April 1

• STORM DAY

• Chapter 4 ~ Weight & Friction
• Seatbelts Save Lives
• Galileo's Perception of Inertia
• Egg Experiement to Demonstrate Inertia (Try this at home!)
• The Difference Between Mass & Weight
• Your Weight on Other Worlds
• Misconceptions About Falling Objects
• Galileo's Experiments: Falling Objects
• Why Does the Earth Spin?
• How Does the Earth Spin?
• The World's Roundest Object
• MP/135 & 136 & PP/137
• Notes

• Go over Test
• QUIZ

• Friction
• MP/141 & MP/143
• PP/144
• Assignment (April 11): p151/26-35
• Notes

• Review of Friction & Weight
• Newton's Laws (introduction)
• BrainPop: Gravity
• What is Gravity?
• What is a Force?
• What Forces are Acting on You?
• Notes

• Newton's Laws
• Brain Pop: Force
• Forces & Motion: Basics (Tug of War & Acceleration Lab) (needs Java)
• MP/162 & PP/163
• Notes

• HW Probe (PP/144)
• Combining Dynamics & Kinematics
• MP/165 & 166
• PP/168
• Notes

• LAB: Forces in 1D (needs Java)


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• Newton's Third Law Demo
• Pull Toy Example
• PP/182(18&19)
• Notes

• Apparent Weight
• Elevator Simulation
Weight of a Person Riding in an Elevator from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project by Enrique Zeleny
• MP/184
• PP/186
• Notes

• QUIZ
• Finish Popper Physics
• Finish Forces in 1D
• Review: p208/23,27,29,30,32-35
• Notes
• TEST OUTLINE

• Review: p210/1-8 & p212/29,30,32,33,36

• Review
• Notes

• TEST

• Momentum & Impulse
• Momentum & Impulse
• More Momentum & Impulse
• Impulse
• Bouncing Ball
• Momentum & Collisions (PHYSCLIPS)
• MP/197, 199, 201
• PP/197, 200, 203
• Notes

• Review of Impulse & Momentum: p208/37-46
• p210/39-47
• Notes

• Impulse-Momentum Lab (DEMO) - original Logger Pro Graphs in outbox
• Logger Pro Graphs with notes
• Notes

• Finish Impulse-Momentum Lab
• Write-up