10/28/08

Busy Tuesday

Physics and Honors Physics stalwartly sat through lectures on forces - weight and normal for Physics and friction for Honors Physics. Problem-solving skills are emphasized in the homework assignments. Air resistance lab for Honors Physics tomorrow to examine a variation on the friction theme and Physics will take on static and kinetic friction in lab on Thursday. Honors Physics Chapter 4 exam falls next Monday and some folks in G block will lose a review day due to Peer Mentoring. Plan ahead!

Physical Science bustled around investigating free-fall acceleration and all groups completed their work. What I gathered from circulating around was that data collection went well and groups realized that (1) the accepted value for acceleration due to gravity is not a "magic number," but can be measured in the lab and (2)acceleration due to gravity is constant acceleration - it does not change with time or speed of descent. This allows its use in kinematics equations with confidence. BTW: here's what some of you looked like at the end of the period:

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