Physics Page

for

Williamston High School

School Year 2009-2010

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Final Exams have been graded and entered.  I gave everyone 2 points to their final test grade as a curve.  It was out of 34.


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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:



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you do not get a progress report, it is priobably because the email address that I have on record through the office is out of date.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

WiiMote Sites

Multi touch Youtube video

Files you will need:

SmoothBoard can be found here
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Physics and Math Applets - many!

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 Grand Illusion This is a great site with lots of stuff to do and also stuff to buy.

The Physics Classroom  Physics Tutorials     

Electronics Tutorials at www.electronics-tutorials.ws

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

Earth Science Links

Edible Science

http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/index.html

http://www.martindalecenter.com/      This is the reference site for just about EVERYTHING

Bad Science

Rube Goldberg

Ripcord's Trebuchet Stuff

Trebuchet Challenge Game

Science Toys you can make

Audio and 3-D Sound

Electromagnets

Gauss Rifle

Home-made Van De Graff

Electrical?

Pop Pop Boats

Slide Rules

Physics.org

CustomInk.com - Great place to design custom T-shirts

Science Supplies and Cool Toys to Buy

Archie McFee - Strange Toys and gags

Educational Innovations - A great science and science toy source

Arbor Scientific - one of my favorite science supply sites

Edmund Scientifics - a great,older company with lots of optics and new lines of stuff



I have not purchased from these sellers but they look interesting.

Smoke Ring "Mighty Blaster"

Explore4fun  Science Toy catalog

Geek Toys - for home and office

Electromagnetic Toys