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Wednesday 6/6/12 Warm-up: What shape can cast three kinds of shadows: A square, a triangle, and a circle? Today: Short Class
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Warm-up:
Forward I'm heavy. Backward I'm not. What am I?
Today:
- Exam Review
- Time lapse photography (pictures are on the school M:drive; Stapleton; Read Only; 2011-2012; Physics; Time Lapse Photography; [your block]
Next Class: Renaissance Day
Warm-up:
What letter comes next in row 1, below?
1. A E F H I K L M N
2. B C D G J
Today:
- Boat Awards -- Donut + extra credit on boat grade.
| Rank | Name |
Max Velocity (m/s) |
Block |
| 1 | Aldin | 0.233 | 2 |
| 2 | Bridgette | 0.2 | 1 |
| 3 | Dylan M | 0.175 | 3 |
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Votes for Coolest- Looking Boat |
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| Lucas | 5 |
| Chris A | 5 |
| Fidelia B | 4 |
| Aaron B | 4 |
- Finish exam review. 40 minutes of work time. Make sure your answers are on separate paper.
- Exam review check.
- Which parts should we go over?
Next Class (last full class before finals):
- Air-surfing gliders
Homework: Study for Final. Here are the answers to the review. Here's a link to study materials from all of the past units. Putt putt boat notes
White 1: Thursday, June 7th, 9:00-11:00
White 2: Friday, June 8th, 9:00-11:00
White 3: : Thursday, June 7th, 11:45-1:45
Warm-up:
Does each Putt-Putt boat have a terminal velocity? Why or why not?
Today:
- Vote on coolest-looking boat. Awards next class.
- Putt-Putt Boat Notes
- Get Final Exam Review. Begin work. Except on problems with diagrams, you must answer on a separate sheet of paper. You will only receive credit if you answer on a separate sheet of paper! This is very important! A random selection of questions from the review will be graded. The review is due 40 minutes into next class.
Next Class:
- Finish and grade Exam Review.
- Question/answer session regarding the final exam.
June 4th:
- Bring lights for long exposure photography
Absent Students:
- Get a copy of the final Exam review and complete enough so that you can finish it during the first 40 minutes of next class.
- Print out the Putt-Putt Boat Notes
Warm-up:
- How does gasoline make a car engine work? (2-stroke engine 4-stroke engine)
- How is a putt-putt engine like a car engine?
Today:
- NECAP discussion
- How putt-putt boats work http://www.sciencetoymaker.org/boat/howBoatWorksl.html
- Measure force and drag. Photograph boats for voting on most aesthetically appealing boat.
Absent Students:
Warm-up: Just for fun...
- What five letter word does every Harvard graduate pronounce wrong?
- If you were spelling numbers (in English) instead of saying them, how high would you have to count before using the letter "A?"
Today:
- NECAP Reference sheet practice
- Measure boat velocities.
Absent Students:
1. Complete the warm-up question by finding the answer on the web.
Warm-up:
Your boat travels 275cm in 8.4 seconds. What is its average velocity?
Today:
- Attach rudders
- Measure velocities
Absent Students:
1. Complete the warm-up question by finding the answer on the web.
2. Catch up on your boat-making. If you have your own epoxy, you can watch the videos (see 5/8/12, below) and make your boat at home. You can ask Mr. Stapleton for three flexible straws. If you do not have your own epoxy, you should work on your boat during call back.
Warm-up:
The pictures below show top views of boats with rudders. The arrows show the boats' direction of movement.
1. What does a rudder do?
2. Which boat will probably travel in the straightest line? Why?
3. Which boat will probably turn right? Why?
Today:
- Who has a working engine? What to do if your engine doesn't work.
- Build boat bodies
Absent Students:
1. Complete the warm-up question by finding the answer on the web.
2. Catch up on your boat-making. If you have your own epoxy, you can watch the videos (see 5/8, below) and make your boat at home. You can ask Mr. Stapleton for three flexible straws. If you do not have your own epoxy, you should work on your boat during call back.
Warm-up:
If you want your glue to harden faster, you need to know how your glue works. Explain how to speed up each of the following glues. Explain why your method works.
1. Hot glue
2. "School Glue" (e.g. Elmer's ®)
3. Epoxy
Today:
- Return test. Video of Mr. Stapleton going over the answers.
- Finish engines! Test engines.
- Build boat bodies
Absent Students:
1. Complete the warm-up question by finding the answer on the web.
2. Catch up on your boat-making. If you have your own epoxy, you can watch the videos (see 5/8, below) and make your boat at home. You can ask Mr. Stapleton for three flexible straws. If you do not have your own epoxy, you should work on your boat during call back.
Warm-up:
How does a steam engine work?
