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| 2 | Friday 9/5 | Thursday 9/4 | Thursday 9/4 | Friday 9/5 |
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| 7 | Monday 9/15 | Monday 9/15 | Friday 9/12 | Monday 9/15 |
| 8 | Tuesday 9/16 | Tuesday 9/16 | Tuesday 9/16 | Tuesday 9/16 |
| 9 | Thursday 9/18 | Wed 9/10 | Wed 9/17 | Wed 9/17 |
| 10 | Friday 9/19 | Thursday 9/18 | Thursday 9/18 | Friday 9/19 |
| 11 | Monday 9/22 | Monday 9/22 | Sunday 9/21 | Monday 9/22 |
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| 14 | Friday 9/26 | Thursday 9/25 | Thursday 9/25 | Friday 9/26 |
| 15 | Monday 9/29 | Monday 9/29 | Friday 9/26 | Monday 9/29 |
| 16 | Tuesday 9/30 | Tuesday 9/30 | Tuesday 9/30 | Tuesday 9/30 |
| 17 | Thursday 10/2 | Wed 10/1 | Wed 10/1 | Wed 10/1 |
| 18 | Friday 10/3 | Thursday 10/2 | Thursday 10/2 | Friday 10/3 |
| 19 | Monday 10/6 | Monday 10/6 | Monday 10/6 | Monday 10/6 |
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| 21 | Thurs 10/16 | Wed 10/15 | Thurs 10/16 | Wed 10/15 |
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| 24 | Thurs 10/23 | Wed 10/22 | Wed 10/22 | Wed 10/22 |
| 25 | Friday 10/24 | Thurs 10/23 | Thurs 10/23 | Friday 10/24 |
Homework 2: Web Assign Pre-exam- Force Concept Inventory
Homework 3: Newton’s First Law
- Learn about Newton’s First Law and Net Force
Read Blog
OR Watch YouTube Video
OR Read textbook Chapter 2: pp 23-29 (on Newton’s 1st Law, Net Force, Equilibrium Rule, Support Force, Equilibrium of moving things), Chapter 4: pp 54-5 (mass and Weight) - InterLACE Questions on “Inertia Questions”
- Web Assign Questions on Inertia and Net Force
Homework 4: Statics and Introduction to Motion.
Learn about motion and velocity Read Blog OR YouTube Video OR Read Textbook Chapter 3 pp 36-38 (on Speed, Velocity), Appendix A pp. 665 (US Customary System, System International, Appendix B p 668 (first column only) AND Workbook p iv (How to use This Book), Chapter 1 pp 1-2 (Speed Velocity, NOT acceleration), Read Examples 1-3 Read about Methods for Measuring Velocity on Blog InterLACE HW Questions on Statics Web Assign Questions on “Statics and Equilibrium” Learn about LEGO Mindstorm Robots and Programming in LabView: Either Read blog Or Watch VideoHomework 5: Motion and graphing
Learn about motion and graphing Read Blog OR YouTube Video Or Read Textbook Appendix C pp 671-673 (Graphs, Cartesian, Area and Slope) InterLACE HW Questions on Motion Workbook Questions: Write the answers IN your workbook: Chapter 1 pp 5-6 Do Ex. 1-4 Make sure the Notebook Feature of InterLACE is updated with a record of your experiment. Have you fully described what you did? Sketched/photos of your experiments. Results and analysis? Comparison to other groups. A screen shot of your code?Homework 6: Graphing motion and acceleration
Learn about acceleration Read the Blog page OR YouTube Video Or Read Textbook Chapter 3 pp 39-41 (acceleration, Galileo Inclined Plane), Appendix B pp 668-670 (Computing velocity and distance on inclined planes and when acceleration is constant) AND Read Workbook p 2 (Acceleration) and p 5 (Example 5) InterLACE HW Questions on graphs of Constant V Web Assign Questions on “Motion, Speed and velocity” Update lab notebook on InterLACEHomework 7: Accelerating motion
Learn about Kinematic Equations and constant accelerating motion Read the Blog page Or Read Textbook Chapter 3 pp 41-45 (How fast, How far, How quickly How Fast Changes) AND Read Workbook Chapter 2 p 8-9 (Free Fall) and (Examples 6-9) InterLACE Questions on acceleration Workbook (do problems in the workbook) pp6-7 Exercises 5-8 Update lab notebook on InterLACE
Homework 8: Free fall and Inertia
Learn about Galileo and free fall and Newton’s 2nd Law
Read Textbook Chapter 4 pp 56-58 (Newton’s second law of motion, when acceleration is free fall), Chapter 9 pp 151-152 (Newtonian Synthesis, Universal Law of gravity) AND Workbook Chapter 7 p 97 and p101.
