Physics+11+-+2016

=WELCOME TO PHYSICS 11! =

First a couple of quotes: 'Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.' - William Shakespeare 'Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.' - Vince Lombardi 'Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire' - W.B. Yeats

** THE BASIS OF THIS COURSE: **

 * Listening to someone talk is NOT an effective way to learn. Students HAVE to be ACTIVE to develop their knowledge. **


 * You will need to READ and watch assigned VIDEOS. This is information transfer we will spend class making sense of this information. **

Course Syllabus OSSD - IB Physics Guide - Data Booklet - Cornell Note Taking Template - Guide to the Collaborative Physics Classroom - [|HERE] + Extra Material [|HERE].
 * Essential Information: **

Proper Problem Solving Templates:

NELSON Physics 11 Textbook - We will be using a digital version of the textbook (so you can access it anywhere). In order to view the textbook you need to create an account with Nelson [|HERE]. It will ask you for an access code. You may obtain one of these from a textbook located at the back of the class. Write it down!

An [|ONLINE TEXTBOOK - Tsakos] - This is very useful for reviewing the concepts discussed in class This [|STUDY GUIDE] - Also very useful for reviewing One more [|IB Course Companion - Kirk] - Another useful book we will be utilizing Final Textbook [|Hewitt - Conceptual Physics] - Another book we will be using

Introduction to the course, PER and collaborative groups.
 * Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016**

The roles in a group - Manager, Recorder, Speaker/Skeptic

Activity - How groups work

Homework: 1. Create an EDpuzzle Account - [|HERE] and join YOUR class. When creating a username choose one so that I know who you are, that is it should have your first name and last name in it. 2. Watch the videos assigned on EDpuzzle (the dysfunctional group first) and complete the handout

Activity - How to answer a question - Activity - Find the pattern
 * Friday, February 5, 2016**

How does my brain work? The whole presentation may be found [|HERE].
 * What is intelligence? Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset
 * How to become an expert.
 * The importance of sleep
 * What is self regulation?

Activity - Thinking about your brain -

Homework: Watch this [|video] about the Big Bang...the beginning of space and time

Measurements, Numbers, Accuracy and Precision
 * Monday, Feb. 8 - 2016**
 * Quick review of significant digits and scientific notation
 * Briefly introduced the idea of error, precision and accuracy although these will be explored in much greater depth later on

Handout - Homework - and watch this [|VIDEO] + READ - Tsakos Section 1.2 while reading this use the note template (above) to HAND WRITE important points and questions. It has been conclusively shown that handwriting creates deeper connections than typing....the research is [|HERE], if you are interested.

Also here is an example of my note taking using the method discussed. Please only look at this AFTER you attempt your own version.

Review of constant speed and position time graphs.
 * Tuesday, Feb. 9 - 2016**
 * What does it mean for an object to have constant speed? What the motion diagram look like? What does the position time graph look like?
 * What information can we obtain from a position time graph?

Handout and Homework - [|HERE].

Practice using the ideas of speed, velocity, distance, and displacement. Handout - [|HERE].
 * Wednesday, Feb. 10 - 2016**

Homework: Finish the Handout from Today (i.e. the three problems) + EDPuzzle (8 minute video). I anticipate this homework to take about 25 minutes

Our second graph...The velocity time graph.
 * Thursday, Feb. 11 - 2016**
 * What would a velocity time graph look like?
 * What information does it convey?
 * What does the velocity time graph look like of a person moving quickly or slowly with a constant speed?

Handout: Homework: and EDpuzzle (8 minute video). I would anticipate this homework to take about 30 minutes.

Time for learning how to deliberately practice problem solving. Remember the goal here is not to equation hunt and solve the problem as quickly as possible, but to take the time to fully explain every aspect of the problem in a multiple ways including:
 * Tuesday, Feb. 16 - 2016**
 * 1) Pictorial Representation - here you describe the motion with a picture (go figure) but you also introduce your coordinate system, define labels for any unknown information, label any given information, complete any required conversions to SI units, and describe the events.
 * 2) Physics Representation - here you describe the motion using appropriate graphs, label events, show velocity and acceleration vectors, and draw motion diagrams.
 * 3) Word Representation - here you describe the motion (no equations), include any assumptions you are making and explain any important ideas
 * 4) Mathematical Representation - here you describe the mathematical steps/equations chosen, isolate for the required variable, substitute values with units and write a final statement.
 * 5) Evaluation - Does the answer have reasonable size, direction and units? Briefly explain why.

