CALENDAR

AP PHYSICS 1

QUARTER 1
ROTATION 1
Monday, August 13 (Period 4) or Tuesday, August 14 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Class Info and Policies
  • LAB - "Lid Lab" Data Collection
Wednesday, August 15
  • LAB (Continued) - "Lid Lab" Graphing Using Proper Science Graphing Techniques
  • Graph Relationships (Direct, Inverse, Quadratic, Square Root); "Straightening" Graphs
Thursday, August 16 (Periods 4 and 6) or Friday, August 17 (Period 7)
  • Using Logger Pro
Friday, August 17 (Period 4) or Monday, August 20 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • QUIZ 1 on Graphical Analysis
  • MKS/SI Units; Metric Prefixes; Unit Conversion (Factor-Label Method); Scientific Notation
Tuesday, August 21
  • Graphing TIPERS (Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research)

ROTATION 2
Wednesday, August 22 (Period 4) or Thursday, August 23 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Sections 2.1 - 2.3: Kinematics; Distance, Position, and Displacement; Scalar vs. Vector; Velocity vs. Speed; Calculation of Velocity and Speed; Position-Time and Velocity-Time Graphs
Friday, August 24
  • Sections 2.4 - 2.6: Acceleration Definition, Calculation, and Sign; "Big Four" Equations for Uniform Acceleration
Monday, August 27 (Periods 4 and 6) or Tuesday, August 28 (Period 7)
  • Section 2.7: Acceleration Due to Gravity; Free Fall; Dropped Object and Straight Up and Down Trajectory
Tuesday, August 28 (Period 4) or Wednesday, August 29 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Section 2.8: Graphical Analysis of One-Dimensional Motion; Position-Time, Velocity-Time, and Acceleration-Time Graphs
Thursday, August 30
  • SUBSTITUTE - "One-Dimensional Motion Graphs" Worksheet

ROTATION 3
Friday, August 31 (Period 4) or Tuesday, September 4 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • "Graphs of Motion in One Dimension" Worksheet; Interpreting Motion Graphs (pp. 80-81 # 26, 27, 29, 30);
Wednesday, September 5
  • Additional AP OpenStax Chapter 2 Problems; Sample AP One-Dimensional Kinematics Problems for Test Review
Thursday, September 6 (Periods 4 and 6) or Friday, September 7 (Period 7)
  • TEST 2 (Chapter 2 - Kinematics: One-Dimensional Motion)
Friday, September 7 (Period 4) or Monday, September 10 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • LAB - Logger Pro Video Analysis of a Freely-Falling Object
Tuesday, September 11
  • One-Dimensional Kinematics TIPERS

ROTATION 4
Wednesday, September 12 (Period 4) or Thursday, September 13 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Section 3.3: Adding Perpendicular Vectors; Standard Direction; Finding Components of Vectors
Friday, September 14
  • Section 3.3: Adding Non-Perpendicular Vectors Using Vectors
Monday, September 17 (Periods 4 and 6) or Tuesday, September 18 (Period 7)
  • LAB - Acceleration vs. Angle of Incline (Start)
Tuesday, September 18 (Period 4) or Wednesday, September 19 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • QUIZ on Vectors
  • ​LAB - Acceleration vs. Angle of Incline (Finish)
Thursday, September 20
  • Projectile Motion - Horizontal Launch

ROTATION 5
Friday, September 21 (Period 4) or Monday, September 24 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Projectile Motion - Launch at an Angle
Tuesday, September 25
  • Additional AP OpenStax Chapter 3 Problems; Sample Free-Response Projectile Problem for Test Review
Wednesday, September 26 (Periods 4 and 6) or Thursday, September 27 (Period 7)
  • TEST 3 (Chapter 3 - Kinematics: Projectile Motion)
Thursday, September 27 (Period 4) or Monday, October 1 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Projectile Motion Unit "Debrief"
Tuesday, October 2
  • ​MEET IN THE DAVIS GYM - Videotape Free Throw; Projectile Motion Video Analysis Lab Prep

