Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Lab Two - Newton's Second Law

The form linked to below gives you the questions to answer in your next lab report.

Please copy the questions from it into your lab document and answer them.  Also insert the diagrams, data tables and graphs as requested.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HxInZrn-IwDish4SOKo0-T-9SGX3Z-hBWkaSAdIgyBU/edit?usp=sharing

Please make the new report the first thing in your lab document - your googledocs file.

Remember to give me the ability to edit your document.

Unit Three - Newton's Laws

Goals
1.      Draw Force Vectors.
2.      Calculate Weight.
3.      Solve Problems with Net Force.
4.      Know that when an object is at rest or moving with constant velocity that Fnet = 0 and all of the forces are balanced.
5.      Understand what terminal velocity is and how it is reached.
6.      Be able to explain why all objects in freefall have an acceleration of 9.8 m/s2
7.      Understand that forces are interactions between two things and that each object exerts an equal and opposite force on the other.
8.      Know Newton’s Three Laws of Motion by name.
In general, understand Newton’s 3 laws and apply them to explain motion.


Lab Due Date:  Nov. 4/5 
Homework due in the evening of Oct. 27, Nov 3, and Nov. 13
Test Date Nov. 18 and 19  

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Unit Two – Vectors and Kinematics in Two Dimension


Covers Sections 4.1, 4,2 and 7,2  or  continue reading from the links on the physics tutorial website http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/vectors/

Unit Goals:
1. Know that perpendicular vectors are independent
2. Add vectors graphically with parallelogram and head to tail methods.
3. Use trig and Pythagorean theorem to find resultant.
4. Break vectors into perpendicular components graphically and with trig.
5. Solve motion problems in 2D.

Test - Thursday Oct. 16 and Monday Oct. 20

Homework due 10:00 pm Monday the 6th, and Monday the 13th.