• Centripetal Force Activities (pivot interactives)
  • Einstein & the Gravitron
  • Traffic Circle
  • Roller Coaster Loop
  • Airplane on a String
• Find the tension in the string and the mass of the pig for the Flying Pig

• Solar System Case Study
• Notes

• Kepler's Laws & Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
• What keeps us stuck to the Earth?
• Wringing a Wet Towel in Orbit
• Fire in Zero-g
• What happens to the brain in zero gravity?
• Why Do Planets Have Elliptical Orbits?
• General Relativity & Gravity
• Why Gravity is NOT a Force
• Black Holes
• Gravitational Waves 101
• The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves
• NEW Gravitational Wave Discovery
• LIGO upgrade to allow 'almost daily' detection of gravitational waves
• Stationed in the Stars: Free-Falling
• The Cavendish Experiment
• The Cavendish Experiment (video)
• 2021 will the be the shortest year in deacdes. Here's why.
• Read p574-578
• see FOP (blue/green book on side shelf) & do PP/272
• Planetary Orbit Simulator
• MP/579 & PP/580
• Notes

• Planetary Motion Handout/animation
• Brilliant ~ Planet X's acceleration
• MP/585 & PP/586
• Notes

December 4

• Satellite Motion & Geosychronous Satellites
• Why doesn't the moon fall down?
• Newton's Cannon
• Another Newton's Cannon
• Geostationary Satellites
• MP/589 & PP/591
• Assignment: p597/22-33 (due ??)
• Notes

• Anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre (Dec 6, 1989)

• Anniversary of the Determination of the Speed of Light (1676)

• Advanced: GPS & Relativity
• Work Day

• Simple Harmonic Motion
• PP/608 and MP/613 and PP/614
• Notes

• Simple Harmonic Motion (Kinematics Graphs)
• Simple Harmonic Motion (Energy Graphs)
• Simple Harmonic Motion (press the play button in each video....scroll down to see all of them)
• PhET Pendulum Lab
• p623/22-30
• Notes

• QUIZ ~ Newton's Law of Universal Graviation
• work on assignment

• LAB: Simple Harmonic Motion

• Work on Lab
• Lab format

• Test outline

• Coulomb's Law
• Coulomb's Law Experiment
• PhET: Coulomb's Law
• MP/637 & PP/638
• Notes

• Vectors & Coulomb's Law
• Coulomb's Law
• SP/584 (FOP)
• MP/639
• PP/640-641
• p684/18-25 (Assignment not due this year.....recommended for practice)
• Notes

• REVIEW for TEST
• Review: p624/1-6 and p627/39, 40, 42-44, 46

• REVIEW for TEST

• TEST

• Work on PP
• Work on Assignment
• Work on SHM Lab

• Perfect Christmas Tree Calculations - aka "treegonometry"

• Santa's sleigh moves at 621 miles/s (994 km/s) or about 3000 times the speed of sound at 0 degrees Celsius!

January 11

• 14-2 Describing Fields (field intensity)
• MP/645 & PP/646-647
• MP/648 & PP/649
• Notes

• 14-2 Describing Fields (point sources)
• MP/652, 653 & PP/655
• PP/658 (look over MP/657)
• Notes

• Be sure all PP from 14-1 and 14-2 are done
• Review of Fields
• Field Lines Sheet

• Millikan Case Study .......see also Millikan Oil Drop

• 15-1 Electric Potential Difference
• PP/692

• 15-2 Electric Current
• PP/696 & PP/699

• Notes

• 15-3 Resistance to Flow of Charge
• PP/708 & PP/712
• Notes

• 15-4 Series & Parallel Circuits
• PP/719 & PP/724 & PP/728 & PP/731
• Notes

• Review for QUIZ
• Suggested review: p684/28-32

• not this year:
  • 15-5 Electric Power & Energy
  • PP/737 & PP/740 & PP/744 & PP/746

• QUIZ (Chapter 14 only)

• Finish up Chapter 15 PP

January 21

&

January 22

• Exam Review
• TEST 1 Review
• TEST 2 Review
• TEST 3 Review
• TEST 4 Review

• EXAM @ 9am

not this year

• Magnets, Motors & Generators PPT (slides 1-10)
• Video: A World in Motion - Magetism
• BrainPop: Magnetism
• Play with magnets and draw magnetics field lines
• Magnets from Mini to Mighty
• Magnetic Field Lines
• Magnetic Field Lines 2
• Compasses in magnetic fields
• New evidence for human magnetic sense that lets your brain detect the Earth's magnetic field
• Diamganetism and Paramagnetism
• Scientists discover new type of magnet
• The Enduring Mystery of Detecting the Universe's only Magnetic Monopole
• Giant Lava Lamp Inside Earth Causes Magentic Field Reversal
• Earth's magnetic north pole is shifting..........
• The magnetic North Pole is quickly moving........
• Why we don't need to panic about a sudden reversal of Earth's magnetic poles
• Pole Patrol

