APC Physics CLASS LOG and HOMEWORK
NOTE: HW is done the night it is assigned and due the next day
Class 1 = first class of the week (and thus do the HW the night of the first class of the week)
Class 2 = second class of the week, etc.
Week of Jan 4 - Jan 8: Harmonic Motion
Class1:
• Pass back finals
• Start SHM
• solving 2nd order differential equations
• HW: Ch. 17 MC #4,5; Ex#1,4,7,15,21
Class2:
• HW check
• Pendulum notes
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• HW: Ch. 17Ex #17,25,27
Class3:
• Problem solving day
• Physical pendulum
• Ch. 17 #29,33,37,38 Prob# 5
• HW:finish above
Class4:
• HW review
• Daming and Res Notes
• Demo: Glass breaker
• HW: Ch. 17 Ex#46,51; Prob#11
Week of Jan 11 - 15: Simple and not so simple harmonic motion
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• SHM lab
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• HW:Ch. 17 Ex#29; Prob#6, 13, 16
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• SHM lab
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• HW: Lab report due tomorrow
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• HW and Review Day
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• HW: Practice test with Solutions: pg1, pg2 (disclaimer: the test is a little harder)
Class4:
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• Test on SHM and Gravity (mostly SHM)
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• HW: MLK wkd!
Week of Jan 19 - 22: Electro-statics for the big boys
Class1:
• Magic Show
• Coulomb Law notes
• Ch. 25 Q#1,2,3,6,13,16
• HW: Ch. 25 MC#1,4,5,6,7,11; Ex#1,5,6,9,11
Class2:
• HW Check (seriously though)
• Spherical charge distributions
• Continuous ch. distributions in general
• HW: Ch. 25 Ex #16,19; Prob#4-6
Class3:
• Class time to work on the questions
• Continuous charge distributions
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• HW: Ch. 25 Ex#23,25; Prob.#8,9,11
Week of Jan 25 - 29: Electric Field
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• Surprise Group Quiz on Electrostatics
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• HW: Read pgs 587- 590; MC#7,8,9;
Class2:
• Show E-field Simulation
• E-Field
• Start HW
• HW: Ex#4,18, 20,21,24 (see to E-feild simulation to check your answers);
Class3:
• HW Check and review
• Dipole moments
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• HW: Ch. 26 Ex#36,37; Prob#4
Class4:
• HW Q's
• Workday on ch. 26 Ex#11,18; Prob#5,7,10,12,13
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• HW:Finish above problems and prepare your board presentation for Monday. Each student will present one of the above problems and graded on the clarity of their explanation.
Week of Feb 1 - 5: Gauss' Law
Class1:
•Workday
• Ch.26 Prob #5,7,10,12,13
• HW: Read pgs 611-615 and do Q#2,3,4; Ex#1
Class2:
• Go over HW
• Gauss' Law
•(if time) go through Q's 7,9
• HW: Ch.27 Q#7,9; MC#2,3,11; Ex#10,15
Class3:
• HW Q's
• Gauss' Law Recap
• Ex. the Co-axial cable
• HW: Ch.27 Q#18,19; MC# 6,12,13; Ex#21,22
Class4:
• HW Review
• Gauss' Law and Conductors
• AP problem
• HW: Ch.27 Ex#18,24,25; Prob#5
Week of Feb 8 - 12: Gauss Law
Class1:
• HW Q's
•Workday
• Ch.27 Prob#3,4,6,8,10,17* (*= for the brave)
• HW: finish above
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• HW: Study for Test Ch.25- 27 (ask advocate if can miss check in tomorrow)
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• Big Test on Gauss Law and Electrostatics in general
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Week of Feb 22 - 26: Equipotential
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• Movie
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• Cayley's unfortunate squirrel
• Electric Potential notes
• Demo: understand equipotential -feel the pain!
