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Today Friday 3/13 in class be focussed on Dr. Lewin's Lecture 11 on Magnetism.
Start working on in the workbook Unit 6 (Magnetic Forces and Fields) Read and Work pages 1-13 and do problems 1-5.
 

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Thursday 3/12  you should Finish up the RC circuit Lab and give time constants using various different Capacitors.

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Finish up the RC problems in unit 5.

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Physics Technology Project

Objective (Semester 1):

To use the Wolfram Language with Raspberry Pi and Vernier GO link attached to Various Physics sensors to control an L.E.D. on the GPIO Board.

Objective (Semester 2):

To use the Wolfram Language with Raspberry Pi and Vernier GO link attached to Various Physics sensors to monitor and (GUI) Control a Mechanics or E&M experiment by relays attached to the GPIO Board.

Video Tutorials

https://learn.adafruit.com/category/learn-raspberry-pi

Wolfram Language

http://www.wolfram.com/language/

VERNIER SENSORS AND THE WOLFRAM LANGUAGE

http://www.raspberrypi.org/vernier-sensors-and-the-wolfram-language/

http://www.bobthechemist.com/11-raspberry-pi/14-i-sense-pi

Many General Projects

http://www.themagpi.com/

 

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 Over the weekend
 
Be able to solve chapter 22 Electric field sample problems. Do the first 10 pages of unit 2 on Electric field in your workbook. Play with the PHET Charges and Fields sim.

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From Friday 1/16 to Friday 1/23 you will work during class and use the information posted as well as your own research to help you acheive the writtten objective. If for some reason you are unable to work on the Raspberry Pi's during class you will work on your assigned E&M problems or take notes on an MIT E&M lecture.Be diligent and efficient. Don't let someone else do your work  for you. Keep notes on your progress. For homework you will work on the posted electrostatics lectures and problems.  
Be prepared for chapter 21 electrostatics quiz
 

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From Friday 1/16 to Friday 1/23 you will work during class and use the information posted as well as your own research to help you acheive the writtten objective. If for some reason you are unable to work on the Raspberry Pi's during class you will work on your assigned E&M problems or take notes on an MIT E&M lecture.Be diligent and efficient. Don't let someone else do your work  for you. Keep notes on your progress. For homework you will work on the posted electrostatics lectures and problems.
 
 Continue to work on Electrostatics Probs 25 - 42
 

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From Friday 1/16 to Friday 1/23 you will work during class and use the information posted as well as your own research to help you acheive the writtten objective. Be diligent and efficient. Don't let someone else do your work  for you. Keep notes on your progress. For homework you will work on the posted electrostatics lectures and problems. 
 
Continue to work on Electrostatics Probs 25 - 42

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From Friday 1/16 to Friday 1/23 you will work during class and use the information posted as well as your own research to help you acheive the writtten objective. If for some reason you are unable to work on the Raspberry Pi's during class you will work on your assigned E&M problems or take notes on an MIT E&M lecture.Be diligent and efficient. Don't let someone else do your work  for you. Keep notes on your progress. For homework you will work on the posted electrostatics lectures and problems.  
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From Friday 1/16 to Friday 1/23 you will work during class and use the information posted as well as your own research to help you acheive the writtten objective. Be diligent and efficient. Don't let someone else do your work  for you. Keep notes on your progress. For homework you will work on the posted electrostatics lectures and problems. 

 Chrome Books are available ror research and assistance see Mr. D.

 

Physics Technology Project

Objective (Semester 1):

To use the Wolfram Language with Raspberry Pi and Vernier GO link attached to Various Physics sensors to control an L.E.D. on the GPIO Board.

Objective (Semester 2):

To use the Wolfram Language with Raspberry Pi and Vernier GO link attached to Various Physics sensors to monitor and (GUI) Control a Mechanics or E&M experiment by relays attached to the GPIO Board.

