Mr. Hover was out sick today. All classes watched a NOVA program: Making Stuff Cleaner. If you were absent today, there is no make-up assignment.

Warm-Up: Do you remember at the beginning of the year when we compared white light to the light given off by gas samples of various elements? What was the difference?

Agenda:

- Revisit the gas spectrum demonstration

- Start webquest at tinyurl.com/coloradoEMwaves and tinyurl.com/CUPeriodic; address objectives while reading and interacting with the website

- Discuss objectives if time permits

Homework: Finish looking at the websites if you didn't finish in class.

Warm-Up: Please locate the SHM Graph Analysis sheet that you should have completed for today. I'd like someone to volunteer to share their graphs at the SMART Board in a moment.

Also--If you signed up to participate in the Science and Theater session in the PAC this Wednesday, report to Dr. G's room after school tomorrow for a quick meeting and rehearsal.

Also, Part 2--I still need take-home quizzes from Declan W. and Robyn T.

Agenda:

- Discuss SHM Graph Analysis

- Complete and discuss SHM Energy Analysis as a class

- Start complete text problems #15 and 16 on page 453-4

Homework: Reminder--Lab Reports are due by midnight tonight to www.turnitin.com.  Finish text problems for tomorrow.

Warm-Up: Good to see you again! We'll try to tie up all of our loose ends from the week in our shortened period today. If you have any evaluation sheets for the elements project, please find those now.

Also, if you did not turn in PhET Atomic Simulation sheet, you should do that today.

Agenda:

- Finish evaluating the Periodic Table Project

- Finish Conceptual Physics Video 

- If time permits, discuss video questions

Homework: None! Have a great weekend.

Warm-Up: Find the objectives from the Spring-Mass Investigation. I'd like to discuss those along with your lab results ASAP today.

Also: The next Science and Theatre session in the PAC is next Wednesday. If you signed up to participate, we're going to have a quick meeting/rehearsal next Tuesday right after school.

Agenda:

- Discuss results and objectives for lab

- Work on Lab Report and complete SHM Analysis

- Discuss SHM Analysis if time permits

Homework: Lab Reports due by end of day Monday.

Warm-Up: How'd things go yesterday? Any questions regarding the spring-mass investigation?

Agenda:

- Finish up analysis of spring-mass video clips

- Write up results (sketch of graph and mathematical model) on whiteboards and discuss; make conclusions about what each of the terms represent

- Discuss yesterday's objectives and read Section 13.1 if you didn't already do so

- Update your notes and work on Lab Report (section 13.4 may be helpful in writing the conclusion)

Homework: Lab Reports due by end of day Monday, February 27

Agenda:

- Watch Conceptual Physics Video: Light and Color

- Answer questions on handout while watching

Homework: If your element project didn't play properly yesterday, try to fix it by tomorrow. (You may need to export your audio file as an .mp3 using Audacity if it didn't work; then re-upload the file to bghover.pbworks.com)

Warm-Up: We'll finish up Parallel Worlds, Parallel lives in a moment. Quizzes are graded and scores are posted to PIV...we'll discuss them tomorrow.

Agenda:

- Finish video

- Simple Harmonic  Motion Lab (Mass on Spring)

- Note objectives at top of handout

- Read the introduction to Chapter 13 and Section 13.1 to help prepare for the investigation

- Use the Logger Pro Video Analysis tools to analyze one of the clips (divide up the clips so that each one is analyzed by at least one group)

- Clips are located at Handout > Hover > SHM Videos

- If you finish the analysis, start typing up a lab report with your group

Homework: Lab Reports due by end of day Monday, February 27.

Agenda:

- Evaluate Element Projects today

- Listen to each podcast as a class, discuss with your tablemates, and write up an evaluation for each element

- If time permits: Start Paul Hewitt Light and Color video

Homework: None

Warm-Up Announcements:

1. Turn in your take-home quiz now. (If you forgot, this will have to be your excused quiz for quarter 3--sorry!)

2. The Engineer-for-a-Day field trip is tomorrow for those students who signed up. Go to your first period class tomorrow and I'll come on the PA to call you to the bus loop. If you'd didn't already turn in your permission form, you must bring it tomorrow.

3. There is a Black History Month Assembly today during 4th period. Go to your class that period and you'll leave and sit with your class in the PAC.

Agenda:

- Watch and tweet (mention @bgphysics) about today's video--Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

Homework: If you were absent Friday, take-home quiz is due tomorrow.

Warm-Up: Hopefully, everyone's element project is posted to bghover.pbworks.com. If not, you'll be able to do so in a moment.

Agenda:

- Make sure your element is posted; we'll evaluate each other's projects tomorrow.

- Play with sims at the PhET site and evaluate each of the following: alpha decay, beta decay, build an atom, isotopes and atomic mass, discharge lamps, rutherford scattering, nuclear fission

- Fill out this sheet while you investigate the sims

Homework: None.

Warm-Up: Sign up to share solution for today's problem with your group. (Page 255 #3, 11; Page 260-1 #31, 33)

Agenda:

- Share solutions at SMART Board

- Add the following objective to your notes:

- Use the concept of conservation of angular momentum to explain the motion of isolated rotating objects

- Read and discuss Section 8.7 (page 249 - 251); update notes

- Revisit the platform demos; use the concept of angular momentum conservation to explain observations

- If time permits: start Take-Home Quiz

Homework: Complete the Take-Home Quiz--it is due at the beginning of the period on Tuesday!!

Warm-Up: Go ahead and log in to a computer.

