AP Physics C - 1st Semester - Fall 2005  

Day 1(8/26) - 
Density rho=M/V 
SI(MKS) units vs cgs and British Engineering Units (American!)/ kg,m,s vs g,cm,s vs slug,ft,s 
mass vs weight (kg vs newtons) (slugs vs pounds) 
Right Triangle Trigonometry (practice quiz) 
Vectors 
Ordered-Pair (x,y) vs Polar Form 
Adding Vectors - Head-to-Tail or Parallelogram Law or by simply adding the ordered pairs' components 
Film: Law of Inertia & Galileo 
Hwk: p.17 #3,61 /p.71 #1,5,7,13,15 
finish practice trig/vector quiz 

Day 2(8/30) - Law of Inertia 
Finish film on Galileo - (film questions) 
Trig/Vector Quiz 
Kinematics in One Dimension 
Displacement vs distance traveled vs distance from start point 
Average Speed ain't Average Velocity! 
Postion-Time Graphs (x-t graphs) 
(See Kinematics Notes - handout) 
Hwk: Vector Notes p.4 #1,3,5,7 
p.71 #3,9,11,17,19 

Day 3(9/1) - Kinematics 
Vector Practice Quiz (problems #1,2,4 only) 
Instantaneous Velocity (vs inst. speed) 
Derivatives & Slopes of Tangent Lines 
Position-Time Functions & Graphs 
Hwk: Vector Notes p.4 #2,4,6 
p.49 Questions #1,4,5,6,7 

Day 4(9/6) - 
Position-Time Graphs - practice quiz 
Acceleration Direction (+ or -) and N2: F=ma 
Avg Acceleration vs Instantaneous Acceleration 
Velocity-Time graphs 
vs 'English acceleration' and 'English deceleration' 
(which have more to do with speed, not velocity) 
Trig/Vector - Quiz 
Hwk: p.49 #10,11,13,14 /p.50 #4,8,9 
p.72 #25,35,37 

Day 5(9/8) - Vectors & Kinematics 
Free-body Diagrams (Force Diagrams) 
vs Force Equations 
Vectors - Practice Quiz 

Hwk: p.49 #15 /p.50 #12,13,15,17 
p.72 #26,27,30 

Day 6(9/12) - Vectors 
continue with vector practice quiz 
Kinematics 
Position-Time Quiz 
Hwk: p.50 #14,16,18 /p.73 #43-51(odd) 

Day 7(9/14) - Constant Acceleration Notes 
Vectors - components 
Velocity-Time Graphs 
Hwk: p.52 #21-31(odd) /p.74 #57,58,59 

Day 8(9/16) - 
Vectors - kinetic friction 
Constant Acceleration - practice quiz 
Hwk: p.52 #22-32(even) /p.139 Questions #1,2,6,7,10 

Day 9(9/20) - Law of Falling Bodies - Film 
Velocity-Time - Quiz 
Constant Acceleration - practice quiz 
Hwk: p.54 #43,47,57,61,63 
p.140 #1-5 

Day 10(9/22) - Weight vs Mass (practice quiz) 
Vectors - Quiz 
Hwk: p.54 #48-51,62 
p.140 Questions #12,14,17,18 

Day 11(9/26) - Constant Acceleration practice test 
Vectors - Requiz 
Hwk: p.54 #52,58-60 /p.141 #11-13,22-24 

Day 12(9/28) - Friction 
Static vs Kinetic (coefficients of friction) 
Hwk: p.141 #15,17,18,27,29,31,32 

Day 13(10/2) - Weight vs Mass (practice quiz) 
Forces - practice quiz 
Hooke's Law - spring force 
Friction Force (kinetic & static) 
Newton's Universal Law of Gravity 
Hwk: p.142 #25,28,33,35,40 

Day 14(10/4) - Friction Lab 
Hwk: p.143 #34,36,37,39,41,44 

Day 15(10/6) - Vectors Quiz 
Hwk: p.143 #38,42,46,48,49 

Day 17(10/11) - 
Vectors - Requiz 
Hwk: p.144 #45,47,50,51,53 

Day 18(10/13) - Kinematics in 2 dimensions - Projectile Motion 
Weight vs Mass - Quiz 
Hwk: p.145 #52,54,56,59,67 

Day 19(10/17) - Range Theorem & Maximum Height Theorem 
Centripetal Force and Acceleration Demo (coat hanger) 
Weight vs Mass - Requiz 
Hwk: p.145 #55,57,58,68,69 /p.101 #9,13 

Day 20(10/19) - 
Pulling the table cloth from under the dishes 
Constant Acceleration 1st Quiz 
Projectile Motion practice quiz 
Vector Quiz 
Hwk: p.148 #70,71,72 /p.102 #19,20 

Day 21(10/21) - Projectile Motion 
Corollary 1/ maximum range angle? 45 degrees? 
Corollary 2/ equal range angles? complementary? 
issue to students AP Notebooks (with 'Extra' problems) 
Hwk: p.144 #43 /p.101 #3,17 
Extra Problems Ch 3 #18,20 /Ch 4 #36,40 

