AP Physics 🔭

2024-2025 Agendas

👨‍🏫 Mr. Porter

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2025.03.25 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Would you rather be able to see microscopic things or distant galaxies with your naked eye?

📋 Agenda

  1. Rotation FRQ Problems
    • Solve with Partner
    • Score as class with key
    • New partner

🎯 Goals

🥅 Practice Solving Rotational Dynamics Questions

📆 Upcoming

  • I am not here the rest of the week...
    • AP Classroom Assigned Wed & Thurs
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2025.03.20 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: If you could safely travel at the speed of light, where would you go first?

📋 Agenda

  1. Finish 7.E & 7.F
  2. Parallel Axis Theorem
  3. Calculating ->
    1. Physics Classroom Questions
    2. AP Classroom Questions
  4. AP FRQ Practice

🎯 Goals

🥅 Practice with Moment of Inertia

📆 Upcoming

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2025.03.19 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Is New York-style pizza better than Chicago-style pizza?

📋 Agenda

  1. Finish Torque Pivot
  2. AP Workbook 7.D
  3. Notes on N2L and Moment of Inertia
  4. PC Practice:
    1. Problem Set RD1: Moment of Inertia for a System of Point Masses

🎯 Goals

🥅 Define N2L for Rotation

🥅 Define Moment of Interia

📆 Upcoming


2025.03.17 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: If you could hire someone to help you, would it be with cleaning, cooking, or yard work?

📋 Agenda

  1. Finish Unbalanced Torque Lab
  2. Discuss & Notes
  3. Workbook 7.D
  4. Moment of Inertia for a System of Point Masses

🎯 Goals

🥅 Define N2L for Rotation

🥅 Define Moment of Interia

📆 Upcoming

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2025.03.13 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Is it more important to explore the depths of the ocean or the depths of space?

📋 Agenda

  1. Quiz
  2. Unbalanced Torques - Pivot
    • What do we expect this model to look like?

🎯 Goals

🥅 Develop a model for unbalanced torques

📆 Upcoming

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2025.03.11 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Would you rather be able to control the weather or predict it with perfect accuracy?

📋 Agenda

  1. AP Workobook 7B
  2. Physics Classroom -> Static Equilibrium

🎯 Goals

🥅 More Static Equilibrium Practice

📆 Upcoming

  • Quiz Thursday -> Angular Kinematics & Static Equilibrium

2025.03.10 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: If you could redesign the human body, what one improvement would you make?

📋 Agenda

  1. Static Equilibrium Notes
  2. Practicing with Static Equilibrium

🎯 Goals

🥅 Define static equilibrium

🥅 Solve static equilibrium problems

📆 Upcoming

  • Need a torque quiz this week
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2025.03.07 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: If you could instantly know the answer to one scientific mystery, which would you choose?

📋 Agenda

  1. Do Now: Calculating Torque: Torque by a Single Force
  2. Lab Activity: Balancing Act
  3. Static Equilibrium Notes
  4. Practicing with Static Equilibrium

2025.03.04 AP Physics Do Now

The figures below show hollow spheres (not drawn to scale) that are rolling at a constant rate without slipping. The
spheres all have the same mass, but their radii as well as their linear and angular speeds vary.

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Rank the radius of the spheres

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2025.03.04 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Is tap water better than bottled water?

📋 Agenda

  1. Do Now
  2. Notes - Torque
  3. Pivot - Torque
  4. PC Practice: Torque by a Single Force

🎯 Goals

🥅 Define Torque

📆 Upcoming

  • Test Tomorrow on Momentum, Finish AP Classroom Review
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2025.03.03 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Would you rather live in the ocean or on the moon?

📋 Agenda

  1. Pivot - Rotational Motion of a Bicycle
  2. Using the Big 4 Eqns and Linear Relationships

🎯 Goals

🥅 Compare Linear and Rotational Motion

📆 Upcoming

  • Test Wednesday on Momentum, Finish AP Classroom Review
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2025.02.27 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Would you rather always be slightly late or super early?

📋 Agenda

  1. How are we on yesterday's practice?
  2. Speed-dating: Angular Kinematics
    1. Angular Acceleration
    2. Rotational Kinematics 1
    3. Rotational Kinematics 2
    4. Rot & Linear Kinematics

🎯 Goals

🥅 Practice with angular quantities

📆 Upcoming

  • Momentum Test, AP Classroom review is posted

2025.02.26 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What is your funniest family vacation moment?

🎯 Goals

🥅 Define Angular Kinematic Quantities

🥅 Compare Translational and Angular Kinematics

📆 Upcoming

  • Momentum Test, AP Classroom review is posted
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2025.02.25 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: How do you feel about clowns? 🤡

📋 Agenda

  1. Rotating Disk Pivot
  2. Rot Kinematics Notes
  3. Physics Classroom:

🎯 Goals

🥅 Define Angular Kinematic Quantities

🥅 Compare Translational and Angular Kinematics

📆 Upcoming

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2025.02.14 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Who is your scientist? What did they do? Explain your valentine pun

📋 Agenda

  1. Physics Valentines
  2. Ballistics Lab
  3. Goal-less problems (Time dependent)

🎯 Goals

🥅 Use a variety of physics models to solve problems

📆 Upcoming

  • 🌴🏖️ Vacation!
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2025.02.13 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Would you rather lose all of your money or all of your pictures?

