Mr. Schiff's Physics Topics

Unit 1- Introduction to Physics (Kinematics)
Introduction to Physics
1) Physics Outline
2) Reasons to take physics
3) New York State Lab Policy
4) Launch Lab
5) Mathematical Assessment for Honors/Regents Physics
6) Balloon Tower Lab
7) Classwork: Using Algebra on Newton’s Kinematic Equations
8) Algebra Skills
9) Quiz #1- Algebra and Substitution
Motion of Objects
1) Notes on Kinematics
2) Video: Standard Deviant’s Introduction to Physics
3) Graphing Techniques
4) Lab: Graphing Height vs. Armspan
5) Motion Diagrams using Vector Arrows
6) Kinematic Problems
7) Measurement and Estimation Lab
8) Video: Something in the Way Things Move
9) Quiz#2- Introduction to Kinematics
Dimensional Analysis
1) Lab: Finding Pi
2) Notes: Converting Units
3) Assignment: Taking the Quickway
4) Introducing the Physics reference table
5) Dimensional Analysis worksheet
6) Conversions and Equations
7) Dimensional Analysis questions
8) Lab: Walk Jog Run
9) Conversion Factors Worksheet
10) HONORS: Principals and Problems (2 Reinforcement)
11) Quiz #3 Kinematic Problems
Constant Acceleration
1) Hot Wheels Lab
2) Notes: Constant Acceleration
3) Kinematic Acceleration Problems
4) Constant Velocity Lab
5) Kinematic Equations #1
6) Remembering Kinematic Equations
7) Reviewing Kinematic Equations
8) Kinematic Equations #2
9) Quiz #4 One Dimensional Kinematic Equations

Graphing Motion
1) Graph Practice
2) Overhead: graphs of motion
3) Fan Cart Acceleration Lab
4) Motion Graphing Test Review
5) Web lab: Kinematics
6) Quiz #5 Graphs of Motion
Free Fall
1) Notes: Free Fall
2) Free Fall worksheet
3) Free Fall homework sheet
4) Song: the story of Free Falling
5) Lab: Reaction Time
6) Video: Myth Busters (penny drop)
7) Lab: Free Fall Investigation
8) Free Fall (up and down) worksheet
9) Free Fall (up and down) homework sheet
10) Up and Down Investigation
11) Quiz #6 Free Fall
EXAM #1
Unit 2- Motion in a Plane
Horizontal Projectile Motion
1) Notes: Introducing Forward Falling Motion
2) Projectile Horizontal Falling Motion
3) Transparency: Horizontal and Vertical Projectiles
4) Review- Horizontal Projectile Motion
5) Marble Lab
6) Cliff Problem Practice Quiz
7) Quiz #7 Projectile Horizontal Falling Motion
Projectiles Launched at an Angle
1) Notes: Projectiles Launched at an Angle
2) Transparency: the Trajectory of a Projectile
3) Introducing Projectile Motion
4) Projectile Motion- Using Initial Velocity and Launch Angle
5) Analyzing Projectile Motion
6) The Effect of Changing Angles
7) Rocket Launch Lab
8) Review- Projectile Motion
9) Web Lab (2- Dimensional Motion)

10) Quiz #8 Projectiles Launched at an Angle
11) Lab: Picturing Motion with Graphs
Unit 3- Newton’s Laws of Motion (Dynamics)
Newton’s Laws of Motion
1) Notes on Newton’s First Law (Inertia)
2) Inertia Lab
3) Newton’s First Law
4) Video: Mythbusters (Killer Tissue Box)
5) Notes on Newton’s Second Law (F=ma)
6) Newton’s Second Law Practice Problems
7) Lab: Weight in Newtons
8) Ten Week Test Review/ Projectile Unit Exam Review/10 week test review
9) Newton’s 2 nd Law
10) Newton’s 2 nd Law of Motion Practice Problems
11) Newton’s 2 nd Law Worksheet 1
12) Quiz #9 Newton’s 2 nd Law
13) Honors: Honors Type Questions
Exam #2
Concurrent Forces
1) Notes on Newton’s Third Law and Interactive Forces
2) Introducing Concurrent Force
3) Lab: Concurrent Force Investigation
4) Newton’s 3 rd Law and Interactive Forces
5) Equilibrants Lab
6) Quiz # 10 Concurrent Forces
Sliding Friction
1) Notes: Sliding Friction
2) Problem Set: Friction
3) Sliding Friction Problems
4) Lab: Investigating Sliding Friction
5) HW: Friction and Acceleration
6) Quiz #11 Friction
7) Web Lab (Forces)
8) Physics Review Games

Inclined Planes
1) Notes: The Motion of Sliding Objects on an Incline
2) Help sheet
3) Inclined Planes Worksheet
4) Stationary Balloon Lab
5) Traffic Accident Investigation
6) Inclined Plane (Friction Lab)
7) Quiz #12 Sliding Friction on An Inclined Plane
8) Review Dynamics
Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation
1) Notes: Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation
2) Law of Universal Gravitation Problems
3) Video: Bill Nye – Gravity
4) Problem Set- Universal Gravitation
5) Overhead demo: inverse squared law
6) Inverse squared law
7) The Inverse Squared Law Lab
8) HW- Universal Law of Gravitation
9) Universal Law of Gravitation Relationships
10) Review Universal Law of Gravitation
11) The Earth, the Moon and the Universal Law of Gravitation
12) Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation Practice Problems
13) Cars Lab
14) Quiz #13 Law of Universal Gravitation
15) Santa’s Physics worksheet (the Physics of Santa Claus)
Exam #3
Circular Motion
1) Notes on Circular Motion
2) Intro to Circular Motion
3) Uniform Circular Motion Relationships
4) Regents Questions on Circular Motion
5) Review: Uniform Circular Motion
6) (HONORS)- a short history of nearly everything
7) Uniform Motion Practice Problems
8) Flying Pig Force Lab
9) Lincoln Worksheet
10) Centripetal Force Lab (rubber stopper)
11) Quiz #14 Centripetal Force Quiz

