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Physics Page

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Williamston High School

School Year 2011-2012

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Classwork, Homework, and Tests
Online Textbook (your username is PP&P and password was issued in class)
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The link for other online resources to go with your textbook is here
Help for understanding physics
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
https://www3.gowcs.net/netstorage/ access your H: drive files from home
Quadratic Equation Solver (online)

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you do not get a progress report, it is probably because the email address that I have on record through the office is out of date.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

There is now a form required that has a section that has to have a description and diagram of the work to be done and that needs to be signed by me before starting. When turned in, the form requires the student to submit a scientific explanation to go along with the verbal explanation. The written report will not be "read aloud" but will be turned in before the demonstration.

Limit of two extra credit projects per year and only one for any semester.

Below are sites where you can find some ideas. They are not affiliated with me or my course and most of what you find on them will not be valid for extra credit but there are worthy ideas among the ones that are not useful.

Toys made from junk (in India)

Huge Site with lots of links where you can build cool stuff for science

http://www.sciencetoymaker.org/

Links to external sites

WiiMote Sites

Multi touch Youtube video

Files you will need:

SmoothBoard can be found here
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Help for understanding Physics

Fear of Physics

The Physics Classroom Physics Tutorials

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

Speed of Sound Calculator

Physics and Math Applets - many!

The Physics Hypertextbook

Physics 1501 (college intro website)

Online Physics Videos for instruction

Mr. Wayne's Class

Mr. Wayne's Class's Physics Teacher's Resource Pages

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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.

Exploratorium Phenomenon Index

Physics 2000

Electronics Tutorials at www.electronics-tutorials.ws

Links to The Physics Factbook

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