Auctions

I have had two emails from students about the auction I mentioned last week. I assume the lack of response is just absent mindedness and not a symptom of terminal indifference. If I am correct in my assumption let me hear from you pro or con. If it is terminal indifference....... no point in writing any more than I have.

Honors Notes for the Year

Here is a tabulation of the notes you should have obtained from my website and blog during the year.  Also provided is a link to the notes on rotational motion in magnetic fields since the blog notes didn't allow the symbols, subscripts and superscripts I wanted.

I will post a suggested order for, and key ideas you should have learned, from these documents soon. 

Please remember your assignment to come up with MC and problems for you project area. Don't forget the need to ,present basic physics in your presentations.

http://h1.ripway.com/DrCherdack/NotesonWebBlog08-9.doc

http://h1.ripway.com/DrCherdack/Rotational%20Motion%20in%20Magnetic%20Fields%20Notes.doc

Honors Assignment

Each student is to create 3 multiple choice question and one problem in her/his project area for the final. 10 extra credit for each good MC and 25 for each good problem, ( good enough to actually use).

Great Adventure Labs

Great Adventure Labs are optional. If you do them, the first two will be graded as labs. The third, if you do it, will be added to your extra credits ( 25 points x grade/100). For those of you with some low lab grades, this will give you an opportunity to add some high grades into your current lab grade. Pick up labs from the correct group envelope in the white box.

Those who did not attend can use the packet you were given.

Great Misadventure

I would like you all to know that Tuesday I spent from 4 PM until 8:30 PM getting your group packages together which included sets of detailed instructions,  a set of instruments for each group and lab packets for all the rides you requested for each member in the group. The 17 packages were all in one box ready to go.

 When by 2:30 AM Wednesday morning I realized that a sore nerve in my back was not letting up any time soon, I sent an email with  instructions concerning the tickets and the box to my colleagues and the substitute service. I do not know what happened, all the emails were opened and clearly the tickets were located but the box seems to have been lost.

I am sorry that happened and I do not know what happened so that all that work was wasted but I suppose you were glad not to be burdened on, what becam, your totally uneducational trip.

AP

We will renew our investigations of relativity tomorrow, reread through page 12. For Friday one progress report per group and group meeting report per student.  Please bring in material to work on for Friday and for Thursday for period 3.

Honors Notes

Please bring your notes in tomorrow. I will check them to see that they form a good foundation for studying for the final.

Great Adventure Labs

There are places in the lab sheets and related material that undo some of what we accomplished this year. PLEASE remember that there is no force throwing you backward when the bus starts: the bus goes forward while you try to stand still (you may overbalance and then gravity will  put a torque on you that causes you to head toward the bus's floor, but that is different from simply being thrown backward). 

Again, there is no force flinging you outward when the bus ( or a ride) goes around a turn. You try to go straight while the bus changes direction so the wall of the bus ( or the ride) needs to push on you to give you the required centripetal acceleration  for you to make the turn. When a ride slows suddenly, you don't surge forward, you just try to keep going as the ride stops.

Honors Assignments

1) Labs for great adventure: this is a sort of detour so do not spend more than an hour per lab report, you can work together but please no copying without comprehension, if you don't get it ask your friends or me.

2) Group reports. I should be getting at the very least one meeting report per person per week starting yesterday. I also should have received one progress report per group yesterday. The group progress report does NOT replace the meeting report

3) Tomorrow will be spent on projects, I will be focused on plasma and electric.  Plasma, heating, thermo, and electric have all received emails from me. If you did not get one, contact a group member.  [Are you guys getting group shirts??  talk among classes]

4) In order to allow 3 days for review before the final [ yeah a final, and if you think you're bothered, I've got to write the darn thing and then grade it 37 times] presentations have to begin next Wednesday June 3. Order will be the natural one: heating beams; plasma; magnets; thermo; electrical.  Presentations must be sent to me two days in advance so we have time to avoid disasters. Presentations must review principles as well as final design numbers. For example beams must discuss acceleration due to potential difference; plasmas must discuss basic transport and orbits; magnetics must discuss source of field, its direction, and how strength changes with distance from current; thermos must discuss work done by, during expansion and on, during compression, waste heat and how regenerative feed water heating helps efficiency; electrics must discuss Faraday induction and relationship between voltage drop and resistance in the stator and between V, I, and power.

Great Adventure

YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST use your assigned bus both ways

Great Adventure

Everyone: Labs are due Monday,

Bus 7 All my students EXCEPT Honors Section 3 and Charles Guo ( you guys got lucky)

Bus 8 Honors Section 3 and Charles Guo

Make sure to pick up instrument kit and lab packets. Bring pens or pencils and plenty of cash.

Students not going: pick up materials by 8 AM from your out folders in 506 and see room list on 504 or in r post of May 20 th, to find where ( room #) you can spend your nice warm dry day.

Honors Assignment

1) Have a complete set of notes from the blog starting at the beginning of September, i.e. all notes, summaries, etc. but not necessarily problems - although that would not be a bad thing- in a 3 ring binder

2) Have a group meeting with a meeting report from each person, the usual where, when, who, what, plus one progress report from each group.

3) Labs anyone? Ones coming in next Tuesday are -8 points but its better than the zero.

Great Adventure No Early Bus

Because of insufficient interest there will be no early return bus. Some students are arranging to be picked up by parents. Advanced authorization to release students to is required, i.e bring a note from Mom or Dad (REALLY FROM THEM) by Tuesday

SAT II for Physics

If there is a demand, I will up to 4 review sessions. Let me know by Email, including preferred time.