ROTATION 6
Wednesday, October 3 (Period 4) or Thursday, October 4 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Force; Special Forces (Friction, Tension, Weight, Normal, Applied, Air Resistance); Constructing Free-Body Diagrams
Friday, October 5
  • Review Free-Body Diagram Homework
  • QUIZ on Free-Body Diagrams
Monday, October 8 (Periods 4 and 6) or Tuesday, October 9 (Period 7)
  • Free Throw Projectile Motion Lab DUE!
  • Newton's First Law; Net Force of Zero
Tuesday, October 9 (Period 4) or Thursday, October 11 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Newton's Second Law; Weight; Normal Force; Atwood Machine, Apparent Weight
Friday, October 12
  • Atwood Machine Free-Response; Atwood Machine Pre-Lab Discussion; Test Review Packet Distributed

QUARTER 2
ROTATION 7
Monday, October 15 (Period 4) or Tuesday, October 16 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • LAB - Atwood Machine
Wednesday, October 17
  • Friction; Static vs. Kinetic Friction; Coefficient of Friction; Calculating Friction
Thursday, October 18 (Periods 4 and 6) or Tuesday, October 23 (Period 7)
  • Additional AP OpenStax Chapter 4 Problems; Test Review Packet
Tuesday, October 23 (Period 4) or Wednesday, October 24 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • TEST 4 (Chapters 4 and 5.1 - Dynamics and Newton's Laws)
Thursday, October 25
  • SUBSTITUTE - Dynamics Free Response Problems

ROTATION 8
Friday, October 26 (Period 4) or Monday, October 29 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Review Graded Projectile Motion Lab; Dynamics TIPERS
Tuesday, October 30
  • Review Test 4; Relative Velocity
Wednesday, October 31 (Periods 4 and 6) or Thursday, November 1 (Period 7)
  • Universal Gravitation; Newton's Law and Constant; Formula for g and Gravitational Field
Thursday, November 1 (Period 4) or Friday, November 2 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Centripetal Acceleration; Period and Frequency; Centripetal Force
Monday, November 5
  • SUBSTITUTE - Universal Gravitation and Relative Velocity Worksheet


ROTATION 9
Tuesday, November 6 (Period 4) or Wednesday, November 7 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Motion in a Vertical Circle; Motion in a Horizontal Circle (Conical Pendulum)
Thursday, November 8
  • Common Uniform Circular Motion Free-Response Questions
Friday, November 9 (Periods 4 and 6) or Monday, November 12 (Period 7)
  • Review for TEST 5 (Chapter 6 - Uniform Circular Motion)
Monday, November 12 (Period 4) or Tuesday, November 13 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • TEST 5 (Chapter 6 - Uniform Circular Motion)
Wednesday, November 14
  • PIVOT Experiment on "Exploring Forces in Circular Motion"


ROTATION 10
Thursday, November 15 (Period 4) or Monday, November 19 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • PERIOD 4 - Begin "October Sky"
  • PERIODS 6 and 7 - SUBSTITUTE - Textbook Problems on Uniform Circular Motion
Tuesday, November 20
  • PERIOD 4 - Finish "October Sky"
  • PERIODS 6 and 7 - Begin "October Sky"
Monday, November 26 (Periods 4 and 6) or Tuesday, November 27 (Period 7)
  • PERIOD 4 - Study Period
  • PERIODS 6 and 7 - Finish "October Sky"
Tuesday, November 27 (Period 4) or Wednesday, November 28 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Review Test 5 on Uniform Circular Motion
Thursday, November 29
  • Self-Guided Reading of Work, Power, and Energy Notes and Chapter 7
 

ROTATION 11
Friday, November 30 (Period 4) or Monday, December 3 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Work; Kinetic Energy; Work-Energy Theorem; Gravitational Potential Energy; Dissipative Forces (Work Lost Due to Friction)
Tuesday, December 4
  • Conservation of Mechanical Energy; Escape Velocity; Spring Force and Spring/Elastic Potential Energy
Wednesday, December 5 (Periods 4 and 6) or Thursday, December 6 (Period 7)
  • Power; Graphical Representation of Work, Energy, and Power; F-x and F-v Graphs (Periods 4 and 6)
  • SUBSTITUTE - Practice Free-Response Problems (Period 7)
Thursday, December 6 (Period 4) or Friday, December 7 (Periods 6 and 7)​
  • SUBSTITUTE - Practice Free-Response Problems (Period 4)
  • Practice Free-Response Problems (Period 6 with Mr. Lipp)
  • Power; Graphical Representation of Work, Energy, and Power; F-x and F-v Graphs (Period 7)
Monday, December 10
  • Review for TEST 6 (Chapter 7 - Work, Power and Energy)

ROTATION 12
Tuesday, December 11 (Period 4) or Wednesday, December 12 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • TEST 6 (Chapter 7 - Work, Power, and Energy)
Thursday, December 13
  • Semester Exam Review
Friday, December 14
  • Semester Exam Review

SEMESTER EXAM - THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20 at 8:30 a.m. in McGehee Auditorium!


