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Dear students and parents,
Get ready for a challenging and rewarding year here at Yorba Linda! AP Physics 1 is an intensive college-level course that integrates all the skills acquired in your previous Science, Math and English classes. As you work through the labs, homework, classwork, computer simulations, projects and other learning experiences in the class, you will feel moments of both frustration and triumph. This website is here for you in an attempt limit the former of those two emotions.
I will be updating this website and Google Classroom daily with homework assignments and class announcements. For everyday class announcements and assignments, check Google Classroom every day. For broad overviews of our Daily Agendas or for extra study resources, check this website. I run Google Classroom with more of a blog format, where I talk about what we covered during class that day and I give the homework for that night. Many homework assignments this year will involve watching online videos or using lab simulators. I will always post a link on Google Classroom when necessary.
Please explore the links on the AP Physics home page on this website, where you can find general class documents and helpful links, and other resources. Throughout the summer, the only active page will be Welcome/Summer Homework. I will be activating and utilizing the other pages once the school year begins.
Have a great summer and I’ll see you in August!
Cheers,
Mr. Hipwell
Summer Homework and Setting Up the Lab Notebook
I WILL PROVIDE HARD COPIES OF THE PAPERS LINKED HERE AT THE AP INFO NIGHT, NO NEED TO PRINT IT YOURSELF!
The first part of your summer homework is to complete this packet:
Most of you picked it up during the AP homework night. It contains review material about basic science, math, graphing and analytical skills.
The second part of your summer homework is to set up your lab notebook. First, get a notebook like this one (8.5" x 11" and NOT spiral bound). Be sure it is a graph paper composition book. The bigger the better, so you don't need to cut the margins off of lab handouts before gluing them in. NOTE: Students have purchased similar notebooks from Target or Staples and the pages fall out due to poor construction. I HIGHLY recommend getting this one on Amazon or its hardcover counterpart from the same link. Any heavy duty graphing composition book of 8.5 x 11" should work, the key is just that it is strong.
Below are a series of pictures of the first several pages of what your lab notebook should look like when you arrive on the first day of school. Get the table of contents ready, glue the references pages into the notebook and number the pages, as shown. Your notebook should look exactly like mine on the first day of school. Zooming in will help… all web browsers are different, but pushing Ctrl and + will zoom in on most browsers (Ctrl and – will zoom back out).
First available right-hand page: set up a table of contents as shown below
First available right-hand page: set up a table of contents as shown below
After turning the page from the Table of Contents, leave the left page blank. Then on the right page, blue in the AP Physics Lab Notebook Guidelines and number it as Page "1" in the top right corner, as shown.
After turning the page from the Table of Contents, leave the left page blank. Then on the right page, blue in the AP Physics Lab Notebook Guidelines and number it as Page "1" in the top right corner, as shown.
On the next page, glue in the Conclusion Paragraph directions and label it as Page "2". On the right page, glue in the Guidelines for Constructing Scientific Data Tables and label it as Page "3". This page numbering will continue throughout the entire notebook.
On the next page, glue in the Conclusion Paragraph directions and label it as Page "2". On the right page, glue in the Guidelines for Constructing Scientific Data Tables and label it as Page "3". This page numbering will continue throughout the entire notebook.
On page 4, glue in Guidelines for how to make a graph in AP Physics. On page 5, glue in the Example Graph.
On page 4, glue in Guidelines for how to make a graph in AP Physics. On page 5, glue in the Example Graph.
On page 6, glue in the metric prefixes and graphing relationships. Page 7 is the directions for Using PASCO Capstone Software.
On page 6, glue in the metric prefixes and graphing relationships. Page 7 is the directions for Using PASCO Capstone Software.
Page 8 is the Student Safety Contract and page 9 is blank.
Page 8 is the Student Safety Contract and page 9 is blank.
Page 10 starts our Introduction to Kinematics Lab. We will always begin new labs on the left page. Page 11 is a strip for Data Collection and Analysis Procedure direction and then set up the data table and graph as shown below.
Page 10 starts our Introduction to Kinematics Lab. We will always begin new labs on the left page. Page 11 is a strip for Data Collection and Analysis Procedure direction and then set up the data table and graph as shown below.
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