This packet steps you through the image formation by lenses and mirrors using ray tracing of the 3 principal rays in lenses and spherical mirrors.

The College Board made this to help with lab analysis.  Among other things, it's good for learning about linearization (starting on page 10).

This is what you'll need for Knott's Physics day. It makes waiting in line feel quicker.  You'll also be turning it in when we get dropped off back here.  Print it out by Monday!

Here's a sample Lab #1 write-up I made for your reference.  Anything in italics (other than captions) or highlighted text is a side note for you, the AP student trying to make sense of this write-up process.

This is the one we'll be using in class to discuss types of friction and to try and make sense of them.

This is a worksheet to help understand significance in measurement.  This helps you judge how many digits are worth recording for a given measurement.

Metric prefixes and sig figs

Here are the dates of presentations by students in each class.

If you want to type this using Word or something that is compatible, here is the same template in a word processor saved as a Word Document.

Use this template when you turn in your written portion of your Rube Goldberg project.

In this single page memo, the college board outlines specifically how well things should be explained here.  It's worth a quick read.  It's the standard I try to hold you to myself in all written responses (labs, tests, quizzes, homework).

Here's the page I'll use to grade these.  You get a completion grade for having all labs in (regardless of grade), Table of Contents Page, Cover Page (and a blank one for backing), and professional binding.  The point breakdown is on this page for your reference.  This should give you a stronger look to the college from which you test out of Physics.  At least this will show your experience with college level lab write-ups.  Also, it's a good source of reference for you when you have to do this again in college.

Rotational motion automatically has energy from the spin...  Now we know!  These questions are for you to add to the analysis so you can fix the data (no new measurements required!)

Here's an intro to momentum for us to try.  What's conserved before and after a force is applied?  We'll investigate that here.

Ever wonder how much horsepower you can put out?  We'll check by using stairs in this lab.  Weather permitting, this should be a good time!

Determine the focal length of a converging lens from a graph of your data.  This one's a bit freeform, so have fun!

We're determining the mass that rotates around our heads when tied to a string that goes through a tube and is tightened by a mass hanging from the end.  The analysis here is more interesting perhaps than it seems at first...

We design our own labs to find the coefficient of static friction between a block of wood and a wooden board in this lab.

We're using multiple voltages to charge individual capacitors and both capacitors arranged in series and in parralel to see what their overall capacitances are experimentally and to test the predicting power of the calculations we use to find combined capacitance values.

Lab#1: Mass on Spring and Period of Oscillation

Relate period of mass oscillating on a spring to the mass to analyze data and relate proportionalities.

Test out your "physics chops" with this challenge.  YOU design the experiment to find out how much mass is in a mystery object using normal lab equipment.  What do you think might work?