Physics 30

On April 18, 2011 we had the privilege of having my friend Steven Hepting, an engineer who works at Solido in Saskatoon, skype in to our grade 12 physics class. He shared details about his work as well as showed us several neat robotics videos (see April 18 below for video links). Thank you Steven!

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Physcis 30 Videos

–> Departmentals Prototype exams: LINK

1. Nuclear Physics

1. How Things Work: How Nuclear Energy Works: LINK
2. Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy?: LINK
3. Ernest Rutherford’s Gold Foil Experiment: LINK
4. Videos on the Structure of an Atom/Nuclear Physics: a – LINK, b – LINK, c – LINK, d – LINK, e – LINK, f – LINK, g – LINK, h – LINK, i – LINK, j – LINK, k- LINK
5. Synchrotron Technology: LINK
6. Canadian Light Source (Synchrotron) videos: a – LINK, (go to LINK to find other U of S Research News Videos):

2. Electricity

1. VHS video: Conductors and Insulators
2. VHS video: Charging by Induction
3. VHS video: Charging by Induction
4. VHS video: Current Electricity
5. VHS video: Electric Fields and Forces (Mec universe)
6. VHS video: Potential Difference & Capacitance (Mec universe – capacitance stuff was unnecessary though…?)
7. VHS video: Potential Difference (The last little bit gets cut off…)
8. VHS video: Resistance

3. Kinematics & Dynamics

1. Inertia – LINK (Video starts at 1:21)
2. Three Laws of Motion – LINK
3. Physics – A World in Motion – Work and Energy (downloaded file)
4. Work – LINK

Days in Class

Unit 4: Mechanical Energy

> June 22 – Wednesday, Day 4

• Rewrites day for those who chose to
• Independent time to work on departmentals for others

> June 21 – Tuesday, Day 3

• Handed back and reviewed last unit exam: Mechanical Energy
• Independent time to work on departmental questions

> June 20 – Monday, Day 2

• Handed out remaining departmental questions to work on independently
• Homework:

1. Complete all of the new 2006 set of departmental questions
2. Complete all of the departmental questions that you received from a couple weeks ago (there were some remaining questions from all three departmentals — this is what you can do Jill, just pick up what you missed before class tomorrow if you can)

> June 17 – Friday, Day 1

• Mechanical Energy exam

> June 16 – Thursday, Day 6

• Read Joule blurb
• Positive & Negative work (notes from Departmental) wrote on bottom of same sheet as Joule blurb
• Video on Terminal Velocity: LINK
• Notes: finishing 2. potential energy, and 3. potential energy
• Newton’s cradle — demonstrated how potential energy and kinetic energy is transformed back and forth until the energy is lost to the surroundings (friction = heat energy, sound energy etc.)
• Notes: Work energy theorem, conservation of energy
• Gave rest of class to work on calculation questions (make sure to do these!)
• Mechanical Energy exam tomorrow

> June 15 – Wednesday, Day 5

• Handed back and reviewed Kinematics & Dynamics exams
• Reviewed assigned homework from yesterday
• Our Power up the stairs activity!!!
• Results:
• Kelsey = 587.8 W
• Sarah = 575 W
• Jill = 406.43 W
• Pat = 470 W
• Kyle = 757 W
• Mr. G = 973.79 W

• Notes: Characteristics of Energy, Kinds of Energy
• Handout: calculation questions

> June 14 – Tuesday, Day 4

• Caught others up to where we’re at
• Handed out other Power questions (backside of Activity 9.1)
• Notes: Energy
• Homework for Wednesday:

1. Complete Work and Power questions from handout #1
2. Complete Power questions from today’s handout, handout #2

> June 13 – Monday, Day 3

• Notes: Mechanical Energy – Work & Power (with examples)
• Handout: Work (Section Review) / Power (Section Review)
• Rest of class to work on handout
• Homework for Wednesday:

1. Complete both sides of handout from this class

> June 10 – Friday, Day 2

• Finished & Corrected Sylvie and Jansen

> June 9 – Thursday, Day 1

• Independent time to work on Sylvie and Jansen

> June 8 – Wednesday, Day 6

• Watched Video 3 & 4 and discussed learning points from them
• I also handed out “Sylvie” and “Jansen” to be completed over the three days that most of you are gone canoeing

Unit 3: Kinematics & Dynamics

> June 7 – Tuesday, Day 5

• Physics 30 – Kinetics & Dynamics Exam

> June 6 – Monday, Day 4

• Reviewed departmental 2010 questions
• Handed out review and reviewed
• You can hand in completed review tomorrow for bonus marks

