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1 AP PHYSICS 1 Introduction and Summer Homework 016 Instructor: Ms. Fitzmaurice, Portable 6 Instructor hfitzmaurice@gmail.com Instructor Phone: (978) COURSE BASICS Welcome to AP Physics 1 at Pittsburg High School! The goals of this course are to Train you to think critically about problems from multiple angles, gathering information and ideas from various sources. Train you to plan, execute, record, interpret, and refine your own experiments. Develop your ability to communicate in the context of technical subjects. Improve your ability to apply the mathematical skills you have learned to real life situations. Expose you to the rigor that will come with college science classes. Help you earn a good (shoot for 5!) score on the AP Physics 1 Exam. Stretch, bruise, heal, and grow your brain in as many directions as possible. IMPORTANT DATES This summer homework is designed to take roughly 0 hours in total. I highly recommend that you start the physics summer homework at the beginning of the summer and spend 1 hours on it each week, especially if you are taking other AP classes. If you do this, not only you will avoid the frantic end of summer rush, but you will probably learn the material better. Physics, like many other subjects, takes a while to gel in your brain. Before June 7 th, 016: There are a few things that you need to do before you leave for the summer. Get your textbook from the library! Let me know if you do not have RELIABLE internet access at your home! The structure of the class next year will require you to watch online videos, take notes from those videos, and submit homework answers into online forms. If you do not have reliable home internet access, I will find a way to work around this, but it is very important that I know how many students are in this situation before we leave for the summer. By June 15 th, 016: Send me an at hfitzmaurice@gmail.com, so that I have your address. I will be sending out a brief survey via about the previous experiences, learning preferences, interests, and resources available to students in the class. Before you send me the , read through this packet in its entirety, and let me know that you have done so in the . Feel free to introduce yourself and ask me any questions you might have about the summer homework or the course in general. By July 6 th, 015: There are a few things that you will need over the course of the summer. Check your during the week of July 6 th for: A google-form survey. It should take you less than 15 minutes to complete, but will help me in my planning. Video lessons. All of the summer homework assigned is based either on review material or material found in the first two chapters of your textbook, some students struggle to learn from textbooks alone. I will be providing video lessons to help you with the topics in parts II, III, and IV of the summer homework. Your socratic dialogue partner and his or her . By August 19 th, 016: Complete Parts I IV of the summer homework. All summer homework is due on the first day of class, will be graded, and will count as your first test grade. Late summer homework will lose 10% per day that it is late. 1

2 First Week of School: We will spend a short time reviewing the concepts (including the lab!) covered in your summer homework. August 4 th, 015: You will be tested on the material covered in your summer homework (including the lab!). SUMMER HOMEWORK OVERVIEW In addition to the s that you must submit over the summer, there are five main parts to the AP Physics summer homework. Part I: Experimental Planning, Critical Thinking, and Communication Part II: Math Review Geometry Algebra Linear Graphs: Physical meaning of slopes and areas Part III: Giancoli Chapter 1 Introduction, Measurement, Estimation Part IV: Giancoli Chapter Describing Motion: Kinematics in One Dimension Part V: Argumentation

3 Part I: Experimental Planning, Execution, and Communication One of the main objectives of AP Physics 1 is that students develop in their ability to plan, execute, and communicate the results of scientific experiments. Some of you may already be comfortable with these skills, but many of you will find them challenging at first. This summer, you will complete your first laboratory experiment, as detailed below. Goal: The goal of this lab is for you to estimate as precisely as possible how long it would take a penny to sink to the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean. Materials: Penny Quarter String Whatever else you think you need (Don t go out and buy a lot of things! Use what you have lying around your home!) Procedure Requirements: Although as the year progresses our experiments will become more and more open-ended, our initial experiments may include some required procedural steps. In this experiment, you will be measuring the amount of time that it takes for a penny to sink to the bottom of different depths of water. In conducting your experiment, you must include at least 10 (you may choose to do more) different depths. However, the depths that you choose, the manner in which you measure those depths, the manner in which you obtain time measurements, and the mathematical techniques you use to obtain an estimate is up to you. Questions to Consider in Planning Your Experiment: 1. How will you measure time? What limitations are there on the precision of your time measurements? How could you overcome some of those limitations? (There are many ways to do this with very simple technology.). How will you measure the depth of the water? 3. How will you drop the penny? 4. What depths of water will you use and how will you retrieve your penny? 5. How will you use your measurements to make an estimate? How accurate or precise do you think that your estimate will be? 6. How many times will you measure the time it takes to sink at each depth? Data Table, Graphs, and Calculations: An important part of scientific communication is organizing your data into a manner in which it is easy to read. In this lab, I expect you to represent your data both in a table and in a scatterplot. You may you re your data either on graph paper or on a computer. These representations should also help you to use your data to extrapolate how long the penny will take to sink to the bottom of the ocean. 3

