Quarter+3+Notes+2011

Electricity & Magnetism

Quarter 3 Class Notes and Make-up Assignments: Always include **name** and **date of make-up** on any late work turned in.

- Survey - Worksheet CD 37-1
 * Friday 4/8**

Project #2: Making Electricity by Moving Magnets
 * Tuesday 4/5-Thursday4/8**

- Build a speaker from a Cool-Whip container - Mythbusters and lightning
 * Monday 4/4**

Test #2: Circuits and Magnetism
 * Friday 4/1**

Jeopardy! review for the test
 * Thursday 3/31**

Make-up: Read Section 36.7 & 36.8 (p 729-731) and answer questions 15-17 (p. 735-6) - Build our own electric motors!
 * Wednesday 3/30**

Make-up: Read Section 36.4 (p 724-5) and **Choose 3** of the following questions to answer: 6-9 (p. 735) - Practiced Right-hand rule - Electric and Magnetic Fields battle royale! - Worksheet (CD 36-1 and equation practice)
 * Tuesday 3/29**

Make-up: Read Section 36.3 & 36.5 (p 723-4 & 726-7) and answer questions 4, 5, 10 (p. 735) - What materials are attracted to magnets? - Building an electromagnet: more loops make a stronger magnet - The right-hand rule
 * Monday 3/28**

Make-up: Read Section 36.1-2 (p 721-723) and answer questions 1-3 (p. 735) - Magnets are dipoles - Compasses detect magnetic forces - Current in a wire generates a MAGNETIC field?!?
 * Friday 3/25**

Make-up: Read Section 34.11 (p 693-694) and answer questions 62 (current and resistance) & 68 (p. 700) - Circuit puzzles - Power in household appliances
 * Thursday 3/24**

Make-up: Read Section 34.11 (p 693-694) and answer questions 23-25 (p. 697) - Circuit puzzles - Calculating Power in a circuit (CD 34-2)
 * Wednesday 3/23**

Make-up: Read Section 35.3-4 (p 705-708) and answer questions 4, 8a, 8b (p. 714) - Series and parallel simulation
 * Tuesday 3/22**

Make-up: Read Section 35.3-4 (p 705-708) and answer questions 5-7 (p. 714) - How many lightbulbs? - A visit to Circuitopia Airport
 * Monday 3/21**

Make-up: Read Section 34.5 (p 685) and answer questions 33, 34 (p. 698) & 61 (p. 700) - Ohm's Law practice (CD 34-1, pg 2) - Mythbusters
 * Friday 3/11**

Make-up: Read Section 35.1-2 (p 703-4) and answer questions 1, 2 (p. 714) & 25 (p. 716) - Mystery Resistor extra credit! (Due 3/25) - Making a flashlight - "Open" and "Closed" for circuits
 * Thursday 3/10**

Make-up: Read Section 34.5 (p 685) and answer questions 12-14, (p. 696) - Review Bike analogy and predictions - Testing predictions with actual circuits or on the computer - Ohm's Law!
 * Wednesday 3/9**

Make-up: Read Section 34.4 (p 684) and answer questions 10, 11, (p. 696) & 41 (p. 699) - Defining Resistance - Bike analogy to circuits - Making a prediction about circuits and practicing the set up
 * Tuesday 3/8**

Make-up: Read Section 34.9-10 (p 691-3) and answer questions 21, 22, (p. 697) & 55 (p. 700) - CD 34-1: Voltage and Current worksheet - Demo of electrons flowing in a wire - Cell phone poll on what the demo showed
 * Monday 3/7**

No School -- Conferences!
 * Thursday 3/3 - Friday 3/4**

Test: Chapters 32, 33, and part of 34
 * Wednesday 3/2**

Jeopardy! Review
 * Tuesday 3/1**

Make-up: Read Section 34.1 (p 681) and answer questions 1, 3 (p. 696) & 39 (p. 699) - New Policy: Giving classmates our attention. How can we make it work? - Pumped water analogy to circuits
 * Monday 2/28**

Make-up work (1st & 3rd hr): Go to [], click on "Myth Results" and summarize how they tested 3 different myths. - Mythbusters: Lightning and Piercings, tree cannon, breathalyzer
 * Friday 2/25 (5th period only)**

Make-up: Read Section 34.1-2 (p 681-2) and answer questions 2, 4 & 5 (p. 696) - What uses current? - Terms for Electric Concepts page - Practice calculating current
 * Wednesday 2/23 / Thursday 2/24 (5th period)**

Make-up: Read Section 33.4 & 33.5 (p 669-671) and answer questions 11, 12, & 16 (p. 676) - Worksheet demonstrating Voltage - Measuring battery voltage
 * Tuesday 2/22**

