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Projectile Motion Hoop
Challenge
Introductory Physics
Labs (algebra-based)
The table
below is organized sequentially by semester. Each lab is 60 – 90 minutes in
length, each workbook assignment, from Knight’s Student Workbook for College
Physics, is approximately 60 minutes in length. |
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indicates labs that were very successful and a ** by labs that “made it home
to the dinner table” or rather shown to their friends outside of class. |
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Lab |
Workbook Assignment |
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Week 1 |
Pre FCI
and Lawson test, no lab |
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Measuring
Motion |
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*Free Fall |
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**Projectile
Motion Hoop Challenge |
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**Force
Vectors |
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*Inertia |
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Friction –
“Fast Lane” Subway slide |
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*Friction with Connected Objects |
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**Bucket
Swing |
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*Center of
Gravity |
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**Elasticity
of Plastic Spoons |
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**Fun w/
momentum! |
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**Solar
Ovens |
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*How
Powerful are you? |
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*Chemical
to Thermal Energy |
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*Density
and Buoyancy |
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**How
Music is Made |
Week 1
Phys II, not ready for workbook problems |
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*Simple
Harmonic Motion |
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Traveling
Waves |
Needs work |
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**Standing
Waves |
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*Thickness
of a human hair |
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*Reflection
and Plane Mirrors |
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*Spherical
“thin” Lenses |
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*Spherical
Mirrors |
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**Fun with Tape! (120 minutes) |
None |
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Electric
Field Hockey |
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**Measuring
Potentials of the Heart |
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DC
Circuits |
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**Magnets, motors and radiation |
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