11/6/08

Well, at least its not snow...

Too much rain today, but at least it will, hopefully, strip the last leaves from the trees. I am tired of raking...

Physics - today's review touched on all topics that are likely on tomorrow's exam. Don't forget your calculators and, A block, don't forget to have today's homework assignment ready to hand in at the beginning of class.

Honors Physics - the energetic world of energy. In physics, we don't much past kinetic, gravitational potential, elastic potential and electric potential energies, but there are many more in the energy pantheon. Tomorrow's lab will target KE and GPE and the conversion between the two. We will do a lab later this unit for elastic potential energy and the determination of the spring constant using Hooke's law. Read over the lab tonight and have Practice 5D and the Section Review ready for Monday.

Physical Science - terminal velocity graphs looked very good and did match the model that I would predict for your data collection situation (-cv2). Heavier objects do fall faster than light objects because their terminal velocity is larger. Your TV for each additional filter produced a larger terminal velocity than the previous trial. Take air resistance out of the picture and they would all fall with the same acceleration. We will discuss the lab tomorrow and remember to bring questions about Monday's exam.

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