APPhysics

AP Physics B - Williamston HS
2008-2009

Syllabus

Textbook - Physics: Principles with Applications Giancoli 5th Ed.
You will be given a copy to take home and leave it there. There will be copies available in the classroom for use during class and on a limited checkout inside the school if needed for study groups.

Support website for this book is located here. You can find my information by looking for the course by my last name or by school name. You should make a profile for yourself since I can assign work from this site and it will be emailed to me from there.

LON-CAPA - We will be using Lon-Capa during this class and much of your homework will be done through this system. However, I expect you to have a hardcopy of your work to bring to class if needed for discussion.

Homework

Extra Credit

5 or 10 points added to the total number of points in a grading period. It is like adding 5 or 10 points to a test that has normal weighting. For example, if you made 15 points on a 28 point test you could bring it up to 25 points. Extra credit is designed to help students who have all of their work turned in and is usually pretty demanding and time consuming. Consider how few points you will get when you commit to doing extra credit.

All extra credit must be approved by me before starting the work. I will tell you up front what the likely number of points will be. The intention is that the student will learn more about some aspect of Physics while helping other students to understand as well. Extra credit work will almost always be something that gets constructed for classroom use or display.

Limit of two extra credit projects per year and only one for any nine week period.

Examples:

Gauss Rifle,
Static Electricity Motor,
Human powered generator with "Power Produced" display,

Links to external sites

Virtual TI-83Plus Calculator to keep on your computer (nice!) Note: you will need to have the ROM code from your own TI-83Plus calculator to enable this program. Press 2nd, Mem, 1 to get it.

Quadratic Solver Works well and resides on your computer

The Physics Classroom Physics Tutorials

http://www.school-for-champions.com/science.htm A good site for help in physics

http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/

http://www.sonicspot.com/wavetools/wavetools.html

Talking Tapes

Science Toys you can make

Inventor's Handbook

The Secret Life of Machines Homepage

Invisible Inks

Bad Movie Physics

How everyday things are made