Handout - [|HERE] + Problem Solving Template - Homework: Complete any of the problems unsolved not done in class + and of course here is an awesome [|VIDEO].

Our FIRST Collaborative Group problem solving session.
 * Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016**

These sessions involve your group solving a given/challenging problem using the prescribed problem solving technique. EVERY group will submit their results at the end of this session.

Changing Velocity: - What does changing velocity look like on a position time graph? What will changing velocity look like on a velocity time graph? What does changing velocity look like on a motion diagram?
 * Thursday, Feb. 18 - 2016 + Friday, Feb. 19 - 2016**

The difference between average velocity and instantaneous velocity (which we will just refer to as velocity from now on).

How to calculate instantaneous velocity and average velocity from a position time graph.

Homework: Thursday Night -

Homework: Friday Night - Part E of the handout + EDPuzzle +


 * Monday, Feb. 22 - 2016**

Quiz - Representations of Motion

The Idea of acceleration: - What is acceleration? What are the units? How do we interpret the value when we are given an acceleration?

Homework: Just a 4 minutes EDpuzzle + Complete the handout if you did not finish in class.

The concept of acceleration and calculating acceleration
 * Tuesday, Feb. 23 - 2016**
 * Defining acceleration as the change in velocity of an object over a time interval.
 * We will only deal with constant acceleration situations, meaning the average acceleration will always equal the instantaneous acceleration.

Handout: Homework: Nelson Textbook - Section 1.3 p. 30 #2, 4, 6ab, 7, 9 and EDpuzzle

Speeding up and slowing down....what does the sign of the acceleration tell us?
 * Wednesday, Feb. 24 - 2016**

Handout: Homework: and of course this [|VIDEO].

The Displacement Problem: How do we determine the displacement of an object that is accelerating when it is covering more and more distance with each passing second.
 * Thursday, Feb. 25 - 2016**

Handout/Homework: [|HERE]+ [|Video] if you want a little more regarding the area under a velocity time graph.

The Big Five Equations!
 * Friday, Feb. 26 - 2015**
 * Look at the 5 equations that may be used to solve CONSTANT acceleration problems
 * All of these equations are simply generated from the velocity time graph using the fact that the slope represents the acceleration and the area under the curve represents the displacement.

Handout: and of course watch these videos: [|VIDEO 1] and [|VIDEO 2]

Homework: For some textbook practice give the following problems a try OUR way. That is make sure you can represent the situation pictorially, physically, the words and mathematically. Section 1.5 #2, 3, 4, 6

Readings: We are going to be an audience for a debate in our class on Wednesday, Mar. 2. The question that will be debated is

//This house believes that nuclear energy is the only viable means for meeting global energy demands.//

In order to be prepared to be an active listener to this debate which will feature Assumption versus Tecumseh Vista you must read a few articles so you have an idea of what they are going to speak about. The articles are found [|HERE] and [|HERE]. If you are super interested in this topic there is a whole plethora of articles found [|HERE].

Putting it all together:
 * Monday, Feb. 29 - 2016**
 * Mind - Map of what we know and how it is all related
 * Practice Problems - [[file:Challenging Kinematics Problems.pdf]]

Solutions -

Free Fall Acceleration:
 * Tuesday, Mar. 1 - 2016**
 * How do objects fall when they are close to the Earth's surface?
 * What is the rate at which they accelerate?
 * How do we solve problems involving free fall acceleration?

Homework: +  (Note: I took the first question out so please ignore problem 1) Some Awesome Videos: [|VIDEO 1] + [|VIDEO 2] + [|VIDEO 3] + [|VIDEO 4] + [|VIDEO 5]

Debate Expo
 * Wednesday, Mar 2 - 2016**

Putting it all together Problem Solving Session - Conceptual and Calculation Based - [|HERE]
 * Thursday, Mar. 3 - 2016**

Collaborative Group Problem Solving Day
 * Friday, Mar. 4 - 2016**

Test - Kinematics (Boo La La!!!)
 * Monday, Mar 7 - 2016**

Introduction to Dynamics!
 * Tuesday, Mar. 8 - 2016 **
 * Discussed the concepts of interactions and forces
 * Interactions always occur between two 'objects'
 * Force is a measure of how two objects interact with each other and is measured with the unit of Newtons

Handout: Homework:  + of course our [|VIDEO].