• Magnets, Motors & Generators PPT (slides 11 -32)
• Oersted's Compass
• Magnetic Field Around a Wire (1)
• Magnetic Field Lines Around a Wire (2)
• Catapult Field
• Motor Force
• Right Hand Rule sheet
• FOP/PP (Force on a Conductor in a Magnetic Field)

• Balloon Lab (How many electrons on your balloon?)

• Magnets, Motors & Generators PPT (slides 33 - 41)
• Cathode Ray Tube
• Electromagnetic Deflection in a Cathode Ray Tube
• Electromagnetic Deflection in a Cathode Ray Tube, 1
• Electromagnetic Deflection in a Cathode Ray Tube, 2
• Millikan Oil Drop
• FOP/PP (Force on Moving Charges)
• FOP Review/20-25, 33-36

• BrainPop: Electromagnets
• Magnets, Motors & Generators PPT (slides 42-49)
• Torque on a Coil in a Magnetic Field
• DC Motor
• DC Motor animation
• DC Motor animation 2
• DC Motor (2)
• Electric Motor & Generators
• Diagram for DC Motor
• Notes

• QUIZ (Coulomb's Law and Vectors)

• Magnets, Motors & Generators PPT (slides 50-58)
• Electromagnetic Induction
• Simple AC Generator
• AC Generator
• Generator
• DC Generator
• DC Generator (PhysClips)
• DC Generator (2)
• PhET: Faraday's Law
• Electromagnetic Induction booklet & PP

• BrainPop: Electromagnetic Induction
• Magnets, Motors & Generators PPT (slides 59-70)
• Lenz's Law
• Neodymium Magnet in Copper Pipe
• Eddy Currents & Magnetic Damping
• What is Electromagnetic Induction?
• How a Metal Detector Works
• Eddy Currents, Magnetic Braking & Lenz's Law
• Transformer

• Review for Test (Chapters 14 & 16)
• Brilliant: Electricity & Magnetism
• PPP Review booklet (ANSWERS)
• Suggested review: p684/28-32, p798/18, p802/38-40, 42, 43, 45, 48-50

• QUIZ (Magnetic Force)

Option A

(not this year)

• 15-1 Electric Potential Difference
• PP/692

• 15-2 Electric Current
• PP/696 & PP/699

• 15-3 Resistance to Flow of Charge
• PP/708 & PP/712

• 15-4 Series & Parallel Circuits
• PP/719 & PP/724 & PP/728 & PP/731

• 15-5 Electric Power & Energy
• PP/737 & PP/740 & PP/744 & PP/746

Option B

(not this year)

• Early Quantum Theory PPT (slides 1-17)
• Planck's Law/Blackbody Spectrum
• Some Quanta of Information About Max Planck
• pHET: Blackbody Spectrum
• Step by Step
• Blackbody Radiation
• The Planck Hypothesis
• Planck & the Quanta
• Understanding Colour Temperature
• Perimeter Institute: Determining Planck's Constant

• Early Quantum Theory PPT (slides 18-39)
• PhET: Photelectric Effect
• Perimeter Institute: Photoelectric Effect Simulation
• Absorb Physics: Observing the Photoelectric Effect
• Absorb Physics: Explaining the Photoelectric Effect
• MP/851 & PP/852
• More practice: p863/16-24
• FOP: Photoelectric Effect
• Notes

• Early Quantum Theory PPT (slides 40-59)
• MP/856 & PP/857
• MP/858 & PP/859
• FOP: Momentum of a Photon, deBroglie Wavelength, Review
• PPP: Review (ANSWERS)
• Notes
• Notes (review of Quantum)

• Quantum Theory of the Atom PPT (slides 1-24)
• Star Spectra handout (ANSWERS)
• Absorb Physics: Line Spectra
• Absorb Physics: Emission Spectra
• Absorption Spectra
• work on PP, FOP & PPP

• Quantum Theory of the Atom PPT (slides 25-45)
• The Lyman, Balmer, and Paschen Series handout (ANSWERS)
• PPP sheet (Energy Level Transitions) (answers1 & answers2)
• deBroglie, hydrogen, quantum
• Models of the Hydrogen Atom
• Notes (example of energy of electron transition)
• Review of Chapters 18 & 19