Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Thursday, Oct 1, 2009 - 3B

HW: Each student will write up planning part of Spring Constant Lab - due Monday

Hand back RA 11.2, RA 11.1, BB Pancake Lab
Start lecture on SHM
Hand out worksheet on SHM problems

Tuesday, Sept 29, 2009 - 3B

HW: Oleic Acid Lab due on Thursday

Handed out IB Internal Assessment Sheet
Went over what is required for IB labs

Showed students Vernier probes and sensors

Went over RA 11.1
Collected RA 11.1

Friday, Sep 25, 2009 - 3B

Oleic Acid Lab due Thursday
RA 11.1 due Tuesday

Collected RA 11.2

Students did Oleic Acid Lab
Write-up due next Thursday
This lab will be an IB Portfolio lab for data acquisition and processing

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Wed Sept 23, 2009 - 3B

Homework due Friday:
1. Hand in BB Pancake Lab
2. Redo and hand in computer exercise graphs and uncertainty exercises if students didn't get 100% correct.
3. RA 11.2
4. Continue doing Review Questions from IB Physics 1
5. Uncertainty quiz on Friday.

It is important students keep up because next week we go full steam ahead into new material for IB Physics 2.

Handed back redos of computer uncertainty assignment. Asked student to again redo if they did not get it all correct.

Quiz on relative uncertainty.
Asked students to correct mistakes.

Showed Hewitt video on Scaling.
Handed out Reading Assignment due Friday.

I set up a computer with a program so that students could check their BB Pancake Lab results before handing it in. I emailed this program to students as well.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Monday, Sept 21, 2009 - 3B

Hand back computer graphs and spreadsheets on uncertainty.
For spreadsheet exercise on uncertainty, students should not have to type in any values. They should just say one cell equals another and then format that cell to have the correct number of sig figs.

Have students redo the exercises until they get them correct.

Go over uncertainty examples using both method of relative uncertainty and min max method.

Hand back and go over RA 10.

Do BB Pancake Lab.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Thursday, Sept 17, 2009 - 3B

Collected RA chapter 10

Finish computer exercises if students didn't finish in class and email me the results if they didn't hand in printed results in class.

Work on Quia quiz for review problems in IB Physics 1.

Took students to computer lab.
Students redid spreadsheet lab on round objects but included error bars and linest results for uncertainty in slope. Students printed out plots.

Loaded the Excel spreadsheet on uncertainties for each student. Students were to do all the problems using the computer and then rounding the results to 2 sig figs in uncertainty and then the same number of decimal places for the number. Students printed out the spreadsheet and handed it in.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Tuesday, Sept 15, 2009 - Block 3B

HW:
Worksheet on uncertainties - due Thursday
RA Chapter 10 - Due Thursday
Redo all three Quia quizzes to get 100%
Quiz on Quia content on Thursday
Try the Quia Problems on Review of IB Physics 1

Collect Parent Notification Form
Collect Course Expectation Form

Check for Textbook Covers

Go over any problems with Quia

Students
Go over concept maps, vocabulary, and review problems/questions from IB Physics 1
Students presented their sample problems to the class and rest of class did the problems for review. Presenting students then handed in their work.

Only got through chapter 7. Didn't get to chapters 8 and 9

Hand out worksheet on Dealing with Uncertainties -due Thursday
Handed out RA chapter 10 - due Thursday