Video Tutorials

https://learn.adafruit.com/category/learn-raspberry-pi

Wolfram Language

http://www.wolfram.com/language/

VERNIER SENSORS AND THE WOLFRAM LANGUAGE

http://www.raspberrypi.org/vernier-sensors-and-the-wolfram-language/

http://www.bobthechemist.com/11-raspberry-pi/14-i-sense-pi

Many General Projects

http://www.themagpi.com/

 

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play with the PHET Balloons and Static Electricity Sim until you can properly explain why a charged baloon sticks to a neutral wall.

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Use the workbook, the sample problems on electrostatics from chapter 21 of your Text as well as MIT lectures
to help you solve
be prepared to post your work.
 

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Review the workbook, sample problems from chapter 21 watch and take lecture notes on Lecture 1: What holds our world together? Electric Charges (Historical), Polarization, Electric Force, Coulomb's Law

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practice  Mc Exam

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Watch the MIT Oscillations and SHM Lecture 30.  Study the Oscillations and SHM Chapter 15  from Resnick and Haliday and know how to do all the sample problems. Use this knowledge to help you solve the following worksheet problems passed out in class as well those attached below.

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Watch the MIT Momentum Lectures 19,  20,  21,and  24.  Study the Rotational Motion and Torque Chapter 10 and 11 from Resnick and Haliday and know how to do all the sample problems. Use this knowledge to help you solve the following problems on  Rotational Motion and Torque 1 - 40.

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Watch the MIT Momentum Lectures 15,16,17, Study the Resnick and Haliday chapter on Momentum  and know how to do all the sample problems. Use this knowledge to help you solve the following Momentum Problems 1 - 40.

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Study this powerpoint Physics of the Bow and Arrow to help you with your efficiency lab.

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For the analysis of the Energy Lab let y1 the motion detector y-position value where the Force on the Force meter F=0. Make a spreadsheet column for x=y1-y. Plot x vs F and curve fit it. integrate the curve fit polynomial then make a column using this spring potential energy. Add in gravitational PE and Kinetic energy.

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Watch the MIT lecture (take notes)

Lecture 11: Work - Kinetic Energy - Potential Energy - Conservative Forces - Conservation of Mechanical Energy - Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation

Study Chapters 7 and 8 in your text
 
Complete(at home or in the computer lab) and write up the Orbit Simulation Lab in your Lab Journal.
 
Do (in class, before or after school ) the Energy Lab .
 

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For the past two weeks we've been working on dynamics problems and labs.
Your lab journal should be complete with results for the coffee filter lab, the incline lab, and the mass of a washer Atwood lab.Your notebook should have the solved dynamics problems from the last assignments as well as lecture notes from Dr. Lewin's Dynamics Lectures. Monday you took the first dynamics test. This week we'll study the dynamics of circular motion  and you will take notes on 
as well as solve
You will also complete the "Buzz Light Year Lab".

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Monday you will take a quiz on 1D and 2D while I check your video lecture notes as well as progress in your Lab Journals. By Friday you will have studied the chapter on dynamic in your text as well as taken video notes on Dr Lewin's Dynamics lectures ( Newton's Law's, Weight and Friction) You will be an expert at applying the V.I. method posted in class. In class we and at home you will complete Dynamics problems. You will work on two video capture dynamics labs ( Inclined frictionless track (attached below )and Friction Fall)

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Monday we will introduce motion measurement instrumentation: Sonic Ranger, Photogate timer, and video capture. You will download Tracker video Capture and use it to expand your pendulum investigation as well as analyse the motion of a projectile.  Demonstrations will lead us into more advanced (calculus based 1d and 2d)  kinematics . In class and at home you will work on Adv Kinematics Probs 1 - 25  by Wednesday and Adv Kinematics Probs 26 - 35 by Friday. Also at home watch Lectures 3 and 4 by Friday.

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Plan for me to check your video logs. Do Kinematics Probs 20 - 42. Continues working on your Pendulum lab with error analysis.

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By the end of the week you should watch MIT Mechanics lectures 1 and 2. You must keep a video lecture notes in a note book, I will check it. In class and at home you will complete 20 questions of kinematics. Kinematics Probs 1 - 19

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Get a lab Journal (graphed composition book ) as demonstrated in class paste the Physics lab techniques into the last page and pre-lab the water drop lab.