4 Depth of Water (m) Time to the bottom (s) Write-up: You will complete a full lab report. The parts of the lab report are detailed below. Purpose Students should clearly state the purpose of their experiment in 1-3 sentences. Students may not copy the purpose of the lab directly from the assignment sheet but must paraphrase the lab in their own words. Approach Students should summarize the approach that they take in 1-3 sentences. Procedure and Narration Students should explain what their group did step by step. This explanation should include both and explanation and a rationale behind any calculations. If you are repeating the same calculation several times, you may give an example calculation, rather than explaining the same thing 5 times. This section should be written in paragraph form, rather than as a list. Observations and Data Students should record general observations and summarize their data in a table or graph. All tables and graphs should be introduced with a sentence or two. This section should be 1- paragraphs in total. Analysis Discuss your results. Do they make sense? Where were there possibilities for experimental error. This section should be 1- paragraphs in total. Conclusions and Future Work Use your data to form a conclusion, related to the purpose of the lab. Explain how you could change your procedure to get better results if you had more time. This section should be 1- paragraphs in total. 4

5 Part II: Math Review (This part should take you about 3 hours.) In AP physics, we will be using Algebra, Geometry, and a little bit of Precalc on a daily basis. In order to refresh your memory in these subjects, I will be asking you to do a bit of math review over the summer. Although you could do all of this in one sitting, my suggestion is that you do one or two of these problems a day. (Each problem should take between 30 s and 5 minutes.) That way, you will keep the mathematical part of your brain awake throughout the summer. 1. Being able to manipulate formulae to solve for a variable is an extremely important skill in Physics. It is done to isolate a single variable to make problem solving easier. You will be accustomed to solving problems in this manner by the end of the course. The formulae below are a few of the ones we will be using during the course. Your task is to manipulate the variables algebraically and solve for the variable indicated. o o, a. v v a x x a 1 b. K mv,m = q1q c. F K,q 1 r 5

6 d. F G m m 1 g, r r 0 I e. B r f. x ml m, d d g. pv nrt, T h. rf sin,sin. The geometry skills necessary in Physics involve being able to calculate angles, find lengths of lines, and understand basic geometric terms. Solve the following geometric problems using the figures provided. A B C Figure Figure Figure a. In figure A, line B touches the circle at a single point. Line A extends through the center of the circle. i. What term can be used to describe line B in reference to the circle? 6

7 ii. How large is the angle between lines A and B? iii. If the radius of the circle is 5.5 cm, what is the circumference in meters? iv. If the radius of the circle is 5.5 cm, what is the area in square meters? b. In figure B, what is the measure of angle C? c. In figure C, what is the measure of angle? y θ 40 o x d. The diagram above shows an object sitting on a ramp. A coordinate axis has been included for reference and is tilted along the x-axis. The diagram is not drawn to scale. This is a common diagram in Physics when dealing with objects on sloped surfaces. How large is angle? e. One of the first concepts we will be dealing with involves using graphs to describe the motion of objects. One aspect of these graphs that you will become accustomed to hearing is referred to as the area under the curve. This refers to the area of the geometric shape created by the graph. Using this graph, calculate the following: i. What is the area under the curve? A 4 ii. What is the slope of section A? B 1 0 7

8 iii. What is the slope of section B? 3. Using the generic triangle to the right, Right Triangle Trigonometry and Pythagorean Theorem solve the following. Your calculator must be in degree mode. a. = 55 o and c = 3 m, solve for a and b. b. = 45 o and a = 15 m/s, solve for b & c. c. b = 17.8 m and = 65 o, solve for a & c. 4. Graphing For each of the sets of data below, a. Graph the data points on the grid below. (Make sure you include a title, scale, and units!) b. Draw a line of best fit for those data points. c. Calculate the slope, area under the curve, and intercept of the line of best fit. Data Set 1: (Graph Weight vs. Length) to plot a graph of weight versus length on the axes below. Sketch a best-fit straight line through 8

9 d. Use your graph to calculate the experimental value of g. Slope: Area: Intercept: Data Set : (Graph m vs. P) and r = 0.80 m. The data, which are presented below, can be used to compute an experimental value for g. m (kg) P (s) What quantities should be graphed to yield a straight line with a slope that could be used to determine g? On the grid below, plot the quantities determined in part (b), label the axes, and draw the best-fit line to the data. You may use the blank rows above to record any values you may need to calculate. d. Use your graph to calculate the experimental value of g. 9