📋 Agenda

  1. Ballistics Lab
    • Essential Question: What is the muzzle velocity of our nerf launcher?
  2. Model Situation on Whiteboard and Put in Notebook (this is the prelab, background information)
  3. Answer pivot questions in lab notebook
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2025.02.12 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Would you give up three fingers in exchange for $1 million?

📋 Agenda

  1. Quiz
    • Read it
    • Friends without pens
    • complete & turn in
  2. Nerf Dart Launcher Lab

🎯 Goals

🥅 Use conservation of momentum and the impulse momentum theorem to solve problems

📆 Upcoming

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2025.02.10 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Who is your favorite Disney hero or heroine? Would you trade places with them?

📋 Agenda

  1. Bounce vs. Embed
  2. AP Workbook CoP Questions:
    1. 5.E, 5.F, 5.G

🎯 Goals

🥅 Practice with Conservation of Momentum

📆 Upcoming

  • Energy & Momentum Quiz on Wednesday
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2025.02.07 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Hanging out by a camp fire, bonfire, or fireplace?

📋 Agenda

  1. Check in on 5.H
  2. Momentum in Collisions
    • Action-Reaction Think Sheet (p. 7) 🛑 After question 7
    • Notes on Momentum in Collisions - Momentum Bar Graphs
    • Momentum Paired Whiteboard Practice

🎯 Goals

🥅 Determine if momentum is a conserved quantity

🥅 Apply N3L to momentum in collisions

📆 Upcoming

  • Energy & Momentum Quiz Monday
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2025.02.03 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Where are five places you really want to visit before you die?

📋 Agenda

  1. Impulse-Momentum Think Sheets
  2. Impulse Momentum Change Calc Pad

🎯 Goals

🥅 Practice with Impulse and Momentum

📆 Upcoming

  • Energy Quiz
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2025.01.31 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Would you rather live in a hot, sandy desert, or the North Pole?

📋 Agenda

  1. Physics Family Dinner
    • arrange two tables together and everyone sit together
    • go through free reponse questions on whiteboard
    • one person record answers
  2. Impulse & Momentum

🎯 Goals

🥅 Correct Energy Test

📆 Upcoming

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2025.01.27 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What is the best fry shape? 🍟

📋 Agenda

  1. Blowdart Challenge
  2. Momentum Notes
  3. Impulse Think Sheets

📆 Upcoming

  • HW: AP Workbook 5B & 5C
  • Test Corrections

🎯 Goals

🥅 Break Energy Model

🥅 Define momentum and impulse

🥅 Qualitatively and quantitatively explore Momentum-Impulse Theorem

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2025.01.22 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What came first? The chicken or the egg?

📋 Agenda

  1. Test Review
    • AP Classroom FRQ complete in the following order of in class priority: 2, 3, 4, 1
  2. Also hint hint 😉 😉 I would do AP Workbook 4.M at some point...

🎯 Goals

🥅 Review for Energy Test

📆 Upcoming

  • Energy Test Friday
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2025.01.21 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Would you rather be able to run at 100 miles per hour or fly at 10 miles per hour?

📋 Agenda

  1. Power - Notes and Introduction
  2. Power Lab: Calculate your power 🏃 💪

🎯 Goals

🥅 Define and Calculate Mechanical Power

📆 Upcoming

  • Test Friday
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2025.01.17 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Who is the most interesting person you’ve met and talked with?

📋 Agenda

  1. Block Launcher Lab

🏡 Homework

  • APCR Energy Progress Check
  • Finish Sliding Puck Pivot

🎯 Goals

🥅 Model Work done by friction

📆 Upcoming

  • Energy Test 1/24
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2025.01.15 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Question

📋 Agenda

  1. Quiz
  2. Pivot - Sliding Puck

🎯 Goals

🥅 Model the motion of a sliding puck with energy and forces

📆 Upcoming

  • Energy Test 1/24 (Review Opened)
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2025.01.14 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What is your silliest fear? 🐍 🕸️

📋 Agenda

  1. AP B Loop Question
  2. Workbook 4.G
  3. Pop Up Toy Mini Lab
  4. Sliding Puck Pivot

🎯 Goals

🥅 Model Physical Situations with Energy

📆 Upcoming

  • Energy Quiz Tomorrow
  • Energy Test 1/24 (Review Opened)
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Pop Up Toy

Objective:

Determine the spring constant of the pop-up toy

  • Using Energy, experimentally determine the spring constant of your toy using a meterstick and the electronic balance.
  • Start with an energy bar graph, write the energy conservation equation & and substitute in
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2025.01.13 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: If you became president, what’s the first thing you would do?

📋 Agenda

  1. AP Workbook 4.C, E, F
  2. Physics Classroom Packet:
    1. 7 & Check
    2. 9-10 & Check
    3. HW: 13-18

🎯 Goals

🥅 Model Energy

📆 Upcoming

  • Energy Quiz Wednesday
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2025.01.09 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Would you rather lose both legs, both arms, or one of each?

