Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Summer Science Internships

This is a great opportunity to do interesting work over the summer, get paid, see real science being done, prepare a science fair project, and/or build a diverse college application.

No seniors unfortunately.

I really encourage you to look into it.
Application deadline is Jan 21.


http://www.saturdayacademy.org/ASE/GeneralInformation/tabid/224/Default.aspx

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

customized problem set

UT Quest has a new service that builds a set of questions for you to use to review. Every question that you missed the first time is rewritten with new numbers so that you can try again.

Log in and then use the instructions in the link below to make your personal set.

http://web4.cns.utexas.edu/quest/support/student/customreview.pdf

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Unit 5: Momentum, Energy and Conservation Laws.

Unit 5: Momentum, Energy and the Conservation Laws

Goals
1.Define and determine work, energy and power.
2.List a variety of types of energy and classify them as potential or kinetic.
3.Solve problems using equations for gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy.
4.State and apply the law of conservation of energy.
5.Account for energy in its various forms through a series of transformations, including energy “lost” to heat.
6.Define impulse and momentum and describe how they’re related.
7.State the law of conservation of momentum and use it to solve problems in one and two dimensions.
8.Classify collisions as completely elastic, completely inelastic or somewhere in between.