10 Slope: Area: Intercept: 10

11 Parts III & IV: Chapters 1 & in GIANCOLI Reading a Physics Textbook: Listening to recordings won t teach you to play piano (though it can help), and reading a textbook won t teach you physics (though it can help)... I urge you to read with a pencil (not a highlighter). ~D.V. Schroeder Parts III and IV consist of reading (some of) the first two chapters in your textbook and doing problems from each chapter. I suggest reading each section on a different day and treating it as one night s worth of homework, rather than trying to cram several sections into one day. Going through the sections in this way allows your brain a little bit of time to process. Although I will not require that you take notes in any particular way, I do require that you take notes when you read and your notes will be collected as part of the summer homework. I have provided an example of the quality of notes that I expect. Read the section before trying to do any of the problems and then go back to the text as necessary when you are doing the problems. Finally, do not try to read the textbook as quickly as you would read an English or History Textbook! Read the text slowly and make sure that you understand what you are reading. Writing Problems Up Nicely : In most college science classes, you will be required to turn in problem sets on a weekly basis, rather than having nightly homework. In these classes, you will be required to write your problem sets up in very particular ways. Furthermore, AP graders (and I) will assign more partial credit for answers that are understandable and that clearly demonstrate an understanding of the problem. For your summer homework and for the formal problem sets that you do in my class, I will require that you write problems up nicely, and 10% of your score on those problem sets will consist of style points. Nicely written problems must include: A rephrasing of the problem statement in your own words. An explanation for any steps that are not basic algebra. Complete sentences. An example of a nicely written problem can be found after my example of notes. Example Videos: Example Videos and Video lessons will be sent out on July 6 th, 014. These are not mandatory, but last year I found that many students had trouble learning just from the book. Please note that these videos are not a replacement for reading and taking notes from the book. Instead, use them as an extra resource if you are having trouble with the assigned problems after you have tried to learn from the book. Part III Sections: (This should take you roughly 5 hours.) Read the following sections and do the problems listed below. 11

12 Section 1 4: Measurement and Uncertainty; Significant Figures 1,, 3, 5, 7, 9 Section 1 5: Units, Standards and the SI System Section 1 6: Converting Units 1, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 1, 3 Section 1 7: Order of Magnitude: Rapid Estimating 4, 5, 7, 8 Section 1 8: Dimensions and Dimensional Analysis 3 Part IV Sections: (This should take you roughly 5-7 hours.) Read the following sections and do the problems listed below. Section 1: Reference Frames and Displacement Section : Average Velocity Section 3: Instantaneous Velocity 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13 Section 4: Acceleration 16, 17, 19 Section 5: Motion at Constant Acceleration Section 6: Solving Problems 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 31 Part V: Argumentation Although much of this class will consist of solving problems that ultimately have a correct answer, it is important to remember that in practice, science is the pursuit of open ended questions and puzzles. There are no correct steps to most of science. Scientists have to guess and fumble their way to the answers that they are looking for, using their intuition. Often, they don t take the most efficient route to their findings and at the cutting edge (and further back from the cutting edge than you might expect), there are no definite right answers. Discoveries are challenged, scrutinized, and argued for and against, and through iterations of struggle, better and better ideas are developed. Throughout the year, you will experience this in the context of labs, debates, challenge questions, and essays. Always keep in mind that even if an idea or argument is partially incorrect, there is probably something valuable in that idea or argument. It is probable that many of the misconceptions that you will hold over the course of the year were once held to be correct by the scientific community as a whole. To get you used to the idea of fumbling around for an answer, making and defending an arguments, and presenting counter-arguments to differing opinions, you will engage one of your classmates in a Socratic Dialogue. The goal of this exercise is for you to practice your debate, not for you to come to the correct answer. For each of the prompts below, you will be engaged with another student from the class. 1

13 Procedure (for each question): 1. The first person to send the other the gets to choose his or her own answer. In the first , the writer will indicate his or her choice and explain the reasoning behind their choice.. The second person will respond with an alternate choice, will defend that choice, and a pose a question or challenge to the first person. 3. The first person will respond to the question or challenge and pose a counter question or challenge. 4. Repeat step 3 until each person has sent 3 s. Prompt 1: Dropping a Cow from an Airplane An airplane is flying along at high speed. At some point in time the airplane drops a cow out of the doors. The picture on the right shows several possible trajectory s of the cow. Explain which path the cow will take as it falls to the ground and why you think this is the case. Prompt : The Slide Your little cousin is playing on the playground. He wants to pick the slide that will allow him to have the greatest speed by the time he gets to the bottom. Assuming that there is no friction between your cousin and the slide, which of the slides shown below should he pick? Feel free to me if you have any questions about the homework or the course. Have a great summer! - Ms. Fitzmaurice 13

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