9/15 – 9/19/14 (Pkt2: Area graphs, Galileo)

Last Week:

Mon- Discuss Week ahead, AOW, BOW, Slide Show, JM, Did the Tolt Test; HO 2.2 More Practice on Kinematic Graphs

Tues– Worked on the back of 2.1 . . . learned about Area Graphs; HO 2.3 (40 pt Reading Questions); HO 2.4 Finger walking introduced;

Wed– Work a Unit Analysis problem; Finger walking; HO 2.5 Unit Analysis #2

Thur–HO 2.6: Diluting Gravity; Do Diluting Gravity Lab (Had to move MOVIE NIGHT #1 to some other night because of game.

Fri– FBF; HO 2.7 Graph for Diluting Gravity; Graph and discuss Diluting Gravity; ASTRONOMY NIGHT at the Sam Noble Museum.

THIS WEEK (MY BEST GUESS)

Mon– Discuss Week ahead, AOW, BOW, Slide Show, JM, Discuss lab & graph & relationships ; Soph/Jr PSAT Prep Session (6:30 – 8:30PM) (English)

Tues– Discuss Divisions, especially Rocketry, Freshman PSAT Prep Session (6:30-7:30PM) (Math)

Wed – HO 2.8 Unit Analysis III; ; HO Packet 2 Take Home Test; Go over Modern Physics History; Spent the hour talking about the negative TRIO and all the cool stuff that it represents, EVENING: Freshman PSAT Prep Session (6:30-7:30PM) (English)

Thur–HO 2.9 What is the Slope of that Curve? Discussed Escape velocities; discussed gravity wells; discussed alien races and whether we could whoop them in hand to hand combat; Discussed how weird acceleration can be; Packet 2 Reading Answers due by 4:30PM; Discuss 2.9; EVENING: Soph/Jr PSAT Prep Session (6:30-8:30PM) (English)

Fri–Finished coloring in the Stegosaurus tail and showed how it could be used to determine the changing slope of the curve. HO 2.10. Went outside and “chased the mouse” to help us determine the trio. Rocketry applications are due by 4:30PM. Wrote down our data from the 9 meter ramp. Played volleyball outside for the last 15 minutes.

: What is weird about this picture?

: Wave energy

: Wave Energy

: So far we have 6 equations on our equation page

: Our 6th equation. I think the magic triangle is a crutch, but if it helps for now . . . you DO need to move beyond it eventually.

: Doing area graphs (1st hour)

: Doing area graphs (2nd hour)

: Doing area graphs (3rd hour)

: Doing area graphs (6th hour)

: Doing area graphs (7th hour)

: Finger Dancing!

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: Dungeons and Dragons. It’s about time we had a club at NHS.

: 7th hour beat 6th hour in 4 moves. Will 6th hour want a rematch or will 3rd hour take on the challenge?

: Using the “gold standard” approach in Unit Analysis. In the Gold Standard you start with the symbol equation then the Unit Analysis simply becomes writing the equation with the crazy units then adding all the conversions to get rid of the “French Pastry”.

: Using the Gold Standard to solve 2.5.5. YOU START ITH THE EQUATION!! The problem is . . . what equation do you use. Well . . . we have 6 of them so far.

: Duets and trios in general. To get to the graph below, you take the slope (derivative) of the graph above. To get to the graph above, you determine the areas (the integrals) of the graph below.

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: Leonardo Da Vinci thought about gravity (the term wasn’t even invented until the early 1500’s) but he didn’t do the math or experiment. It wasn’t until Galileo started studying it and trying to quantifying it that Physics was born.