Lab Notebooks

Second Semester Table of Contents:

1. Momentum & Impulse Notes, equations & practice problem

2. Bouncing picture, pg. 254 #89

3. Car Crash Safety Devices tables (2)

4. "Physics Dictates Car CrashOutcomes" article questions (6)

5. pg. 252 #72

6. Post-crash test video analysis questions (2)

7. Crash Test Barrier Lab

8. Air Track Lab (3rd = Conservation of Momentum Notes)

Notebook Check #1 as a google doc or pdf

9. Conservation of Momentum Notes (Air Track Lab)

10. pg. 254 #90 and pg. 253 #77

11. Work & power introduction (definitions, equations, drawings)

12. Work Review of Labs

Notebook check in the form of a quiz this week

13. Energy Skate Park Lab (questions #1-17)

14. Rollercoaster picture & practice

15. Energy Demos & Challenges: two questions about bouncing ball, three questions about bird bouncing ball, two questions about pendulums)

16. Conservation of Energy notes & practice problem

17. Barnett only: Pile Driver table

Notebook check #2 & 3 as a google doc or pdf

18. Exploring Heat Transfer Lab; conductor vs insulator table and types of heat transfer picture

19. Passive Solar Home Article Questions

20. Laws of Thermodynamics Notes & pictures

21. Heat devices notes & pictures

Notebook check #4 as a google doc or pdf

22. Heat demos & predictions chart

23. Drinking Bird paragraph

24. Wave Vocabulary Sort (words, definitions and pictures)

25. Wave Concept Map, longitudinal and transverse wave drawings

26. Direct Measurement Slinky Lab

27. Wave Equations & Practice

28. Wave Interactions Notes

Notebook check #5 as a google doc or pdf

29. Standing Wave Notes and activity (table)

30. Tsunami Wave Video Questions (8)

31. Sound Stations Lab (23 questions + pre-lab)

32. Sound notes

33. Sound practice problems (2-3 in class + pg. 426 #66 and 86)

34. How humans hear & dB scale

Notebook check #6 as a google doc or pdf

35. Doppler Effect & Supersonic Notes (picture, equation, etc.)

36. Beats notes and pg. 427 #91

37. Sound Stations Lab Day 2

38. Sound Stations Lab Day 3

39. Air resonance notes & practice

40. Resonance Lab

Notebook check #7 as a google doc or pdf

41. Electrostatics Vocab (half sheet)

42. Static Electricity Partner Practice

43. Coulomb's Law Notes

44. Electrophorus Build It Activity (table & Conclusion)

45. Electric Field Notes

46. PhET Electric Field Hockey and Charges & Fields Simulations

Notebook check #8 as a (google doc or pdf)

47. Electric Current, Resistance and power notes & practice

48. Schematic study guide: rules and symbols

49. Ohm's Law Lab

Notebook Check #9 as a (google doc or pdf)

50. Genecon & Bulbs Challenge

51. Series & Parallel Notes

52. Series Lab OR Parallel Lab

53. Series-Parallel notes & practice

54. CH. 23 Review worksheet

Notebook Check #10 (pdf or google doc)

55. Magnetism Review worksheet

56. Magnetism Observation Lab

57. & 58. Investigating Force and Compass & Current Labs

59. Electromagnetism Notes and Right Hand Rules Sheet

60. Practice Problems pg. 654 #18, 19 and pg. 658 #23, 24 with GUESS

Notebook Check #11 (pdf or google doc)

61. Electromagnetic Inductance notes

62. Speed of Light Intro & Electromagnetic Spectrum

63. Light Phenomenon Lab

64. Colored Light Lab

65. Reflected Color Lab

Notebook Check #12 (pdf or google doc)

66. Bending Light Lab

67. Snell's Law Notes & practice

68. Critical Angle & Total Internal Reflection Notes

69. Critical Angle & Total Internal Reflection Lab

70. Critical Angle Prism

71. Rearview Mirror worksheet

72. Lens Notes

Notebook Check #13 (pdf or google doc)

First Semester Table of Contents:

  1. Syllabus

  2. ABCs of Physics

  3. Greek of Physics

  4. Metric System reference table

  5. Notebook guidelines (pdf or google doc)

  6. [blank for later reference]