Introduction to Data Analysis:
 * Wednesday, Mar 9 - 2016 **
 * Discussed the four major proportionalities (linear, quadratic, root and reciprocal), including what they looked like graphical and how to linearize the relationships in order to determine the proportionality constant.
 * The proportionality constant between two variables is found through the slope of the line of the linearized graph
 * It is important to understand that the proportionality constant almost always has physical meaning and UNITS which need to be determined.

Homework: - Note the units for #2 and #3 are missing please use for #2 r has units of meters and F has units of Newtons and for #3 t has units of seconds and d has units of meters. Finally rather than simply finding the proportionality for each data set as the question suggests, please find the actually equation (that is how they are proportional and the proportionality constant with units).

Mini Laboratory - Determining the acceleration due to gravity using a pendulum. The handout may be found [|HERE].
 * Thursday, Mar. 10 - 2016 **

A detailed look at the relationship between forces and the motion of a system
 * Friday, Mar 11 - 2016 **
 * Discussed the concept of net force
 * Discussed how the net force is related to the motion of the system
 * Develop a functional definition of Newton's first law.

Homework: Our videos [|VIDEO 1] + [|VIDEO 2]

Complete the following handout and submit your group's answers electronically to me by the end of class.

Worked on practice with ID, FD and Net force statements.
 * Monday, Mar. 21 - 2016**

Homework: Please complete whichever problems you did not finish in class. -

Demo Day - Handout -
 * Tuesday, Mar. 22 - 2016**
 * Completed a few demonstrations based off of the ideas of inertia (ball in the wagon, person on the chair, brick on Mr. Mills' hand (someone dial 9 - 1 on their cell phone and wait), Paper and coins)
 * Looked at how to determine the force of gravity.

Homework: +

Investigated the normal force - Handout - Homework: Nelson Textbook p. 129 #2, 3, 4, 8 + p. 167 #5, 6, 7
 * Wednesday, Mar. 23 - 2016**

Investigating the relationship between net force, mass and acceleration using Interactive Physics. You must collect the data from this handout by the end of class today, and you will submit your results Tuesday.
 * Thursday, Mar. 24 - 2016**

Period 2 - Gone Curlin' -
 * Tuesday, Mar. 29 - 2016**

Period 3 - Newton's second law - the mathematical relationship between net force, mass and acceleration.

Period 4 - OSSLT Prep and Newton's second law

Homework: For period 3 and 4 - Textbook p. 136 #1a, 2a, 3a, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 -

Period 2 - Newton's second law of motion - the mathematical relationship between net force, mass and acceleration.
 * Wednesday, Mar. 30 - 2016**

Homework: For period 3 and 4 - Textbook p. 136 #1a, 2a, 3a, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 -

Period 3 + 4 - Gone Curlin' -

Period 2 - Literacy Test - Good luck!
 * Thursday, Mar. 31 - 2016**

Period 3 + 4 - How do you solve the problem of friction? What actually affects friction? How do we calculate friction?

Homework for period 3 + 4 - Nelson Textbook p. 172 #1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10

Practice solving problems using the second law with friction.
 * Monday, April 4 - 2016 **

Period 2 - Friction Nelson Textbook p. 172 #1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10

Period 3 + 4 - Textbook p. 178 #2, 3, 5, 7, 8

Period 2 - Completed Practice Problems - Homework" p. 178 #2, 3, 5, 7, 8
 * Tuesday, April 5 - 2016 **

Period 3 + 4 - Newton's third law Homework: p. 142 #1, 2, 4, 7, 9

Laboratory - Determining the coefficient of static friction between a shoe and a lab bench.
 * Wednesday, April 6 - 2016 **

Period 2 - Newton's Third Law of Motion - How the interaction affects the force acting on the object. Homework p. 142 #1, 2, 4, 7, 9
 * Thursday, April 7 - 2016 **

Period 3 + 4 - I anticipate this afternoon to be very messed up so you will have a work period.

