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Monday,
November 29
Tuesday,
November 30
Wednesday,
December 1
Thursday,
December 2
Friday,
December 3
class
 
 
  finish lab D3 through part 6 before coming to class tomorrow
 we will spend only half the class today in lab (the expectation will be that you finish by the end of  that half-period of class)
bring your own CALCULATOR and GREEN  lab book for D4
reading
(always done
before class)
 
20 (2,1) 
20(5) 
21(1-2) 
lab D4 
in-class
presentation

the problem we didnt finish in class Monday (how fast is the electron moving after it moves through the vertical deflection plates)
none since there's a short prelab and much juicy reading
written
homework
(by 5 pm)

 
20(17 & 20 parts a and b only)
 
20(59A) 
lab
 
 
 finish lab D3 through part 6 before coming to class tomorrow
finish lab D3 in the half of class today provided for lab
 prelab to 1st part of D4 (method description written in GREEN lab book)
other
 
 check out the NC 4th grade syllabus,
science competency Goal #3
 
 
 
Monday,
November 22
Tuesday,
November 23
Wednesday -  Friday,
November 24 - 26
class
bring GREEN lab book for D2
 bring GREEN lab book for D2
 turkey break 
reading
(always done
before class)
 have you done the TWTW reading on chapter 19 topics?

handout on oscilloscopes
 
19(7): get the big picture; it's one of the 4 big electromagnetic force laws
 
in-class
presentation		 19(33)

written
homework
(by 5 pm)

by 1 pm:

the electric field problem on the
AQUA handout

lab
 
 
 
other
 
 
 
 
Monday,
November 15
Tuesday,
November 16
Wednesday,
November 17
Thursday,
November 18
Friday,
November 19
class
 
bring to class the deconstruction of Coulomb's law
(just like what we did for gravity a month ago; i believe we had 5 or 6 separate "parts")


  for the salmon sheet (pictures of field diagrams),
decide the relative magnitudes of the charges in each picture; also what can you tell about the signs
half-test on lab D1

you will be able to use your lab books, but you still should study
 
reading
(always done
before class)
 19 (1 - 3 up to example 3)
 19(4: pp. 621-622)
19(5)
ignore the examples in these sections for now

how van de graaf generators work
 study the examples in yesterday's reading that you ignored
19(3 starting with example 3 until the end) 
in-class
presentation

19(9)
19(66)
written
homework
(by 5 pm)

 
19(17, 58)
 
 19(63,68)

monday's homework is the
Electric Field problem on the  AQUA class handout; you do have to use special computer software, so dont wait till the last minute
lab
D1 should be finished today
[reading  19(1,2,6) is necessary for part F of the lab]
 
 
 
 
other
 
 
 
 spend 10 - 15 minutes sometime before T-break with the Electric Field Hockey software
(on the computers in the back Physics lab)

 
Tuesday,
November 9
Wednesday,
November 10
Thursday,
November 11
Friday,
November 12
class
 
  
 
 
reading
(always done
before class)
 
 
 
 
in-class
presentation



written
homework
(by 5 pm)
 

 
 
lab
 
lab D1
(finish  through part B4)
lab D1 continues
(finish mid-part C)
lab D1 continues
(finish through part D)
other
 
 

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