  7. [blank for later reference]

  8. (still blank but will be) Metric System & Graphing Unit outline page

  9. Unit lecture notes

  10. Graphing Notes

  11. Graphing Experimental Data Claim-Evidence-Reasoning Lab

  12. Braking & Reaction distance Graphing Practice half sheet and graph paper

  13. Partner Problems: pg. 24 #43; pg. 41 then #14-17 stamped

  14. Graphing Displacement of a (Constant Velocity) Car lab ; data table and graph

  15. Position graph notes

  16. Position-Time Graph Practice questions #1-8

  17. Velocity & Acceleration graph notes

  18. Displacement-, Velocity- and Acceleration-Time graphs plotted stamped

  19. Notebook check #1 rubric is here as a pdf or google doc

19. Error & Data Analysis Notes (fill-in-the-blank half sheet)

20. pg. 81-82 #83 and 111 graphs stamped

21. Constant Velocity vs Accelerating Car Lab questions, printed graph

22. Kinematics Graphs Worksheet #1 stamped

23. Two Speed Shifter Lab, printed graph & Practice Sheet stamped

Notebook check #2 rubric is here as a pdf or google doc

24. Kinematics Graph Worksheet #2 stamped

25. Freely Falling Lab #1-10

26. Kinematics Graph Worksheet #3

27. Kinematics Notes

28. Distracted Driving Articles (5 questions)

Notebook check #3: rubric is here as a pdf or google doc

29. Distracted Reaction Time Lab (procedure, data & analysis, reflection)

30. Distracted Reaction Time Lab Extension (6 GUESS questions)

31. Dangers of Distracted Driving Worksheet (2 stamps)

32. Motion Detector Ball Toss Lab

Notebook Check #4: rubric is here as a pdf or google doc

33. Air Pressure Rocket Lab (4 GUESS calculations, 2 data tables)

34. Horizontally shot vs Dropped drawing

35. Horizontally shot projectile Practice problem

36. PhET Projectile Cannon Lab

37. Range of Projectile Ball Lab (including paper marked by carbon paper)

Notebook Check #5: rubric is here as a pdf or google doc

38. PVC Dart Gun Lab

39. Newton's First Law Observation Lab with Newton's First Law

40. Mass vs Acceleration Lab (with two graphs - stamped)

41. Force vs Acceleration Lab (one graph - stamped)

42. Force Vector Diagrams Rules & types of Forces

43. Net Force Practice problem

Notebook Quiz instead of check

44. "Elevator" summary table & practice problem(s)

45. Mini-Elevator Lab

46. Practice Pulley Problem(s)

Notebook check #7: Rubric is here as a pdf or google doc

47. Friction notes (definition, equation)

48. Friction Lab (Prelab #1&2, two full lab procedures, data, Analyzing Questions #3-6, Applying Questions #7 & 8)

49. Tension Lab (data tables & questions #1-7)

50. Third Law notes

Notebook Check #8: rubric is here as a pdf or google doc

51. Dynamics (Incline Planes) Notes & three practice problems

52. Dynamics Lab with prelab drawing, data table, GUESS calculations of Fg, Ff, mu, Applying questions #2-6 including two more GUESS

53. Hanging Sign Lab with prelab drawing, two data tables, Analyzing questions #3-5, Applying questions #6-8, etc.

Notebook check #9: rubric is here as a pdf or google doc

54. Center of Mass Observations Lab

55. PhET Torque Lab Simulation

56. Torque Challenge

Peer notebook check #10: rubric is here as a pdf or google doc

57. Spinning Lights Observations

58. Circular Motion Lab

59. Direct Measurement Video: Centripetal Motion (questions and graphs)

60. Newton Article & (8) Questions

61. Universal Gravitation Notes & practice

62. PhET Gravity & Orbits Simulation

Notebook Quiz instead of a check

63. The Pluto Files ch. 2 questions #1-18

64. The Pluto Files cont. questions #1-4

65. Mission Research Summaries (one per topic)

66. Kepler's 3 Laws notes & practice problem

67. Kepler Mission Light Curve Assignment (both sides)

Notebook Check #12: rubric is here as a pdf or google doc