Date

Topics

1

Sept 10

Introduction HTW

1.1 Skating: Inertia, Velocity, Acceleration and Force. Newton’s First Law and Second Law

2

Sept 15, 17

1.2 Falling Balls: Free Fall, Weight and Forces, Projectile Motion

1.3 Ramps: Newton’s Third Law, Kinetic and Potential Energy, Work and Energy Theorem

3

Sept 22, 24

2.1 Seesaws: Torque and Moment of Inertia, Newton’s Second Law for Rotation

Chapter 1 HW extra (Sept.24 R, no class, furlough day)

4

Sept 29, Oct 1

Exam 1 (Tuesday, Sept 29)*

2.1 Seesaws (continue)

5

Oct 6, 8

2.2 Wheels: Friction, Rotational Kinetic Energy

2.3 Bumps Cars: Impulse, and Momentum Conservation, Angular Momentum, and Conservation of Angular Momentum

6

Oct 15

Oct 13 no class

3.1 Spring Scales: Hook’s Law, and Harmonic Oscillation

7

Oct 20, 22

3.2 Bouncing Balls: Coefficient of Restitution

3.3 Roller Coaster: Centripetal Acceleration and Force, Apparent Weight

8

Oct 27, 29

4.1 Bicycles: Stable & Unstable Equilibrium, Static and Dynamic Equilibriums

Chapter 2 & 3 HW extra (Oct.29 R, no class, furlough day)

9

Nov 3, 5

Exam 2 (Tuesday, Nov 3)*

4.2 Rockets and Space Travel: Newton’s Law for Universal Gravitation Force

10

Nov 10, 12

5.1 Balloons, and Motion: Idea Gas Law, Archimedes’ Principle

 (Nov.10 T, no class, furlough day)

11

Nov 17, 19

7.1 Wooden Stove: Conduction, Convection and Radiation

7.2 Water, Steam and Ice: Phase Diagram

Chapter 4 & 5 HW extra

12

Nov 24

10.1 Static Electricity: Coulomb’s Law

Nov 26 no class

13

Dec 1, 3

10.3 Flashlights

Chapter 5 & 7 HW extra

14

Dec 8, 10

11.1 Household Magnets

Exam 3 (Thursday, Dec 10)

 No Final Exam (Dec.17, furlough day)