Today:
- Test
- Work on pop-pop boats. Test steam engines. If your engine doesn't work, start over.
Homework:
- Gather and bring-in materials for boat bodies. (waxed cartons, foam meat packaging, plastic bottles...)
Absent Students:
1. Complete the warm-up question by finding the answer on the web.
2. Catch up on your boat-making. If you have your own epoxy, you can make your boat at home. You can ask Mr. Stapleton for three flexible straws. If you do not have your own epoxy, you should work on your boat during call back.
Warm-up: Click here for test review questions
Today:
- Prepare for test. Test next class! Waves Test Review, Light notes, transverse waves notes, compression waves notes, waves quiz. For the test, you should be able to answer questions like those on the test review and the waves quiz.
- More work on putt-putt boat motors. Click this link for instructional videos and thumbnails. Click this link for written instructions. Students who are ahead, watch videos on the computers in the back. Build a 3-D hull, part A, part B, part C. Build a flat-bottom boat.
- Did anyone bring non-dented cans for extra credit?
Homework:
- Gather and bring-in materials for boat bodies. (waxed cartons, foam meat packaging, plastic bottles...)
- Study for the test. Test next class. In particular, study the test review, the waves quiz, and both waves notes.
Absent Students:
1. Complete the warm-up question by finding the answer on the web.
2. Catch up on your boat-making. If you have your own epoxy, you can make your boat at home. You can ask Mr. Stapleton for three flexible straws. If you do not have your own epoxy, you should work on your boat during call back.
Warm-up:
Find each of the following on the diagram of a transverse wave:
1. wavelength 2. crest 3. trough 4. amplitude
Find each of the following on the diagram of a compression wave:
5. compression 6. rarefaction 7. wavelength
8. Which compression waves, below, have the greatest amplitude?
Today:
- What's on the waves test: Waves Test Review, Light notes, transverse waves notes, compression waves notes
- Begin putt-putt boat motors. Click this link for instructional videos and thumbnails.
- Did anyone bring non-dented cans for extra credit?
Homework:
- Gather and bring-in materials for boat bodies. (waxed cartons, foam meat packaging, plastic bottles...)
- Study for the test.
Absent Students:
1. Complete the warm-up question by finding the answer on the web.
2. Go to this web page and watch the Putt-Putt boat video instructions, parts 4-13.
Warm-up:
This picture shows light traveling through a convex lens.
- What does "convex" mean?
- Is the light reflecting, refracting, or scattering?
- If you were to look through this sort of lens, would things appear to be magnified or shrunken, or would they appear as they really are?
Today:
- Great Escape Trip cancelled. Return money.
- Announcement
- Check completion of light waves notes -- 1st block, finish. Here are the completed notes
- Check/discuss waves review. Here are the answers
- Tentative plan for the rest of the year -- including Putt-putt boat project. Putt-putt boat link. Emmy putt-putt boat.
Homework:
- Gather materials for putt-putt boats (aluminum cans and waxed cartons)
- Study for test next Thursday. We will review some more before the test.
Absent Students:
Complete the warm-up question by finding the answer on the web.
Warm-up: No warm-up. Mr. Stapleton at Disney World.
Today:
- Watch videos and complete notes on light waves. Light notes part 1 Light notes part 2 Light notes part 3
- Begin test review
Homework:
- Finish Test Review
Absent Students:
Watch videos. Complete light notes and test review.
Warm-up:
1. This is a radiometer. There is very little air inside it, but there is some. Guess what it does. Guess why.
2. What does the phrase "shooting fish in a barrel" refer to?
Today:
- Try to break a glass with sound -- or at least make a straw dance?
- Shooting fish in a barrel.
- After break -- light waves
Homework: None
Absent Students:
Complete the warm-up question by finding the answer on the web.
Warm-up:
What does a race car sound like when it passes you? Does its pitch change from low to high or high to low?
Today:
- Quiz
- Finish sound waves activities
Absent Students:
Complete the warm-up question.
Warm-up:
What is "pitch?" What happens to your voice's pitch when you record it and then speed up the recording? What happens when you slow down your voice?
Today:
- Block 1: Turn-In Compression waves activity
- Block 3: finish compression waves notes
- We need more people to go on the Great Escape trip.
- Sound waves activities
Homework:
Quiz next class over transverse waves notes and compression waves notes
Absent Students:
Complete the warm-up question.
Warm-up:
1. Does a whip use a compression wave or a transverse wave?
2. Do you know how to whip something with a towel? Do you know the special, physicsy trick?
3. How does this relate to tsunamis?
Today:
- We need more people to go on the Great Escape trip.
- Finish and turn in transverse wave lab.
- Complete compression wave lab
Homework:
Absent Students:
Complete the warm-up question.
