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Also view the rubric used by your teacher and the evaluation instrument you will use while classmates present.
Created: Wednesday, May 18 1:33 AM

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Questions to answer after watching The Elegant Universe
(string theory)

1. Describe in your own words, using 3-5 sentences, what string theory is.

2. How can the implications of string theory change the way we view the universe?

3. Do you think scientists will ever be able to fully understand and explain the universe? Explain.

4. Name at least one thing you think string theorists have right and one thing you think they are mistaken about.


Regular Physics Link to video:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/elegant-universe-dimensions.html

AP Physics Link to video: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/elegant-universe-string.html

Created: Friday, May 20 11:58 AM

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Course Review Test
Covering all topics in the course objectives in approximately the same proportion (from course description) as an actual AP test

We will take it on Thu 4/28 - Mon 5/3
You must take all three parts by before school on 5/4

We will review it on Tue 5/4 and Wed 5/5 (AP calc on Wed)

If you are absent you will need to make it up before or after school via appointment.

Created: Tuesday, April 5 9:02 PM

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Electricity and Magnetism Test
will also include Atomic and Nuclear Physics (Part V) 
Created: Tuesday, April 5 8:25 PM

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In Chapters 20-21 only the following sections are required:
20-1,2,3,4,5,6
21-1,2,3,4,5

These are your homework problems:
Ch 20
Problems: 3 5 9 11 12 13 15 19 27 28 29 33 37 41 43 44
Ch 21
Problems: 1-5 8-15
Created: Monday, March 21 12:33 AM

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This is really a lab for regular physics but we're going to do it too.
We won't be turning it in, but you should include it in your lab notebook.
Created: Sunday, March 13 12:12 AM

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Circuits HW:

You must show work for every problem


Ch 18
Questions: 3 5-7 12 18 19
Problems: 5 9-19odd 26 27 33 35 37 38 56 57 59 63 65


Ch19
Questions: 1-7 10
Problems: 1 2 3-13odd 17 19 21 24-26 35-39 84 87

Even answers:
Ch18
26. 17 ohm
38. 16W
56. 3600C

Ch19
2. 0.33 ohm
24.17.4 V, 13.3 V
26. 0V
36.2.07 10 F in parallel, 1.83 10 F in series
38. V(2.00)= 26.0V, V(3.00) 14.9 V, V(4.00) 11.1V
84. 8.5V
Created: Wednesday, March 9 3:21 PM

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Lab Quiz on the previous two labs is scheduled for Monday 3/7
Created: Sunday, February 27 11:47 PM

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This Lab (Lightbulb and Ohm's Law) is scheduled to begin 3/2

Each student will be REQUIRED to print out this sheet or use the procedure they write in their lab notebook. You may not use your phone or someone else's printout of the procedure.

While I don't typically recommend using wikipedia, there is some good information when researching how a light bulb works (search: incandescent light bulb)
Created: Thursday, March 3 5:33 PM

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Note that this pdf is slightly modified from the originally posted version to aid in comprehension.

Lab days will be Fri 2/25 and Mon 2/28.
Lab quiz will encompass this and the following (lightbulb) lab and will be on or around Fri 3/4.
Created: Wednesday, February 23 11:44 PM

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Because it was asked for.
This version is not completed
Created: Wednesday, February 23 11:47 PM

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FYI: Electrostatics Quiz will be on 2/24.
It will be relatively short (1 or 2 FR questions = under 30 minutes)
and there will be a short lesson after.
Created: Thursday, February 17 7:56 PM

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Electrostatics HW

Ch16
Questions 1,4,5,8,12-17
Problems 1,3,6,12,13,19,23,25,33,35,41,64

Ch17
Questions 1-5
Problems 1,2,5,6,14,15,19,20,24,
Created: Thursday, February 17 7:36 PM

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YOSEMITE STUDENTS only

Click the link below that says:

Complete the assignment that included the lightning videos. Answer the questions on your own sheet of paper and turn them in on Wednesday.

Students in regular physics need not answer the question about Franklin's Bells

Welcome back.
Created: Monday, February 14 2:47 PM

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Watch these videos: http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/raging-planet-lightning/

Answer these:
Explain how lightning is created (use a narrative and pictures.)
What are the best and worst places to be in a lightning storm? Why?
Why does a car keep you safe during a lightning storm?
Explain how Franklin's Bells work (again with pictures and a narrative.)
Created: Monday, February 7 2:33 PM

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Just a reminder that your waves test is Thu 2/3
It will include the objectives under
IV Waves and Optics
A. Wave motion (including sound)
B. Physical optics

(C. Geometric optics is not being specifically tested but remember that all tests are cumulative.)

Created: Wednesday, February 2 4:13 PM

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Well I screwed this up big time.

The problems should be from CHAPTER 24 NOT 22

Ch 11
36-38 41 43 44 47 54-56

Ch 12
4 25 36 41

Ch 22
1 3 4 14 15 18 19 20 27 28 37 39 41 42 47 53

Answers to the HW:
Chapter 11:
36. 2.2m/s
37. 1.31m
38. Between 190m and 550m & Between 2.78m to 3.41m
41. 0.35s
43. 2.1x10^3m
44. 1.9x10^3 km
47. 4.6 x10^9 W/m2 & 2.3x10^10W
54. 70 Hz, 140 Hz, 210 Hz, 350 Hz
55. 9.7x10^-2m
56. 70 Hz

Chapter 12:
1. 0.64s 2.9s
25. 76.6 Hz, 230 Hz, 383 Hz, 736 Hz/ 135 Hz, 300 Hz 489 Hz (unsure) 612 Hz
36. 4.3m
41. 28.5 kHz

Chapter 24:
1. 490 nm
3. 620nm, 4.8x10^14 Hz
4. 3.9cm
14. 3%
15. 0.22 degrees
18. 782nm
19. 2.51m
20. 0.45cm
27. 4.43 degrees
28. 447nm
37. 579000 lines/m
39. 1.08cm
41. 169nm
42. 228nm
47. 471nm
53. 0.089
Created: Wednesday, February 2 4:27 PM