| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday (Lab) | Friday | |
| January 2 - 6 | Christmas Vacation - No School | Notes: Thermal physics definitions
Homework: Read pp. 313-318, answer Mastering Concepts 36-40 p. 336 |
Lab Activity: Specific heats of metals | Classwork: WebAssign |
| January 9 - 13 | Notes: Mechanical equivalent of heat
Notes: Phase change Notes: Heat flow Homework: Problems 1, 3, 4, 5 from the worksheet |
Notes: Thermal expansion
Notes: First Law of Thermodynamics Examples: Heat flow Homework: Problems 23, 24, 25, 26 p. 328 |
Notes: Laws of thermodynamics | |
| January 16 - 20 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day - No School | Notes: Thermodynamic processes, heat engines | Notes: Thermodynamics practice | Clicker questions: Heat and Thermodynamics |
| January 23 - 27 | Test: Thermodynamics | Notes: Restoring forces, vibrations
Homework: Mastering Concepts 32 - 39 p. 396 |
Notes: Hooke's Law and vibrations | Notes: Wave motion
Homework: Mastering Problems 79, 80 p. 398 |
| January 30 - February 3 | Notes: Wave behavior | |||
| February 6 - 10 | Notes: Sound properties
Homework: Mastering Concepts 44 - 50 pp. 424-425 |
Notes: Doppler shift, standing waves
Homework: Problems 73 - 75, p. 426 |
Practice: Clicker questions for waves and sound | |
| February 13 - 17 | Notes: Light fundamentals | Examples: Light propogation | Notes: Basic light behavior
Notes: Propogation of light, types of E-M radiation |
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| February 20 - 24 | Examples: Reflection | Examples: Ray tracing for mirrors | ||
| February 27 - March 2 | Examples: Photometry and Hubble's Law
Homework: Section Review 23, 24, 25, 26 p. 473 |
Examples: Image formation with mirrors, Snell's Law | ||
| March 5 - 9 | Spring Break - No Classes | |||
| March 12 - 16 | Teacher workday - No Classes | Examples: Refraction | Examples: Refraction, total internal reflection, image formation with lenses | |
| March 19 - 23 | Examples: Refraction, image formation with lenses | Examples: Image formation with lenses
Examples: Two-slit interference |
Clicker questions: Light and optics | |
| March 26 - 30 | Test: Light and optics | Notes: Electric charges | Examples: Electrostatics
Homework: Questions 23, 24, 25, 31, 32 p. 558 |
Notes: Franklin's theory of electricity |
| April 2 - 6 | Examples: Charging by conduction, induction of charges by clouds | Notes: Behavior of charges in equilibrium | ||
| April 9 - 13 | Notes: Coulomb's Law | Examples: Coulomb's Law
Homework: Questions 43 to 47 p. 584 |
Computer Activity: Electric Field Simulation | Notes: Electric fields
Examples: Electric fields Homework: Problem 107 p. 588 |
| April 16 - 20 | Notes: Electrical energy and potential
Examples: Electric potential energy and electrical potential |
Notes: Capacitors
Examples: Electric fields and energy |
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| April 23 - 27 | Computer Activity: Electric Potential simulation | Clicker questions: Electric forces, fields, potential energy, and potential | Test: Electrostatics | |
| April 30 - May 4 | Notes: Current | Notes: Series circuits
Notes: Parallel circuits Computer activity: OhmZone |
Lab: Series and Parallel Circuits
Examples: Series and parallel circuits |
Computer activity: OhmZone for series and parallel circuits |
| May 7 - 11 | Examples: Series and parallel circuits | Clicker questions: Current and circuits | Quiz: Current and circuits | Examples: Exam content (seniors) |
| May 14 - 18 | Notes: Magnets
Notes: Forces on wires Notes: Forces on particles |
Examples: Transformers, AC and DC | Clicker questions: Semester review | |
Last updated October 2, 2011