• HW: Ch. 28 Study table 28-1 and figure 28-5 also do
MC#3,5,7,9; Ex#4,5,7 (recall Q=mL, L=80cal/g for water), 9, 13,19
Class3:
• HW review
• Ch. 28 Q # 1,2,4,8,12 and then MC #12,13,14,15
• AP Problem
• HW:Read pgs 648 - 650, Ch. 28 Ex#30,35,37; Prob#3 and study for the quiz tomorrow
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• Quiz on Electropotential
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• HW: Chill
Week of March 1 - 5: Magnetism
Class1:
• Pass back quizzes, discuss
• Magnetism, domains and monopoles
• Demo: electron laser and helmholtz coils
• HW:Ch. 32 Read pgs 725 - 732; MC#2,3,10; Ex#1,2,4,7,11,13,15
Class2:
• HW Review
• Demo: Hall Effect
• Hall Effect and force on a current carrying wire
• HW: Ch. 32 MC#11,12; Ex#25,26,29
Class3:
• HW Review
• Ch. 32 Q# 12,17,18,20,22
• Workday on Ch. 32 Prob#6,9,10* (*for the brave)
• HW: Finish the above before tomorrow
Class4:
• Ch. 32 Prob#11,19
• Demo: Oestard's surprise
• Mag field of a current carrying wire
• HW: Ch. 33 MC#5,7; Q#4, Ex#15,21,23,24
Week of March 8 - 12: Magnetism and current
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• Biot Savart Law
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• HW: Ch. 33 MC#1,3,4; Q#4,13; Ex#5; Prob#1
Class2:
• HW Q's
• B-field calculations: straight wire, solenoids
• Force between two wires
• HW: Ch. 33 MC#8-10; Ex#8,10,15,18; Prob#2
Class3:
• HW Q's
• Ampere's law
• Ch.33 Q#17,24
• HW: Ch.33 MC#12,13; Ex#31,33,35,37; Prob#12
Week of March 15 - 19: Test on Magnetism
Class1:
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• Ampere's Law discussion
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• HW: Ch.. 33 prob #11 (not hard), catch up on all HW assigned last week
Class2:
• AP problems
• Review Day
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• HW: Study for ch. 32,33 test
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• Test on magnetism FR
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• Test on Magnetism MC
• Free play
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Week of March 22 - 26: Faraday's Law
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• Faraday's Law
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• HW: Ch. 34
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• Rebar launcher, ring launcher
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• HW:Ch. 34 Prob #8,9
Class3:
• Kirkoff's law is for the Birds
• AP problem
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• HW: Take home Quiz on Faraday's Law, due the day we get back.
Week of April 12 - 16: Inductance
Class1:
• Go over quizzes
• Inductors
• Ifly
• HW: Ch. 36 MC#3,5; Ex#4,8,9
Class2:
• Recap Inductors
• LR, LC and LRC circuits
• Demo: a resonant LRC circuit with a speaker
• HW: Ch. 36 Ex#18,19,41,44
Class3:
• The Transformer
• Demo: homemade transformer
• ch. 36 #21
•HW: Read pgs. 845-850, ch.37 #27,29; Prob#4
Class4:
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• Maxwell's Equations
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• HW:Start APC test review. Do the 2000 exam, all FR, both mech and EM. Also grade yourself using the solutions provided.
Week of April 19 - 23: AP Review: Mechanics
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• review
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• HW: Mech 98 MC
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• review MC
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• HW: Mech '03 FR APC test review
Class3:
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• Mech '09 Exam
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• HW: Mech '06 FR
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• Mech '08 FR
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• HW: Mech '07 FR and finish '08 FR
Week of April 26 - 30: AP review
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• EM Multiple choice
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• HW: Mech '08 FR
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• Mech questions
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• HW: Mech '05
Class3:
• Go over Mech questions
• Mech '06 FR
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• HW: EM '08 FR
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• EM Q's
• EM '07 FR
• HW: EM '05 FR
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