> June 3 – Friday, Day 3 – Mrs. J subbing day

• Test on Tuesday
  
• Homework:

1. Do whatever Mrs. J assigned
2. Do questions #1-12 from departmental 2010

> June 2 – Thursday, Day 2

• Homework check
• Reviewed departmental 2007 questions
• Watched Video 1 & 2 (Inertia video & Three Laws of Motion videos, see links above)
• Reviewed questions from Laws of Motion package handout (#32-37)
• Handed out double sided worksheet Worksheet (cross out question #2 from backside, ie. physics
• Homework:

1. Do both sides of worksheet

> June 1 – Wednesday, Day 1

• HC & Reviewed To Study Accelerated Motion graphs  (don’t do these graphs next year)
• Reviewed #16-17 from departmental 2006
• Handed out and went over some of the departmental 2007 questions (also handed out dept 2010 to work on later)
• Notes: Newton’s Laws of motion (1, 2 and 3)
• Laws of Motion package handout (#32-37)
• Independent time to work on above
• Homework:

1. Complete questions #1-19 from departmental 2007 (show all the work you used to get to the answer)
2. Complete all questions from Laws of Motion package handout (#32-37)

> May 31 – Tuesday, Day 6

• Homework check & reviewed Pg 83 #111
• Handed back labs & reviewed
• Showed other points to consider in the graphing work you picked up from last class (To Study Accelerated Motion)
• Notes: Acceleration due to gravity
• Showed how ticker tape works
• Handed out Departmental Prototype from 2006
• Did questions #1-15 in class, showing work along the way
• Homework:

1. Complete To Study Accelerated Motion graph and questions
2. Complete questions #16-17 from departmental 2006 (show all the work you used to get to the answer)

> May 30 – Monday, Day 5

• Handed in labs
• Displacement & Velocity Calculations (when finished, students picked up To Study Accelerated Motion graphing questions and graph paper and began working on it) then Reviewed
• Notes: Acceleration and two example questions (1 being a graph question with 6 short questions)
• Added question #7: Find the displacement covered over 3 seconds) –> area under the curve (1/2bh because it’s a triangle)
• Test on Friday
• Homework:

1. Pg 83 # 111 (graphing question so they need graph paper)

> May 27 – Friday, Day 4

• Homework check & review
• Test next Wednesday
• Homework:

1. Graph labs with discussion questions answered for hand-in on Monday etc.

> May 26 – Thursday, Day 3 – Strike day 3

• No classes

> May 25 – Wednesday, Day 2 – Strike day 2

• No classes

> May 20 – Wednesday, Day 1 – Wendy subbing day

• Whole of class to work on and complete both sides of yesterday’s worksheet
• Homework:

1. Complete both sides of worksheet (except for Sarah… you can do it when you get back on Wednesday)

> May 19 – Thursday, Day 6

• Notes: Distance, Displacement & Position
• Notes: Speed & Velocity
• Example question 1: average speed
• Example question 1: average velocity and instantaneous velocity
• Notes: Graphing Methods
• Worksheet: Side 1 – Speed & Velocity and Side 2 – Activity: Motion with Increasing Velocity

> May 18 – Wednesday, Day 5 – half class gone to track meet

• Did a balloon on string velocity activity (for fun)

> May 17 – Tuesday, Day 4

• Reviewed assigned questions (Veronica) and Vector stuff (next year figure out some better way to cover this stuff, some of the questions are so tough!)
• No homework

> May 16 – Monday, Day 3

• Completed Example question 1 (Note: depending on how you added the initial given vectors, you can get two different triangles. Either triangle will work but to make it easier on you, if you get an angle forming outside your triangle re-draw your vector diagram by adding the vectors the other way around)
• Note to me: show both possible vector diagrams and which to choose
• Do Text pg. 125 question #5 as another example of using these laws
• Do Stupefied “b” and “c” as other examples as well
• Homework:

1. Questions #9-14 of Veronica

> May 13 – Friday, Day 2

• Reviewed yesterday’s questions
• Handout: Solution of any Triangle by the Law of Cosines/Sines
• Began Example question 1 using Law of Cosines/Sines (the 70N [W] and 50 N [W 50 deg N] one)
• No homework

> May 12 – Thursday, Day 1 – No class due to staff meeting

• Homework: (same as yesterday)
  

