiteboards; make conclusions about what each of the terms represent

- Discuss yesterday's objectives and read Section 13.1 if you didn't already do so

- Start SHM Motion Graph Analysis if time permits; work on Lab Report

Homework: Finish SHM Motion Graph Analysis; Lab Reports due by end of day Monday, February 27

Agenda:

- Watch Conceptual Physics Video: Light and Color

- Answer questions on handout while watching

Homework: If your element project didn't play properly yesterday, try to fix it by tomorrow. (You may need to export your audio file as an .mp3 using Audacity if it didn't work; then re-upload the file to bghover.pbworks.com)

Warm-Up: We'll finish up Parallel Worlds, Parallel lives in a moment. Quizzes are graded and scores are posted to PIV...we'll discuss them tomorrow.

Agenda:

- Finish video

- Simple Harmonic  Motion Lab (Mass on Spring)

- Note objectives at top of handout

- Read the introduction to Chapter 13 and Section 13.1 to help prepare for the investigation

- Use the Logger Pro Video Analysis tools to analyze one of the clips (divide up the clips so that each one is analyzed by at least one group)

- Clips are located at Handout > Hover > SHM Videos

- If you finish the analysis, start typing up a lab report with your group

Homework: Lab Reports due by end of day Monday, February 27.

Agenda:

- Evaluate Element Projects today

- Listen to each podcast as a class, discuss with your tablemates, and write up an evaluation for each element

- If time permits: Start Paul Hewitt Light and Color video

Homework: None

Warm-Up Announcements:

1. Turn in your take-home quiz now. (If you forgot, this will have to be your excused quiz for quarter 3--sorry!)

2. The Engineer-for-a-Day field trip is tomorrow for those students who signed up. Go to your first period class tomorrow and I'll come on the PA to call you to the bus loop. If you'd didn't already turn in your permission form, you must bring it tomorrow.

3. There is a Black History Month Assembly today during 4th period. Go to your class that period and you'll leave and sit with your class in the PAC.

Agenda:

- Watch and tweet (mention @bgphysics) about today's video--Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

Homework: If you were absent Friday, take-home quiz is due tomorrow.

Warm-Up: Hopefully, everyone's element project is posted to bghover.pbworks.com. If not, you'll be able to do so in a moment.

Agenda:

- Make sure your element is posted; we'll evaluate each other's projects tomorrow.

- Play with sims at the PhET site and evaluate each of the following: alpha decay, beta decay, build an atom, isotopes and atomic mass, discharge lamps, rutherford scattering, nuclear fission

- Fill out this sheet while you investigate the sims

Homework: None.

Warm-Up: Sign up to share solution for today's problem with your group. (Page 255 #3, 11; Page 260-1 #31, 33)

Agenda:

- Share solutions at SMART Board

- Add the following objective to your notes:

- Use the concept of conservation of angular momentum to explain the motion of isolated rotating objects

- Read and discuss Section 8.7 (page 249 - 251); update notes

- Revisit the platform demos; use the concept of angular momentum conservation to explain observations

- If time permits: start Take-Home Quiz

Homework: Complete the Take-Home Quiz--it is due at the beginning of the period on Tuesday!!

Warm-Up: Go ahead and log in to a computer.

Agenda:

- Finish Periodic Table Project today

- A recording station is set up in back room if you'd like privacy while recording

- Make sure you check the project requirements before posting your work

- If time permits, check out PHET simulations/games: alpha-decay, beta decay, build an atom, isotopes and atomic mass, discharge lamps, rutherford scattering, nuclear fission

Homework: Have a great 3-day weekend! Make sure projects are posted by class time on Tuesday.

Warm-Up: Imagine two PVC pipes. They have the same mass. Do they necessarily have the same rotational inertia?

Also: Dr. G and I are looking for about 15 students to participate in our next Intersecting Science with Theater session of February 29. We would need you to come to the PAC each period for the first 5 - 10 minutes of class.

Agenda:

- Note yesterday's objectives if you haven't already done so

- Read Section 8.5; write a 30-word GIST with you groupmates; update notes

- Complete the following problems: page 255 Multiple Choice #3, 11; page 260 - 261 #31, 33

Homework: Finish problems. Take-home quiz tomorrow!

Warm-Up: Go ahead and log in to a computer. We'll continue our research today.

Agenda:

- Continue researching today for the Interactive Periodic Table project

- Review the Project Requirements if needed; this page also has links to resources

- A good goal for today: write your script so that you can record tomorrow

Homework: Images and podcasts should be posted by Tuesday, February 21.

Warm-Up: I hope you enjoyed the day off! I'd like groups to sign up to demonstrate problems #7 and #8 on page 257. Also, do  you have any questions about the mini-mobile project?

Agenda:

- Discuss solutions to #7 and #8

- Note the following objectives:

- Identify factors that influence rotational inertia

- Define the rotational analog for F_net = ma

- Solve problems involving torque, moment of inertia, and angular acceleration

- Read Section 8.5 if time permits. 

Homework: Read section 8.5. Quiz Friday (?) on Rotational Motion.
 

Warm-Up: Have you ever used a wiki before? What is a wiki?

Also--If you have Quiz Corrections or Registration Forms, I'll take them!

Agenda:

- Locate and sign out your assigned netbook; go to bghover.pbworks.com

- View Interactive Periodic Table criteria and sample; discuss

- Assign logins and elements

- Begin research

Homework: Projects should be posted by Tuesday, February 21. (No school Monday for Presidents Day.)

