Honors Physics was an eventful day as usual. We first turned in our section 4 lab and homework from the “Behavior of Simple Electric Circuit lab we had been working on for the past week. We then checked over our homework from last night, the Circuit worksheet, which covered Ohm’s law in relation to series and parallel circuits. The biggest problem was # 3 on the back on the 35-3 part. Mr. Ebersole told us that all the circuits had a resistance of 1 ohm. This is based on the fact that the 1 ohm and 1 ohm are in a series. In a series, you add the resistance together and we got 2 Ohms. Then he told us that the 2 ohms across created a parallel. So you needed to add (1/2) + (1/2) = (2/2) = 1 ohm. If you continue this process for any of the circuits, you will continue to get 1 ohm. As we finished up the homework, Mr. Ebersole realized that Mrs. Coats-Haan’s office was locked and the quizzes were in there. He decided that he would send Hunter down to the teacher’s longue to see if she was there. Just as Hunter was about to leave, Mrs. Coats-Haan walked in and opened the door. Mr. Ebersole passed out our quiz of section 3 and 4 of the lab and Ohm’s law. We had the rest of the class to finish the quiz. Once we turned the quiz in, we had to pick up “The Swinging Pendulum” paper which we’ll be going over Monday. Our only homework was to finish up anything we may need for the Windmill project. Tomorrow in class, we’ll spend the whole time testing our projects and Mrs. Coats-Haan shared with us a few details:
1. If you’re bringing in anything tomorrow morning, you need to take your backpack off before walking about around the area with the projects. Your backpack could ruin someone’s project and that would really suck for them.
2. Make sure you have uploaded your PowerPoint presentation to one of Mrs. Coats-Haan’s computer by 3rd period tomorrow. In order to upload into the right folder, you need to go to My Documents à 2012 Windmills à period 3 folder. If it’s not in the folder by 3rd period, the project will be counted as late. Make sure to give the PowerPoint a name aside from “My Windmill Project” so Mrs. Coats-Haan can easily identify the PowerPoint.
Stay Classy 3rd period!
QOD: What variables affect how long it takes for a pendulum to swing back and forth?
The variables would be the mass of the pendulum, the length of the swing, and the angle of the pendulum. (Not sure if this is right though)
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