Physics Daily Plan Text: Exploring Creation with Physics (2nd ed.), by Jay Wile

DAY 1:

1. Read pages 1­8. STUDENT: Throughout the course, always do all the “On Your Own” problems included in the reading. TEACHER: Throughout the course, always check the student’s “On Your Own” problems and go over them the next day. DAY 2:

1. Review pages 1­8: a. What is the difference between accuracy and precision? b. What information does displacement include that distance does not? c. What is the difference between a vector quantity and a scalar quantity?

2. Read pages 8­15 (to the end of Experiment 1.1). DAY 3:

Experiment 1.1 DAY 4:

1. Review pages 8­15: a. What is the equation for velocity? What is the equation for speed? b. Is velocity a vector or scalar quantity? c. What is the difference between instantaneous velocity and average velocity?

2. Return and review graded Experiment 1.1. 3. Read pages 15­23 (to the end of the “On Your Own”).

DAY 5:

1. Review pages 15­23: a. How would you determine velocity from a position­versus­time curve? b. How does a position­versus­time curve show maximum (and minimum) speed? c. When we say velocity is relative, we mean it depends on the ___________.

2. Read pages 23­29. DAY 6:

Experiment 1.2 DAY 7:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 1.2. 2. Review pages 23­29:

a. What is the equation for acceleration? b. What units are attached to acceleration? c. How do we know (from equations) whether acceleration is speeding an object up or slowing it down? d. How would you determine acceleration from a velocity­versus­time curve?

3. Module #1 Review Questions and Practice Problems. DAY 8:

1. Return and review Module #1 Review Questions and Practice Problems. 2. Module #1 Test. DAY 9:

1. Return and review graded Module #1 test. 2. Start Module #2. Read pages 37­43.

DAY 10:

1. Review pages 37­43: a. What is free fall? b. What is the equation for v (using vo, a, and t)? c. What is the equation relating velocity, vo, a, and ∆x?

2. Read pages 44­53. DAY 11:

Experiment 2.1 DAY 12:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 2.1. 2. Review pages 43­53:

a. What is the area under a velocity­versus­time curve? b. What is the equation for displacement caused by motion, in terms of vo, t, and a (Eq.

2.19)? c. What is g (acceleration due to gravity) in m/sec2?

3. On an index card, copy the five One­Dimensional Motion Equations on page 47. 4. Read pages 54­62. DAY 13:

Experiment 2.2 DAY 14:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 2.2. 2. Experiment 2.3.

DAY 15:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 2.3. 2. Review pages 54­62:

a. How do you account for the fact that gravity is equal on any object, yet heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones? b. What is an upward­thrown object's velocity at maximum height? c. When is that object's velocity equal and opposite to its initial velocity?

3. Module #2 Review Questions and Practice Problems. DAY 16:

1. Return and review graded Module #2 Review Questions and Practice Problems. 2. Module #2 Test. DAY 17:

1. Return and review graded Module #2 Test. 2. Start Module #3. Read pages 71­78. DAY 18:

1. Review pages 71­78: a. What is two­dimensional motion? b. In an arrow representing the displacement vector, what is the arrow's length called? What does the arrow point out? c. How do we calculate magnitude on an x­y plane? d. How do we provide vector direction? e. How do we graphically represent the sum of two vectors?

2. Read pages 78­86. DAY 19:

Experiment 3.1 DAY 20:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 3.1. 2. Review pages 78­86:

a. What components do all two­dimensional vectors have? b. What are the x­ and y­components? c. What is the x­component of a vector in terms of its magnitude and direction?

DAY 21:

Experiment 3.2 DAY 22:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 3.3. 2. Module #3 Review Questions and Practice Problems. (No review for pages 86­95; it was mostly sample calculations.) DAY 23:

1. Return and review Module #3 Review Questions and Practice Problems. 2. Module #3 Test. DAY 24:

1. Return and review Module #3 Test. 2. Start Module #4. Read pages 105­112.

DAY 25:

1. Review pages 105­112: a. What is the “trick” to analyzing a 2­D problem? b. What do we call the motion of a projectile fired at an angle relative to the ground? c. In parabolic motion:

i. in how many dimensions does the object move? ii. what are the accelerations in those dimensions? iii. will the x­component of velocity change (after launch)? iv. what happens to the y­component of velocity? v. when will the projectile reach maximum height? vi. what is final vy compared to initial vy?

