This is the best lab of the year.  We will be studying the physics of roller coasters.

Buses depart Pen High at 8:00 am and will return to Pen High by approximately 6:30 pm.   Cost of trip:  TBD

This will be 7-10 multiple choice questions and 1 FRQ covering all topics from the start of the year.

- In Spalding's Room

- You can work on the MC Packet or ask questions about anything you are stuck on.

This will be 2 free response questions that are similar in style to the FRQ problems contained in the 2nd Semester Midterm Review packet.

1) 2nd Semester Midterm Review Problem Set Due

This will be 15 to 20 MC questions covering all topics from the start of the year.

 

1) Nuclear Physics Worksheet Due

a) Double Slit Experiment

b) Diffraction Gratings

c) Thin Film Interference

 

1) Worksheet:  AP Supplemental Problem Set - Photoelectric Effect

2) Worksheet:  TIPERS - Photoelectric Effect

2) Textbook:  Page 898 # 11-14 all

1) Worksheet:  "Thin Film Interference & Double Slit Experiment Supplemental Worksheet"

2) Worksheet:  "Young's Double Slit Experiment In Class Lecture Problem"

3) Worksheet:  "Thin Film Interference In Class Lecture Problems"

4) Textbook - Page 812 Conceptual Questions: # 2, 4, 8, 17

5) Textbook - Page 813 Problems: #1 - 7 odd, 15 - 19 odd, 35 - 41 odd

Design an experiment to determine the wavelengths of red, blue and green laser beams.  Your lab report must include:

1) Step by step procedure describing how to conduct your experiment

2) Diagram of laser beam passing through the diffraction grating.  Diagram must include all variables to be measured in the experiment.

3) Data table

4) Calculations involved in determining wavelength for each laser.

5) Percent error calculation

6) Discussion of possible sources of error.

a) Ch 9 - Fluids

b) Ch 10 - Gas Laws

c) Ch 11/12 - Thermo

d) Ch 15 - Electric Force & Electric Fields

e) Ch 16 - Electrical Energy & Capacitance

f) Ch 17/18 - DC and RC Circuits

g) Ch 19 - Magnetic Fields

h) Ch 20 - Induction

i) Ch 22 - Reflection & Refraction (including total internal reflection)

j) Ch 23 - Mirrors & Lenses

1) Mirrors & Lenses Lab Due

2) Index of Refraction Lab (by graphical means) Due

1) Quiz:  Optics - Chapters 22 and 23.   This is a full period quiz.

1) AP FRQ on parallel rays striking a converging lens (Sample Free-Response Question - Quantitative / Qualitative Translation) 

2) Ray Diagram Worksheet\

3) Worksheet 17.2 - Refraction & Lenses

 

1) AP Review Quiz # 6 -  All topics from AP Review Quiz # 5 + RC Circuits 

NO AP Review Quiz!!

1) AP Review Quiz # 5 -  DC Circuits (Ch 17 & 18)  20 min quiz

1) AP Review Quiz # 4 - All topics from AP Review Quiz # 3 + Chapter 16

1)  Conceptual Questions:  Textbook Page 746 #1-9 odd, 13, 14, 16, 17

2)  Problems:  Textbook Page 746 1,  7-11 all,  13 – 27 odd,  28, 29, 30, 33, 36, 37, 40, 43, 46, 47, 56

AP Review Quiz # 3:  (All topics from AP Review Quiz # 2) + (Induction) + (Ch 15 - Charge, Coulomb's Law & E-Fields) - 20 Minute Quiz

AP Review Quiz # 2:   (All topics from AP Review Quiz # 1) + (Thermo... Ch 11/12) - 20 minute quiz

Quiz - Induction -  Full period quiz

1) Textbook page 684 - Conceptual Questions # 1-5 all, 17, 18, 19

2) Textbook page 685 - Problems # 3, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 27 - 29 all, 51, 54, 61

3) Experimental Design FRQ

AP Review Quiz # 1:  Ch 9 & Ch 10 (Fluids and Gas Laws) - 20 minute quiz

1) AP Supplemental Problem Set - Induced Voltage

 

1) Textbook - Problems Page 652 # 15, 17, 18, 27, 29, 30, 31, 34, 35, 37, 38, 41, 44-46 all, 56

Textbook - Page 567 #66

This exam will include all topics covered since the start of the year.  To prepare for the exam you should review the problem sets for each topic which are posted here on Edlio.   All worksheets and many solutions are posted on OneNote (including many video solutions / tutorials).

Quiz - DC Circuits and RC Circuits

1) AP Physics 2 FRQs -  Do the 4 AP FRQs on circuits (solutions are given but do not look at solution until you have tried to do it on your own!!)

