Last Date of Revision: July 2 2008
Exam date is July 30
This site will give a close approximation to the week's work and required homework for the week. The CYAN lettering refers to Internet sites to be used in class as part and parcel of the lesson.
July 3
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- Introduction to course material, expectations, assessment and evaluation techniques
- Review of math skills
- Review of note making and/or note taking skills
- Use of the Internet, of course you wouldn't be looking at this if you were not on.
Light & Geometric Optics
From the text Chapter 10
The following is a list of topiccs covered in grade nine & reviewed only.
- The nature & reflection of light
- Sources of light & what it is
- incandesecent
- fluorescent
- phosphorescent
- chemiluminescent
- Shadows, light rays & properties of light in transmission
- A look at the spectrum of fluorecent light, a mercury vapour lamp and a heat lamp to compare and contrast the produced light frequencies of each.
- Transparent, translucent, & opaque
- Reflection of light in a plane mirror ===> ray diagrams drawn
onthe board
- Properties on an image in a plane mirror, convex and concave mirror.
- Electromagnetic spectrum: page 313 text & page 315 Table 10.1
Homework
Please go to the homework site. Just click on the Leaf 
- A quick look at curved mirrors. Two types; convex and concave. Excellent appelets on the Internet (see below).
Terms to know: concave, convex, center of curvature, radius of curvature,
principle axis, focal point, and focal length.
Chapter 11. Refraction
Note on reflection and introduction to refraction, the bending of light as its speed changes from medium to medium.
Introduction to Refraction
Refraction labs using rectangular prisms and semicircular prisms.
Ray diagrams to be drawn using polar coordinate graph paper (semicircular prism only)
Lab investigation to show
- refraction from a less dense medium to a more dense medium
- refraction when light travels from a more dense medium to a less dense medium
- Lateral dispersion ===> a combination of the above two
Internal reflection. A lab activity to discover the critical angle for a glass of lucite material.
July 4
Test or quiz next week
Lateral dispersion
Lenses: Convex and concave
Drawing accurately ray diagrams for lenses.
Using an optical bench with lens, the relationship between object distance, image distance, and focal length is investigated.
magnification formulae: two of them
July 7
- Test this week, Wednesday
- Homework is reviewed.
- Working with lens equation.
- Move on to optical instruments and the eye.
- Optical instruments and the human eye
- Myopia and Hyperopia
- Nearpoint and far point and solving problems using corrective lenses
July 8
- Review homework
- Review on Tuesday, test on Wednesday,
Motion in Two Dimensions: Vector Analysis
which is Chapter 3 of the text book.
- Opening topics include
- Vectors & scalars
- Adding & subtracting vectors
- Working with Kinematic Equations (get yourself the formula sheet)
- Motion that is not in a straight line: parabolic motion
Motion that follws or obeys a quadratic equation
July 9
- Light test.
- Relative motion; example and practice problems
Forces & Motion Chapter 4
- Start of forces and Newton's three Laws.
Introduced by using the text book with the student making the note.
- Free body diagrams & Fnet
- resolving forces into its componenets.
- Forces acting on an object; adding forces to find net force acting on object
July 10
- Force, mass and acceleration; how they are related.
- experiment to show how force and acceleration are related.
- Chapter 5: Force of Gravity and Friction
Simple ideas but questions require practice.
July 11
- Small test on vectors and working with equations
- An experiment to compare the work required to lift an object to the work required to pull it up a ramp (page 166)
- Friction and the inclined plane
July 14
- Unit test on Tuesday
- Working with friction and resolving vectors find the force of maotion that actually moves the object.
July 15
- Unit Two Test
Energy Work & Power
- Introduction to energy and its different types
- The connection between work and energy; equations
- Power; the rate of doing work or using energy
- Kinetic and Potential energy
July 16
- Gravitational potential energy Ep = mgh
and KE = 1/2mv2
Law of conservation of energy
Practice using these equations
- Power: P = W/t
- Gravitional potential energy and the Law of Conservation of Energy
- Energy efficiency; a look at machines and the inclined plane & pulley
- Heat energy
July 17
July 18
- Test on Unit Three: Energy Work & Power
Electricity and Magnetism
- Chapter 16: review of basic current electicity laws
- Equivalent resistance calculations
- Kirchoffs Laws
- Ohm's Law
- Solving series, parallel and combination circiuts
- Power in a circuit
July 21
- Test of circuit analysis
- Introduction to magnetism (chapter 17)
- Domain theory
July 22
July 23
July 24
SOUND
- Test an magnetism and electomagnetism
- This unit is carried out in a tutorial fashion. All the notes exercises are on the Internet. There are seven moduals. Each modual is to be completed in sequence and the marked.
This unit is carried out in a somewhat independent fashion.
- Discussion will be carried out on several of the topics especially the Guitar Lab Activity
July 25
- Continuation of sound tutorial
July 28
- Resonance in strings and open closed tubes
July 29
- Sound Test
- Wrap up
- Exam review; be sure you are here so that I can give you multitudinous numbers of exam hints and answers.
Your exam is on July 30, start time 10:00