2. Read pages 112­121. DAY 26:

Experiment 4.1 DAY 27:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 4.1. 2. Review pages 112­121:

a. What is the range of a projectile? b. How does examining the y­dimension first, help you with the x­dimension range? c. What is the range equation (4.9)? d. In the range equation, what sign is g, always? e. Does the range equation apply to all two­dimensional projectiles? f. What is assumed for the range equation, Equation 4.9?

3. Read pages 122­127. DAY 28:

Experiment 4.2 DAY 29:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 4.2. 2. Review pages 122­127:

a. To figure out the x­distance a projectile has traveled, what do we need to find out first? 3. Module #4 Review Questions and Practice Problems. DAY 30:

1. Return and review graded Module #4 Review Questions and Practice Problems. 2. Module #4 Test. DAY 31:

1. Review and return graded Module #4 Test. 2. Study and review for Quarterly Test #1. DAY 32:

Quarterly Test #1 DAY 33:

1. Return and review graded Quarterly Test #1. 2. Optional: After every Quarterly Test and before starting the next module, take a break to read a biography of a famous physicist. 3. Start Module #5. Read pages 141­148. DAY 34:

Experiment 5.1 DAY 35:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 5.1. 2. Review pages 141­148:

a. What is friction? b. What is another name for Newton’s First Law? c. What is Newton’s First Law (The Law of Inertia)? d. What is Newton’s Second Law? (∑F=ma) e. What is the SI unit of force? How is it defined?

3. Read pages 148­152. DAY 36:

1. Review pages 148­152: a. What is the difference between mass and weight? (location, scalar/vector) b. What is the equation for weight? c. What is the standard English unit for mass? for force? d. What are the three units for weight?

2. Read pages 152­159. DAY 37:

Experiment 5.2 DAY 38:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 5.2. 2. Review pages 152­159:

a. What is the normal force? b. What is the difference between kinetic and static friction? c. Which is greater: kinetic frictional force or maximum static frictional force (for a given object and surface)? d. The frictional force between two surfaces is strongly dependent on what?

3. Read pages 160­167. DAY 39:

1. Review pages 160­167: a. What is the equation for the magnitude of frictional force, f? b. For a given object and surface, which is greater: μs or μk? c. What is Newton’s Third Law?

2. Module #5 Review Questions and Practice Problems. DAY 40:

1. Return and review graded Module #5 Review Questions and Practice Problems. 2. Module #5 Test. DAY 41:

1. Return and review graded Module #5 Test. 2. Start Module #6. Read pages 177­182 (top of page). DAY 42:

1. Review pages 177­182: a. When is an object in translational equilibrium? b. What is the difference between static equilibrium and dynamic equilibrium? c. What is tension?

2. Read pages 182­188 (top of page). DAY 43:

Experiment 6.1 (NEED ELEVATOR AND ANALOG SCALE)

DAY 44:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 6.1. (No review questions for pages 182­188.) 2. Read pages 188­193. DAY 45:

Experiment 6.2 DAY 46:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 6.2. 2. Review pages 188­193:

a. What is translational motion? b. What is rotational motion? c. What is the center of rotational motion called? d. What is the imaginary line from the axis of rotation to the point of the applied force

called? e. What is torque? What is the equation for torque? τ = F ∙ r f. Torque is the rotational equivalent of what (in translational motion)? g. What is the SI unit for torque?

3. Read pages 193­200. DAY 47:

Experiment 6.3 DAY 48:

1. Review and return graded Experiment 6.3. 2. Review pages 193­200:

a. What is rotational equilibrium?

b. What is the convention for negative and positive torques? c. What equals the component of an object's gravitational force parallel to an inclined

surface? d. What equals the component of an object's gravitational force perpendicular to an inclined surface?