1. Text Pg. 125 – #7, 9, 10, 12, and 13
2. Complete rest of Stupefied (ie. both Section Reviews on page 1 — except don’t do 5b, and 5c of the 2nd Section Review yet. Then you’ll need graph paper for the rest for the rest of Stupefied)
3. #1-8 on Veronica

> May 11 – Wednesday, Day 6

• Notes: Subtracting & Adding Vectors
• Notes: Multiplying Vectors
• Handout: Vectors (ie. Stupefied) and graph paper
• Then did M&D examples (ie. pg. 2) from Stupefied
• Notes: Vector Definitions
• Notes: Vector direction with angles (3 examples)
• Handout: Vector Questions & Calculations (ie. Veronica)
• Homework:

1. Text Pg. 125 – #7, 9, 10, 12, and 13
2. Complete rest of Stupefied (ie. both Section Reviews on page 1 — except don’t do 5b, and 5c of the 2nd Section Review yet. Then you’ll need graph paper for the rest for the rest of Stupefied)
3. #1-13 on Veronica

> May 10 – Tuesday, Day 5 – Wendy subbing

• ~20 minute Vector video
• Independent time to finish & review Joyce & Mappy as well as review answers to Jiggs & Stinky

> May 9 – Monday, Day 4

• Reviewed Ernifer5us 2 & vectors in general
• Notes: Vectors
• Notes: Finding the Resultant
• Notes: Subtracting Vectors

> May 6 – Friday, Day 3

• Homework check
• Reviewed Electricity Part 2 Exams
• Reviewed Burt 1, Ernifer5us 1, and Burt 2
• I realize that posting answer keys to the online work will be too time consuming so I’ll hand out a couple answer keys on Monday to float around amongst you guys so that you can check your work
• No homework for the weekend

> May 5 – Thursday, Day 2 — Teachers’ province-wide strike

• Homework:

1. Below are new assignments (that I never handed out paper copies for), enjoy my random names and if you print them off just add those names to the top of the front page(s):

• Notes package called Jiggs (aka Physics Fix 5 – Free Fall, pgs. 15-17): LINK
• Homework sheet called Stinky (aka Skill Practice 5 – Free Fall Practice): LINK
• Note: if you don’t have a printer, just write down your answers using a separate page

> May 4 – Wednesday, Day 1 — No water at school again! (don’t want sewer backup in our basements!!)

• Homework:

1. Complete sections 2 of Burt and Ernifer5us:

• Section 2 of Burt (aka Physics Fix 9 – Vectors, pgs. 28-31): LINK
• Section 2 of Ernifer5us (aka Skill Practice 9 – Vectors Practice): LINK
• Those who were here Monday may have brought home their printed copies, otherwise, you can print it by clicking the appropriate links above to download the file or find them in the Downloads Box if that didn’t work
• Note: if you don’t have a printer, just write down your answers using a separate page

> May 3 – Tuesday, Day 6 — No water at school! (don’t want sewer backup in our basements!!)

• Homework:

1. Complete sections 1 of Burt and Ernifer5us:

• Section 1 of Burt (aka Physics Fix 8 – Triangle Review, pgs. 25-27): LINK
• Section 1 of Ernifer5us (aka Skill Practice 8 – Triangle Practice): LINK
• Those who were here Monday may have brought home their printed copies, otherwise, you can print it by clicking the appropriate links above to download the file or find them in the Downloads Box if that didn’t work
• Note: if you don’t have a printer, just write down your answers using a separate page

> May 2 – Monday, Day 5

• Reviewed parts of Agatha (Note: all Information sections on any packages like Agatha etc. should be considered as actual written-down notes)
• Reviewed all of IDC
• Handed out Burt (Notes Package) and Ernifer5us (Homework Package)
• No Homework, but if you didn’t complete/download Agatha, do so and try to complete all of the homework package IDC as we will move on now…

> April 21 – Thursday, Day 4

• Rest of time to work on Agatha & IDC
• Reviewed parts of Agatha
• Homework:

1. Complete all three sections of Agatha (I posted the Answer key for Agatha in the Physics 30 folder of the Download box at the bottom right of the blog)
2. Complete IDC for homework check/hand-in

> April 20 – Wednesday, Day 3

• Reviewed Example 2 graph & questions
• Notes: Relative Motion & Frames of Reference
• Notes: Average Speed
• Rest of time to work on Agatha & IDC

> April 19 – Tuesday, Day 2

• Introduction to unit (I just read it)
• Notes: Mechanics
• Notes: Speed vs. Velocity
• Example 1 & Example 2 graphs and questions
• Reviewed graph 1 questions
• Handout: Speed & Velocity package (aka “Agatha”) and homework handout (aka “IDC”, which sounds like “Idda-kh”) – I handed this out because the majority of the class will be gone Wednesday & Thursday for the band trip
• Homework:

1. Finish Example 2 graph and its 3 questions (remember that graph 2 has three slopes)

Unit 2: Electricity

> April 18 – Monday, Day 1

• During this class we had the privilege of talking to my best friend Steven Hepting, an electrical engineer working in Saskatoon at a company called Solido
• We showed the following videos and asked questions to Steven along the way:

1. Packing Furniture – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXyN9ApyJLo&feature=related
2. Flex Picker – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHuDvVa7mkw&feature=player_embedded
3. Motion Control – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOESSCXGhFo
4. Quadcopter Juggling – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CR5y8qZf0Y&feature=player_embedded
5. The Flying Machine Arena – http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_927089&v=pcgvWhu8Arc&feature=iv
6. Just for fun: ABB Robot Dance – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdK5WMP-waI&feature=related

• Thank you Steve!!
• No homework

> April 15 – Friday, Day 6

• Electricity Exam part 2

> April 14 – Thursday, Day 5

• No class due to early dismissal

> April 13 – Wednesday, Day 4

• Homework check & review
• (Next time do #20 from Review — ex. power in circuit)
• (Also next time do: Energy & Power questions from worksheet)
• Notes: Electrical Safety
• Notes: Safety devices (text Pg. 626 — read together first)
• Test on Friday

> April 12 – Tuesday, Day 3

• Notes: Applications of Heating Effect point 2
• Notes: Lighting effect
• Notes: Electric power and example
• Handout: Electric Energy and Power Questions
• Independent examples #1-3
• Handout: Mr. G’s SaskPower Bill/How to read your meter
• Notes: Purchasing Electrical Energy
• (Next time: Read pgs. 603-605 sections on Transmission of Electrical Energy and Killowatt-hour)
• Ex. #29 from text (Pg. 605)
• Homework:

1. Read & record your SaskPower meter reading, get a parent’s help
2. Text Pg. 605 questions #28, 32, 34, and 37 (oops, not 31…)

> April 11 – Monday, Day 2

• Homework check & review
• Notes: Electric Energy, 1. Heating effect, Joule’s Law
• Example Joule’s Law question
• Notes: Applications of Heating Effect point 1
• No homework

> April 8 – Friday, Day 1

• Homework check
• Reviewed assigned questions
• Went over electrician problem (#3 from parallel resistance problems)
• Handout: Franklin (Kelsey’s name for the package with more complicated circuits)
• Rest of time to work on the homework
• Homework:

1. Complete Franklin package
2. Pg. 626 – #20-24
3. pg. 630 – #25-28
4. pg. 631 – #29-33, 35

> April 7 – Thursday, Day 6

• Reviewed assigned questions
• Completed rest of parallel circuits except problem #3, the electrician problem (note: question 2 c requires adding resistors in series)
• Did hardest resistance problem from previous departmentals (required adding resistors in parallel and adding resistors in series)
• My made-up circuit for more practice
• Rest of time to work on homework
• Homework:

1. Pgs 619-623, #1-11 (odd)
2. Pgs 626, #15, 17, and 19

> April 6 – Wednesday, Day 5

• Note that Electricity Exam #2 will be next Friday
• Notes: 1 example of resistance in series, and 1 example of resistance in parallel
• Handout: Electric Circuits – Practice / Section Review
• Independent work on #1 and #4 (2 & 3 will be assigned for homework)
• Did #5, a combination circuit, as a whole class
• Handout: Parallel Circuit Examples
• Did example #1 as a class
• Homework:

1. #2 & #3 from Electric Circuits – Practice / Section Review
2. The first two circuits of #2 from Parallel Circuit Examples, ie. the 2 circuits on the backside of page 1

> April 5 – Tuesday, Day 4

• We did all 7 electricity presentations, nice work guys!
• No homework

> April 4 – Monday, Day 3

• Handed in Resistors labs discussion questions
• Notes: Resistors in Series (formulas) — made note on formula sheet
• Notes: Resistors in Parallel (formulas) — made note on formula sheet
• Handout: Series Circuit Examples (LINK)
  
• Worked on handout until rest of class & reviewed
• Homework:

1. You will present your ppt presentations tomorrow!

> April 1 – Friday, Day 2 – Forgot it was April fools HA!