Review: There is a lot of questions here; however, I do not expect them all done for tomorrow, you should be using these to study for the test on Tuesday. Using the textbooks at the back p. 154 #2, 5, 7, 8, 9 - 17, 20, 21, 26, 27, 29, 35, 39, 53, 56, 58, 59, 63. 66, 67, 75

p. 198 #1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 14, 15, 31, 33, 36, 45, 49, 50

Note: The textbook calls our Force Diagrams, Free Body Diagrams (FBD), once I understand what a free body is I might switch over to this language.

University of Windsor Engineering department presenting about Wind Turbines.
 * Friday, April 8 - 2016 **

Review of Dynamics
 * Monday, April 11 - 2016**

Test - Dynamics
 * Tuesday, April 12 - 2016**

Collaborative Group Problem Solving
 * Wednesday, April 13 - 2016**

Introduction to Energy: - The different types of energy: kinetic energy and potential energy - What is energy? - The energy flow diagram of physical representation for this unit.
 * Thursday, April 14 - 2016**

No Homework

Doing Work and how it relates the changing the energy of the object.
 * Friday, April 15 - 2016**



Investigating conservation of energy using a Simulation the instructions and questions can be found [|HERE].
 * Monday, April 18 - 2016**

Calculating energies.
 * Tuesday, April 19 - 2016**

How do we determine the kinetic energy and the gravitational potential energy of an object?

Homework: Textbook p. 235 #1 - 5

Using conservation of energy in order to solve seemingly difficult problems.
 * Wednesday, April 20 - 2016**

p. 241 Practice #1 Question #1, 2, 3,


 * Thursday, April 21 - 2016**

I am away today...you are working on practice problems related to conservation of energy.

Only homework for the weekend is if you did not complete the handout in class.

Power and Efficiency
 * Monday, April 25 - 2016**
 * The concept of power as a rate at which energy changes
 * Efficiency as a comparison of how much work you put in compared to how much useful work is accomplished
 * The sankey diagram as a way of representing efficiency.

Homework: p. 249 #1 - 3; p. 254 #1 - 4 + There will be a quiz on Thursday dealing with energy, work and power.

Laboratory - Determining the relationship between mass and the terminal velocity of a coffee filter found [|HERE].
 * Tuesday, April 26 - 2016**

Summary of what to include:

Practice Problems related to energy, work, power and efficiency.
 * Wednesday, April 27 - 2016**



Quiz - Energy, Work and Power. Introduction to Thermal Energy - Please print this out if you want to use it for class.
 * Thursday, April 28 - 2016 + Friday, April 29 - 2016**
 * Discussed the difference between heat, temperature and thermal energy
 * Looked at kinetic molecular theory
 * DIscussed pressure and how it is related to volume.

Explaining Gases - The Gas Laws
 * Monday, May 2, 2016**
 * Boyle's Law - Relationship between pressure and volume
 * Charles's Law - Relationship between volume and temperature
 * Lussac Law - Relationship between pressure and temperature
 * Combined Gas Law.

Important to understand that in order to describe a gas we need to know the Volume, Temperature, Pressure and the number of molecules (moles) in our system. If we know these state variables we can completely describe the gas. Much like knowing the displacement, velocity and acceleration allowed as to describe the motion of an object.

Homework: + EDPuzzle - This is to be completed by Friday. It involves the concepts of conduction, convection and radiation. There are notes related to this at the end of the thermal physics handout.

Moles, molecules, atoms and masses oh my.
 * Tuesday, May 3 - 2016**

Homework:

Practice Mole Problems
 * Wednesday, May 4, 2015**

The Ideal Gas Law
 * Thursday, May 5 - 2016**

Homework:

Began to discuss thermal energy with periods 3 and 4.

Calculating the thermal energy gained by a material when heated.
 * This will depend on the mass of the material heated
 * The temperature you want the material to change by
 * The nature of the material itself (i.e conductor or insulator)

Completed the concept of thermal energy is a solid + Latent Heat of Fusion and Latent Heat of Vaporization
 * Friday, May 6 - 2016**
 * What happens to the energy when we have a change of state?

