SAM Animation and Notebook Organization

We used the short (50 minute) period to finish the SAM projects and organize notebooks.

Your notebook will be evaluated on the following:
Do you have the MAJORITY of the assignments from the semester?
Do you have your zipper pouch/physics materials (whiteboard pens, red pens, etc.)?
Are your papers filed behind the correct tabs?
Do you have the Circular Motion Homework Mini-Packet?

HW:  Study for Quest (answer key here); Finish Anticipation Guide (answer key here); Organize Notebook

Semester 1 Notebook Organization

Unit 1- Forces

Unit 1 Homework Packet

Newton's First Law Lab

Force-Mass Lab

Coefficient of Friction Lab

Unit 2- Constant Velocity

Unit 2 Homework Packet

Monster Truck Lab

Graphing Motion Lab #1

Graphing Motion Lab #2

Unit 3- Non-Constant Velocity

Unit 3 Homework Packet

Dynamics Cart Lab

Unit 4- Projectile Motion

Unit 4 Homework Packet

Bullseye Lab

SAM Animation Project

Unit 5- Circular Motion

Unit V Practice Problem

Unit V Worksheet 1

Unit V Worksheet 2

Frames of Reference

Circular Motion Lab

Field Trips and Physics Project

Exploratorium Assignment

SAM Animation Project Continued

We continued working on the SAM Animation project.  The following videos will be helpful in editing:

Reverse frame order

Duplicate frames

Moving and Lengthening the time a frame plays

Using the text tool

Copying the same text to multiple frames

If you figure out any other cool tricks using the SAM animation software, be sure to show me!

Here is the practice quest for the quest during finals week..  You will be able to come in during tutorial on Friday, during the short break on Monday, or any other time before or after school to review the answers.  You should also review the worksheets and the answers to the anticipation guide.  The quest is worth test points, but will be shorter than a regular test.

HW:  Correct WS 2; study for "Quest" on day of the Final

SAM Animation Project

I introduced the SAM Animation Project that is due on the day of the Final.  The project is worth a test grade and must show some aspect of projectile motion.  The movie below was created by the physics teachers (Mr. Hammack, Mrs. Peters, Mr. Nazari and Mr. Minyard).

By the end of the period students should have generated a problem to animate and completed the calculations required to correctly scale their animated movie.

Students can either complete the calculations by hand, or use Excel.  The movie below shows how to use Excel for the calculations.

Fictitious Forces

I checked and we whiteboarded WS 1.  We also discussed fictitious forces and discussed the centrifugal "effect" as the result of inertia, not a true force (a push/pull or long range force).

HW:  Worksheet 2

Circular Motion Lab

We finished the circular motion and explained the results using any or all of the following 3 statements:

•An object in circular motion is always acted on by a force directed toward the center of the circle.  This force is perpendicular to the direction of motion.

•If the force is removed, an object will travel in a straight line tangent to the circle due to inertia.

•Because there is a force acting toward the center of the circle, there is also an acceleration acting toward the center of the circle.

We also learned how to solve circular motion problems.

HW:  Finish WS 1; Finish analysis questions of lab