Current unit: Static Equilibrium
- Attendance
- Welcome to springtime
- Sunrise and sunset times in Vancouver – look at the slope
- Test and buoyancy lab returned tomorrow
- Next topics
- Tip/slip problems
- 2D dynamics/kinematics
- Circular motion
- Special relativity
- Electricity, magnetism, and electromagnetism
- The Scientific Method
- Watch first 2 videos
- Whiteboards – cat physics
- Deadfall Trap Project
- Initial prototype should be done
- Think of ideas to improve it
- The Scientific Method
- Watch 3rd and 4th videos
- Experimental design
- Develop hypothesis about school water fountains as a class – which is best?
- Homework: write out procedures to test the hypothesis
- Clear and concise instructions (numbered list)
- Double-blind study
- Eliminate as many sources of error as possible
- Wrap-up
- Period 3: put up chairs