Momentum and Impulse
1) Notes on Momentum and Impulse
2) Worksheet 1- Momentum
3) 7-18 Momentum Problems
4) Worksheet 3 and 4
5) Practice Problems for Momentum and Impulse
6) Momentum and Impulse
7) Review Momentum and Impulse
8) Momentum-Impulse worksheet
9) Egg Drop Lab
10) Quiz #15: Momentum and Impulse
EXAM #4
MIDTERM EXAM
Conservation of Momentum
1) Practice Problems on the Conservation of Momentum
2) The Law of Conservation of Momentum
3) Conservation of Momentum Lab
4) Conservation of Momentum Problems
5) More conservation of momentum problems
6) Quiz #16 Conservation of Momentum
Unit 4: Work, Power, and Energy
Work
1) Notes on Work
2) Work Lab
3) Work Work
4) Quiz #17 Work
Power
1) Notes on Power
2) Power Lab
3) Worksheet 1- Physics Problems (resolving forces)
4) Work and Power
5) Snowman Review (the Law of Conservation of Momentum)
6) Review 5- Work and Power Again
7) Quiz #18: Power

Unit 5: Mechanical Energy
Mechanical Energy
1) Notes of Mechanical Energy
2) The Frictionless Rollercoaster
3) Work, GPE, and KE
4) Practice Problems on Energy
5) Finding Q lab
6) Conservation of Energy Regents Questions
7) Physics- Conservation of Energy
8) Quiz #19: Energy
Swings and Springs
1) Notes on Springs
2) Practicing Spring Questions
3) Hooke’s Law
4) Hooke’s Law Lab
5) Regents questions on Hooke’s Law
6) Notes on Swings
7) Period of a Pendulum Lab
8) Regents Questions on Swings and Springs
9) Quiz #20 Swings and Springs
10) Hopper Popper Lab
Exam #5 – Work, Power, Conservation of Energy, Swings and Springs
Unit 6: Waves
Properties of Transverse Waves
1) Notes on Transverse Waves
2) Notes on Measuring Waves
3) Worksheet Measuring Waves
4) Problems on Period, Frequency, and Velocity
5) Reviewing Reflection
6) Part 3 Reflection Problem
7) Lab: Reflection
8) Ripple Tank Demos and Questions
9) Quiz #21: Measuring Waves

Refraction
1) Notes on Refraction
2) Overhead: Index of Refraction
3) Mediums and Light Speed
4) Regents questions on Refraction
5) Refraction through multiple layers
6) Refraction Lab
7) Quiz #22: Quiz on Refraction
Wave Behaviors (standing waves)
1) Notes on Standing Waves
2) Interference
3) Lesson: When Waves Meet
4) Review Questions: When Waves Meet
5) Period of a Pendulum Lab
6) Review Questions on Wave Phenomenum
7) Quiz #23 Wave Behaviors
Sound
1) Notes on Longitudinal Waves
2) Doppler Effect
3) Red and Blue Shifts
4) Speed of Sound Lab
5) Quiz #24 Sound
Exam #6 Waves
Unit 7- Electricity and Magnetism
Static Electricity
1) Notes on Static Electricity
2) Intro to Static Electricity
3) Static Electricity Lab
4) Notes on Coulomb’s Law
5) Coulomb’s Law Problems
6) Coulomb’s Law HW
7) Notes: Transfer of Charge
8) Transparency: Sharing Charges
9) Electricity Worksheet 1
10) Quiz #25: Static Electricity

Electric Fields
1) Notes on Electric Fields
2) Homework- Regents Questions on Electric Fields
3) Intro to Magnetic Fields- overhead and demo
4) Magnetic Field Lab
5) Electric Field Strength
6) Quiz #26: Electric Fields
Energy and Electric Potential
1) Notes on Potential Difference
2) Voltage and KE
3) Electric Potential Difference “voltage”
4) Lab: Investigating Charges
5) Chapter 10: Electric Fields and Forces
6) Quiz #27: Electricity
Electric Currents
1) Notes on Electric Current
2) HW: Current Electricity
3) Regents Questions on current and resistance
4) Quiz #28: Current
Series Circuits
1) Notes: Series Circuits
2) Series Circuit Practice Problems
3) Properties of Series Circuits
4) Circuits Lab: Ohm’s Law
5) Quiz #29 Series Circuits
Parallel Circuits
8) Notes on Parallel Circuits
9) Parallel Circuits Practice Problems
10) Intro to System Analysis
11) Notes on Kirchoff’s Law, Power, and Energy
12) Kirchoff’s rules
13) Series and Parallel Problems
14) Lab: Series and Parallel Circuits
15) Quiz #30: Ohm’s Law, Power, and Energy
Exam #7: Electricity and Magnetism

Unit 8- Modern Physics
The Standard Model
1) Notes on the Classification of Matter
2) Classification of Matter
3) Particles of the Standard Model
4) Regents Review #17: Standard Model
Energy and Matter
1) Einstein’s Equation
2) Matter and Energy
3) E= mc 2
4) Quiz #31- Particles and Forces
The Bohr Model
1) Handout: the Bohr Model
2) Practice Problems
3) Quiz #32: The Bohr Model