InterLACE Questions on Free Fall
Workbook p 10 Exercises 9-11
Web Assign Questions on Free Fall
Homework 9: Lab Report Guidelines
- Learn about writing a lab report on the Blog Page
- InterLACE Questions on Free Fall Problems
- Workbook p 11-12 Exercises 12-14
- Web Assign Questions on Free Fall Problems
- Start thinking about lab report
Homework 10: Start lab report
- Write an outline for the introduction to lab report: Post to InterLACE
- Find primary sources, start doing background research: Post to InterLACE
- Make graphs, analyze data: Post to InterLACE
Homework 11: Introduction lab report
Write the introduction to lab report: Submit to Dropbox
Homework 12: STUDY FOR TEST
Homework 13: Learn about Newton’s 2nd Law:
Read Text Read 56-7; Workbook Read pp 29-31 OR Blog reading (Newton’s Second Axiom )
Do Workbook Problems on Acceleration WB Chapter 3 Ex. 2-5 p 33
InterLACE HW Assignment on Forces and Acceleration
Homework 14: Learn about Friction
Read textbook pp 52-3; Workbook Read pp35-36 OR Blog reading on Friction
Do Workbook Problems on Friction WB Chapter 3 Ex. 7,8, 10, 11 p 37
Do Web Assign on Acceleration (Newton’s Second Axiom)
Homework 15: Learn about Newton’s 3rd Law
Read textbook pp 67-73 (Newton’s 3rd Law)
Do Web Assign on Friction
Homework 16: Learn about Vectors and Triangles and Similar Triangles:
Your choice of Textbook: 74-77, 674-676 & Workbook Read pp 15-16 OR
WB Problems on Colinear Vectors Ch 2 Do Ex 1-5 pp 18-19
InterLACE HW on Newton’s 2nd Law
Make sure Notebook entries for “Walking in Galileo’s Footsteps” and “Newton’s 2nd” are up to date.
Homework 17: Learn about Trigonometry and Vector Components
Read WB p248 on Trigonometry & Read WB Vectors Ch 2 Read pp 17-8 OR
Do WB Problems Chapter 2 Vectors Do Ex 6-9 pp 20-21
Do Web Assign on Vectors
If you have completed the Robot Tug-of-War make sure your notebook entry is up to date
Homework 18: Learn about Statics
WB Ch 3 Read pp38-41 OR
You Tube Video on Inverse Trig and Strings Problems OR
Blog on Inverse Trig and Strings
WB Problems on Statics Do ex 13-17 (p42-3)
Web Assign on Vector Problems
Notebook entries on either Tug-of-War or Marsh Chapel up to date
Homework 19:
On Monday evening (at 10PM) October 6th, the full rough draft of your lab report is due. Send it to the drop box. This will be a graded draft. It will be a major part of your 1st Quarter October Report Card. However, it will be a minor part (3%) of your total semester grade, which is what goes down on your permanent record. Page limit: 20 pages maximum. 3000 words maximum. If you are including photos, make them low-resolution to reduce the file size of your document. Max file size, 10 MB.
Homework 20: Learn about Inclined Planes
WB Ch 3 Read Ex 5(p32) Ex 8(p36) Ex 15(48-9) OR
YouTube on Inclined Planes OR
Blog on HYPERLINK “http://blogs.bu.edu/ggarber/bua-physics/inclined-planes/”Inclined Planes
WB Problems on Inclined Planes Ch3 Do ex 6, 9, B2, B4, B5InterLACE HW on Vectors
Finish all notebook entries
Homework 21: Learn about Momentum and the Force-Impulse Relationship
Read Textbook pp 84-88 & Workbook pp 51-3 OR
Read Blog http://blogs.bu.edu/ggarber/bua-physics/momentum/
Workbook: Chapter 4 p 53 Exercises 1-3
Do InterLACE HW on Momentum
Homework 22: Learn about Conservation of Momentum and Newton’s 3rd Law
Read Textbook pp 89-91 OR
Watch Video http://youtu.be/unBhqd6oP7w
Web Assign: Momentum-Impulse Relationship
Workbook: Chapter 4 p 54 Exercises 4-6
Homework 23: Learn about Collisions, Elastic, Inelastic
Read Textbook pp 91-93 & Workbook pp 55-57 OR
Watch Video http://youtu.be/cRg2bUXuv_s OR
Blog at http://blogs.bu.edu/ggarber/bua-physics/collisions-and-conservation-of-momentum/
Workbook: Chapter 4 p 58 Exercises 7-11
Web Assign: Conservation of Momentum
Homework 24 Learn about 2D Collisions and Vis Viva
Read Textbook pp 94-95, 101 OR
Watch Video Vis Viva Video http://youtu.be/gaGHdph_DZg
Collisions Video http://youtu.be/D5vzOmoNRIg
Workbook: Chapter 4 p 59 Exercises 12-14
InterLACE HW: 2D Collisions
Web Assign: 2D Collisions and Vis Viva
Homework 25 Lab Report Revisions
Read your lab report feedback. Start working on your revisions. Final draft is due Nov 3 at 10PM
