Thursday 11/19/2009
Finish electrical potential energy/electrical potential notes.
Next class: Mechanics Equations quiz. No notes. No equation sheet. If I descibe an equation in words, can you write the equation from memory? All mechanics equations, including linear/rotational bridge relationships.
9:00 AM Saturday 11/14 in
T.S. Painter Hall downstairs in room 2.48 (PAI 2.48). Park in one of the parking garages
around campus. "
This program is for both students and teachers; we will meet in PAINTER HALL (PAI) in room 2.48 (on 24th street one building west of Speedway.)(There are very few unrestricted parking spaces on campus so we recommend that you park in either of the parking garages on Speedway & 27th St. or San Jacinto & 24th St., bring your parking ticket with you, and ask Pat for a free parking ticket.)"
Wednesday, 11/11/2009
Oscillating Mass-Spring System Lab (meausre spring constant). I have posted HW10 - Oscillations.
Monday, 11/9/2009
Angular Momentum Quiz. Oscillation notes.
Tuesday, 10/20/2009
Need AP Service Hours? Hate tutoring Juniors? See Ms. Lopez for breaking up catapults. Love going to hardware stores? Mr. Freeman needs cinder blocks.
Want your Energy test grade? Calculate the points you earned, and correct your test.
Friday, 10/16/2009
Today: Rotation Notes. I have posted HW7 - Rotation, due date next Friday, 10/23 at 11pm.
HW6 - Momentum and Impulse is due Sunday, 10/18 at 4pm (I extended the deadline because of scheduled Quest server maintenance.)
Friday, 10/9/2009
Continue Motion Sensor lab.
Wednesday, 10/7/2009
Today: Energy Test. I have posted HW6 - Momentum and Impulse.
Please bring your Motion Sensor Lab packets next time.
Monday, 10/5/2009
Kinetic Energy Free Response problem.
Test next time over all Mechanics topics so far (no Electricity/Magnetism topics). You may use your composition book. You need to know motion equations, projectile motion, free body diagrams, work, kinetic energy, gravitational potential energy near the surface of the earth, and the work-kinetic energy theorem.
Tuesday, 9/29/2009
Finish Net Work, Change in Kinetic Energy example problem.
Quest HW4 - Work and Energy due Wednesday night, 9/30/2009!
Thursday, 9/17/2009
Start Motion Sensor lab. Record your setup, procedure, and observations in your composition book.
Tuesday, 9/15/2009
Projectile motion example problem.
Friday, 9/11/2009
Vector Test. I have published Quest HW3 - 2D Motion.
Wednesday, 9/9/2009
Electrons in a uniform magnetic field demos (oscilloscope and bulb). Vector review and example problems. Vector Test next class.
Friday, 9/4/2009
Today we finished the notes on vector products, and looked at a static electric field example from the homework (#38). We will have a test next week on vectors. You will be able to use your composition book. In the Tipler textbook, general properties of vectors in sections 3-1 and 3-2. Scalar products (dot product) in your Tipler textbook, section 6-2. Vector products (cross product) in your Tipler textbook, section 10-1. Statics problems, Tipler section 4-6. Electric forces and fields, Tipler sections 22-3, 22-4, 22-5.
Wednesday, 9/2/2009
Today we got everyone enrolled in Quest and Moodle. The "Dot and Cross Product Practice" assignment in Moodle is due at the end of class. I have posted Quest HW2, due next week.
Monday, 8/31/2009
Today we covered a statics vector example, and vector product (cross product). You can find information on scalar products (dot product) in your Tipler textbook, section 6-2. You can find information on vector products (cross product) in your Tipler textbook, section 10-1.
Thursday, 8/27/2009
I have posted Quest HW1. The enrollment number for our class is 99523.
For those of you who need help getting started with Quest, click on the link
above, or go to quest.cns.utexas.edu. On the Quest Learning & Assessment
page, click "Get Started". On the University of Texas UT EID page, click "I
need a UT EID". Follow the instructions to obtain a UT EID. Once you have
your UT EID, go back to the main Quest Learning & Assessment page, click "Get
Started", and log in with your UT EID and password. Click "Enroll in Course".
Enter Unique # 99523. This should enroll you in my "AP Physics C" course.
In my course, you should see the assignment "HW1 - Vectors 1". This is your
first homework assignment. Please let me know if you have any trouble. --Mr.
Freeman
Today we covered:
- Collect school paperwork.
- Unit Vectors
- Vector Addition, parallelogram method and adding component vectors method.
- The negative of a vector.
- Vector Subtraction.
- Length of a vector.
- Scalar Multiplication (multiplying a scalar by a vector)
- Multiplying Two Vectors: The Scalar Product (Dot Product)
- Reasons for Using the Dot Product
Tuesday, 8/25/2009
Welcome Back, Physics-Types!
Please take a "Round Rock High School Safety Contract and Emergency Medical
Information Form" and start filling it out. Return the form to Mr. Freeman
for a participation point.
Welcome to AP Physics C! Today's goals:
- Safety Contract and Emergency Medical Information Form
- Bookmark Mr. Freeman's TeacherWeb page.
- Student Information Survey in Moodle
- Vector review
You will need to bring a composition book to class next time. Mr.
Freeman will show you an example of a composition book. You can purchase
composition books for less than $1 at nearby grocery stores or pharmacies.
The composition book will stay in my classroom until the end of the
year.
Materials you will need for this class every day:
- Composition book (leave in classroom).
- Notebook paper.
- pen or pencil.
- Scientific calculator. (you can check one out from the book room and keep it all year)
- Curiosity about the world.
Course Outline:
- Vectors
- Static Equilibrium
- Electric Field - Discrete Charge Distributions
- Force due to external Magnetic Field
- Work and Energy
- Conservation of Energy
- Rotation
- Conservation of Angular Momentum
- Electric Potential
- Electrostatic Energy and Capacitance
- Electric Current, DC Circuits
- Gravity
- Electric Field - Continuous Charge Distributions
- Gauss's Law
- Sources of Magnetic Field (Biot-Savart Law, Ampere's Law)
- Magnetic Induction (Flux, emf, Lenz's Law, Faraday's Law, Inductance)
- Oscillations
- AC Circuits
- Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves
- Newton's Laws
- Systems of Measurement
- Motion in One Dimension
- Motion in Two and Three Dimensions
- Systems of Particles and Conservation of Momentum
- Review for AP Test