Homework: p. 295 #1 - 8

Latent Heat of Fusion and Vaporization.
 * Monday, May 9 - 2016**

Odds and Ends - Discussing the concept of a kilowatt - hour and practice problems related to thermal physics.
 * Tuesday, May 10 - 2016**

Homework: p. 295 #1 - 8 + Finish the Topic 3 Problems -

Mini Laboratory - Determining the specific heat capacity of a metal - [|HERE]
 * Wednesday, May 11 - 2016**

Review for the test on Friday.
 * Thursday, May 12 - 2016**

TEST - ENERGY: Including work, conservation of energy, power, efficiency, gas laws, ideal gas law, methods of heating, the mole, specific heat capacity, changes of state.
 * Friday, May 13 - 2016**

Introduction to Waves:
 * Monday, May 16 - 2016**

Introductions to Waves - Tracking all the particles in a medium and how they move with respect to the flow of energy. Also looked at how pulses behave when the reach a fixed end or a free end.
 * Tuesday, May 17 - 2016**



Discussed how waves behave when they are at the point at the same time (aka - interference) Handout: Homework:
 * Wednesday, May 18 - 2016**

Speed of waves through a medium and the factors that affect it.
 * Thursday, May 19 - 2016**

Completed some questions dealing with period, frequency, wavelength and velocity. Also looked at the concept of simple harmonic motion.
 * Friday, May 20 - 2016**

Homework:

The Review Project - EDpuzzle - Handout [|HERE].

The Speed of sound and the Mach Number
 * Tuesday, May 24, 2016**

Homework: Textbook p. 393 #1 - 3 + p. 394 #1 - 3

The concept of standing waves how they are the continuous interference of two traveling waves that are identical but traveling in opposite directions. We looked at a medium that was fixed at both ends.
 * Wednesday, May 25 - 2016**

Homework: Textbook p. 425 #2, 3 + p. 426 #4, 5

Completed Standing Waves with the other two types of boundary conditions - open - closed and open - open.
 * Thursday, May 26 - 2016**

Also discussed the concept of resonance.

Some Videos - How standing waves work [|VIDEO] + Resonance in a wine glass [|HERE]

Homework:

Conceptual Questions + Practice Problems Homework: Note: when completing these problems if it is sound being produced in an air column you may assume a velocity of 343 m/s unless told otherwise. Furthermore, you DO NOT need to do all of these. Try as many as you like. Here are the solutions -
 * Friday, May 27 - 2016**

How sound propagates, wave fronts, rays and the intensity of sound and how it is related to loudness.
 * Monday, May 30 - 2016**
 * The inverse square law for intensity and why it makes sense.
 * How loudness is a relative measure compared to the threshold of human hearing.

Homework: Handout - #49 - 52 + 56, 57, 59, 60 - The answers are at the end of the handout

Laboratory - Determining the speed of sound using standing waves - [|HERE]
 * Tuesday, May 31 - 2016**

Interference in two dimensions and the concept of path difference and the idea of beats as a type of interference when the two frequencies are NOT the same.
 * Wednesday, June 1 - 2016**

Doppler Effect - How does a object or observer moving affect the perceived frequency emitted by an object.
 * Thursday, June 2 - 2016**

Homework: p. 485 #1 - 7

Review for test
 * Friday, June 3 - 2016**

Test - Sound and Waves
 * Monday, June 6 - 2016**

Review of Electricity in terms of current and voltage.
 * Tuesday, June 7 - 2016 **

Homework: Please read the following from the textbook p. 510 - 513 + 516 - 518.

Discussed electric potential difference and Kirchoff's Laws
 * Wednesday, June 8 - 2016 **

Homework: p. 513 #1 - 6 + p. 518 #2 - 6

Edison Activity -
 * Thursday, June 9 - 2016 **

Investigating Circuit Behavior -
 * Friday, June 10 - 2016 **

Ohm's Law for Ohmic and Non - Ohmic Devices, Resistors and solving circuits using Kirchoff's Laws
 * Monday, June 13 - 2016 **

Homework:

The concept of equivalent resistance.
 * Tuesday, June 14 - 2016 **

Homework:

Circuit stuff including: Power, Energy Lost/Gained, Ideal Voltmeter and Ammeter, the factors that affect a resistor and internal resistance.
 * Wednesday, June 15 - 2016 **

The handout can be found [|HERE].

Practice Day.
 * Thursday, June 16 - 2016 **

The Problems - The Solutions -


 * Friday, June 17 - 2016 **
 * Collaborative Group Problem Solving**

PHYSICS REVIEW -
 * Monday, June 20 - Wednesday, June 22 **
 * REVIEW FOR THE EXAM!!!! - **