Let this go down in history as the funniest thing you guys ever did to me or that has ever happened in my teaching. Each of them had a drop form and Jill, Sarah & Patrick managed to drop my class before I clued in — and when I finally did, you literally had me burried on my desk laughing. I went from being devastated to absolutely fooled to oh so relieved — way to go guys, epic job.

• Reading resistor codes – some examples on board

1. orange/blue/red/gold
2. gold/blue/red/blue (hint: have to switch it around!)
3. orange/orange/silver/silver (remember the silver multiplier is 10^-2)
4. green/black/black (no tolerance band means a tolerance of +/- 20)

• Homework check on Series Circuit questions
• Reviewed textbook questions from Wednesday’s homework
• Time in class to finish Parallel Circuit activity and questions
• Handed back and reviewed Electricity Exam 1

1. Also, here are some links on what to do if a power line falls onto/ is touching your car

• LINK
• LINK
• LINK
• LINK
• Homework:

1. Finish Discussion questions for the Series and Parallel circuits you did
2. Prepare for your ppt presentations on Tuesday

> March 31 – Thursday, Day 1

• Homework check
• Handout: How to read the Resistor code
• Handout: Appendix N: Standard Resistor Colour Code
• Looked at resistors and did a random resistor colour code example to determine Ohms +/- Tolerance
• Handout: Resistors in Series / Resistors in Parallel
• Added onto handout above:

1. info for one row of table Ex. Colour bands: Brown, Black, Brown, Gold and Ex. 100 +/- 5%
2. Resistance definition
3. Question #4

• Did Resistors in Series portion and started Resistors in Parallel (our 10 ohm resistors were starting to burn in the Parallel circuit, maybe our amount of voltage, 6V, was too high and it exceeded the capacity of that resistor? Yes very likely…)
• Homework:

1. Finish Discussion questions for the Series circuit

> March 30 – Wednesday, Day 6

• First half of class to work on Research Powerpoints (that will be the last of class time to work on them) — they’ll be due for presentation on Tuesday
• Homework check & Review on questions from Kirchoff’s Current & Voltage Laws package (except the two resistance questions)
• Homework:

1. Pg 598 #6-11 (You’ll have to use Power formulas from formula sheet, ex. P = VI, power is P)

> March 29 – Tuesday, Day 5 – with Mrs. J

• Notes: Resistance & Ohm’s Law stuff with Mrs. J
• Handout: Kirchoff’s Current & Voltage Laws package
• Homework:

1. questions from Side 1 (#3-4), Side 2 (#2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11), Side 3 (#14), Side 4 (#1, 2, 5, and 6), Side 6: ie. Resistance section (the first two #4 questions) from Kirchoff’s Current & Voltage Laws package

> March 28 – Monday, Day 4 — Senior band was gone for 2/3rds of class (do this earlier in unit next time…?)

• Handout: Applications of Electricity Research Powerpoint
• Discussed Research Powerpoint and people picked there topics
• All of class given in computer lab to work on it
• Not due until next week sometime

> March 25 – Friday, Day 3

• Watched video 7 again (emphasized Voltage = Joules/Coulomb so the amount of electrical potential energy the electrons have to give away)
• Watched video 8 (emphasized why resistors heat up, ie. atoms & molecules vibrating as they get hit by electrons, ex. material of resistor = Nichrome (Nickel, chromium, and iron)
• Notes: Kirchoff’s Two Laws (with accompanying diagrams to explain why it makes sense)
• Independent: 2 examples, solve for unknown (followed by review)
• No homework

> March 24 – Thursday, Day 2

• Handout: Properties of a Parallel Circuit (lab activity)
• All of class given to complete the Series circuit activity as well as the Parallel circuit activity
• Homework:

1. Complete all discussion questions on both the Series and Parallel activities for Hand-in

> March 23 – Wednesday, Day 1

• The physics of cookie-making

> March 22 – Tuesday, Day 6

• Read Pg. 597: The Human Body note (the current is what’s the killer…)
• Reviewed yesterday’s circuit diagram
• Notes: Electric Circuits (1. Series, 2. Parallel)
• Notes: Instruments used in Measurement of Electric Current
• Handout: Diagramming Circuits (ie. the symbols we use)
• Handout: Properties of a Series Circuit (lab activity)
• Continued lab activity until end of class
• No homework

> March 21 – Monday, Day 5

• Introduced materials for hands-on below, then…

1. Challenge/competition: Power a small light bulb to max (6 Volts) using any # of 1.5 volt batteries and include a switch that turns the light on (note: voltage applied to light cannot exceed 6 volts)