📋 Agenda

  1. Do Now - AP Workbook 4.B
  2. Energy Equations
  3. PC Think Sheet p. 7-10

🎯 Goals

🥅 Define Energy Equations

🥅 Apply Ideas of work and energy

📆 Upcoming

  • Test Corrections
  • HW: K & U Practice
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2025.01.08 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: If you could have dinner with anyone in the world, who would it be?

📋 Agenda

  1. Law of Conservation of Energy
  2. Modeling Conservation with Bar Graphs
  3. Practice with Bar Graphs

🎯 Goals

🥅 Define Conservation of Energy

🥅 Model Energy with 📊 Graphs

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2025.01.07 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Should pizza slices be triangles or squares?

📋 Agenda

  1. Finish Launcher Lab
  2. Work - AP Workbook 4.A
  3. Energy Bar Graphs

🎯 Goals

🥅 Apply Work to problem solving

🥅 Model energy conservation with bar graphs

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2025.01.03 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Would you rather have unlimited battery life on all of your devices or have free WiFi wherever you go?

📋 Agenda

  1. Finish Work Think Sheet
  2. Launcher Problem
  3. AP Workbook 4.A

🎯 Goals

🥅 Use work to solve problems

📆 Upcoming

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2025.01.02 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Do you have a New Year's resolution?

📋 Agenda

  1. Energy Definitions and Ideas
  2. Work
  3. Work Think Sheet
  4. AP Workbook 4.A

🎯 Goals

🥅 Define Energy

🥅 Define Work

📆 Upcoming

  • HW: AP Workbook 4.A Work
  • Test Corrections -> Due next Friday 1/10
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2024.12.20 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What are the best stocking stuffers?

📋 Agenda

  1. Hand back N2L Lab Report (yes...that one we did a while back)
  2. Remainder of class to make edits to improve and resubmit

🎯 Goals

🥅 __

📆 Upcoming

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2024.12.17 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Which holiday has the best food?

📋 Agenda

  1. Test Review
    • AP Classroom Progress Check
    • AP Workbook (anything in unit 2 or 3 in workbook)
    • AP Classroom Extra Practice

🎯 Goals

🥅 Review for test

📆 Upcoming

  • Test tomorrow
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2024.12.16 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What fictional world or place would you like to visit?

📋 Agenda

  1. Do Now: AP Workbook 3.F
    • if you did it for homework check with neighbor
  2. Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation
    • AP Workbook 3.M
  1. Predicting Circular Orbits

🎯 Goals

🥅 Model Circular Orbits

📆 Upcoming

  • Test Wednesday (Finish AP Classroom Progress Check!!)
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2024.12.12 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What is your favorite road trip snack?

📋 Agenda

  1. Quiz -> Accelerating Systems
  2. Universal Law of Gravitation
  3. Predicting Circular Orbits

🎯 Goals

🥅 Model Orbital motion with circular motion

📆 Upcoming

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2024.12.11 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What is the proper length of a playlist?

📋 Agenda

  1. Do Now
  2. Centripetal Forces
  3. AP Workbook 3.C & Discuss
  4. AP Workbook 3.D & 3.E (finish for HW)

🎯 Goals

🥅 Derive expressions for circular motion

📆 Upcoming

  • Quiz tomorrow -> accelerating systems
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2024.12.10 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Would you rather meet your travel back in time to meet your ancestors or to the future to meet your descendants?

📋 Agenda

  1. Do Now: Workbook 3.A & 3.B
    • Complete with partner and prepare to discuss
  2. Introduction to Circular Motion

🎯 Goals

🥅 Define circular motion

📆 Upcoming

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2024.12.06 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: If you were so wealthy you didn’t need to work, what would you do with your time?

📋 Agenda

  1. Quiz
  2. AP Question 2015 (start when you finish the quiz)
  3. Physics Classroom: Two Body Problems

🎯 Goals

🥅 Model accelerating systems

📆 Upcoming

  • Start Circular motion next week
  • Forces Test Wednesday before break. AP Classroom is open.
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2024.12.05 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What is the best board game?

📋 Agenda

  1. Do Now: AP Workbook 2.J
  2. Examples on Solving Atwood Machines
  3. AP Workbook 2.I
  4. Old AP Exam Questions - Paired Problem Solving on Whiteboard

🎯 Goals

🥅 Model accelerating systems

📆 Upcoming

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2024.12.04 AP Physics Do Now

The two blocks are identical and both are at rest. A student comparing the normal force exerted on the block by the surface in the two cases states:

“Since both blocks are identical, I think the normal forces are the same because in each case the normal force will be equal to the weight.”

What, if anything, is wrong with this contention? If something is wrong, identify it and explain how to correct it. If this contention is correct, explain why.


2024.12.04 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What is your favorite Disney movie?

📋 Agenda

  1. Do Now
  2. AP Workbook 2H
  3. Incline Plane AP Derivations
  4. Friction Paragraph Question (AP Classroom)
  5. Solving Two Body Systems (AP Workbook 2.J & 2.K)

🎯 Goals

🥅 Solve Inclined Plane Problems

📆 Upcoming

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A box is being pushed at constant speed up an inclined plane to a vertical height of 3.0 m above the ground. The person exerts a force parallel to the plane. The mass of the box is 50 kg, and the coefficient of kinetic friction between the box and the plane is 0.30.

  1. Draw and label the forces (not components) acting on the box.
  2. Calculate the normal force of the plane on the box.

