Friday, March 11, 2016

How to Stay Caught Up in Class Despite Field Trips, Testing and Other Disruptions

Of course the best thing is to be in class.  None of these alternatives will have all of the nuances of my presentation, but they are good, and doing some of these outside of class will make it easier to make sense of what is going on when you come back to class.

These descriptions are labeled by the dates that periods 2,3 and 4 will cover this material.  Period 6 always hits it the next day.

Wed 3/9 - Converging lens activity and notes on principle rays and ray diagrams
Something similar online :  Most of lesson 5 here  http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/refrn  Also the interactive that is linked to throughout the lessons will be good.

Friday 3/11 - More practice with converging lenses, ray diagrams, and the lensmaker's equation.  Also introduce diverging lenses.
Something similar online:  More of lesson 5 here:  http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/refrn  and the interactive

Tuesday 3/13 (ACT day)  - More details about the wave model - interference, the 2 slit experiment, and the electro magnetic spectrum
Something similar online:  http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/light lessons 1 a,b,c 2a and 3a

Thursday 3/15 - Review, the photoelectric effect, Compton x-ray scattering
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