3. Read pages 201­205. DAY 49:

(No review questions for pages 201­205.) Module #6 Review Questions and Practice Problems. DAY 50:

1. Return and review graded Module #6 Review Questions and Practice Problems. 2. Module #6 Test. DAY 51:

1. Return and review graded Module #6 Test. 2. Start Module #7. Read pages 217­223. DAY 52:

Experiment 7.1 DAY 53:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 7.1. 2. Review pages 217­223:

a. What is uniform circular motion? b. In uniform circular motion, what directions are the F and V vectors?

c. What is centripetal force? d. What is the formula for centripetal force? (Fc = mv2/r)

3. Read pages 223­230 (top). DAY 54:

1. Review pages 223­230: a. What supplies centripetal force on a turning car? b. On a flat curve, does a car's mass affect the speed at which it can stay on the

curve? 2. Read pages 230­236. DAY 55:

1. Review pages 230­236: a. What is gravity? b. What is the Law of Universal Gravitation? (Fq = Gm1m2/r2) c. What is the value of the universal gravitational constant? [G = 6.67x10­11 N∙m2/(k∙q2)] d. What are period and frequency in circular motion?

2. Read pages 237­242. DAY 56:

(No review questions for pages 237­242.) Module #7 Review Questions and Practice Problems DAY 57:

1. Return and review graded Module #7 Review Questions and Practice Problems. 2. Module #7 Test. DAY 58:

1. Return and review graded Module #7 Test. 2. Start Module #8. Read pages 251­257. DAY 59:

1. Review pages 251­257: a. What is energy? (ability to do work) b. What is work? (F∥∙∆x) c. What is the SI unit for work? (N∙m or Joule) d. What is the difference between potential energy and kinetic energy? e. What are their equations?

2. Read pages 258­266. DAY 60:

Experiment 8.2 DAY 61:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 8.2. 2. Review pages 258­266:

a. What is The First Law of Thermodynamics? b. What is the conservation of energy equation? c. What does the "total energy" (TE) refer to?

3. Read pages 267­276. DAY 62:

Experiment 6.2 DAY 63:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 6.2. 2. Review pages 267­276:

a. What four forms of energy did the author list? b. All but which form can be either kinetic or potential? c. What is power? (P = ∆W/∆t) d. What is the SI unit for power?

3. Module #8 Review Questions and Practice Problems. DAY 64:

1. Return and review graded Module #7 Review Questions and Practice Problems. 2. Module #8 Test. DAY 65:

1. Return and review graded Module #8 Test. 2. Study for Quarterly Test #2. DAY 66:

Quarterly Test #2. DAY 67:

1. Return and review graded Quarterly Test #2. 2. Start Module #9. Read pages 287­294. DAY 68:

Experiment 9.1

DAY 69:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 9.1. 2. Review pages 287­294:

a. What is momentum? b. What are the units of momentum? c. What is impulse? d. What is the equation for impulse? e. What is required for an object’s momentum to change?

3. Read pages 294­300 (top). DAY 70:

Experiment 9.2 DAY 71:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 9.2. 2. Review pages 294­300:

a. What is the Law of Momentum Conservation? [when ∑F=0, ∆p=0] b. When does this law not apply?

3. Read pages 300­304. DAY 72:

1. Review pages 300­304: a. What is recoil velocity?

2. Read pages 305­309. DAY 73:

1. Review pages 305­309: a. When an object moves in a circular path, what kind of momentum is informative to

study? b. What is angular velocity? [ω = Δθ/Δt] c. What is angular momentum? [L = mvr] d. What are the units for L? e. What is the Law of Angular Momentum Conservation?

2. Module #9 Review Questions and Practice Problems. DAY 74:

1. Return and review graded Module #9 Review Questions and Practice Problems. 2. Module #9 Test. (Will need soon: (1) Spring with loops on each end, able to stretch 10­15 cm. (2) food scale 0­1000g.) DAY 75:

1. Return and review graded Module #9 Test. 2. Start Module #10. Read pages 317­323. DAY 76:

Experiment 10.1 DAY 77:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 10.1. 2. Review pages 317­323:

a. What is periodic motion? b. What is the equation for Hooke’s Law? [F = ­k∆x] c. What do we call k? d. What are the units of k? e. What is restoring force?

