More Tests Than You Can Shake a Stick At!

Honors Physics, Physics D and F all enjoyed their Chapter 1-2 exams today and on Thursday move on to greener pastures. Honors Physics takes a brief stop in angular kinematics, Physics D begins work with vectors and Physics F works on a lab investigation monitoring the motion of a cart on a ramp. The graphs will be very familiar, but what we're looking for is going to be slightly different than for your ball-toss lab. It will tie in with the work on vectors and 2-dimensional motion that we're starting on Friday.

Introductory Physics completed their Cart on a Ramp lab, including the extensions that tested angle of incline on the cart's acceleration. The types of graphs you worked with (position-time, velocity-time, acceleration-time) are going to be studied in depth during the upcoming motion unit and we'll refer back to this lab to highlight elements of that discussion. Thursday, we'll go over the lab, discuss your first lab write-up to get a leg-up on writing the next one and, go over your Chapter 1 exams and, time permitting, address the Pre-Reading Questions you had for homework last night. Friday, we start with motion!