Neatscience.com Physics Page

Physics Page

for

School Year 2009-2010

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Classwork, Homework, and Tests
Online Textbook (your username is PP&P and password was issued in class)
Lon-Capa (your username and password will be issued in class)
Syllabus
State of Michigan Physics Expectations (.pdf) - scroll down to Physics
Graph Paper available online - any size you choose
Recomendation Request Form

Policy for Late Work (under construction)

I will be giving all students two Tiger Passes which will allow students to turn in an assignment late without penalty for up to five days. If the passes are not used then they can be turned in for extra credit at the end of the quarter.
Details are below:

Assignment Due-Date Policy

1. Assignments are due the next day--unless stated otherwise.

2. Late work is accepted only for the following reasons:

Excused absence on the day of the assignment or on the due-date extends the due-date by one day.
Tiger Passes that are filled out and turned in with the late assignment extend the due-date up to five school days for 100% of the earned grade.
Unused Tiger Passes are worth 2 points each at the end of the quarter.
Tiger Passes may be used in combination with an excused absence.

If you do not get a progress report, it is priobably because the email address that I have on record through the office is out of date. Please send me your current email address to keithd@gowcs.net

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.

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