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Spring 2020

Week #1

Week #1

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Need some help?  Check out the key above or read the following page from the Physics Tutorial at the Physics Classroom website.  Need even more help?  At the top of the Physics Tutorial page there are lots of links to earlier lessons on Projectile Motion.
 
 

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

 

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Answer all questions correctly.
 

Honors Physics Participation Check Week #1

Week #2

Week #2

Download and Install Graphical Analysis

Honors Physics Participation Check Week #2

Week #3

Week #3

Virtual Honors Physics Newsletter Week #3

 

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

  • Complete the Circular Motion IVV.
    • This one is very important as it has some wonderful demos in the videos that I cannot reproduce even if we were in our classroom.  Do not skip the video parts!
    • No need to send the completion page at this point, just do it!
  • Watch the Central Force Post-Lab.
    • In this video I will summarize the results you hopefully got from the simulation and then I will show you how to combine the three relationships in the lab into one math model that relates the force, the mass, the speed, and the radius of an object moving in a circle at a constant speed.

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

 

Thursday, April 30, 2020

  • Watch Uniform Circular Motion
    • Put his one on the big screen as I theoretically prove the results of the last lab!  This proof uses all sorts of physics, vector algebra, scalar algebra, and even a little pre-calculus idea.   Fun!

Honors Physics Participation Check Week #3

Week #4

Week #4

  • Watch Centripetal Force & Centripetal Acceleration
    • Now that we have both experimentally and theoretically constructed the math models for the force required and the resulting acceleration of an object moving in Uniform Circular Motion, in this video we will determine the directions of that force and the resulting acceleration.
    • Lots of good demos and movie clips.

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

 

Thursday, May 7, 2020

Do the Wizard Level. Remember, use the Help Me! button if needed.
Answer all questions correctly.  See the key for help.

Honors Physics Participation Check Week #4

Week #5

Week #5

    • This video begins with a demo of me whirling a bucket of water in a vertical circle.  Then we examine the physics behind the motion.

Honors Physics Participation Check Week #5

Week #6

Week #6

    • All about driving in horizontal circles at constant speed and even a little about driving on banked roads!

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

  • Office Hours Cancelled - Please email if you have any questions
 

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Honors Physics Participation Check Week #6

Week #7

Week #7