3. Read pages 324­330.

DAY 78:

Experiment 10.2 DAY 79:

1. Review pages 324­330: a. For an object in periodic motion, what is its amplitude? b. What is simple harmonic motion? c. Where is the restoring force (and acceleration) at maximum? d. Where is the object at maximum speed? e. Where is acceleration zero? f. Where is speed zero? g. What does the period in a mass/spring system depend on? [T = 2π√(m/k)]

2. Read pages 331­338 (top). DAY 80:

1. Review and return graded Experiment 10.2. 2. Review pages 331­338 (top):

a. What is KE at the amplitude of its motion? What is PE at the amplitude of its motion?

b. At equilibrium, what is KE? At equilibrium, what is PE? c. What is the potential energy equation? d. What is the total energy equation? (KE + PE = …)

3. Read pages 338­342. DAY 81:

1. Review pages 338­342: a. What unit besides degrees can we use for angles? b. When does a pendulum exhibit SHM? c. What is T for a pendulum?

2. Module #10 Review Questions and Practice Problems.

DAY 82:

1. Return and review Module #10 Review Questions and Practice Problems. 2. Module #10 Test. DAY 83:

1. Review and return graded Module #10 Test. 2. Start Module #11. Read pages 350­357. DAY 84:

Experiment 11.1 (Need ½"­diameter copper pipes: 2x 6" long and 1x 4" long.) DAY 85:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 11.1. 2. Review pages 350­357:

a. What is a wave? b. How are frequency and wavelength related to one another? (f = v/λ) c. What is a transverse wave? What is a longitudinal wave? d. What kind of waves are sound waves? e. What determines pitch? What determines volume?

3. Read pages 358­364 (top). DAY 86:

Experiment 11.2 DAY 87:

1. Review and return graded Experiment 11.2. 2. Review pages 358­364:

a. What is the Doppler Effect? b. What is fobserved? c. When do you use + or ­ in the equation?

3. Read pages 364­370. DAY 88:

1. Review pages 364­370: a. What frequencies are ultrasonic? [>220,000 Hz b. What frequencies are infrasonic? [<20 Hz] c. What happens to the speed of light waves as the medium through which they travel gets more dense? d. Describe Young’s double­slit experiment and its big conclusion. e. What is diffraction? f. What is coherent light?

2. Read pages 371­377. DAY 89:

1. Review pages 371­377: a. What is the photoelectric effect? b. What are photons? c. What is the energy of each photon? [E = hf] d. What are the units of Planck’s constant? e. Does energy depend on light intensity? f. What is the conversion from eV to J? [1 ev = 1.602x10­19 J

2. Module #11 Test. DAY 90:

1. Return and review Module #11 Review Questions and Practice Problems. 2. Module #11 Test.

DAY 91:

1. Return and review Module #11 Test. 2. Start Module #12. Read pages 385­390. DAY 92:

Experiment 12.1 DAY 93:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 12.1. 2. Review pages 385­390:

a. What is the Law of Reflection? b. What is a virtual image? c. Where is the focal point of a concave spherical mirror? [f = R/2] d. What is the optical axis?

3. Read pages 391­398 (top). DAY 94:

Experiment 12.2 DAY 95:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 12.2. 2. Review pages 391­398:

a. What are three facts to remember in ray tracing? b. What is a real image?

3. Read pages 398­405 (top).

DAY 96:

Experiment 12.3 DAY 97:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 12.3. 2. Review pages 398­405:

a. When is an object opaque? b. When is an object transparent? c. What is refraction? d. What is Snell’s Law? [ n1sinθ1 = n2sinθ2 ] e. What is the index of refraction? [ n = c/v ]

3. Read pages 405­412. DAY 98:

1. Review pages 405­412: a. What is a converging lens? b. What are three facts to remember when ray tracing through a converging lens? c. What is a diverging lens?

2. Module #12 Review Questions and Practice Problems. DAY 99:

1. Return and review graded Module #12 Review Questions and Practice Problems. 2. Module #12 Test. DAY 100:

1. Return and review graded Module #12 Test. 2. Study for Quarterly Test #3.

DAY 101:

Quarterly Test #3 DAY 102:

1. Return and review graded Quarterly Test #3. 2. Start Module #13. Read pages 423­426 (top). DAY 103:

Experiment 13.1 DAY 104:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 13.1. 2. Review pages 423­426:

a. What is electrostatics? b. What is an ion? c. What kind of charges repel each other? d. What kind of charges attract one another? e. What is a conductor? f. What is an insulator? g. What is the Law of Charge Conservation?