Day 22(10/25) - Angular vs Linear Velocity 
degrees/sec or radians/sec 
T (time period) vs f (frequency) with T = 1/f 
omega??? 
Hwk: p.147 #62 /p.101 #5,16 
Extra Ch 3 #22,24 /Ch 4 #44,56 

Day 23(10/27) - Centripetal vs Tangential Acceleration 
Centripetal Force (radially inward) 
vs the 'fake' centrifugal force 
Constant Acceleration - Requiz 
Hwk: p.147 #73 /p.101 #6,10 
Extra Ch 3 #26,44 /Ch 4 #48,60 

Day 24 (10/31) - 
finish Projectile Motion practice quiz problems 
Monkey and Hunter Demonstration (Theorem) 
Hwk: p.148 #74 /p.101 #7,22 
Extra Ch 3 #28,46 /Ch 4 #70,76 

Day 25(11/2) - Rotational Kinematics 
Constant Angular Acceleration - practice quiz 
vs Uniform Circular Motion (constant speed) 
Quiz - Forces 
Hwk: p.101 #8,49 
Extra Ch 3 #30,48 /Ch 4 #82,84 

Day 26(11/4) - Centripetal (radial) Acceleration 
*2 formulas for centripetal acceleration 
Film - Monkey & the Hunter 
Newton's Laws (practice quiz) 
Requiz - Forces 
Hwk: p.103 #24,25 /p.317 #1-9(odd) 
Extra Ch 3 #32,34 /Ch 4 #88,90,92 

Day 27(11/8) - Truckbed Problem 
Projectile Motion - Quiz 
Hwk: p.103 #26,27 /p.317 #2-8(even) 
Newton's Laws 4.0H #1,5 
Extra Ch 7 #2,4,10 

Day 28(11/10) - Centripetal Force (F=ma) 
Projectile Motion - Requiz 
Hwk: p.103 #28,29 /p.318 #13,15 
Newton's Laws 4.0H #2,6 
Extra Ch 7 #6,8,12 

Day 29(11/15) - Bed of Nails 
Constant Angular Acceleration Quiz 
Hwk: p.104 #30,31 /p,318 #17,19 
Newton's Laws 4.0H #3,7 
Extra Ch 7 #14,20,22 

Day 30(11/17) - Frames of Reference Film 
Hwk: p.104 #32,33 / 
Newton's Laws 4.0H #4,8 
Extra Ch 7 #16,18,24 

Day 31(11/21) - review constant angular acceleration 
Centripetal Force Notes 1.0 
Hwk: Honors Projectile Motion (practice quiz) #1-9(odd) 
Extra Ch 7 #26,30,32 

Day 32(11/23) - Centripetal Force 2.0 
Work Definitions (Easy definition: W=Fd) 
(practice quiz) 
Hwk: p.173 #1-3 /p.207 #1,2,15 
Extra Ch 7 #36,38,40 

Day 33(11/29) - Work-Energy Theorem 
Types of Energy 
E(mechanical) vs Q(heat) 
Kinetic Energy vs Potential Energy 
(gravitational P.E. vs elastic P.E.) 
(easy) Work Quiz 
Constant Angular Acceleration - Requiz 
Hwk: p.173 #6,14,23 /p.207 #3,4,16 
p.239 #1,6 

Day 34(12/1) - Uniform Circular Motion 
Parametric Equations for uniform circular motion 
(practice quiz) 
Roller Coaster (practice quiz) 
Hwk: p.173 #7,15,24 /p.207 #5,17 
p.239 #2,7 

Day 35(12/5) - Newton's Laws (H) - Test 
Work-Energy - practice quiz 
Hwk: p.173 #8,16,25 /p.207 #7,22 
p.240 #8,11 

Day 36(12/7) - Centripetal Force 1st Quiz 
Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM) 
Roller Coaster Quiz 
Hwk: p.173 #9,17,27 /p.207 #19,27 
p.240 #9,13 

Day 36(12/9) - Uniform Circular Motion - Quiz 
Centripetal Force 1st Requiz 
Hwk: p.173 #10,19,28 /p.207 #20,28 
p.240 #10,14 

Day 37(12/13) - Work-Energy Coaster Quiz 
Roller Coaster - requiz 
Hwk: p.173 #11,21,46 /p.207 #21,30 
p.241 #12,15 

Day 38(12/15) - 
Uniform Circular Motion - Requiz 
Work-Energy - Requiz 
Hwk: p.174 #13,18,51 /p.207 #23,32 
p.241 #16,17 

----------- Winter Break --------- 

Day 39 - Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM) 
Hwk: p.178 #52,59 /p.207 #24,31 
p.241 #18,21 

Day 40 - Resonance Film 
Hwk: p.178 #53,60 /p.207 #33,55 
p.241 #20,26 

Day 41 - SHM Lab 
Hwk: p.178 #54,61 /p.207 #35 
p.242 #22,29,52,66 

Day 42 - Impulse & Momentum 
Hwk: p.178 #55,63 /p.207 #36 
p.242 #23,28,53,57 

Day 43 - Collisions (Elastic vs Inelastic) 
vs semi-elastic collisions 
Hwk: p.178 #56,66 /p.207 #37 
p.242 #30,31,58,72 

Torque 
Rotational Inertia 
Rotational Dynamics