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  1. Calculate the component of the force of gravity acting on the box that is parallel to the plane.
  2. Calculate the friction force between the plane and the box.
  3. Calculate the force applied by the person on the box.

An empty sled of mass 25 kg slides down a muddy hill with a constant speef of 2.4 m/s. The slope of the hill is inclined at an angle of 15 with the horizontal.

  1. Calculate the time it takes the sled to go 21 m down the slope.
  2. Draw and label a free-body diagram for the sled as it slides down the slope.

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  1. Calculate the frictional force between the sled and the slope.
  2. Calculate the coefficient of friction between the slope and the sled.

  1. The sled reaches the bottom of the slope and continues on the horizontal ground. Assume the same coefficient of friction.

i. In terms of velocity and acceleration, describe the motion of the sled as it travels on the horizontal ground.

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ii. Sketch the velocity vs. time graph for the sled. Include the sled's travel down the slope and across the horizontal ground. Indicated wtih the symbol the time at which the sled leaves the slope.


A box of mass is at rest on a inclined plane at an angle of . Derive an expression for the coefficient of friction between the box and the ramp in terms of the given variables and any universal constants.

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A person exerts a force on a rope to pull a block of mass up a ramp. The rope makes an angle to the ramp and the ramp makes an angle to the horizontal, as shown. The force of kinetic friction between the block and the ramp has a magnitude . Which of the following expressions is equal to the magnitude of the acceleation of the block?

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A.

B.

C.

D.

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2024.12.02 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What is your ideal burger 🍔 (or veggie burger)?

📋 Agenda

  1. Inclined Planes Pivot
  2. Notes - Inclined Planes
  3. Think Sheet
  4. Practice with Inclined Planes:

🎯 Goals

🥅 Model forces for objects on ramps

📆 Upcoming

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2024.11.26 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What celebrity would you like to meet for a cup of coffee?

📋 Agenda

  1. Context-Rich Problem

🎯 Goals

🥅 __

📆 Upcoming

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2024.11.25 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: White or dark turkey meat? What is your favorite dish at Thanskgiving?

📋 Agenda

Work Day:

  1. AP WB: 2.D, E, F, G, I, M
  2. Physics Classroom

🎯 Goals

🥅 Practice with Newton's 2nd Law

📆 Upcoming

  • Group/Class Quiz tomorrow
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2024.11.21 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What would your talent be if you were Miss or Mister World?

📋 Agenda

  1. Quiz
  2. Physics Classroom:

🎯 Goals

🥅 Solve Force problems with angles

📆 Upcoming

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2024.11.20 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Is your glass half full or half empty?

📋 Agenda

  1. Finish Friction Lab
  2. Solving Friction Problems
  • With Porter
  • Start Homework Problems

🎯 Goals

🥅 Solve N2L Problems involving Friction

📆 Upcoming

  • N2L Quiz tomorrow, no angled forces
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2024.11.19 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What’s your favorite sandwich and why?

📋 Agenda

  1. Friction Lab
  2. Problem-solving friction questions

🎯 Goals

🥅 Experimentally measure coefficient of friction

🥅 Applying Friction to N2L

📆 Upcoming

  • N2L Quiz Thursday
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2024.11.15 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Which person in your life is most likely to secretly be a time traveler?

📋 Agenda

  1. Fact Sheet Quiz - ⏲️ 15 Minutes
  2. Friction Notes
  3. Friction Lab Introduction
  4. Make Lab Report Pretty (Last 20 Min)

🎯 Goals

🥅 Model Friction

📆 Upcoming

  • Definitely a Forces Quiz next week, N2L, mass vs. weight, etc
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2024.11.14 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: How long would you be able to last withouth your smart devices (phone, computer, watch, etc)? 1 Hour? 1 Day? 1 Week?

📋 Agenda

  1. Spring Force Lab
  2. Friction Lab

🎯 Goals

🥅 Model Spring Force

🥅 Model Friction

📆 Upcoming

  • Fact Sheet Quiz Tommorow
  • Lab Report Due Tomorrow
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2024.11.13 AP Physics Do Now

A person who weighs 500 N is standing on a scale in an elevator. The elevator is identical in all cases. The velocity and acceleration of the elevators at the instant shown are given.

  1. List the cases where the scale reading is greater than 500 N.
  2. List the cases where the scale reading is less than 500 N.
  3. List the cases where the scale reading is equal to than 500 N.
  4. Rank the scale reading from greatest to least.

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2024.11.13 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What slang are you really happy went out of fashion?

📋 Agenda

  1. Do Now Warmups
  2. Peer Edits on Lab Reports (20 min)
  3. Spring Force Lab

🎯 Goals

🥅 Solve problems with angled forces

📆 Upcoming

  • Fact Sheet Quiz Friday
  • Sign up for kinematic reassessments...
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Peer Edits

Intentions:

  • What do you want your partner to focus on when reading your lab report?

Feedback:

  • What ⭐glows⭐ about the lab?
  • Where is room to 🌱grow🌱?
  • Provide Feedback referencing the lab report rubric
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Peer Edit Feedback

  • What did you learn from your partner's lab?
  • What challenges did you face when providing feedback?
  • What do you plan on changing about your lab report?

