AP Physics 1 (Period 2) Assignments
- Instructor
- Mr. Mark Loehr
- Term
- Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
- Department
- Science
- Description
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This course is designed to give students an in-depth study of Newtonian Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism. Students will use mathematical reasoning — arithmetic, algebraic, geometric, trigonometric or calculus, where appropriate — to the study of the physical world and its governing laws. All students enrolled in the course are required to take the AP Physics examination.
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Past Assignments
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Complete the attached AP-style questions on Electric Circuits. Show work where applicable.
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Attached you will find review pages for several major topics covered this year, in preparation for the AP test next week. You will also find my solutions and explanations that go with these pages.
- Skills Practice AP1 - Force, Energy, Momentum.pdf
- Skills Practice AP1 - Kinematics.pdf
- Skills Practice AP1 - Kinematics SOLUTIONS.pdf
- Skills Practice AP1 - Force SOLUTIONS.pdf
- Skills Practice AP1 - Circular and Rotational Motion.pdf
- Skills Practice AP1 - Momentum and Energy SOLUTIONS.pdf
- Skills Practice AP1 - Circular and Rotational SOLUTIONS.pdf
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Complete the attached AP-style free response problem (also handed out in class). Show your work where applicable.
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Use the following book problems from Chapter 8 to help you practice Rotation and Torque: #7,8,13,21,22,23,29,32,39,40,41,42,51,52,55,61,65,69,70,87,89. Solutions are attached.
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Print the attached notes for class (you already have the first two pages).
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Test on Momentum and Energy, in class Thursday and Friday. See attached Pre-Test Warmup and Solutions.
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Small Quiz on Linear Momentum
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Quiz on Energy (conservation and friction-losses). Solutions to Energy homework problems attached.
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Complete Chapter 6 Problems 40,47,49,52,54,72. Expect an Energy Quiz Tues/Wed.
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Complete Ch.6 Problems 37 and 39.
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Quiz Friday on questions based directly on the Free Response portion of the exam (blank set of questions attached for reference).
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Pendulum/Mass of the Earth Lab due (rubric attached)
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Complete Chapter 5 Problems #13,15,18,19,73,83 (solutions attached...but try them yourself first!)
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Small "Prep-Quiz" on Circular Motion, focusing on the notes and the practice problems done in class (from my worksheet and the book).
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Complete your response to the Experimental Design Question begun in class (and attached).
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Force test corrections (in class), multiple choice questions only. Reviewing the force concept inventory (attached) may be helpful.
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Attached: UCM and Gravitation documents, for your reference.
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Quiz on Force (primarily on Newton's first two laws). Attached, you will find solutions to the HW problems from the book (what I was able to finish before leaving school today).
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More practice problems from Chapter 4, now including friction: #49,50,59,66,75a-b,86,88,90.
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Bring fuzzy socks to class, if you have them.
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Force Practice Problems (from the end of Ch.4): #10,11,23,24,25,30,32,35,54,57. Feel free to continue working through these problems over the weekend and into the rest of the Force unit.
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In-class Monday: finish projectile motion problem from Friday's test. Make sure you know it well - classes are only 15 minutes long.
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Test on Chapters 2-3 (Motion in 1 and 2 Dimensions). See attached Pre-Test Warmup and solutions.
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Practice problems from the end of Ch.3: #18,21(cliff problems),22,24,27,30,35,46,47,49,59
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Pre-Quiz Warmup (in preparation for the quiz tomorrow) - Solutions are found on the last two pages
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Lab Activity - "When Two Cars Meet" (see attached rubric, as well as general lab guidelines for the year)
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Chapter 2 Problems #26(easy),32(medium),36(challenge),50(free fall)
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Small quiz on Ch.2 material covered so far. Topics include basic graphing, linear motion problems (const. velocity and constant acceleration), and info from the notes.
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In Chapter 2, continue problems started in class (#7,11) and try #15.