Wish

If you could have one Christmas wish what would it be?

C.A

What is centripetal accleration? What could it be used for?

Ch6

What is one thing that you have learned from chapter 6?

Cars and snow

In the past two days you have, maybe, seen cars hitting other cars or running into an object. Such as a snow pile. What type of collision is it and why?

KE

Example how kinetic energy can be lost during a collision?

Football

What type of collision occurs when two football player hit each other?? Explain.

K.E. and Inelastic Collisions

Is kinetic energy conserved or not in an inelastic collision? Explain.

lab

What did you learn from the labs that you did today in class?

What

What makes your lab the best lab? Do you think that you could have improved on it in any way?

What happens

What happens to kinetic energy and momentum in a elastic collision??

Broken Eggs

Did your egg break or not explain your answer? What could you hve done to make your project work better?

Apparatus

What did you use to creat your egg drop apparatus?

Newton and momentum

Explain how Newton's third law leads to the conservation of momentum?

Collision

How does a seat belt help during a collision?

Egg

How would you prevent an egg for breaking if you dropped from say the teacher's workroom?

Mass

How does you momentum change as you mass changes?

Collisions

What is the difference between perfectly inelastic collisions and elastic collisions?

Momentum

What is conservation of momentum??

Momentum

What is momentum and how is it used in life?

Work vs Power

How does work relate to power?

Lab

What did you get out of lab today?

Lab

What did you learn from lab today??

Power and you

What is the importance of knowing power for out daily lives?

Power

What is power and how is it transferred??

ME

What is mechanical energy? Give an example

Lab

What did you learn from the lab today??

WKET

What is the work-kinetic energy theorem?? Give an example.

P.E

What are the different types of Potential Energy?

K.E.

What is kinetic energy? Give me an example.

Work

What is work??

Real Life

Give me an example of one of Newton's Laws of motion that you could experience in your life.

Force and weight

Knowing that force = mass * accleration, why is your weight change when you travel from one planet to the next??

Lab

What went on in lab today??? What did you get our of it?

Read

What is the inside story on driving and friction? Read the article on page 142 on you book and give me some feed back on they are talking about.

Static vs Kinetic

What is the difference between Static Friction and Kinetic Friction?

Lab

What did you do in lab today? What did you learn from lab today?

Lab

What did you do in the lab today? What did you learn from it?

Seat Belt.

How does a seat belt work and why is it so important to have one in our cars? Hint article is in your text book on page 128

First Law

What did you do for your vedio? How does it relate to the first law of motion?

Field Force

What was the field force that applied to the balloons that we used yesterday?

Weight

How is weight calculated? Why is it different from mass?

Newton

What was one fact that you learned about Newton yesterday that you didn't know already?

C.F

What is a contact force? Give an example.

Inertia

How does Newton's first law of motion relate to inertia?

Free

What is a free-body diagram used for?

Forces

What is a field force? page 121 of you text books

2nd

What is Newton's Second Law of Motion?

Newton

What is Newton's First Law of Motion, Chapter 4?

In common

What does 1 American and 2 Japanese men have in common when it comes to physics this morning?

Go to the address below to find out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/science/08nobel.html?hp

The Rock

A rock is dropped at the same instant that a ball at the same elevation is thrown horizontally. Which will have the greater speed when it reaches the ground level? Explain your answer.

What

What is Kinesiology?

Relative Velocity

What is relativd velocity? How does it relate to frames of reference?

Lab

What did we do in lab today? What is one thing that you learned from lab today?

Reference

What is a frame of reference? How is it used to measure velocity? Note: It is on page 102

Article

What did you learn from the article in class today?

Velocity

What was the velocity of your ball (either one)? What do you think could have been done to increase the velocity of the ball?

Today stuff

How does this lab relate to projectile motion?

Across the Gym

Can a ball really be slingshot across the gym into a bucket? How?

Theorum

Why do we use the pythagorean theorem with two dimensional motion?

Homecoming

What is something that you are looking forward to this week for homecoming?

Resultant

What is a resultant? Why is it important when dealing with vectors?

The hunt

After trying to find the other groups prize, how hard was it to find the other groups prize?

Vector vs. Scalar

What is the difference between a scalar and a vector?

Compare

What are some of the differences between one deminsional motion and two deminsional motion?

Pos. and Neg.

What the negative and positive directions in one demisional motion?

One Dimensional Motion

What is one dimensional motion?