Agenda:

- Finish Periodic Table Project today

- A recording station is set up in back room if you'd like privacy while recording

- Make sure you check the project requirements before posting your work

- If time permits, check out PHET simulations/games: alpha-decay, beta decay, build an atom, isotopes and atomic mass, discharge lamps, rutherford scattering, nuclear fission

Homework: Have a great 3-day weekend! Make sure projects are posted by class time on Tuesday.

Warm-Up: Imagine two PVC pipes. They have the same mass. Do they necessarily have the same rotational inertia?

Also: Dr. G and I are looking for about 15 students to participate in our next Intersecting Science with Theater session of February 29. We would need you to come to the PAC each period for the first 5 - 10 minutes of class.

Agenda:

- Note yesterday's objectives if you haven't already done so

- Read Section 8.5; write a 30-word GIST with you groupmates; update notes

- Complete the following problems: page 255 Multiple Choice #3, 11; page 260 - 261 #31, 33

Homework: Finish problems. Take-home quiz tomorrow!

Warm-Up: Go ahead and log in to a computer. We'll continue our research today.

Agenda:

- Continue researching today for the Interactive Periodic Table project

- Review the Project Requirements if needed; this page also has links to resources

- A good goal for today: write your script so that you can record tomorrow

Homework: Images and podcasts should be posted by Tuesday, February 21.

Warm-Up: I hope you enjoyed the day off! I'd like groups to sign up to demonstrate problems #7 and #8 on page 257. Also, do  you have any questions about the mini-mobile project?

Agenda:

- Discuss solutions to #7 and #8

- Note the following objectives:

- Identify factors that influence rotational inertia

- Define the rotational analog for F_net = ma

- Solve problems involving torque, moment of inertia, and angular acceleration

- Read Section 8.5 if time permits. 

Homework: Read section 8.5. Quiz Friday (?) on Rotational Motion.
 

Warm-Up: Have you ever used a wiki before? What is a wiki?

Also--If you have Quiz Corrections or Registration Forms, I'll take them!

Agenda:

- Locate and sign out your assigned netbook; go to bghover.pbworks.com

- View Interactive Periodic Table criteria and sample; discuss

- Assign logins and elements

- Begin research

Homework: Projects should be posted by Tuesday, February 21. (No school Monday for Presidents Day.)

Warm-Up: We'll finish the Making Stuff Stronger video in a moment. Becky and Emily need to make up the quiz today.

Agenda:

- Finish and discuss video

- Return and discuss quiz; complete quiz corrections

Homework: Finish Quiz Corrections.
 

Warm-Up: Show that a meterstick set up with the following masses is in rotational equilibrium by calculating the torques. (The mass of the meterstick is 90 grams).

Note- Lab Reports are graded! Visit www.TurnItIn.com to view my comments. Scores will be entered into PIV by the end of the day.

Agenda:

- Read Sections 8.2 and 8.3 in the text to address the following objectives:  

- Summarize the two conditions that must be met to produce mechanical equilibrium

- Describe the concept of center of gravity and understand its importance to rotation

 - Discuss optional project: The Mini-Mobile

- Complete and discuss these text problems: Page 257 #7, 8

Homework: Quiz this week on rotational motion and torque.

Warm-Up: Quiz Today! Take a few minutes to study

Agenda: 

- Take quiz

- Turn in when finished; quiet until all are finished

- Making Stuff Video

Homework: Have a great weekend!

Warm-Up Question: Why are dragsters long?

Agenda:

- Equilibrium Mini-Lab

- Set up and solve each scenario; calculate and compare the torques acting on the meterstick

Homework: None.

Warm-Up: If you need to finish up or revisit any of the lab stations from yesterday, we'l take care of that first. We will need to be able to address the following objectives by the end of the day:

- Identify how distribution of mass affects the rotational inertia of an object

- Identify how location of applied force affects the angular acceleration of an object

- Note the relationship between torque and angular acceleration

- Use the torque equations to calculate the magnitude of a torque with proper units

- Use the right-hand rule to identify the direction of a torque

Agenda:

- Finish and discuss the mini-labs

- Complete the pre-concept check for torque; Read Section 8.1 in the text (pages 228 - 231)

- Complete a post-concept check and tweet a summary to @bgphysics 

- Update objectives for today

- If time permits: Try multiple choice question #1 on page 254

Homework: None. (Quiz is next friday.)

Warm-Up Questions: What is the difference between fission and fusion? Which process fuels the sun and other stars?

Agenda:

- Complete and demonstrate solutions to Nuclear Reaction Examples

- Prepare for tomorrow's quiz

- Review objectives/notes

- Complete Isotopes Review using a periodic table

- Play with PhET's Build an Atom Simulation if time permits 

Homework: Quiz tomorrow on the nucleus, radioactivity, fission, and fusion. Be sure to review your notes!

Warm-Up: Our first order of business is to wrap up discussion of the Angular Motion Problems from pages 221 - 222. Locate your work and we'll get started in a moment.

Agenda:

- Finish Discussion of problems

- Torque and Rotation Mini-Labs

- Spend 3 - 4 minutes at each station observing and investigating

- When finished, discuss observations/questions

- Next: Read Section 8.1 in the text

Homework: None. (No quiz this week!)

Warm-Up: Locate your Decay Chain example from yesterday. I'd like to have a volunteer walk us through the solution at the SMART Board in a moment.

Agenda:

- Discuss and mark Decay Chain Example

- Note these objectives:

- Compare/contrast fission and fusion

- Understand how E = mc² relates to nuclear reactions

- Analyze the products of nuclear reactions

- PowerPoint notes: Fission and Fusion

- Update Notes

- If time permits: Nuclear Reaction Practice Problems

Homework: Quiz Friday on the nucleus, radioactivity, fission, and fusion