3. Read pages 426­433. DAY 105:

1. Review pages 426­433: a. What is charging by conduction? b. What is discharging an object? c. What is charging by induction? d. What is electrostatic force?

e. What is Coulomb’s Law? [ F = ka1a2/r2 ] 2. Experiment 13.2 DAY 106:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 13.2. 2. Read pages 434­443 (top). DAY 107:

1. Review pages 434­443: a. What are three rules for drawing electric field lines?

2. Read pages 443­448. DAY 108:

1. Review pages 443­448: a. What is E? [ E = kQ/r2 ]

2. Module #13 Review Questions and Practice Problems. DAY 109:

1. Return and review graded Module #13 Review Questions and Practice Problems. 2. Module #13 Test. DAY 110:

1. Return and review graded Module #13 Test. 2. Start Module #14. Read pages 457­463.

DAY 111:

1. Review pages 457­463: a. What is electric potential? [ V = kQ/r ] b. What is the equation for PE? [ qV ]

2. Read pages 464­469 (top). DAY 112:

Read pages 469­477. (No review questions for pages 464­469.) DAY 113:

Experiment 14.1 DAY 114:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 14.1. 2. Review pages 469­477:

a. What is a capacitor? b. What is the equation for electric potential?

3. Module #14 Review Questions and Practice Problems. DAY 115:

1. Return and review graded Module #14 Review Questions and Practice Problems. 2. Module #14 Test. DAY 116:

1. Return and review graded Module #14 Test. 2. Start Module #15. Read pages 487­492 (top). DAY 117:

Experiment 15.1 DAY 118:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 15.1. 2. Review pages 487­492:

a. What is electric current? b. What is the equation? [ I = ΔQ/Δt ] c. What is the unit? [ A = C/sec ] d. What is resistance?

3. Read pages 492­499. DAY 119:

Experiment 15.2 DAY 120:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 15.2. 2. Review pages 492­499:

a. What are two equations for electric power, P? [ I2R = IV ] b. What is an open circuit?

3. Read pages 500­508 (top). DAY 121:

Experiment 15.3

DAY 122:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 15.3. 2. Review pages 500­508:

a. How is a circuit in series different from a circuit in parallel? b. What is the effective resistance of resistors in series? c. What is the effective resistance of resistors in parallel?

3. Read pages 508­514. DAY 123:

1. Review pages 508­514: a. How do fuses and circuit breakers work?

2. Module #15 Review Questions and Practice Problems. DAY 124:

1. Return and review graded Module #15 Review Questions and Practice Problems. 2. Module #15 Test. DAY 125:

1. Return and review graded Module #15 Test. 2. Start Module #16. Read pages 523­530. DAY 126:

Experiment 16.1 DAY 127:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 16.1. 2. Review pages 523­530:

a. What are the two sides of a magnet called? b. What magnetic poles repel, and what attract? c. Why are magnets called dipoles? d. What are three basic rules for drawing magnetic field lines?

3. Read pages 530­537 (top). DAY 128:

Experiment 16.2 DAY 129:

1. Return and review graded Experiment 16.2. 2. Review pages 530­537:

a. Explain diamagnetic, paramagnetic, and ferromagnetic. b. What is the right­hand rule?

3. Read pages 537­543. DAY 130:

1. Review pages 537­543: a. What is potential difference also known as? b. What is Faraday’s Law of Electromagnetic Induction? [ emf = ∆φm/Δt ] c. What is magnetic flux? [ φm = BA∙cos θ ] d. What is alternating current? e. How is AC different from current produced by a battery? f. What is direct current?

2. Module #16 Review Questions and Practice Problems. DAY 131:

1. Return and review Module #16 Review Questions and Practice Problems. 2. Module #16 Test. DAY 132:

1. Return and review graded Module #16 Test. 2. Study for Quarterly Test #4. DAY 133:

1. Quarteryly Test #4. 2. Review and grade Quarterly Test #4.