Class Preparation - Read KNT:   General Discussion:

• Initial group assignments (see room map) and group contracts
• Group roles for Whiteboards
  

  Activities:

• Mini-lecture on Concepts of Motion
• Which Way (whiteboard activity)
• Can you move? (whiteboard activity)
• Running Rabbit (whiteboard activity)
• Analyzing Motion using Diagrams
• Graphing Practice (if time permits)

  Due today at 11:59 PM:
    XPTA: Introduction to ExpertTA

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  General Discussion:

• Updated group assignments (see room map) and group contracts
• Group roles for Labs
• Mini-lecture: Formulae for constant acceleration motion (one dimension)

  Lab:

• How do you roll (inclined plane) lab
  (write up due at the beginning of class Friday)
• Grading Rubric for this lab

  Activities: (as time permits)

• Whiteboard: Moving Train Problem
• Group problem-solving strategies applied to Quarter mile time

  Due today at the beginning of class:  
    Velocity vs. time worksheet

  Activities: (as time permits)

• Selected problems from the
  Significant Figures worksheet
• Simultaneous splat
  
• Help with your homework
  
  
• Quiz 2:
  Concepts of Motion and 1D-Kinematics

  Due today at 10:10 AM: 
    XPTA: Homework - Week 2

    Significant Figures worksheet

  Activities:

• Full motion diagrams applied to Down the track
• Ball launcher: predict/observe/explain

  Lab:

• Two Dimensional Motion lab
• Grading Rubric for this lab

  Due today at the beginning of class:  
    How do you roll lab write up

  Activities:

• Mini-lecture: Formulae for constant acceleration motion (one dimension)
• Group contracts returned
• Use a Pictorial Model
• Rollerball
• Use the Strategic Problem-Solving Approach and a pictorial model:
  
• Bob and a ball
• Turn, turn, turn
• Roller ball
• Simultaneous Splat
• Where's the Storm?


• Whiteboard activity: Adding Vectors

  Due today at the beginning of class:

• Two Dimensional Motion lab

  Activities: (as time permits)

• Mini-lecture on vectors
• "Whiteboard" activities
  
• Vector Components
• Vector Aerobics
• Help with your homework
  
  
• Quiz 3: 2D motion with constant acceleration, and vectors

  Due today at 10:10 AM:
    XPTA: Homework - Week 3

  Activities:

• Selected problems from
  Projectile Motion worksheet
  (due Friday 09/20)

  Lab:

• Hover Disc Activity
  
• Newton's Second Law
• Grading Rubric for this lab

  Activities:

• Brainstorm on the description of
  Motion in a Circle.
• Mini-lecture on Circular Motion
• Whiteboard activities:
• Ball to cliff
• Going in Circles
• Pebble in tire
• Ceiling fan
  
• Brainstorm on types of forces.
• Selected problems from
  Forces and free-body diagrams worksheet
  (due Monday 09/23)

  Due today in class:  

• Newton's Second Law lab write up

  Activities: (as time permits)

• Mini-lecture on Newton's laws and
  free-body diagrams.
• Gravitational force and coordinate systems
• Selected problems from Forces worksheet (due Wednesday 09/25)
• Time to work on worksheets, homework
  
  
• Quiz 4: Kinematics of projectile motion and uniform circular motion, simple force problems

  Due today at 10:10 AM:
    XPTA: Homework - Week 4
    Projectile Motion worksheet

  Lab:

• Slip me some skin (Friction Lab)
• Grading Rubric for this lab

  Due today (during class):
    Forces and free-body diagrams worksheet

  Activities:

• Mini-lecture on equilibrium and dynamics problem-solving strategy
• Whiteboard activities:
• Tension, tension
• Moving block
  
• Mini-lecture on friction
• Whiteboard activities:
• Penguin in a box
  

  Due today at the beginning of class:  

• Slip me some skin lab write up

  Activities: (as time permits)

• Parking on a hill
• Time to work on homework
  
  
• Quiz 5: Equilibrium problems (forces balance), including friction

  Due today at 10:10 AM:
    XPTA: Homework - Week 5
    Forces worksheet

  General Discussion:

• Updated group assignments (see room map)

  Activities:

• Whiteboard activities:
• Forces and Blocks I
  
• Forces and Blocks II
  
• Mini-lecture on two-body-problem solving strategy based on Steve saves the day
• Whiteboard activities:
• Sammy the skier
• Forces haul the crate

  Due today at the beginning of class:  

  Activities:

• Mini-lecture on weight, apparent weight, and terminal velocity
• Whiteboard activities:
• Parking on a hill
• Scales and elevators
  

  Lab:

• Newton's Third Law lab
• Grading rubric for this lab

  Activities: (as time permits)

