Back at the Salt Mine

I must say that the dogs enjoyed being chauffeured to daycare in the rented Town Car this morning. You would swear that they were royalty the way they were sitting and looking disdainfully at the passing traffic…

Honors Physics completed their overview of buoyancy and began a discussion of fluid pressure. We lost a number of folks due to the Peer Mentor training, so if you were one of them, make sure that you catch up on any missed notes. Tomorrow, we will continue on with pressure and this will lead us to Thursday’s lab, where students investigation the variation of fluid pressure with depth.

Physical Science B explored the methods and pattern of heat conduction in materials. Remember that heat always flows from objects with higher temperatures to objects with lower temperatures and that it is heat, as energy, that is passed, not temperature. We also discussed the three methods of heat transference – conduction, convection and radiation. Tomorrow’s lab will allow you to examine how insulators function to retard heat transfer and how different materials have different insulating properties.

Physical Science E went over their MCAS practice work. Seems like people were doing fairly well on the material and we’ll go over the last open response question tomorrow in class. Then, it is off to heat and temperature. We’ll examine the definition of temperature, the different temperature scales and how thermal expansion works in thermometers.

Physics F and G sat through a graded learning experience. Tomorrow – forces in fluids!

Homework

Honors Physics A: None (make sure yesterday’s classwork is complete, though)
Physical Science B: Read over lab sheet
Physical Science E: Look over MCAS practice for patterns – where are your strengths and weaknesses?
Physics F and G: 9.1 Section Review #1,2,5 and Chapter Review items #1-4, 6, 7