GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF MOTION
COLLEGE PREP PHYSICS

TEXTBOOK CHAPTER 2,  pages 38 - 51.

OBJECTIVES:

ACTIVITIES:

TYPE

DESCRIPTION

TENTATIVE DATE

EXPERIMENT 

  • The Masco 500

September 8

DISCUSS 
  • Motion Terminology

September 9

HOMEWORK

  • Metric Conversion Problems. (Located on the back of the title page of the unit.)

September 9

EXPERIMENT

  • Motion with Carts I

September 10

HOMEWORK

  • Graphing Worksheet # 1

September 10

IN-CLASS 
ACTIVITY   

  • WORKSHEET – Interpreting Motion Graphs I

September 13

IN-CLASS 
ACTIVITY   

  • WORKSHEET - Interpreting Motion Graphs II

September 13

HOMEWORK

  • Read pages 38 - 46 and do problems on page 44, # 1, 3, 4, 5, 6.

September 13

COMPUTER  
ACTIVITY   

  • Graphs and Tracks – Part I 

September 15

HOMEWORK

  • Graphing Worksheet # 2

September 15

EXPERIMENT

  •  Motion with Carts II

September 16

HOMEWORK

  • Read pages 48 - 49 and do problems on page 49, # 1 - 5.

September 16

EXPERIMENT

  • Slowing Down and Speeding Up

September 17

HOMEWORK

  • Rocket Graph Worksheet

September 17

IN-CLASS 
ACTIVITY   

  • Graphing Worksheet # 3

September 20

HOMEWORK

  • Problems, pages 69 - 70, # 1 - 21 odd.

September 20

COMPUTER  
ACTIVITY   

  • Graphs and Tracks – Part II

September 21

TEST     

  • Graphical Analysis of Motion

September 23

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