2) Worksheet on RC Circuits ( Spaldo needs to create this worksheet still.... you should have it by Monday 12/5)

1) Worksheets on DC Circuits:

a) DC Circuits Worksheet # 1

b) DC Circuits Worksheet # 2

c) Worksheet:  Explaining Bulb Brightness and Changes in Bulb Brightness

 

2) Textbook page 587  # 1, 3, 5, 31, 33, 39, 41, 43, 45

3)  Textbook page 617  #3, 4, 5, 10, 13, 14, 15, 46, 47, 48, 50, 62, 63

Quiz # 4:  Chapter 16 - Electric Potential & Capacitors

1.  Textbook Problems - Page 564 # 25, 27, 28, 29-35 odd, 37, 39, 43, 44, 47, 48, 60

2.   Worksheet--  "Electric Potential Worksheet # 4 - Capacitors"

3.  AP FRQ Packet on electric potential (this was passed out in class on Monday 11/14)

1)  Worksheets --   Electric Potential Worksheet # 1  and  Electric Potential Worksheet # 2

2) Textbook Conceptual Questions:  Page 562  # 1, 4, 5, 7, 11, 17

3) Textbook Problems: Page 562  # 1 - 10 all

Quiz # 3:  Charge, Coulomb's Law and Electric Fields

 

1) Textbook Page 527 #28-31 all,  49, 50, 54, 57

1) Textbook Conceptual Questions - Page 524 # 8-12 all,  20-22 all

2) Textbook Problems - Page 526 #17, 18, 21, 23, 26

3)   Electric Field Worksheets (4 worksheets total).....

a) Worksheet:   Electric Fields - Problem # 1

b)  Worksheet:   Electric Fields - Problem # 2,  

c) Worksheet:   Electric Forces & Fields (McGehee)    

d)  Worksheet:   Electric Fields - Sample AP Physics 2 FRQ

1) "Charge Postulate" Handout / Electrostatics Worksheets.  This is the packet that I passed out in class on Wednesday 10/19.

2) Textbook Ch 15 Conceptual Questions:  Page 524 # 1-7all, 14, 16, 17, 19

3) Electrophorus Lab Due....  Your assignment is to construct an explanation of how the electrophorus works and why it seems to work again and again without a loss of charge.  This is a lab write-up where you will practice expressing your thoughts in writing.  Do this in a clear, step-by-step fashion.  You will be doing this a lot on the FRQ segment of the AP exam.  Use diagrams to support your reasoning.

1) Read McGehee's "Unit I - Charged Particles and Electric Fields" pages 7 - 14 (stop at "Calculating Work and Energy").  Do all fill in and sample questions within the reading.  Answers are on page 23 of the handout.

1) Textbook Ch 15 Problems:  Page 524 # 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13-16 all, 54, 61, 62

 

1) Read McGehee's "Unit I - Charged Particles and Electric Fields" pages I-1 thru I-6 and work sample problems within the reading (answers to sample problems are on page I-23)

 

2) Gas Law Lab Due

Quiz # 2:  Gas laws, heat & thermodynamics (Ch 10, 11, 12)

1)  Example Problems #3 - #12 in Spalding's Lecture Notes Packet

2) Textbook Problems Page 420  # 23, 25, 29, 43, 47, 50, 51, 54

3) Lab:  Gas Laws

1) Textbook - Conceptual Questions - page 417 # 3, 6, 7, 9, 17

2) Textbook - Problems -page 418 # 5, 7, 9, 10 ,11, 19, 22

 

1) Textbook: Problems page 346 #11-13 all, 27 - 35 odd

2) Worksheets:  2 Gas Law Worksheets

Quiz # 1 - Chapter 9 (Fluids)

1) Lab:  "Bernoulli's Lab"

2) Textbook - Problems page 314 #  40, 43, 45, 48, 49, 64, 73, 77

1) Lab:  "Archimedes Lab # 1"

2) Lab: "Archimedes Lab # 2"

3) "Fluids In Motion - Supplemental Problems & Questions"

4) Textbook - Conceptual Questions page 311 # 14-18 all

 

1) Worksheet:  "Video Problem Worksheet --- Fluids - Buoyancy Problem"

2) Worksheet:  "Static Fluids - Supplemental Problems & Questions"

3) Textbook Ch 9 (page 310):  Conceptual Questions #10,11,13

4) Textbook Ch 9 (page 311):  Problems # 26-28 all, 30, 33, 34, 37

1)  Get access to Mr. Spalding's OneNote notebook.  Goto   www.student.pvpusd.net    Your login is your 6 digit student ID followed by @pvpusd.net  (i.e.:  [email protected])  Your password is the password you set to get on school computers.

2)  Join Mr. Spalding's Remind group.  Instructions available in Mr. Spalding's classroom

3)  Subscribe to Mr. Spalding's PVPHS webpage. This will give you a notification when a homework assignment or test date is posted.   Link:  http://pvphs.pvpusd.net/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=635235&type=u&pREC_ID=996253

Signed Syllabus Due