World’s Easiest DIY Electric Train

Definitely want to try this next year!

Open House

Great to meet so many parents!  If you couldn't join us today, sorry we missed you.  Linked below is a quick survey about our student, the Prezi I presented, and my website.
I look forward to a great year!

Take care,
Jon Jasinski

SURVEY
tinyurl.com/Jcentral
Open House Handout

Graphing Quiz Friday

QUIZ FRIDAY!!

For both position vs. time graphs and velocity vs. time graphs, be able to...
- Identify what the slope represents on position and velocity time graphs
- Identify what the area under a velocity vs. time graph represents
- Go back and forth between descriptions of motion and a generalized graph
- Use a motion graph to calculate displacement, velocity, and acceleration

Lessons 3 & 4 on PhysicsClassroom.com are great resource, especially the MOP quizzes located on that site. This quiz will be very similar.

Google Classroom & Student Info Survey

Welcome to Intro Physics!

Looking forward to an exciting year!  We'll talk about more details soon, but first, let's get down to business.  You have two homework assignments tonight, due Thursday morning, September 3rd, 8:00 am:

1.  Join the Google Classroom

• classroom.google.com
• Log in with @student.medwayschools.org google account (not your personal one)
• Click + in top right corner
• Enter class code: jfulki

2.  Student Info Survey

Please spend a few minutes filling out this student info survey (also found on the classroom). You must log in with your @medwayschools.org account (if you haven't already).  Keep an eye on the assignment due date and time. This is due Thursday morning, September 3rd, 8:00 am. Each entry is time-stamped; 8:01 am will be late and 1/2 credit.  Email me if you have difficulties with your @medwayschools.org account. If you need access to a computer, use the library or my room during study hall, before school, or after school.

Six Flags Field Trip

Calling all field trip slips and $$$!

Tomorrow is the day!

Turn in your field trip slips and $$$.  The first class to have everything turned in will be the first class released to the park when we get there.

HW: Read 8.1-8.6 & RQ 1-13

Monday's HW for D & F
Tuesday's HW for E

Read Chapter 8, sections 1-6
Complete review questions 1-13

You can post these on the classroom (as a doc or image of notebook) or turn in a hard copy.

Egg Drop Project

Who is the egg?  Did it jump?  Was it pushed?  How will it survive the fall?

The next two weeks will find us answering these questions and more as we delve into the 

EGG DROP PROJECT

In groups of 3-4, students will design and construct a device in class to allow an egg to survive a fall from approximately 3 stories.  Speaking of stories, students will also collaboratively write an original creative story telling the tale of the egg's epic journey.

CLICK HERE for details, constraints, criteria, guidelines, etc.

Midterm Grades Posted

Midterm grades are now posted on the portal.

I'm working to finalize the quarter grades, and will let you know when they are done.

Happy Holidays!

Wishing everyone a happy holiday!
Enjoy the break, rest up, and I'll see you next year!

Work over break

• Test Reflections will be due the Thursday we get back, 1-8.
• The Gravity Investigation Lab is due Monday, 1-5, end of day if you haven't already finished.  We'll be moving on in class, so time will be limited.  Plan accordingly.

Minefield Challenge

Check out what's going on in Principles of Engineering...

E & F Test grades posted

After what is probably the fastest test grading session I've ever had, E & F period test grades are posted.  Same day!  Woot!  It helps when you do well.  :)

D and E periods finished

Grades for D and E periods have been updated on the portal except for the most recent Ramp lab.

MOP Quizzes and F period grades done

All the MOP quizzes have been entered.  If you're still finishing the last few, get them in before we take the test, and don't forget to click TURN IN at the top of the page.  I'll update the MOP Quiz assessment grade when you do.

Also, F period grades are finished except for the most recent Ramp Lab.  Working on the E and D now.

grading grading grading....more grading

Grading grading grading...
Weekend marathon grading session starts now!  I got a lot done this week, but I still have more to do. The most recent labs are still in progress, and I'll start checking through and updating the MOP quizzes now that they should be finished.  (If you're not done MOPing, keep working and let me know if you get stuck).  I'll post on the blog again when everything is caught up (however fleeting that may be).

Newton's Laws Test Tuesday & Wednesday
Heads up:  Test coming Tuesday for EF and Wednesday for D periods.
Newton's Laws: Chapters 4, 5, and 6  (skip section 5.5 Pressure)

Since we did so much work on the MOPs, I assigned very little book work, but that's a great way to study.  Review questions at the back of each chapter is a great way to study concepts.  Plug 'n' Chugs and Think 'n' Solves are a great way to practice problem solving.

Have a great weekend!

Vocab Quiz, the Portal, and MOP

Vocab quiz Wednesday (tomorrow)

,,,for all periods.  We're looking at key terms from chapters 4 and 5, but we're not covering pressure and pascals.  

CLICK BELOW for...

  - List of key terms to be familiar with

  - Pics of vocab posters made by D and E

We'll wait on chapter 6 until we've had a chance to talk about Newton's 3rd law.

Don't check your average.  Check your assignments.