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Spring Force Lab:

Objective:

Determine the relationship between stretch and force applied on a spring. Test this relationship for two springs

(Note: When analyzing graph Spring Force on the vertical axis regardless of your experimental design choice on independent variable)

Available Materials:

  • Two different springs
  • Spring Scales (force sensors)
  • Masses
  • Ruler/Meterstick
  • Electronic Force Sensor
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2024.11.07 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What animal do you think is the creepiest?

📋 Agenda

  1. Quiz and Quiz Buffet
  2. Solving N2L for angled questions

🎯 Goals

🥅 Solve N2L with angled forces

📆 Upcoming

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2024.11.06 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: If you were to open a store, what would you sell?

📋 Agenda

  1. Force of Gravity
  2. Solving N2L Problems Systematically

🎯 Goals

🥅 Solve problems using N2L

📆 Upcoming

  • Buffet Quiz Tomorrow (Thursday) -> pick you non-mastered standards to reassess
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Gravity:

Notes:

  • Weight == == Force of Gravity...so
  • Weight is a FORCE, mass is scalar quantity
  • is the gravitational field strength
    • Measured in N/kg
    • changes based on planet and location on that planet
    • near the surface of the Earth
      • You can round this to
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2024.11.01 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: If you were one of Snow White’s dwarfs, which one would you be?

📋 Agenda

  1. Finish Data Analysis on Lab
  2. Whiteboard Results
  3. Board Meeting - Do your results support N2L?

🎯 Goals

🥅 Evaluate Newton's Second Law with lab data

📆 Upcoming

  • Test Corrections Due 11/07
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2024.10.31 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What was your favorite Halloween costume?

📋 Agenda

  1. Finish Collecting Unbalanced Force Lab Data
  2. Board Meeting - Unbalanced forces, mass, and acceleration

🎯 Goals

🥅 Discover mathematical model for unbalanced forces.

📆 Upcoming

  • Test Corrections Due: 11/08
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2024.10.29 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Who is the most competitive person you know?

📋 Agenda

  1. Finish Unbalanced Force Fan Cart Lab
  2. Whiteboard and Present Results

🎯 Goals

🥅 Discover mathematical model for unbalanced forces.

📆 Upcoming

  • Test Corrections Due: 11/08
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2024.10.28 AP Physics Do Now

A 0.5-kg ball is suspended from a ceiling by two strings. The ball is at rest.

(a) Is the tension in string 1 (i) greater than, (ii) less than, or (iii) the same as the tension in string 2?

Explain your reasoning.

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2024.10.28 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What smell brings back great memories?

📋 Agenda

  1. Do Now
  2. Fan Cart N2L Lab
  3. Test & Test Correction Process

🎯 Goals

🥅 Create a mathematical model between force and acceleration

📆 Upcoming

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Test Corrections - Notes and FAQs

  • Usually about a week to complete
  • You cannot do them at home or outside of the classroom (AP Police will find us)
  • No I will not tell you what you did before
  • You may come work during study hall -> But I will not be able to help you if I have a class.
    • take your test and work on it in the breakout space outside of my classroom, or in the middle room.
  • Curve is
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Test Corrections

  1. Determine correct answer for incorrect questions
    • For FRQ you need to correct the entire part (i.e. part (a)) if you lost any points
    • No you cannot see what you put before - start from scratch
  2. For MC questions you must provide a justification
    • Start with a fact of physics "slope of VT is acceleration" or "area of VT is displacement"
    • Draw a diagram to help (i.e. draw a VT graph)
    • Try to use a claim evidence reasoning format to write your justification
  3. Finally, compare your new, correct answers to your test and determine if your mistake was one of the 4 C's: clueless, careless, conceptual, or calculation.

Test Corrections Summary

  1. Look for trends about what your test performance:
    • Were there certain types of questions you missed?
    • Do you need to review/relearn/learn some material that was tested?
      • What learning mastery standard do you think that material aligns with?
    • Was there a common mistake you made?
    • Summarize
  2. Meet with Mr. Porter to discuss the trends before you turn in your corrections.
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2024.10.22 AP Physics Do Now

The forces exerted on an object at a particular instant are represented in the free-body diagram. The magnitude of each force is drawn to scale. A student claims that the vector sum of the forces on the object is equal to zero. Is the student’s claim valid? Why or why not?

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2024.10.22 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What’s the best pizza topping? 🍕

📋 Agenda

  1. Do Now
  2. FBD Card Sort
  3. Practice with FBDs
  4. Solving Balanced force problems with FBDs

🎯 Goals

🥅 2.2.B Describe the forces exerted on an object or system using a free-body diagram.

📆 Upcoming

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Quantitative Force Problem Solving

Mild 🫑

Calculating Net Force (No Angles)
Finding Force Components

Medium 🌶️

Adding Force Vectors
Equilibrium 1

Spicy 🔥

Equilibrium 2

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2024.10.21 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Would you rather watch a movie on your TV at home or on the big screen in the theater, and why?

📋 Agenda

  1. T/F Simulation -> Share out
  2. Rules for CV vs. CA Motion
  3. Force Diagrams and Defining Forces

🎯 Goals

🥅 Draw Diagrams to represent force situations

🥅 Identify forces acting on object

📆 Upcoming

  • Test Wednesday, HW This week -> Finish AP Classroom work
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2024.10.17 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: If you found that food was falling from the sky, what food would you want to be falling? What food would you NOT want to be falling?