Problems

Are we having problems with the math proplems? What is the problem that you are having?

Chapter 2

Is there any part about chapter 2 that you don't understand?

Lab

In the lab that you are doing today what is the purpose of change the slope of the ramp to change the momentum? What is the relationship?

Problems

Why is physics does the problem leave parts out? Why can't it give you all of the information to solve the problem?

Gravity

Explain to me why gravitity gives objects a negative accleration?

The weekend

Well we had our first three day weekend. So let me ask you if you would gather have four day weeks or five day weeks. Explain your answer.

Lab

What is the differences did you find in acceleration and velocity when you did you lab yesterday?

Accleration

Why is knowing the accleration of an object important? How can you apply it to your lives?

Issues

What are some of the issues and/or new developments have happened at the democratic convention?

Branches of Physics

Which of the different branches of physics do you think is the most important, Why?

Welcome Back

Well I hope that everyone had a great summer. I know that I did. Why don't we start they year off easy. Tell me something that you did this summmer.

William Henry Fox Talbot

Who is William Henry Fox Talbot?

Who is John Chipman

Who is John Chipman?

Next Year

What was you favorite project, chapter, or anything that we did in physics this year that you would like to see done with next years class?

Rockets

Does the type of rocket have any affect on how well the rocket flies? Explain.

Lamps Today

Why is your lamp the coolest out of the class? Did your vision for your lamp out or not?

Light Bulbs

How does a light bulb work? What is going on inside the light bulb?

Series vs Parallel

What is the different bewteen a series and a parallel ciruit?

Today's Class

How much weight to you think your bridges will hold or how much did they hold? What could have been done to improve their structures? How long do you think Kelli will stick to the wall or how long did Kelli stick to the wall?

Lamps

What type of lamp would you like to make? What materials are you going to use to make your lamp?

Resistors

What is a resistor and what are the differences between the two different types

Today

How did everything go today? Was it a good experience, should we do it again next year, tell me what you think.

Schematic Diagram

What is a schematic diagram? How is that used to explain electric systems?

How will you do?

How do you think that you are going to do at the Expo? Do you think you are going to place or not? Explain you answer.

Earth Day

Today is Earth Day! :) What are three things that you can do in our home to help save the Earth and to would help your parents save money?

Expo Projects

What have you learned about creating these projects for the expo? Is it easy or hard, explain.

Duct Tape

Did you know that where are more than one kind of duct tape? Do you think it matters what kind of duct tape that you use to tape someone to the wall? Explain you answer.

Who came up with this?

Look at the bridge structres that you picked out, I was wondering if you can tell me who was the orginal designer of them. And in what part of the country is it most common to find these bridges? Do you best to find the answer.

Human Wall Paper

How long do you think that Kelli will stick to the wall? Do you believe that you are going to make the time needed so that you don't have to take the end of the year exam? What is your statagy to taping that will keep Kelli on the wall?

Brain Function

Explain why it is important to come up with new bridge designs. Also why are we so worried about the structural intagerity of bridges that were made fifity years ago?

Procedure

Why is it important to have a plan to explain how to do things? Why can't we just wing it and see if it works?

Ultrasonic waves

How is Ultrasonic waves, which are sound waves used to produce images? Also where do we use this technology. Chapter 12

Earth Day

What do you feel that our school can do to help out the community of Warner on Earth Day? Do you feel that this one day of difference can help create change for the rest of the year?

Lab Yesterday

What are somethings that you learned from yesterday's lab?

Waves in our life

How do vibrations and waves used in your lives? Think of at least three ways that you use vibrations and waves everyday.

Hooke's Law

How is Hooke's Law applied within the cars that we drive?

Metronome

A mechanical metronome has a constant movement and can change from one meter to the next but how does this machine relate to vibrations?

Standing Waves

What are nodes and antinodes and how do they relate to standing waves?

Wave Displacement

What is the difference between constructive interference and destructive interference?

Wave Motion

Why is it important to know about wave motion and how a wave interacts with items, such as a bridge?

Bridges

I hope to see a model of a bridge when you get back. The type of bridges design did you use? How did you create them and did you but any weight on them to see if they would hold weight?

Projects

Which project are you working on? How is it going and how got taped to the wall?

Relationship

Who does Harmonic Motion relate to music, and how music is played.

New Chapter

After going through the material in the new chapter what is one thing that you are instrested in learning about and why.

