• Warm-up question for fun
• Station Lab: Collect Data

• Station Lab: Whiteboard and discuss data.  Main emphasis: "What mathematical relationship describes this data?

• Assessment: Force Concept Inventory (not for a grade)
• Exercise in calculator graphing using pendulum period data for diff. masses

• Finish looking at the pendulum data on the calculator: "How do we decide what relationship works best?"
• Wingspan measurement activity (using random objects, then measuring tape)

HW: Write about your wingspan measurement.  See HW page for details.

• Hand in the writing assignment
• Turn in the consumables fee and show me you've read intro letter
• Circle Lab: What can we measure about the circles?  Look for relationships in the measurements (WB discussion).

• Warm-up: Confidence?
• Finish Circle Lab WB discussion

• Use TI Interactive to write up the circle lab.  First step, produce a graph and find the relationship

• Questionnaire: what are your attitudes about this class
• Time to work on Circle lab
• Writing assignment: what do I mean by relationship?

• Return yesterday's questionnaires/discuss
• Return writing assignment/discuss
• Time to work on Circle Lab
• Begin Area & Volume activity (predict the area and volume of the room in ft^2 and m^2)

• Continue Area & Volume activity (actually determine A & V of room, discuss our answers)

What the heck is area anyway? (activity)

Write about what area means?

What's the volume of a basketball? (demo).

Quiz returned

TI Interactive activity: Relationships in Sunrise/Sunset data  (finish it for homework)

Go over Sunrise/Sunset

Talk about the test-give me a test question

Begin Unit 2/New groups-Prelab discussion, take buggy data

Analyze Video in groups

HW:  By next Wed. send me a school email

Paradigm Lab, (buggies) Unit 2
(Prelab was on Wed.)

Take Data: WB discussion

Finish WB Paradigm Lab Unit 2 (How fast did the buggies go? Which direction? Where'd they start from?)

Write an equation for your buggies' travel

Work on Lab reports (if time), due on Mon. 9/23

Work on Study Document 2 Labs

Look at linear video from last Thurs/ Discuss: can you incorporate this into your lab report?

HW: Read Chap 2.1-2.3 email your response to a fellow student, when you get an email respond (forward it to Reif by Thursday night)

Begin Worksheet 1 

Quiz 1

Quizzes back

WS 1: WB and discuss

HW: First side of Worksheet 2, email a classmate about reading (

WB Side 1 of WS 2

Activity: Buggies at an angle 

HW: Read Sec's 3.1-3.3 and email a classmate w/your summary and/or your questions

Go over Buggies at an angle-main idea is vector component velocities

Go over WS 2

HW: Make sure you've read 2.1-2.3 and 3.1-3.3

Demo: Roll a bowling ball with a strobe light

Motion Maps

Unit 2 Worksheet 4
Finish for Homework

No physics done, Reif out

Go over WS 4

Begin WS 5.  Be sure to complete it for HW (grade taken)

Hand out Classics problems, they will be bonus on the test.

Any questions for the test?

Time to work in groups on the study document for Unit 2.

Test Date-Unit 2 Test

Tests back, go over

Begin Unit 3-PreLab Discussion, practice collecting data if time

Study Document Unit 3

Constructing vel-t graphs from the slope of the tangent

Reading assignment

Give out Kinematics Stacks WS

Test questions/time to work on study Doc

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What is meant by our use of the term "model?"