📋 Agenda

  1. Quiz
  2. Mallet Ball Summary & Simulation True/False
  3. Dynamics Laws

🎯 Goals

🥅 Define laws of physics describing motion

📆 Upcoming

  • Test 10/23 -> Complete Review!
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2024.10.16 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Would you rather have invisibility or flight?

📋 Agenda

  1. Mallet Ball

🎯 Goals

🥅 __

📆 Upcoming

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2024.10.15 AP Physics

📋 Agenda

  1. Finish Relative Motion Pivot
  2. Notes: Vectors and adding Vectors
  3. Pivot: Adding Vectors

🎯 Goals

🥅 Add 2D Vectors

📆 Upcoming

  • Quiz Thursday on Projectile Motion & Relative Motion
  • Kinematics Test 10/23
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2024.10.10 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What is your favorite type of apple?

📋 Agenda

  1. Quiz
  2. Frames of Reference
  3. Relative Motion Pivot
  4. Relative Motion Workbook Problem: 1.E
  5. Physics Classroom Practice

🎯 Goals

🥅 Define Frames of Reference

🥅 Solve problems involving relative motion

📆 Upcoming

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2024.10.09 AP Physics Do Now

  1. Check you answers to the homework ranking task with your table.
  2. Whiteboard your collective answer
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2024.10.08 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Vacation on the beach or adventure in the mountains?

📋 Agenda

  1. Do Now
  2. Projectiles at an angle
  3. Turd the Target

📆 Notice!

  • AP PAYMENT DUE 10/17 to Guidance

🎯 Goals

🥅 Solve projectile motion problems

📆 Upcoming

  • Quiz tomorrow
    • Expect graphs, equations, freefall, and a horizontal projectile question
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2024.10.08 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: You have to sing karaoke, what song do you pick? 🎤

📋 Agenda

  1. Introduction to Horizontal Projectiles
  2. Marble Mini Lab

🎯 Goals

🥅 Solve horizontally fired projectile problems

📆 Upcoming

  1. Quiz Thursday -> Free fall and projectiles
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2024.10.04 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What skill or talent do you most want to learn?

📋 Agenda

  1. Quiz
  2. Finish Free Fall Pivot
  3. AP Workbook 1.J & 1.K
  4. Projectile Motion Introduction
  5. Horizontally Fired Projectiles

🎯 Goals

🥅 Define a projectile and solve projectile motion problems

📆 Upcoming

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2024.10.01 AP Physics Do Now 👻

A Car is moving with constant speed when a tree falls into the roadway at . It takes the driver a time to react and apply the brakes. The car then slows with a constant acceleration of magnitude . Which of the following equations correctly expressed the distance traveled by the car from to the instant the car comes to rest?

A.

B.

C.

D.


A Car is moving with constant speed when a tree falls into the roadway at . It takes the driver a time to react and apply the brakes. The car then slows with a constant acceleration of magnitude . Which of the following equations correctly expressed the distance traveled by the car from to the instant the car comes to rest?

C.

Combine

and


2024.10.02 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What secrets do you think your pet would spill about you, if they could talk?

📋 Agenda

  1. Do Now
  2. Free Fall Five
  3. Free Fall Notes
  4. Free Fall Practice
  5. Rocket Science
    • AP Workbook 1.J, 1.K
    • Physics Classroom

🎯 Goals

🥅 Solve problems involving Freefall motion

📆 Upcoming

  • Quiz Friday
    • Stacks of graphs
    • Solving word problems, potentially two stage motion

2024.09.30 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What household chore do you actually enjoy?

📋 Agenda

  1. Finish Practice
    1. Intro to Motion Sensors
  2. Free Fall Motion
  3. Physics Classroom Free Fall

🎯 Goals

🥅 Solve kinematic problems graphically and with equations

📵

2024.09.27 AP Physics Do Now

A biker speeds up to 31.3 m/s from rest in 6.10 seconds. The biker maintains this speed for 6.35 seconds before coasting to a stop in 8.4 seconds. What was the biker's average speed for the trip?

Solve this BOTH Graphically and with Equations


2024.09.27 AP Physics Do Now

At time , a moving cart on a horizontal track is at position . Using a motion sensor, students generate a graph of the cart's velocity as a function of time, as show to the right. At , the cart's position is most nearly


2024.09.27 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: If you came with a ⚠️ warning label what would it say?

📋 Agenda

  1. Do Now
  2. Predict the split lab practical

🎯 Goals

🥅 Use VT Graphs to solve problems

📵

2024.09.26 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: If you came with a ⚠️ warning label what would it say?

📋 Agenda

  1. Quiz - Shapes of Graphs
  2. Finish Bear Problem & Discuss
  3. Kinematic Equations & Cross Diagram
  4. Using Kinematics Equations and graphical problem solving

🎯 Goals

🥅 Use VT Graphs to solve problems

📆 Coming Up...

  • Friday: Fact Sheet Quiz

🏡 Homework:

📵

2024.09.24 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Would you rather be a dragon or own a dragon?

📋 Agenda

  1. Graphical Problem Solving

📆 Coming Up...

