SC 130 Physical Science spring 2010
Files on this page are in a variety of formats. See note.
General course files
Spring 2010 calender and syllabus •
.ods •
Generic syllabus and calendar in text
Outline
Assessment fall 2009
General education program laboratory science outcome assessment rubric
Inventory
Text
Access to material from other terms
Lab write-up format sample (odt)
Jump rope lab sample in xhtml
Notes on durable for life email addresses
Activities, laboratories, and evaluations in chronologic order
Course introduction: Space, time, and matter
Space, time, and matter. The rest is energy.
Unit one: standard measures of space, time and matter
011 Measuring space, time and matter:
Getting to know your personal measurements
012 Laboratory one: Speaking on a soap box
013 rubric
Making XY graphs in OpenOffice 2.4 and 3.0 [T?]
Making XY graphs in Excel [T?]
Unit two: linear motion
021 Measuring motion: What is your velocity?
022 Laboratory two: Linear motion A rolling ball gathers no moss
023 rubric
022 lab report feedback notes
Unit three: accelerated motion
031 Parabolic path: The arc of a sphere
032 Laboratory three: accelerated motion
Dropping the ball on the job
033 rubric
Unit four: kinetic energy and linear momentum
041 Conservation of energy: Banana leaf marble ramp
042 Lab 04: Momentum Loosing your marbles
043 rubric
Unit five: Forces and Newton's law
051 Forces
The Book of Phyz by Dean Baird
056 Lab 05 Hooke's Law
Unit six: heat
061 Introduction to temperature: boiling and melting
062 Laboratory six: heat conduction If you cannot take the heat, get a non-conductor
063 rubric
Optional interstitial activity [Can occur at any point in term]
061 Air pressure activities
Unit seven: Latitude and Longitude
071 Hide and seek activity
072 Laboratory seven: Changes in latitude, longitude, and the metric system
Walking the line - of latitude [T]
073 rubric
Unit eight: Clouds
081 Relative humidity and precipitation
082 Laboratory eight: Clouds The stuff of which dreams are made
083 rubric
Unit nine: Sound
091 Waves on a chain
092 Laboratory nine: Sound. Mach one: the speed of sound
093 rubric
Unit ten: Optics
101 Lenses
102 Laboratory ten: reflection and refraction Mirror, mirror on the wall
103 Rubric
Unit eleven: Spectra: the colors of light
111 Activity includes playing with a cereal box spectrometer, colors of the rainbow
112 Laboratory eleven: colors of light Somewhere over the rainbow [T]
Spectrum using SVG
Unit twelve: Electricity and magnetism
121 Magnetism, magnetic fields, and iron filings
122 Laboratory twelve: Circuits, conduction, and Ohm's law Let your light bulb shine
123 rubric
Unit thirteen: Chemistry
131 Introduction to periodic table, chemical symbology
132 Laboratory thirteen: Flower colors, acids, and bases:
Chemistry from the flower garden in the kitchen
Chemicals print out sheets for use in lab
133 rubric
Unit fourteen: Astronomy
One minute celestial objects presentations
Monday-Wednesday video: Stephen Hawking and the theory of everything
Favorite labs survey
142 Laboratory 14: Final practical fall 2007: Angle of reflection
142 Laboratory 14: Final practical spring 2008: Image depth
142 Laboratory 14: Final practical fall 2008: Magnification
142 Laboratory 14: Final practical spring 2009: Index of refraction of glass from image depth
142 Laboratory 14 :Final practical fall 2009: Index of refraction of glass from image depth
Unit fifteen: Cosmology
Cosmology
MITC DVD 393:
Stephen Hawking and the theory of everything.
Join Hawking and other renowned thinkers as they explore the revolutionary new ideas that have evolved since the publication of his blockbuster book. Besides interviews, this stimulating documentary uses computer graphics and simple, easy-to-understand demonstrations to explain complex concepts. Topics include black holes, string theory, super symmetry, dimensions beyond our perception, and the mysterious M force - all potential keys to unlocking the elusive "theory of everything" that seems so tantalizingly close.
152 Laboratory fifteen:
Site swap notation Keeping three too-many balls up in the air
Sample final fall 2009. Questions will vary.
Homework and coursework related materials
Significant digits in the soap box volume laboratory •
pdf
Stopwatch operation •
stopwatch diagram
Ball arc activity •
.plt •
blank
Ball arc as activity two spring 2008
Sphere arc activity fall 2008
Using statistical modes on a Sharp EL-531W calculator
Marble momentum
Graph choices
Mathematical models
SVG graph and relationship analysis decision tree
Math models two homework
Award words
Cabinet clean-up
table maker •
html
Instructional support materials
OpenOffice Calc file for building xhtml5 pages with SVG xy scatter graph
SVG and MathMl testbed page
Magnifying lens regression
Text
Ball arc
Center of gravity and cantilevers •
cantilever.ods
Fall 2008:
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A few are Gnuplot plot files.
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- .ods OpenOffice.org Calc
- .odt OpenOffice.org Writer
- .pdf Adobe Acrobat Portable Document File
- .plt Gnuplot 4.0 file. Edit with text editor, open with Gnuplot
- .png Portable Network Graphic
- .wxm Maxima wxMaxima 5.12 file
- .xhtml XHTML5 + MathMl + SVG
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