• For organization-sake – the new section, Electricity Part 2, will start at the “Electron volts” heading
• Drew circuit schematic for what we did & little note on conventional flow vs electron flow

> March 18 – Friday, No class

• Day off in lieu of interviews

> March 17 – Thursday, Day 4

• Electricity Part 1 Exam

> March 16 – Wednesday, Day 3

• Notes: Potential Difference
• Did Questions #4, 7, and 10 from Electric Field Intensity Electric Potential Difference
• Notes: Electron volts, Potential Difference Across a Cell – Electromotive Force (emf)
• Handed out Test Reviews
• Homework:

1. Try questions 5, 6, 8, 9, and 11 from Electric Field Intensity Electric Potential Difference to prepare for test tomorrow
2. Go through Review as well

> March 15 – Tuesday, Day 2

• Reviewed assigned questions
• Japan Nuclear Power article summaries and discussion (Japan situation in pictures… I just showed the one with the child being detected for radiation)
• Continuing from notes: W = Fd example question
• Watched video 7 (discussed learning points afterward)
• No homework

> March 14 – Monday, Day 1

• Notes: Electric Field & Forces + example questions
• Watched video 6 (discussed learning points afterward)
• Notes: Electrical Potential Energy
• Japan Nuclear Situation- 7 articles for discussion tomorrow (handed out 1 to each)
• Homework:

1. Read your article about the Japan Nuclear Situation
2. Write a summary to use for your discussion and to hand in to me tomorrow (tomorrow I’d like you to speak for ~2 minutes summarizing your article & citing what you learned)
3. Pg. 565 text question #1 (Practice Problems)
4. Questions #2-3 from Electric Field Intensity Electric Potential Difference
5. Read section from text Picturing the Electric Field (Pg. 567-568) and do #11-13 on Pg. 568

> March 11 – Friday, Day 6

• Reviewed Nuclear & Atomic Physics exams
• Reviewed Quantity of Charge and Current Electricity Calculations (ie. if there were any issues)
• Watched video 5 and discussion afterward (Faraday Cages, similarity between formulas among gravity, magnetism, electric fields –> extension to “amazing laws of nature” –> Theoretical physicist –> having a physics formula to “explain” everything
• No homework

> March 10 – Thursday, Day 5 — No class

• Due to Early Dismissal

> March 9 – Wednesday, Day 4 — Mrs. J Subbing Day 3

1. Finished video on Electric current

2. Did example calculations for current on Smart board

3. Watched video and did notes on 5 sources of electric current

4. Assigned the rest of the Quantity of Charge and Current Electricity Calculations handout (ie. complete all 1-14)

• Ready to start potential difference (electric fields) next class

> March 8 – Tuesday, Day 3 — Mrs. J Subbing Day 2

1. Reviewed assigned questions

2. Notes on shielding and electrostatic precipitators

3. Video 4 on electric current (didn’t quite finish)

4. Assign first 4 questions of handout assignment

> March 7 – Monday, Day 2 — Mrs. J subbing Day 1

• Lightning demo (from Electrostatics drawer!) and worksheet
• Assigned  text questions 10-13 from text Pg. 552

March 4 – Friday, Day 1

• Reviewed homework
• Notes: Electrostatic Applications
• Notes: Coulomb’s Law
• Ex. calculation (note corresponding formulas on Formula sheet)
• No homework

> March 4 – Thursday, Day 6 — No class

• Penny-rolling for Telemiracle fundraiser

> March 2 – Wednesday, Day 5

• Reviewed section review questions 1-8 (Pg. 545)
• Watched VHS video: Charging and Discharging (you wrote down learning points during the video and then we discussed it)
• Notes: Charging by contact
• Watched VHS video: Charging by Induction (you wrote down learning points during the video and then we discussed it)
• Notes: Charging by Induction
• Rest of time to work on homework
• Homework:

1. Read Pgs 546-549
2. Do Section Review questions 14-19 from text Pg. 553

> March 1 – Tuesday, Day 4 

• Homework check
• Notes under heading Unit 2 – Electricity

• Electrostatics
• Theory of Electrification
• Handout: Electrostatic Series
• Conservation of Charge
• Conductors, Insulators, Superconductors, and Semiconductors

• Review section review questions 1-8 (Pg. 545) — we didn’t do this yet but there was enough time…
• Played with various objects from Electrostatic Series (task: prove that opposite charges attract while same charges repel)

> Feb 28 – Monday, Day 3 – continued from below… (ie. look under Nuclear & Atomic Physics section)

