Au Revoir...for a Week

April vacation is upon us and we greeted it with a deluge of lab work. 3 classes worked on polarization of light and 1 class worked with mirrors. Physical Science was the only class to endure a non-lab period, but they did receive their lab sheet for the lemon-battery lab that they will conduct the Monday we return. Our discussion centered on the nature of potential difference and how batteries maintain a potential difference to promote charge flow. We examined different types of batteries and described how a battery uses its stored chemical energy to increase the electrical potential energy of chages and move them to the high potential energy battery pole. We will review this after the lemon lab and continue on with our unit on electricity. Physics and Honors Physics will finish up with light by studying refraction and then jump, themselves, into the electricity unit. Hope everyone has a great vacation!