• Half Atwood machine with friction
• Block and string


• Quiz 6: Dynamics (forces may not balance) problems, including simple two-body problems

  Due today at 10:10 AM:
    XPTA: Homework - Week 6
    Newton's Third Law lab write up

  Lab:

• Crash, Boom, Bang (momentum)
• Grading Rubric for this lab

  Activities:

• Mini-lecture on dynamics of uniform circular motion
• Whiteboard activities:
• Conical pendulum
• Roller coaster & circular motion
• Demo: Water in an upside-down bucket over your professor's head
• Whiteboard activities:
• Looping the loop
• Bug on a CD
• Dead man's curve

  Due today at the beginning of class:  

• Crash, Boom, Bang (momentum) lab write up

  Activities: (as time permits)

• Quiz 7:
  Dynamics of circular motion

  Due today at 10:10 AM:
    XPTA: Homework - Week 7

  Activities:

• Mini-lecture on momentum and impulse
• Momentum and impulse worksheet 1,
  Questions 1-6, and 8
• Whiteboard activities:
• Shut the door
• Momentum-bounce
• Momentum and impulse worksheet 3,
  Questions 1, 3, 7, 8

  Mid-Term Exam

  Midterm exam notes

  on what you are expected to know for the
  exam, including the equations you will be
  given, plus some sample essay questions.

  Activities: (as time pemits)


  Due today at 10:10 AM:

  General Discussion:

• Updated group assignments (see room map)

  Lab:

• NRG (energy)
• Grading rubric for this lab

  Due today (during class):

  Whiteboard Activities:
  

• Mini-lecture on potential energy and conservative forces
• Energy bar charts and energy transformations
• Ballistic pendulum
• Elastic potential energy
• Spring problems: 1, and 2
• Spring problems: 3, and 4


• If time permits, whiteboard activities on Work & Kinetic Energy problems:
• Stop the car
• Block and Graph
• Lifting the ball

  Due today at the beginning of class:  

• NRG (energy) lab write up

  Lab:

• Work - Kinetic Energy
• Grading rubric for this lab

  Due today (during class):

  Whiteboard Activities:

• Mini-lecture on work and potential energy
• Work & Kinetic Energy Problems:
• Work, Gravity, and Friction
• Stop the car
• Block and Graph
• Lifting the ball
• Ice and Wood

    Definition of Power

• Whiteboard activities:
• Design the Crane

  Due today at the beginning of class:  

• Work - Kinetic Energy lab write up

  Activities: (as time permits)

• Quiz 8:
  Energy and Momentum

  Due today at 10:10 AM:
    XPTA: Homework - Week 10

  Lab:

• Rolling, rumbling, racing (rotational motion) lab
• Grading rubric for this lab

  Activities:

• Mini-lecture on rotational kinematics and dynamics; see rotational motion equations.
• Skater and pole
• Mini-lecture on cross products
• Whiteboard activities:
• Cross product aerobics
• Torques on a balance beam
• DIY on a ladder

  Due today at the beginning of class:  

• Rolling, rumbling, racing (rotational motion) lab write up

  Activities: (as time permits)

• Mini-lecture on angular momentum
• predict, observe, explain:
  conservation of angular momentum
  in an inelastic collision
• Time to work on homework


• Quiz 9: Rotational Dynamics

  Due today at 10:10 AM:
    XPTA: Homework - Week 11

  Activities:

• Mini-lecture on Gravitation


• Whiteboard activities:
• Escape Velocity Simulation
• Falling shuttle


• Bug on a CD
• Boy on a merry-go-round
• predict, observe, explain:
  Conservation of angular momentum
• Inelastic collision
• Angular momentum stool
• Bicycle Wheel Gyroscope

  Activities: (as time permits)

• Quiz 10:
  Gravitation and Orbital Motion

  Due today at 10:10 AM:
    XPTA: Homework - Week 12

  Lab:

• Thermodynamics: Specific Heat
  

  Due today at the beginning of class:  

  Activities:

• Mini-lecture on Thermodynamics


• Fun with a helium balloon
• Cycle in a heat engine
• A cyclic process

  Due today at the beginning of class:  

• Specific Heat lab write-up

  Activities: (as time permits)

• Quiz 11: Thermodynamics

  Due today at 10:10 AM:
    XPTA: Homework - Week 13

  Lab(s):

• Oscillations lab
• Grading rubric for this lab

• Pendulum lab

  Activities:

• Whiteboard activities:
• Oscillatory Functions and Phasors
• Cart on a Track

  Activities:

• Semester Review


• Post-Course Diagnostics

  Activities: (as time permits)

• Time to work on homework


• Quiz 12: 1D Kinematics

  Due today at 10:10 AM:
    XPTA: Homework - Week 14