• Handout: K-W-L Chart

1. Write out what you Know already about electricity
2. What you Wonder or Want to know (Look at Contents section at beginning of text to add to your ideas, the chapters we’ll cover in this section are chapters 20-23 — note: just use these for ideas to get you thinking, I’m just interested in your questions, ie. do it for you, not for me) — note about the 5 questions for homework on part W of K-W-L chart
3. We’ll look at the What you have Learned section later on

• Watched VHS video: Conductors and Insulators (add questions to W column of K-W-L chart)
• Gave remaining time to work on homework
• Homework:

1. Read text Pgs 540-545
2. Answer Section Review questions 1-8 (Pg. 545)
3. Complete 5 questions/wonderings for part W of your K-W-L chart (make them as specific as possible!)

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Unit 1: Nuclear & Atomic Physics

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> Feb 28 – Monday, Day 3 – continued above…

• Debate debrief and handed back speeches etc.
• Text Pg 815 to introduce concept of Synchrotrons
• Synchrotron package handout
• Synchrotron video 5
  
• Synchrotron video 6-a (Synchrotron Family video)
  

> Feb 18 – Friday, Day 2

• Exam 1 – Nuclear Energy

> Feb 17 – Thursday, Day 1 — No class due to grade 12 thingy

• Pick up your corrected Nuclear Energy questions and speeches etc.
• Nuclear Energy exam tomorrow

> Feb 16 – Wednesday, Day 6 — No class due to grade 12 thingy

• Hand in Nuclear Energy homework questions

> Feb 15 – Tuesday, Day 5 — Debate day

• We had our formal debate on Nuclear Energy with honorable Mr. Bryan Unchulenko, Mrs. Lynette Kaminski and Mrs. Roxanne Johnson as judges
• Homework:

1. Hand in Nuclear Energy questions 1-13 in tomorrow

> Feb 14 – Monday, Day 4

• Handed back debate speeches/discussion questions & discussed any last details about tomorrow’s debate (location: my room or Mrs. Kaminski’s, grace time: “15 seconds grace”, time signals –> 3 mins, 2 mins, 1 minute & then 30 seconds with arm counting down, discussion period rules: can’t introduce new issues, dress up, compile your speech onto cue-cards and time it, and have fun!)
• VHS Video: Nuclear Physics – Electrical Energy From Fission
• Handout Package 1: Uranium in Saskatchewan, Nuclear Reactors, the CANDU Reactor, Nuclear Meltdown
• Handout Package 2: Uranium Quick Facts
• Read through Handout Package 1 CANDU Reactors
• VHS Video: Nuclear Physics – Nuclear byproducts
  
• Handout Package 3: For or Against: Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power Reactors, CANDU Reactors, CANDU Reactor Schematic, Canada’s Nuclear Reactors and Uranium Mines, Uranium Fuel Cycle
  
• Handout: Nuclear Energy (Questions)
• Homework:

1. Get all ready for the debate: see bullet point #1 (especially: dress up, compile your speech onto cue-cards and time it, and have fun!)

> Feb 11 – Friday, Day 3

• Reviewed assigned questions
• Notes Handout: Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Fission & Fusion (Nuclear Fission, Atomic Bombs, Atomic Bomb History and Nuclear Fusion)
• Handed back debate speeches etc. (after debate I’d like your final notes)
• No homework because of Morgan’s birthday

> Feb 10 – Thursday, Day 2

• Handed in debate speech drafts etc.
• Reviewed Uranium Decay Series handout
• Handout: Radioactive Decay Series
• Notes: Half-life & textbook examples 24 & 25 (Pg. 810)
• Notes: Artificial Radioactivity
• Notes: Nuclear Energy
• Time to work on homework
• Homework:

1. Radioactive Decay Series
2. Page 808-809 Text questions #16, 18, & 20
3. Page 810 in Text, question #26
4. Watch video 4-i (look at top of page to find the video) — if you float over the “LINK” word it should say Energy from the Nucleus

> Feb 9 – Wednesday, Day 1

• Debate Recap
• Handout: Everyday Radioactivity (read it and backside)
• Video 4-i
• Notes: Radioactive Decay, Alpha Decay, Beta Decay, and Gamma Decay, Radioactive Decay Series
• Handout: Fig 17-3 Uranium Decay Series package handout
• Homework:

1. Debate speeches/write-up due for tomorrow

> Feb 8 – Tuesday, Day 6

• Computer lab time to work on debate speeches etc.
• No homework but keep working on your debate speeches etc.