  • Thursday: Shapes of Graphs Quiz
  • Friday: Fact Sheet Quiz

🎯 Goals

🥅 Use VT Graphs to solve problems

📵

2024.09.23 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: If animals could talk which would be the most annoying?

📋 Agenda

  1. VT Graphs
  2. Problem Solving

🎯 Goals

🥅 Create a mathematical model for motion

🥅 Describe different physical quantities

🥅 Relate stacks of kinematic graphs

📵

2024.09.20 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What animal would you want for a non-traditional pet? (i.e. not a dog, fish or cat)

📋 Agenda

  1. Chart Summary Discussion
  2. Notes
  3. Card Sort Round 2
  4. Quantitative VT Graphs

🎯 Goals

🥅 Create a mathematical model for motion

🥅 Describe different physical quantities

🥅 Relate stacks of kinematic graphs

📵

2023.09.18 AP Physics Do Now Take 2

The position-time graph shown represents the motion of two children who are moving along a narrow, straight hallway.

  1. Do either of the children ever change direction?
  2. Are the two children ever at the same position along the hallway?
  3. Do the two children ever have the same speed?
  4. Do the two children ever have the same acceleration?

2024.09.18 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Which of the five senses would you say is your strongest?

📋 Agenda

  1. Card Sort Activity
  2. Acceleration Notes
  3. Card Sort #2

🎯 Goals

🥅 Create a mathematical model for motion

🥅 Describe different physical quantities

🥅 Relate stacks of kinematic graphs

📵

2024.09.17 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: If one superhero was real, which one should it be?

📋 Agenda

  1. Fan Cart Lab:
    • Linearize (Review)
    • Discuss
    • Wrap Up Lab Notes
  2. Changing Speed Notes
  3. Card Sort Activity

🎯 Goals

🥅 Create a mathematical model for motion

🥅 Describe different physical quantities

🏠 Homework

  • Due Friday, Posted on canvas
📵

2023.09.16 AP Physics Do Now

The position-time graph shown represents the motion of two children who are moving along a narrow, straight hallway.

  1. Do either of the children ever change direction?
  2. Are the two children ever at the same position along the hallway?
  3. Do the two children ever have the same speed?
  4. Do the two children ever have the same acceleration?

2024.09.16 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Would you rather travel 100 years forward or back in time?

📋 Agenda

  1. Do Now
  2. Fan Cart Lab:
    • Collect Data
    • Graph on Pivot
    • Sketch Graph(s) on whiteboard
  3. Data analysis discussion
  4. Board Meeting & Notes

🎯 Goals

🥅 Create a mathematical model for motion

🥅 Describe different physical quantities

🏠 Homework

  • Due Friday, Posted on canvas
📵

2024.09.12 AP Physics Do Now

  1. Describe a motion that has
    • the same distance, displacement, and final position
    • different distance, displacement, and final position
  2. Describe a real-life situation where it is important to consider velocity as a vector

2024.09.12 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Do you have any weird/unique routines or superstitions? (For example: I have to put on my left sock before my right sock, and the same for shoes, left on first.)

🎯 Goals

🥅 Create a mathematical model for motion

🥅 Describe different physical quantities

🥅 Apply constant velocity particle motion

🏠 Homework

📵

2024.09.11 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: What would you name your pirate ship?

📋 Agenda

  1. Modeling Motion
  2. Physical Quantity Types
  3. AP Workbook: 1.A - 1.D
  4. Complete Conclusion for Buggy Lab

🎯 Goals

🥅 Create a mathematical model for motion

🥅 Describe different physical quantities

🥅 Apply constant velocity particle motion

🏠 Homework

📵

2024.09.10 AP Physics Do Now

  1. Which ball(s) are moving in a consistent manner?
  2. Which ball(s) is the fastest? Slowest? How do you know?
  3. Which ball travels the furthest? The least? How do you know?

2024.09.10 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Do you have any phobias? 🐍 🕷️ 🚁

📋 Agenda

  1. Do Now - Join AP Classroom & Pivot
  2. Buggy Lab
  3. Modeling Motion
  4. Physical Quantity Types
  5. AP Workbook: 1.A, B, and D

🎯 Goals

🥅 Create a mathematical model for motion

🥅 Develop good experimental habits

🏠 Homework

  • Signed Safety Contract
📵

2024.09.06 AP Physics Do Now

Join AP Classroom

myap.collegeboard.org

Code: GJAXZJ

Join Pivot Interactives

Class Key: dbe3ec21


2024.09.06 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Should you bite or lick your ice cream? 🍨 🍦

📋 Agenda

  1. Do Now - Join AP Classroom & Pivot
  2. Buggy Lab
    1. Collect Data
    2. Analyze and Represent Data
    3. Present and Discuss as a class
    4. Model Development
    5. Conclusions in Lab Notebook

🎯 Goals

🥅 Create a mathematical model for motion

🥅 Develop good experimental habits

🏠 Homework

  • Week 1 Problem Set
📵

2024.09.05 AP Physics

❓ of the 📅: Sweet or savory for breakfast?