QUARTER 3
ROTATION 13
Monday, January 7 (Period 4) or Tuesday, January 8 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Review of Semester Exam Free-Response Questions; Energy TIPERS
Wednesday, January 9
  • Chapter 8 - Impulse; Momentum; Impulse-Momentum Theorem; Conservation of Linear Momentum; Ballistic Pendulum
Thursday, January 10 (Periods 4 and 6) or Friday, January 11 (Period 7)
  • Textbook Problems (SUBSTITUTE for Periods 4 and 6)
Friday, January 11 (Period 4) or Monday, January 14 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Chapter 8 (cont) - Recoil Momentum; Two-Dimensional Conservation of Momentum; Elastic vs. Inelastic Collisions
Tuesday, January 15
  • Chapter 16 - Simple Harmonic Motion; Period vs. Frequency; Energy, Velocity, and Acceleration in SHM; Periods of Pendulum and Mass on a Spring


ROTATION 14
Wednesday, January 16 (Period 4) or Thursday, January 17 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Chapter 16 (cont) - Graphs and Formulas of SHM
Friday, January 18
  • STUDY PERIOD - Juniors Out for Junior Day
Tuesday, January 22 (Periods 4 and 6) or Wednesday, January 23 (Period 7)
  • Test 7 Review Free-Response and AP OpenStax Book Problems
Wednesday, January 23 (Period 4) or Thursday, January 24 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Review for TEST 7 (Chapters 8 and 16 - Momentum and Simple Harmonic Motion)
Friday, January 25
  • TEST 7 (Chapters 8 and 16 - Momentum and Simple Harmonic Motion)


ROTATION 15
Monday, January 28 (Period 4) or Tuesday, January 29 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • KAHOOT Mechanics Review; Rotation Notes Packet Distributed; Pendulum Pre-Lab Discussion
Wednesday, January 30
  • LAB - Period of a Pendulum
Thursday, January 31 (Periods 4 and 6) or Friday, February 1 (Period 7)
  • Rotational Kinematics; Center of Mass
Friday, February 1 (Period 4) or Monday, February 4 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Torque and Net Torque
Tuesday, February 5
  • Static Equilibrium; Translational and Rotational Statics


ROTATION 16
Wednesday, February 6 (Period 4) or Thursday, February 7 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Test 8 Review Free-Response Problems
Friday, February 8
  • Review for TEST 8 (Chapter 9 - Statics and Torque)
Monday, February 11 (Periods 4 and 6) or Tuesday, February 12 (Period 7)
  • SUBSTITUTE - Study Period
Tuesday, February 12 (Period 4) or Wednesday, February 13 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Period 4 - SUBSTITUTE - Study Period
  • Periods 6 and 7 - TEST 8 (Chapter 9 - Statics and Torque)
Thursday, February 14
  • Period 4 - TEST 8 (Chapter 9 - Statics and Torque)
  • Periods 6 and 7 - Study Period


ROTATION 17
Tuesday, February 19 (Period 4) or Wednesday, February 20 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Discussion and Review of Test 8
Thursday, February 21
  • Rotational Inertia; Parallel-Axis Theorem; Net Torque and Angular Acceleration
Friday, February 22 (Periods 4 and 6) or Monday, February 25 (Period 7)
  • Study Period
Monday, February 25 (Period 4) or Tuesday, February 26 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Rotational Kinetic Energy; Rolling Motion; Conservation of Translational and Rotational Energy
Wednesday, February 27
  • Angular Momentum and Its Conservation; Rotational Work and Power; Atwood Machine with Massed Pulley


