Week of 10/21 -11/4
Monday 10/20: Test on Unit D: Calculus in Kinematics
Tuesday 10/21 (1/2 period): Review Test, Do Corrections
Wednesday 10/22: Hand out Papers for Unit E, Start objectives on Unit E, Discuss SHM, Show graphs of displacement versus time, Discuss restoring forces, Demo: SHM on a screen using examples of mass on a spring, pendulum, & Uniform Circular Motion, Discuss the solution to the second-order differential equation, Show derivation of the period for a mass connected to a spring,
HW: Start working on first WebAssign for this Unit E1
Thursday 10/23 (1/2 period): Re-do derivation for Period of a mass connected to a spring in SHM (Simplify it!), Discuss Energy Conservation of Energy for a Harmonic Oscillator, Intro Geogebra Simulation for the Harmonic Oscillator, Start Simulation
HW: Complete Geogebra Simulation & Work on E1 WebAssign (due on Tuesday 10/28)
Friday 10/24: Collect Geogebra Simulation, Continue with derivations for the Period of objects in Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM): Period of a Simple Pendulum, Period of a Physical Pendulum, Period of a Torsional Pendulum, Discuss Springs in SHM, Discuss Springs in Combination, Demo: Springs in Series & Springs in Parallel
HW: Work on WebAssign E1 & E2
Monday 10/27 (1/2 period): Work on WebAssign (E1 - E3)
HW: Work on WebAssign E1 & E2--keep up with the due dates posted on WebAssign
Tuesday 10/28: Continue with Springs in Series & Parallel Demo-Measure the period of each combination and compare to the predicted values, Intro Lab on SHM, Do Lab, Turn in Lab
HW: WebAssign E2 & E3
Wednesday 10/29 (1/2 period): Any other labs to turn in?, Continue with springs in series in series & parallel,
HW: WebAssign E2 & E3
Thursday 10/30: Finish the Objectives, discuss 2-D displacement vector (parametric equations), how do we find the velocity & acceleration--take derivative, find magnitude of velocity & acceleration vectors,
HW: WebAssign E3
Friday 10/31 (1/2 period): Start review for test--Set of Google Slides,
HW: WebAssign E3 & E4
Monday 11/3: Institute Day, No Classes
Tuesday 11/4: Hand back labs, Hand in Geogebra Simulation, Continue with Google Slides for SHM, Demo: Resonance with a singing rod!, Hand put papers for Unit F: Electrostatics, Discuss Atomic Structure, State and discuss Coulomb's Law,
HW: WebAssign E4
****Note: E4 WebAssign due on day of test-Thursday!!
Wednesday 11/5 (1/2 period): Continue with review for Unit E Test, Discuss derivations for test, Discuss Lab on SHM and how to find the Moment of Inertia (I) for a physical pendulum using the Parallel Axis Theorem (For the case of the meter stick and the coffee can), Try the mock MCQ for this unit.
HW: E4 WebAssign due tomorrow!
Thursday 11/6: Test on Unit E--SHM (5 FR, 18 MC)
Friday 11/7: Review of Test on Units E