📋 Agenda

  1. Sit Anywhere
  2. Do Now (fill out questionnaire & card)
  3. Question of the Day
  4. Grouping Game
  5. Survival Island

🎯 Goals

🥅 Introductions

🥅 Classroom Culture

🏠 Homework

  • Signed Safety Contract

Note: This is a cellphone free classroom 📵

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Do Now

  1. Fill out index card:
    1. Name
    2. Phone number to reach your parents/guardians if you sleep through the AP Exam
    3. Favorite Candy
    4. Favorite Emoji
    5. Emoji the describes your current mood
  2. Fill out Paper Quesionnaire

Lab Grouping Game

  • There are 8 of you and 8 extra cards
  • Based on your cards get into LOGICAL pairs with two extra cards
  • Check whole class answer with Mr. Porter
    • 4 Chances to Check
  • Reorganize if necessary

(Yes this is the game Connections)


Survival Island 🌴

  1. Share your survival skill that you wrote down with your group
  2. Using everyone's skill develop a plan to survive or escape the deserted island
  3. On your whiteboard present your plan (drawing, mind map, set of instructions)
    • Highlight everyone's skill

Surivial Plan...


Buggy Lab

Objective:

  • Determine if your toy buggy moves in a consistent manner by developing a relationship between position and time.
  • Use time as your independent variable

🥼 Lets Science! 🥼

📓 Lab Notebooks 📓


What is a Lab Notebook?

  • A detailed, chronological record of a scientist's research activities, experiments, and observations.
  • Documentation of the scientific process from intial ideas to final results and conclusions.

Why keep lab notebooks?

  • Document Research
  • Develop Ideas
  • Organize Data
  • Collaboration Tool
  • Publication Support
  • Troubleshooting
  • Intellectual Property Protection
  • Historical Record

Lab Notebooks can be Legal Documents

  • Proof of invention in Patent Cases
  • Intellectual Property Protection
  • Admissibility in court - must be properly maintained
  • Note: Often property of the instituation where the research was conducted (i.e. Property of Regeneron, or Property of Cornell University)

Remember

  • Lab notebooks are most importantly scientific documentation
  • They represent the scientific process and are record of your thinking
    • This means your ideas and conclusions and hypotheses can change based on new data

Lab Notebook

  • Write in pen
  • All mistakes get a single cross through
  • Full Date (YYYY/MM/DD) at the beginning of each entry (for multiday labs date start of each day)
  • Enter Lab Pages into table of contents

Lab Notebook - Pre Lab

  • Title and objective of the experiment:

    • Write a clear, concise title for each experiment.
    • State the main objective or purpose of the experiment in 1-2 sentences.

  • *Theoretical background:

    • Briefly explain the relevant scientific principles.
    • Include key equations or concepts that will be tested or applied.

  • Hypotheses:

    • State your predictions about the experiment's outcome.
    • Base these on your understanding of the theory.

Lab Notebook - Pre Lab

  • Materials and equipment list:
    • Provide a detailed list of all materials and equipment used.
    • Include model numbers and specifications where relevant.
  • Experimental procedure outline:
    • Write a step-by-step outline of the planned procedure.
    • Be specific enough that someone could replicate your experiment.

During the Experiment

  • Raw data in tables with units:
    • Create neat, organized tables for all numerical data.
    • Always include units and uncertainty estimates.
    • Label columns clearly and use consistent significant figures.
  • Observations and qualitative notes:
    • Record all relevant observations, even if they seem unimportant.
    • Note any unexpected occurrences or anomalies.
  • Any changes to the planned procedure:
    • Document any deviations from the original procedure.
    • Explain why changes were made and how they might affect results.
  • Sketches or diagrams of experimental setup:
    • Include clear, labeled diagrams of your experimental setup.
    • Add dimensions and important details to aid in replication.

Post Lab

  • Data analysis and calculations:
    • Show all steps in your calculations, including formulas used.
    • Explain your reasoning for each step of the analysis.
  • Graphs and charts:
    • Create neat, properly labeled graphs and charts.
    • Include titles, axis labels with units, and legends where appropriate.

Post Lab

  • Discussion of results:
    • Interpret your results in the context of the experiment's objectives.
    • Explain any patterns or trends observed in the data
  • Comparison with hypotheses:
    • Explicitly state whether your results support or refute your hypotheses.
    • Discuss possible reasons for any discrepancies.
  • Sources of error and uncertainty:
    • Identify potential sources of experimental error.
    • Discuss how these might have affected your results.
    • Quantify uncertainties where possible.

Post Lab

  • Conclusions:
    • Summarize the main findings of the experiment.
    • Relate these back to the original objectives and broader scientific principles.
    • Suggest improvements or future directions for the experiment.

Buggy Lab

Objective:

  • Determine if your toy buggy moves in a consistent manner by developing a relationship between position and time.
  • Use time as your independent variable

Identical treasure chests (shown from above) each have two forces acting on them. All chests start at rest. ![center](image-11.png) **Rank the speed of the treasure chest after 2 seconds.** --- The forces exerted on an object at a particular instant are represented in the free-body diagram. The magnitude of each force is drawn to scale. A student claims that the vector sum of the forces on the object is equal to zero. Is the student's claim valid? Why or why not? ![center](image-12.png) --- The free-body diagram shows three forces exerted on an object. Each square is 1 N by 1 N. What is the magnitude of the vector sum of the forces exerted on the object? ![center](image-13.png)

ANSWER IS C

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