Brockport High School NY USA
Advanced
Placement Physics 2006-2007 Mr Crowell
Text: Physics by Giancoli 6th.ed (2005)
Week
Subject
Chapter Laboratories (in Word.doc format)
Sept 5
Kinematics in One Dimension
2
(*write up required)
Graphing with Excel
Sept 11 Kinematics in One/Two Dimension
2,3 Instantaneous Velocity Pers. Acceleration
Sept 18 Kinematics in Two Dimensions
3
Projectile
Motion*
Sept 25 Dynamics
4
Newton's
2nd Law, friction*
Oct 2
Circular
Motion
5 The Atwood Machine
Oct 10
Circular Motion
5
Circular
Motion
Oct 16
Gravity
5
The Pendulum*
Oct 23
Work & Energy
6
Work-Energy
Theorem*
Oct 30
Work & Energy
6
Bowling
Ball throw Excel Spreadsheet
Nov 6
Linear Momentum
7
Cons. of Momentum,* BB Gun
Nov 13
Rotation (Torque)
8 Ballistic Pendulum*
Nov 20 Statics
9
Center of Mass
Nov 27 Fluids__________________________10
Archimedes Principle
Dec 4
Fluids__________________________10
Dec 11 Vibrations and Waves
11 Energy in a spring,
Harmonic Oscillators*
Dec 18
Sound
12
Speed of
sound
Dec 26
Vacation Assignment: Semester Review Due Jan 7
Jan 2, 2007 Kinetic Theory, Heat
___________13, 14
Absolute Zero
Jan 8
Thermodynamics
15
Jan 16
Electric Charge and Fields
16
Coulomb's Law
Jan 22
Electric Potential,
17
Equipotential
lines
Jan 29
Electric Currents DC
Circuits
18, 19
EMF &
Internal Resistance Thermister
Feb 5
Magnetism
20
Magnetic Field of Earth
Feb 12
Magnetic
Induction
21
Faraday and
Lenz's Law
Feb 26
Magnetic Induction
21
Mar 5
Light:
Geometric Optics
23
Reflection, Refraction
Mar 12
Mirrors & Lenses
23
Spherical
Mirrors
Mar 19
Wave Nature of Light
24
Lenses
Mar 26
Wave Nature of Light
24
Diffraction & Interference
Apr 2
Quantum and
Atomic Physics 27, 28
Balmer Series
Apr 9 Nuclear
Physics
30 Radioactive Decay
Apr 23
Review for AP
Exam
Reference Table Review
April 30
Review for AP Exam
May 7
Relativity
26 AP Exam Monday May 14, 2007 Noon
May 14
Elementary
Particles
32 Special Projects
May 21 Astropyhysics
33 Special Projects
May 29
Special Projects Presentation
Jun
4
Special Projects
Presentation
AP Physics Final Exam
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