Friday, January 22, 2010

Friday, Jan 22, 2010

Quiz on Standing Waves

Students finished work on labs: Waves on a string, waves in a pipe, and Tones and Telephones. Lab write-ups are due on Tuesday.

For Waves on a String I'm looking for computer generated graphs showing linear trends with slopes and uncertainties in slopes where possible. Students will make graphs of frequency vs # of segments and also show a linear graph relating tension and velocity.
Data: mass (g) velocity (m/s)
250 33.3
350 37.5, 39.55
450 45.7
550 48.72
As a hint, also asked students to calculate the mass per unit length of the string.

For Waves in a Pipe lab, I want a graph of depths vs resonance number

For Tones and Telephones, I just need the results of the telephone signals

Handed out RA 28.1, RA 28.2 also due Tuesday

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Wed, Jan 20, 2010

Collected RA 18.2

Handed back Labs on Snell's Law, Speed of Sound in Air
Answered questions
Answered questions on standing waves homework

Explained labs
Students did Waves on a String Lab
Waves in a Pipe Lab
Tones, Vowels, and Telephones

Labs due Jan 26

Friday Jan 15, 2010

Introduced standing waves

Friday, January 15, 2010

Wed, Jan 13, 2010

Went over Refraction Worksheet

Students did Speed of Sound Lab and Snell's Law Lab

Write-ups due on Friday

Monday, January 11, 2010

Monday, Jan 11, 2010

Short period due to Human Rights Assembly.

Students handed in Calorimetry Labs and RA 18.1

Students went to library and checked out the IB Physics book. I had students write their names in the front cover.

Went over wave properties: reflection, refraction (including index of refraction and critical angle), and diffraction.

Handed out worksheet on reflection

Asked students to look at first 5 problems at end of chapter.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Thursday, Jan 7, 2010

Handed back Waves Pretest

Introductory lecture on waves

Answered most of the Pretest questions in the class lecture. Answered most of the remaining ones at the end of the class.

Homework: RA 18.1 due Monday

Tuesday, Jan 5, 2010

Gave students pretest on Waves

Students did slinky lab

Calorimetry lab write-up due on Monday. No late labs accepted.