Homework

Homework, Chp 4 Problems, #1, 3, 7, 9 due Friday. We will continue with Chp 4 after going over the problems.

Software Tutorials

http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2009/09/software-tutorials.html

Schedule Update

We will be starting Forces on Wednesday. Make sure you read Chapter 4 and look at the example problems before then.

Enjoy the long weekend.

Solution to Problem

QUIZ THURSDAY

We will have a short quiz on Projectile Motion on Thursday, Sept 24th.

We will do a quick review on Tuesday, as well as doing the water balloon projectile motion lab.

Look over your notes and the homework this weekend. Try other problems from Chp 3 for practice.

Here is a practice problem to work on also:

Email me over the weekend and I will send you the solution to this problem. I can also help you with any other questions you may have.

Yale Physics Olympics

Reminder - we need to decide on a team for the Yale Physics Olympics, which will be held on Saturday, October 24th at Yale.

The theme of the event is "physics is fun!" The hope is that the participants enjoy themselves while applying basic ideas from physics in a practical context and hopefully learn some new physics during the day.

The event takes the form of a pentathlon, consisting of five 35-minute events. Each event is a task or simple experiment which the students perform as a term and for which they obtain a result or measurement. The teams are ordered based on the accuracy of their results and prizes awarded to the winning teams.

Breakfast and lunch are provided and it is free.

Transportation is on your own - there is no school provided transportation.

Let me know by Friday, September 18th in class.

For more information, you can go to the YPO website: http://www.yale.edu/physics/YPO/index.html

For information about Central's participation in the past, check out these two sites:

http://bridgeport.ct.schoolwebpages.com/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=42150&&PHPSESSID=1913b89036c8f9644e2772df71e8f209

http://bridgeport.ct.schoolwebpages.com/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=34980&

Schedule

Computer work for Tue, 9/16/09 (we'll be doing it in class)

http://www.members.cox.net/fizziksguy2/simlinks.html

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Kinematics - 2D

• Projectile Motion Applets 1-5

• Shoot the Monkey

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http://www.hippocampus.org/Physics

– Kinematics, Projectile Motion

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/vectors/

Read through Lesson 2, Projectile Motion

Monday we went over the Chp 3 homework and worked on some problems.

Slides for chp 3 were posted on the site HERE.

Friday we will be doing some hands-on labs on Projectile Motion.