Harmonic Motion

What is Hooke's Law and how does it relate to simple harmonic motion?

Entropy

What is entropy and how does it apply to the second law of thermodynamics?

Second Law of Thermodynamics

How does the second law of thermodynamics relate to the efficiency of heat engines?

Your Idea

Do you think that your idea to sell The First Law of Thermodynamics is the best, why?

Conservation

How does the first law of thermodynamics relate to energy conservation?

Thermodynamic Processes

Describe the three thermodynamic processes that are discussed in section one of this chapter. What are they, what role do they play, and why are they important?

Yesterday's Balloons

Describe what happened with the ballons that you had in lab yesterday? Why is it important to this chapter.

Heat and Work

Why when studying thermodynamics is it so important to understand the relationship between heat and work?

Engines

Describe how a internal-combustion engine works, and name one type of engine that fits this description.

Refrigerant

How does thermodynamics of a refrigerant work?

Thermodynamics

What is the first law of Thermodynamics and give an example of how this law can be used in the real world?

Judging

After judging all of those project last night what was the hardest part about it. Also what was the best project you saw.

Yesterday

What was the best project that you saw last night while you there judging, and why?

Judging

As science fair vets, what are some concerns you have about judging science fair?

Theme

I let my seniors pick the theme of the science fair every year so what do you think the theme should be for the WOW science projects. Explain your answer.

Yesterday

Yesterday you picked some fluid projects. Why do you like your project would be fun for little kids to to and what would they learn?

what would happen

What do you think will happen when you try to combine fluids with different temperature and differenct vicosities?

Fluid Motion

Out of all of the pictures that you have found describe which one is your favorite.

Friday

From the movie that we watched on Friday how do you believe the Titanic sunk.

Pascal's Principle

How does Pascal's Principle relate to fluid pressure?

Different Metals

Why do different metals for different mass densities?

Question

Why are we able to build huge ships the weigh hundreds of tons and they still float?

Driving suits

Why do you have to use a diving suit when you go into the oceans at a depth of 610m?

Making a boat

Today you are going to make a boat and hope that it floats. What was the hardest part about making a paper boat?

Gold

Why are we able to find the mass of gold by using water?

Pressure

How does Pascal's Principle relate to pressure?

Archimedes' Principle

What is Archimedes' Principle and what does it relate too?

Liquid or gas

Is a fluid a liquid or gas? How can a fluid be a gas?

Buoyant Force

How does buoyant force help to keep a boat floating?

Fluid

What defines a fluid?

After Today

Today you went to hear a speaker talk to you about Martin Luther King, one of the great men on our time. I want you to tell me about one African American Scientist that contributed in the area of Physics and what did he do?

Your Idea for a Simple Machine

If you could create a simple machine what would you can it and what would it be able to do?

Simple Machines

Given an example of one simple machine that makes you life easier and how?

Torque

What is torque and how is it used in simple machines?

Kepler's Laws

Why did Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion change the way that we look at Pluto?

Inside a black hole

What did you learn about black holes and what is inside of them?

Gravitational field strength

Why is the Gravitational field strength equal to the free-fall acceleration?

Newton

According to Newton's Law of Universal Graviation what is G?

Looped

Who has the coolest loop and why?

What about those loops?

Is your loop that you made in class going to work or is it going to fail? If you have already made your loop and tested it, tell me if it work or not and why.

Black holes spin near speed of light

By Jeremy Hsu, SPACE.com
Supermassive black holes spin at speeds approaching the speed of light, new research suggests.
Nine huge galaxies were found to contain furiously whirling black holes that pump out energetic jets of gas into the surrounding environment, according to a study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.



How do we really know that a black holes spins at the speed of light?

Ptolemy

What did Ptolemy do that was so great when it came to planetary motion?

Black Hole

What is really inside a black hole? In fact, what is a black hole?

Who is this?

Who the heck is Henry Cavendish and what did you do to get his name in a text book?

Newton and Gravity???

Newton not only stated his laws of motion but he also had a little something to do with stating a law about gravitation force. What is that law and what does it say?

Inertia

What is inertia and why is it related to circular motion?

Job's in momentum

What job did you find that realated to chapter 6?

Seat Belts

Every car that is made now contains a seat beat. Explain the purpose of the seat beat and why some are better then others.

Collision

Give an examples of a perfectly inelastic collision and describe how it differs from a elastic collision.

What is going on here?

Watch the first video and tell me what you think is happening here.