Its that time of the quarter again, progress reports are coming up Friday.  I'm going to ask you to do something slightly counter-intuitive

Don't check your average.

At least, not yet.  Definitely look at the assignments and make sure nothing is missing, but wait to check the average until Friday.  I say that because I'm still grading the labs we did recently and catching up with all of the MOP quizzes you've completed.  Last weekend I put in all the assignments that were missing so you would know right away, but there are several more that I need to grade.  This causes the average to do funky things until everything is graded.  Friday will be a much better reflection of where you stand.  We'll have a few labs and a quiz or two posted by then.  In the meantime, make sure you're not missing anything.  If you are, check the google classroom, then check with me.  If you've updated something since last weekend, feel free to send me an email and let me know.  I like having reminders of when things get updated (a lot of the forms we use don't automatically send notifications).

A quick key for looking at your assignments:
MIS - the assignment is missing as of last weekend and counts as a zero until turned in.
No Grd - the assignment has not been graded yet and does not count toward or against your grade yet.

MOP Quizzes

MOP quizzes NL1-9, and 12 should be completed by this Friday, 12-12.  Put the gold success codes in the document you started on google classroom.  Click TURN IN when you've finished all ten.
Kudos to those of you who are already finished!

If you need access to a computer that plays nice with Adobe Shockwave, my room is available before and after school.  You could even come in during other periods if we're not using them, just ask.

Trouble pasting graphs?

If you're having trouble copying and pasting the graphs you made in google spreadsheets into the document, you're not alone.  Its a little finicky.

Two things you can try:

Web Clipboard  

• Select the graph
• Ctrl+C to copy
• Paste using the Edit --> web clipboard instead of Ctrl+V

Screenshot

• Start menu --> snipping tool
• Click and drag over the area you want
• Copy and paste that image of the graph into the doc.

Analyzing Lab Data & Practice Problems

All periods:
NL2 Practice Problems 1-4 due Tuesday, 12-2

• CLICK HERE for a video explaining #1 (which we did in class)
• Write out your work in your notebook.  
• Check your answers on Its Learning --> N2: Force and Acceleration --> NL2 Practice Problems
• Every problem has the same approach:
1. FBD: Free-Body force Diagram
2. Fnet: find the net force, or at least set up an equation for it
3. Fnet = ma:  apply Newton's 2nd law to solve for whatever you need. 

Force, Mass, & Acceleration Lab due Wednesday, 12-3
Finish analyzing the data for the lab individually.  Your group will have the same data, but you will analyze and turn in your own copy.  Follow the instructions posted on Google Classroom.
Turn in your lab by Wednesday night, 11:59pm.

MOP quiz help

MOP Quizzes
Tonight we'd like to be finished with 4 of the MOP quizzes: 1, 2, 3, and 6.  That said, if you keep getting stuck, take the time, go back and re-learn some of the material.  Don't keep spinning you wheels!  I'm not going to count it late, just don't let them all pile up before the test (mid-December).
Some things that might help:

• Use 9.8 m/s/s instead of 10 on NL6 mass vs. weight
• Tutorials on PhysicsClassroom.com
• YouTube Playlist: Newton's Laws
• Chapter 4 in our textbook
• Balanced/Unbalanced worksheet, the key is posted on google classroom
• Try it with a friend!  Get help from other people!  Facetime is a thing, so is skype, so is google hangouts, so is actually hanging out.  Throw a MOP party.  (Make that a thing. That would be awesome.)  

The point is, you don't have to struggle with this in isolation!  Learning takes time, it takes trial and error, its messy, but rewarding in the end.  Learn it, try it, fix it, learn it, try it, fix it, repeat!
You can do this!

Technical Difficulties?
Your browser may ask for permission to run Adobe Shockwave and that's okay, or it may say you need to update it.  If it asks, you can "allow" or "run this time" etc.  Click the link above if you'd like to make sure you have the latest version.  You are always welcome to use the computers in my room before or after school, or during study if you need to.

Balanced & Unbalanced Forces

All classes:

1. Balanced & Unbalanced forces worksheet - (if you didn't finish in class)
2. Lab Analysis Form - the first version had a few issues with it, so please take this one again.
• D period
• E period
• F period
3. Ch 4 Plug 'n' Chugs 21-25 - on Its Learning --> N1 Inertia --> Assignments
• 3 chances to get it right, so fix it and take it again!
• It grades and gives you feedback automatically, but it is sensitive
• If you answer is less than one, put a zero in front of the decimal ( 0.6 kg )
• Put a space between the number and the unit  (350 N)
• use 10 m/s/s as the acceleration due to gravity

I'll start saving and posting notes HERE, which is linked from the About section of the classroom and the links page on the blog (coming soon).

HW: Mass & Weight Lab Analysis

E period
Complete the lab analysis Qs in this form.<-- E period only
We'll finish working with the data on Monday.  Make sure you and your partner have shred it.

D & F periods
Lab analysis form <-- use this link if you're in D or F periods

HW - Lab Analysis Form

D & F periods
Complete the FORM LOCATED HERE
Graph your data by hand (if you haven't already) and estimate the slope of the line.