January+2011

=January 24th- 28th= = =

Monday & Tuesday- Midterm Review! Complete your Physics Concepts Notes by adding the Projectile Motion concepts to your document located on your computer.

Rags to Riches Review- []

Wednesday- MIDTERM!
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Thursday- Snow Day! Happy Shoveling, Sledding, Snowman making, and snowball throwing!

Friday- SuperHero Activity! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! Make your own superhero and calculate how fast he/she needs to launch off the ground in order to leap over a tall building!

Choose your building first

HERO MACHINE- http://www.ugo.com/games/superhero-generator-heromachine-2-5

= = =January 18th-21st= ==

Monday- Martin Luther King Jr. Day Tuesday- Projectiles and Basketball. Can you find the right trajectory to get the ball into the basket? Wednesday- Use what you learned yesterday in order to create a projectile trajectory of your own, and determine it's equation of motion.

Thursday- Quiz Day- Projectiles 2 Quiz- []

Friday- Physics Concepts Notes, and Midterm Reivew

= = == =January 10th-14th= = = Monday - Hit the Can!!! We will be doing a lab in class where you and your group members must get your car to land in the can on the first try! Use your knowledge from what we learned last week. Good Luck! Tuesday- Final day to complete your Hit the Can Activity! Will your car land in the can? Wednesday- SNOW DAY!! Thursday- Projectiles!!! Go on to this PhET website, and launch some cannon balls! Answer the following questions about the flight path (trajectory) of the cannon balls.

Friday- Quiz Day- Projectiles Quiz- [] = = == =January 3rd-7th=



Monday- 1 Meter Drop- Come up with a mathematical relationship to answer the following questions- How long does it take for the ball to go 1m? How fast does the ball fall? media type="file" key="Falling exactly 1m.mov" width="300" height="300"

Tuesday- Use the mathematical formulas from yesterday to fill in the charts listed on this page.

Wednesday- Watch the in class demonstration of the ball bearing being dropped to the ground while simultaneously another ball bearing is horizontally hit and falls to the ground. Was your prediction correct? Take a look at this assignment for a more detailed closer observation of the two ball bearings.

Thursday- Review Projectile Components

Friday- QUIZ DAY- Projectile Quiz- []

Can you catch your car in the can?