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Homework for week of September 13
Monday 9/13	Student Information Sheet and Lab Safety Contract Class materials for IP Send Ms. DR an e-mail (put “Intro Physics” on the subject line) QUIZ: Expectation for IP
Tuesday 9/14	Nothing new due
Wednesday 9/14	Questions #1-10 of the Metric Measurement Activity. Data from the F-Block class and the G-Block class can be downloaded here.
Friday 9/16	Analysis questions #1-10 of the Metric Measurement Activity
Homework for week of September 20
Monday 9/20	Metric Measurement Activity Reflection Unit Conversion Practice Sheet
Tuesday 9/21	Starboard Conversion Questions or Port Fermi Questions completed and handed in if you didn't already do that in class.
Wednesday 9/22	Taking a Marathon in Stride completed
Friday 9/24	Measurement Quiz
Homework for week of September 27
Monday 9/27	Complete Springs: Stretch and Force. If you want more challenge, try the Complicated version.
Tuesday 9/28	Nothing due
Wednesday 9/29	Intro to Forces Lab completed.
Friday 10/1	Recognizing Forces packet completed.
Homework for week of October 4
Monday 10/4	Try to draw free body diagram (FBD's) for the situations presented here.
Tuesday 10/5	Review the Recognizing Free Body Diagrams packet you worked on in class. Complete it if you haven’t yet. Draw FBD's for as many of the examples as you can in the FBD Rocks practice sheet. Complete Drawing Using Free Body Diagrams if you feel like you need more practice.
Wednesday 10/6	NO CLASS (Professional Half Day) Complete Newton's Third Law Practice sheet.
Friday, 10/8	Quick Quiz on Forces and Free Body Diagrams. Find a full-page picture in a magazine or the newspaper, or draw one yourself, that shows an object interacting with at least 2 other objects. Draw a free body diagram of that object and all of the forces acting on it in the picture. Identify the forces (by name) in your diagram, and describe the interactions in a sentence.
Homework for week of October 11
Monday 10/11	NO SCHOOL
Tuesday 10/12	Cover your textbook and bring it back to class to show Ms. DR. You may keep your book at home or in your locker (wherever you do most of your homework) for the rest of the year. Remember to get your field trip permission slip signed by your B block teacher!
Wednesday 10/13	Ms. DR will be out of the building today. Remember to sign in at the cafeteria. Remember to get your field trip permission slip signed by your B block teacher and drop off your field trip permission slip in the folder on the classroom door.
Friday 10/15	Textbook scavenger hunt. Read chapter 6, and do review questions #2, 3, 6 and #25 & 27. Find a photo in a magazine, or draw a picture yourself. Choose one object from the picture or photo, and draw a Free Body Diagram showing all of the forces acting on that one object. Describe the forces and the motion of the object. Net Force worksheet in class.
Homework for week of October 18
Monday 10/18	Finish all in-class handouts, including Fnet Practice sheet. Read Chapter 4.1-4.4. Answer questions 1, 4-10, 12, 27 & 29 at the end of the chapter.
Tuesday 10/19	Hewitt chapter 4 practice sheet.
Wednesday 10/20	Finish Inertia Smorgasbord questions. Think about how the astronaut we'll see tomorrow and how Newton's First and Third Laws affected his experiences in space. Come up with two (using those laws) to ask him.
Thursday, 10/21	Special B block astronaut program. Meet in the auditorium.
Friday 10/22	Write 5 juicy test questions, with answers, about Newton's First (Inertia) and Third (Action-Reaction) Laws of Motion.
Homework for week of October 22
NOTE: If you are looking for extra credit opportunities, try keeping a Physics experiences journal. Check out the assignment. You may also opt to do current events.
Monday 10/25	Finish review packet for Quest tomorrow.
Tuesday 10/26	QUEST on FBD’s and Newton’s First and Third Laws of motion (chapters 4 and 6) Here are links to Part I and Part II of the Mythbusters episode about the force of two cars crashing as compared to one car and a wall that we discussed in Monday's Do-Now.
Wednesday 10/27	Read Ch. 2.1-2.3 and answer RQ's #1-8. Complete Introduction ot Position and Displacement.
Friday 10/29	G-Block: Finish Distance and Displacement worksheet if you didn't complete it in class.
Homework for week of November 1
NOTE: If you are looking for extra credit opportunities, try keeping a Physics experiences journal. Check out the assignment. You may also opt to do current events.
Monday 11/1	F- Block: Finish Distance and Displacement worksheet if you didn't complete it in class. Test corrections with explanations, written on a separate piece of paper and stapled to your original test. G-Block: Complete all even-numbered problems on the Basic Speed Practice worksheet.
Tuesday 11/2	Finish graphs for Walk-Jog-Run Lab.
Wednesday 11/3	Typed conclusion for Walk-Jog-Run Lab.
Friday 11/5	QUIZ: Distance, Displacement, and Speed: Problems and Graphs
Homework for week of November 8
NOTE: If you are looking for extra credit opportunities, try keeping a Physics experiences journal. Check out the assignment. You may also opt to do current events.
Monday, 11/8	Little Dudes II Turtle and Hare (skip velocity graph for now)
Tuesday 11/9	Graph a Skip graph and questions due.
Wednesday 11/10	NO CLASS
Friday 11/12	Delta Vee Practice Problems Parent’s Reflexes test