Advanced Placement Physics Course Calendar

NOTES: Dates & assignments are subject to change. Dates on the calendar don't necessarily correspond class days.

Third Quarter, 2011-2012          
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
1/29 1/30 1/31 2/1 2/2 2/3 2/4
Tst Wk Open LECTURE: Welcome back, go over Final LECTURE: 24.1 Electric Flux; 24.2 Gauss's Law LAB: Millikan Oil Drop LECTURE: 24.3: Application of Gauss's Law to Various Charge Distributions LECTURE: 24. 3 (cont'd), quiz on Ch 23 (Electric Fields)  
  HW: Read pg 705 HW: Read secs 24.1, 24.2; do 24. 1, 24.3, 24.6, 24.7, 24.9, 24.11, 24.13, 24.15 HW:  HW: Read sec 24.3; do 24.24, 24.27, 24.29, 24.31, 24.35 HW: Relax  
    Download Lab: Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment      
2/5 2/6 2/7 2/8 2/9 2/10 2/11
Tst Wk B LECTURE: 24.4 Conductors in Electrostatic Equilibrium LECTURE: 25.1: Potential Difference & Electric Potential; 25.2: Potential Differences in a Uniform Electrical Field LAB: Electric Fields-Flat Conducting Disk; Quiz-Ch 23 LECTURE: 25.3: Electric Potential and Potential Energy Due to Point Charges;  LECTURE: 25.4: Obtaining the Value of the Electric Field from the Electric Potential  
  HW: Read sec 24.4; do 24.37, 24.39, 24.41, 24.43, 24.45, 24.47, 24.49 HW: Read secs 25.1, 25.2; do 25.1, 25.3, 25.5, 25.7, 25.9, 25.13   HW: Read sec 25.3; do 25.17, 25.19, 25.23, 25.28, 25.31, 25.32 HW: Read sec 25.4; do 25.37, 25.39  
    Download Lab: Electric Fields - Flat Disk      
2/12 2/13 2/14 2/15 2/16 2/17 2/18
Test Wk A LECTURE: 25.5: Electric Potential Due to Continuous Charge Distributions LECTURE: 25.6: Electric Potential Due to a Charged Conductor LECTURE: Review TEST: Chapters 24, 25 Professional Growth Day  
  HW: Read sec 25.5; do 25.43, 25.47, 25.42, 25.49 HW: Read sec 25.6        
           
2/19 2/20 2/21 2/22 2/23 2/24 2/25
Tst Wk B Presidents' Day Holiday LECTURE: 26.1: Definition of Capacitance; 26.2: Calculating Capacitance LECTURE: 26.2 cont'd. Physlet models of capacitance LAB: Basic circuit construction (breadboard activity); DEMO-High Voltage Capacitor,     
    HW: Read sec 26.1, 26.2 HW: Do 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 26.7, 26.9, 26.13      
    Download Lab: Simple Circuit Construction      
2/26 2/27 2/28 2/29 3/1 3/2 3/3
Test Wk A LECTURE: Batteries; 26.3: Combination of Capacitors; 26.4: Energy Stored in a Charged Capacitor; DEMO-Disposable camera, cut a battery in half LECTURE: 26.5: Capacitors w/ Dielectrics; DEMO-Parallel plate capacitor w/Dielectric LECTURE: 27.1: Electric Current; 27.2: Resistance LAB: AP Problems: 2006, E&M #1; 2008, E&M #1 LECTURE: 27.4: Resistance and Temperature; 27.6: Electrical Power  
  HW: Read sec 26.3, 26.4; do 26.19, 26.21, 26.16, 26.31, 26.32, 26.37, 26.38 HW: Read Sec 26-5; do 26.23, 26.45, 26.43, 26.47 HW: Read Sec 27-1, 27-2; do 27.1, 27.3, 27.9, 27.15, 27.17, 27.24   HW: Read Sec 27-4, 27-6; do 27.31, 27.33, 27.36, 27.39, 27.41, 27.44  
             
3/4 3/5 3/6 3/7 3/8 3/9 3/10
Tst Wk B LECTURE: 28.1: Electromotive Force; 28.2: Resistors in Series and Parallel. Extra Credit posted. LECTURE: 28.3: Kirchhoff's Rules LECTURE: 28.4: RC Circuits; DEMO: Series & Parallel LECTURE: More on 28.3 LAB: RC Circuits  
  HW:Read Sec 281., 28.2; do 28.1, 28.4, 28.5, 28.6, 28.9, 28.13, 28.15 HW: Read Sec 28.3, do 28.21, 28.25, 28.24, 28.29 HW: Read Sec 28.4; do 28.31, 28.32, 28.36, 28.37 HW:     
  Extra Credit available! Download Lab: RC Circuits        
3/11 3/12 3/13 3/14 3/15 3/16 3/17
Tst Wk Open LECTURE: 28.6: Household Wiring & Electrical Safety LECTURE: Sec 28.5: Galvanometers, Ammeters, Voltmeters LECTURE:  Review Chapters 26, 27, 28 TEST-Chapters 26, 27, 28; Extra Credit Due LECTURE:Prep for 6F/M^2: Strategies, get problem.  
  HW: Read Sec 28.6; do 28.49, 28.52, 28.56, 28.59 HW:     HW: Prep 6F/M^2  
           
3/18 3/19 3/20 3/21 3/22 3/23 3/24
Test Wk A LECTURE:Field Trip to Six Flags/Magic Mountain; LECTURE: 29.1: Magnetic Fields & Forces; 29.4 Motion of a Charged Particle in a Uniform Magnetic Field Diversity Day LECTURE: DEMO-Magnetic force on moving charges; 29.2: Magnetic Force Acting on a Current-Carrying Conductor (DEMO);  End of Quarter 3  
  HW: Write up problem HW: Read Sec 29.1, 29.4; do 29.1, 29.5, 29.7, 29.9, 29.29, 29.33, 29.37   HW: Read Sec 29.2, 29.3; do 2.11, 29.14, 29.15, 29.17    
             
Fourth Quarter, 2011-2012          
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
3/25 3/26 3/27 3/28 3/29 3/30 3/31
Tst Wk B LECTURE: DEMO: Magnetic force on a moving charge. 29.3: Torque on a Current Loop in a Uniform Magnetic Field; 29.5: Applications Involving charged Particles Moving in a Magnetic Field; 29.6: The Hall Effect;  LECTURE: 30.1: Biot-Savart Law; 30.2: The Magnetic Force Between Two Parallel Conductors LAB: Drawing Magnetic Fields LECTURE: 30.3: Ampere's Law LECTURE:  30.4: The Magnetic Field of a Solenoid; 30.5: Magnetic Flux; 30.6: Gauss's Law in Magnetism; 30.7 Displacement Current;   
  HW: Do 29.23; Read Sec 29.5, 29.6; do 29.41, 29.43, 29.47 HW: Read Sec 30.1, 30.2; do 30.1, 30.3, 30.5, 30.17, 30.20, 30.61   HW: Read Sec 30.3; do 30.21, 30.23, 30.25, 30.29 HW: Read Secs 30.4-30.7; do 30.31, 30.34, 30.35, 30.36, 30.37  
  Download Lab: Drawing Magnetic Fields      
4/1 4/2 4/3 4/4 4/5 4/6 4/7
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