> Feb 7 – Monday, Day 5

• Handout: The Penetrating Power of Radiation
• Video: Demonstration 16-6, 16-7, and 16-8 from VHS tape (6 – Detection of Radioactivity with G. M. counters, 7 – Natural Background Radiation, 8 – Detection of Radioactivity of some materials)
• Handout: Investigation 16-1
• Video: Investigation/Demonstration from same VHS tape (it’s just the next program)
• Notes: Measuring Radioactivity & Background Radiation
• Handout: Calculate Your Exposure to Radiation
• Notes: Biological Effects of Radiation, Low Level Doses & High Level Doses
• No homework but work on your debate speech/write-up!

> Feb 4 – Friday, Day 4

• Handed in homework (graphs etc.)
• Morgan’s forum comment on microwaves
• Reviewed debate format etc.

1. Be it resolved that this house should develop nuclear power as Saskatchewan’s primary resource
2. Read The Basic Philosophy of Debate and The Physical Layout of a Debate (Pg. 6-7) from the package handout (Pg. 6-7)
3. Handout: Part III – Delivering the Speech
4. Handout: Physics 30 Nuclear Energy Debate (went over roles of each speaker/member & the time limits for each portion of the debate)
   
5. Random draw for teams: Affirmative or Negative
6. Team meeting & role picking
7. Handout of example speech: noting introduction to various members, reference to resolution (in each speech), and conclusion (and persuasive nature: Ladies & Gentlemen this and Ladies & Gentlemen that
8. My expectations – cue-cards, not-reading off their sheet, statistics etc.
9. Remainder of class to work in computer labs on their speeches etc.

> Feb 3 – Thursday, Day 3

• Video 4-h (0:00-6:37)
• Handout: Table on Bequerel Rays
• Notes: Bequerel Rays
• Notes: Radioactivity
• Story on Marie Curie’s death: LINK
• Notes: Radiation detectors
• Handout: Geiger Counter
• Handouts: Alpha and Beta Particles & Graph paper
• Homework:

1. Complete each graph of Sample #1 & Sample #2 and the Questions 1-5 and Conclusion that follow

> Feb 2 – Wednesday, Day 2

• Reviewed assigned questions
• Notes: Atomic # and Mass #
• Notes: Isotopes
• Handout: Atomic #/Mass # table to fill in
• Notes: Natural Radioactivity
• Video 4-g
• Notes: The discovery of Radioactivity
• No homework

> Feb 1 – Tuesday, Day 1

• Handout: Atomic Theories and reading/discussion, noting those who discovered subatomic particles
• Video 3
• Handout: Gold Foil Experiment & discussion (noting that alpha particles are helium nuclei)
• Notes: Atomic Theory & Structure of the atom
• Video 4-d
• Notes: Bohr’s Atomic Model
• Handout: Electromagnetic Spectrum
• Text Reading (Independent): X Rays (Pg. 713)
• Notes: X-Rays
• Homework:

1. Read pg. 800-801 (Description of the Nucleus, Do all elements have the same mass numbers?)
2. Practice Problems #1-4 from Pg. 801

> Jan. 31 – Monday, Day 6

• Course outline
• Formula sheet
  
• Textbooks & sign-out
• Handout: Nuclear Physics Debate
• Videos 1 & 2 in Nuclear Physics
• Homework:

1. Click on How to use the forum link on the right hand side of the page and watch the video
2. Create a New Topic on the Physics 30 Forum and write out the question/topic you were given in class in the Subject line and answer/describe it in the text box/message body that follows

• Topics that were given:

1. J.J. Thompson’s model of the atom
2. Rutherford’s model of the atom
3. Bohr’s model of the atom
4. How was the electron discovered?
5. How was the proton discovered?
6. How was the nucleus discovered?
7. How was the neutron discovered?

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> Jan. 31 – Monday, Day 6

• Course outline
• Textbooks & sign-out
• Handout: Nuclear Physics Debate
• Videos 1 & 2 in Nuclear Physics
• Homework:

1. Click on How to use the forum link on the right hand side of the page and watch the video
2. Create a New Topic on the Physics 30 Forum and write out the question/topic you were given in class in the Subject line and answer/describe it in the text box/message body that follows

• Topics that were given:

1. J.J. Thompson’s model of the atom
2. Rutherford’s model of the atom
3. Bohr’s model of the atom
4. How was the electron discovered?
5. How was the proton discovered?
6. How was the nucleus discovered?
7. How was the neutron discovered?

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