Warm-Up: We'll finish the Making Stuff Stronger video in a moment. Becky and Emily need to make up the quiz today.

Agenda:

- Finish and discuss video

- Return and discuss quiz; complete quiz corrections

Homework: Finish Quiz Corrections.
 

Warm-Up: Show that a meterstick set up with the following masses is in rotational equilibrium by calculating the torques. (The mass of the meterstick is 90 grams).

Note- Lab Reports are graded! Visit www.TurnItIn.com to view my comments. Scores will be entered into PIV by the end of the day.

Agenda:

- Read Sections 8.2 and 8.3 in the text to address the following objectives:  

- Summarize the two conditions that must be met to produce mechanical equilibrium

- Describe the concept of center of gravity and understand its importance to rotation

 - Discuss optional project: The Mini-Mobile

- Complete and discuss these text problems: Page 257 #7, 8

Homework: Quiz this week on rotational motion and torque.

Warm-Up: Quiz Today! Take a few minutes to study

Agenda: 

- Take quiz

- Turn in when finished; quiet until all are finished

- Making Stuff Video

Homework: Have a great weekend!

Warm-Up Question: Why are dragsters long?

Agenda:

- Equilibrium Mini-Lab

- Set up and solve each scenario; calculate and compare the torques acting on the meterstick

Homework: None.

Warm-Up: If you need to finish up or revisit any of the lab stations from yesterday, we'l take care of that first. We will need to be able to address the following objectives by the end of the day:

- Identify how distribution of mass affects the rotational inertia of an object

- Identify how location of applied force affects the angular acceleration of an object

- Note the relationship between torque and angular acceleration

- Use the torque equations to calculate the magnitude of a torque with proper units

- Use the right-hand rule to identify the direction of a torque

Agenda:

- Finish and discuss the mini-labs

- Complete the pre-concept check for torque; Read Section 8.1 in the text (pages 228 - 231)

- Complete a post-concept check and tweet a summary to @bgphysics 

- Update objectives for today

- If time permits: Try multiple choice question #1 on page 254

Homework: None. (Quiz is next friday.)

Warm-Up Questions: What is the difference between fission and fusion? Which process fuels the sun and other stars?

Agenda:

- Complete and demonstrate solutions to Nuclear Reaction Examples

- Prepare for tomorrow's quiz

- Review objectives/notes

- Complete Isotopes Review using a periodic table

- Play with PhET's Build an Atom Simulation if time permits 

Homework: Quiz tomorrow on the nucleus, radioactivity, fission, and fusion. Be sure to review your notes!

Warm-Up: Our first order of business is to wrap up discussion of the Angular Motion Problems from pages 221 - 222. Locate your work and we'll get started in a moment.

Agenda:

- Finish Discussion of problems

- Torque and Rotation Mini-Labs

- Spend 3 - 4 minutes at each station observing and investigating

- When finished, discuss observations/questions

- Next: Read Section 8.1 in the text

Homework: None. (No quiz this week!)

Warm-Up: Locate your Decay Chain example from yesterday. I'd like to have a volunteer walk us through the solution at the SMART Board in a moment.

Agenda:

- Discuss and mark Decay Chain Example

- Note these objectives:

- Compare/contrast fission and fusion

- Understand how E = mc² relates to nuclear reactions

- Analyze the products of nuclear reactions

- PowerPoint notes: Fission and Fusion

- Update Notes

- If time permits: Nuclear Reaction Practice Problems

Homework: Quiz Friday on the nucleus, radioactivity, fission, and fusion

Warm-Up: I got a good report from the sub...thanks for your cooperation. I had to leave school early because my daughter was sick. We'll finish up the last few minutes of the video and then discuss what you think about the Anticipation Guide Statements.

Agenda:

- Finish World's Biggest Bomb and discuss 

- Review Friday's objectives on radioactivity

- Complete SMART Board examples of alpha and beta decay

- Complete Decay Chain Example; discuss

-Next: Powerpoint on Fission and Fusion (and examples)

Homework: Quiz Thursday on nuclear structure, radioactivity, fission, and fusion.

Warm-Up: We're going to review the text problems today. You may sign up with your group to share solutions if you'd like.

Note--Seniors will be called down 2nd period for the senior picture today. Also, there is an Anti-Bullying session during 5th period today.

Agenda:

- Sign up to discuss solutions at SMART Board (if you're absent, you can click here for solutions)

- Next: Torque and Rotation Mini-Labs

Homework: None.

Agenda:

- Fill out Anticipation Guide for World's Biggest Bomb

- Watch video, revise predictions, and record evidence 

Homework: None.

Warm-Up: Note the following learning objective for today--

- Relate angular quanities (θ, ω, α) to the tangential quantities (s, v, a) for rotational motion

Agenda:

- Read Section 7.3 quietly; update notes while reading; discuss

- Try the following problems for tomorrow: 9, 17, 18, 25, 49 (click for videos showing the apparatus described in #18 and a humorous look at pilots in training)

- Make sure your lab reports are submitted by midnight tonight to www.TurnItIn.com

Homework: Finish problems and lab reports.

Warm-Up Questions: For rotational motion, what do the symbols θ, ω, α stand for? What units would be used to measure these quantities?

Agenda:

- Sign up to share solutions to the rotation text problems: Page 220 #1, 4, 5, 6 , 7

- Discuss solutions at SMART Board

- Work on lab reports if time permits (note that a sample report and the rubric are linked to the left)

Homework: Lab Reports due by end of day Monday.