NO SCHOOL! President's Day
 * Monday 2/21**

Make-up: Read Section 33.3 (p. 668-9) and answer questions 8-10 (p. 676) - Cell phone wrapped in foil experiment - Shielding means a closed conductor cancels out the outside electric field - It's why you're safe in a closed car in a lightning storm! Electrons repel and stay on the outer surface.
 * Friday 2/18**

Make-up: Print out Project doc below and follow instructions for computer simulation project - Electric charges and fields PhET simulation project!
 * Tuesday 2/15 - Thursday 2/17**

Make-up: Read Section 7.2 (p. 108) and answer questions 2-4 (p. 118) - What does "respect" mean in a classroom? - Hovercrafts and Newton's 3rd Law!
 * Monday 2/14**

Make-up: Read Section 33.7 (p. 673-4) and answer questions 19-20 (p. 677) & 34 (p. 678) - Demos with the Van de Graaff generator: hair, pie tins, styrofoam peanuts, light bulb - CD 32-2: Worksheet on induction - Mythbusters build a Van de Graaff generator and shock each other
 * Friday 2/11**

Make-up: Read Section 33.2 (p. 666-7) and answer questions 4-6 (p. 676) - Force Fields: they aren't just science fiction! - Electric Field computer game and Electric Field Hockey Game
 * Thursday 2/10**

Make-up: Read Section 32.4 (p. 651-2) and answer questions 14, 15 (p. 659) & 24 (p. 660) - Follow the electrons experiment with pie pans - Review of Chapter 32
 * Wednesday 2/09**

Make-up: Read Section 32.7 (p. 655-7) and answer questions 20-22 (p. 660) - Water as conductor, making Leyden jars = storing charge! - Balloons and walls, moving a 2X4 polarization demo
 * Tuesay 2/08**

Make-up work (1st & 3rd hr): Go to [], click on "Myth Results" and summarize how they tested 3 different myths. - Mythbusters: Lightning and Piercings, tree cannon, breathalyzer
 * Monday 2/07**

Make-up: Read Section 32.6 (p. 653-4) and answer questions 17-19 (p. 660) - Computer simulations: Rubbing balloons and John Travoltage
 * Friday 2/04**

Make-up: Read Section 32.2 (p. 646-7) and answer questions 8, 9, 10 (p. 659) - Practice keeping track of charge - Triboelectric series: Charging by rubbing
 * Thursday 2/03**

Make-up: Read Section 32.5 (p. 652) and answer questions 6, 7, 16 (p. 659) - Practice keeping track of charge - Triboelectric series: Charging by rubbing
 * Wednesday 2/02**

Make-up: Read Section 32.1 (p. 645-6) and answer questions 2, 3, 4 (p. 659) - Balloons and charges - Writing questions for the teacher
 * Tuesday 2/01**

Make-up work: N/A - Getting to Know You - Going Over Syllabus and Textbook - What is an atom like?
 * Monday 1/31**

Syllabus: WBL ALC Physics
H. Leslie Grebe Phone: 651-773-6404 Email: HLGREB@wbl.whitebear.k12.mn.us

Class website: http://wblalcphysics.wikispaces.com/ All class notes will be posted to the website for review and study. Online textbook: [] Login: alcphys01 (or 02, 03, …10) Password: alcrules School website: [] District website: []

Quarter Credit:
 * 100% || 0.5 credits ||
 * 75% || 0.375 credits ||
 * 50% || 0.25 credits ||
 * 25% || 0.125 credits ||

For each quarter course work will consist of 2 projects worth <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">10% each, 2 tests worth 10% each, daily points worth 50%, and <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">participation worth 10%. In Skyward, the % will count up from 0% each quarter as points are earned. Other than tests and possibly projects, students **//must be present//** to earn credit. (Make-up work for **//excused//** absences will be available on the class website and must be handed in within a week of returning to class.)

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Perfect Attendance Bonus: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Any 13 consecutive school days of attendance is eligible for a 5% extra credit bonus, up to 3 bonuses per quarter. For multiple bonuses, the 13-day periods cannot overlap.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Artistic Contribution Bonus: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Being new to the ALC, I could use some assistance getting my room set up and decorated. Students can earn additional ‘daily points’ by making classroom signs or displays. Talk with me individually for details.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Expectations: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">It is expected that anyone choosing to be in class is working toward our goal of learning enough physics to get credits. **Respect** is fundamental to helping everyone achieve that goal. Quarter 2 Class Notes Quarter 1 Class Notes