Friday, February 25, 2011

Friday, Feb 25, 2011

Collected Ball and Soap Labs

Introduction to Heat, Temperature, and Thermodynamics

Handed out note packets from Tsokos sections 3.1-2

Definitions of Temperature, Heat, Internal Energy
Demo of hands in water
Temperature scales
Heating curve
Heat capacity and specific heat capacity
Latent heats

Calorimetry problems - heat lost = heat gained

Asked students to do reading assignment question pages in packet
Try problems in Thermal Energy packet
Do problems at end of section in text book

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Wednesday, Feb 23, 2100

Gave several problems from IB Physics 1 for review:
Rocket problems
Projectile motion problems
Inclined plane problems
Geosynchronous orbit problem

Showed how to get gravitational potential energy
Used this equation to calculate escape velocities and size of Earth if Earth were black hole

Tuesday, Feb 22, 2011

Thinking Physics answer cards

Friday, Feb 18, 2011

I was sick
Students got laptops and worked on Ball and Soap Lab

Thursday, Feb 17, 2011

Wednesday, Feb 16, 2011

Tuesday, Feb 15, 2011