ROTATION 18
Thursday, February 28 (Period 4) or Friday, March 1 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Test 9 Review Problems
Monday, March 4
  • Review for TEST 9 (Chapter 10 - Rotational Dynamics)
Tuesday, March 5 (Periods 4 and 6) or Wednesday, March 6 (Period 7)
  • TEST 9 (Chapter 10 - Rotational Dynamics)
Wednesday, March 6 (Period 4) or Thursday, March 7 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Review of Free Response/Extra Credit Questions from Test 8
  • Cosmos Episode - "The Electric Boy"
Friday, March 8
  • Review of Test 9


QUARTER 4
ROTATION 19
Monday, March 11 (Period 4) or Tuesday, March 12 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Electric Charge; Electric Force; Coulomb's Law; Superposition; Electric Field; Voltage
Wednesday, March 13
  • Current; Resistance and Resistivity; Ohm's Law; Schematics; Series Resistance; Electrical Power and Energy
Thursday, March 14 (Periods 4 and 6) or Monday, March 25 (Period 7)
  • Voltmeters and Ammeters; Parallel Resistors; Combined Circuits
Monday, March 25 (Period 4) or Tuesday, March 26 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Practice Free-Response Circuit Questions
Wednesday, March 27
  • Internal Resistance; Multiple Batteries; Kirchhoff's Rules - Junction (Node) and Loop Rule


ROTATION 20
Thursday, March 28 (Period 4) or Friday, March 29 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Work on Test Review Problems
Monday, April 1
  • Review for TEST 10 (Chapters 18-21 - Electricity and Circuits)
Tuesday, April 2 (Periods 4 and 6) or Wednesday, April 3 (Period 7)
  • TEST 10 (Chapters 18-21 - Electricity and Circuits)
Wednesday, April 3 (Period 4) or Thursday, April 4 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Complex Circuit Extra Credit
Friday, April 5
  • Review Test 10 and Extra Credit Circuit


ROTATION 21
Monday, April 8 (Period 4) or Tuesday, April 9 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Wave Vocabulary and Demo; Wave Characteristics; Transverse vs. Longitudinal; Reflection and Superposition/Interference; Wave Velocity
Wednesday, April 10
  • SUBSTITUTE - Problems from Textbook
Thursday, April 11 (Periods 4 and 6) or Friday, April 12 (Period 7)
  • Complete Wave Vocabulary; Standing Waves; Node and Antinode; Resonance and Harmonics; Sound Level; Doppler Effect
Friday, April 12 (Period 4) or Monday, April 15 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Physics of Music - Intervals and Frequency Ratios
Tuesday, April 16
  • QUIZ 11 (Chapters 16-17 - Waves)


ROTATION 22
Wednesday, April 17 (Period 4) or Thursday, April 18 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • AP Exam Multiple-Choice Diagnostic #1-26 (47 minutes)
Tuesday, April 23
  • AP Exam Multiple-Choice Diagnostic #27-50 (43 minutes)
Wednesday, April 24 (Periods 4 and 6) or Thursday, April 25 (Period 7)
  • AP Exam Free-Response Diagnostic #1-3 (40 minutes)
Thursday, April 25 (Period 4) or Friday, April 26 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • AP Exam Free-Response Diagnostic #4-5 (50 minutes)
Monday, April 29
  • Free-Response Questions Packet #1-2


ROTATION 23
Tuesday, April 30 (Period 4) or Wednesday, May 1 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Free-Response Questions Packet #3-4
Thursday, May 2
  • Free-Response Questions Packet #5-6
Friday, May 3 (Periods 4 and 6) or Monday, May 6 (Period 7)
  • Review Tips in AP Prep Book - Chapters 1 and 2 (pp. 60-67)
Monday, May 6 (Period 4) or Tuesday, May 7 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Period 4 - STUDY for AP Exam!
  • Periods 6 and 7 - GOOD LUCK on the AP Exam!
TUESDAY, MAY 7, AT NOON in Colmery - AP PHYSICS 1 EXAM!!
Wednesday, May 8
  • Study Period

ROTATION 24
Thursday, May 9 (Period 4) or Friday, May 10 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Begin "The Martian"
Monday, May 13
  • Continue "The Martian"
Tuesday, May 14 (Periods 4 and 6) or Wednesday, May 15 (Period 7)
  • Complete "The Martian"
Wednesday, May 15 (Period 4) or Thursday, May 16 (Periods 6 and 7)
  • Study Period
Friday, May 17
  • Study Period