Due the second-class meeting Lab Assignment # 1 Measurement (accuracy, precision and uncertainty) - Dc & Da
Due the third-class meeting Lab Assignment # 2 Formula for area of heart (graphing exercise) - Pa & Pb w/ Plots
Due the fourth-class meeting Lab Assignment # 3 Emptying time dependence for water pipes - Pa & Pb 
Due the sixth-class meeting Lab Assignment # 4 Period of a pendulum (log-log graphing) 
Due the seventh-class meeting Lab Assignment # 5 Finding ''g'' by various methods - Pa & Pb
Due the eighth-class meeting Lab Assignment # 6 Finding Coefficient of Friction --- Full report
Due the ninth-class meeting Lab Assignment # 7 Investigate Water Rocket launch - Evaluation
Due 11/7/01 Lab Assignment # 8 Determine Conservation of Energy and Momentum - worth 8 pts. Evaluation (always include the literature part)
Due 11/12/01 Lab Assignment # 9 Investigate Projectile Motion - worth 8 pts. P(a) & P(b)
Due 11/16/01 Lab Assignment # 10 Investigate Hooke's Law - worth 8 pts.
Due 11/27/01 Lab Assignment # 11 Investigate Archimedes' Principle - worth 8 pts. D(c) & D (a)
Due 12/5/01 Lab Assignment # 12 Stoke's Law - worth 8 pts. P(a) & P(b)
Due 1/7/02 Lab Assignments #13 Investigating Amusement Park Ride Bumper Cars - worth 8 pts. each Full Report
Due 1/7/02 Lab Assignments #14 Investigating Amusement Park Ride Merry Go Round - worth 8 pts. each Evaluation
Due 1/7/02 Lab Assignments #15 Investigating Amusement Park Ride Sandstorm - worth 8 pts. each P(a) & P(b)
Due 1/7/02 Lab Assignments #16 Investigating Amusement Park Ride Log Flume - worth 8 pts. each D(c) & D(a)
Due 1/7/02 Lab Assignments #17 Investigating Amusement Park Ride Swinging Chairs - worth 8 pts. each P(a) & P(b)
Due 1/7/02 Lab Assignments #18 Investigating Amusement Park Ride Phoenix - worth 8 pts. each P(a) & P(b)
Due 1/22/02 Lab Assignment # 19 Investigate Ohm's Law - worth 8 pts. Evaluation
Due 1/22/02 Lab Assignment # 20 Electromagnetic Induction Lab - worth 8 pts. D(c), D(a) & Evaluation.
Due 2/12/02 Lab Assignment # 21 Specific Heat - worth 8 pts. Full report
Due 3/1/02 Lab Assignment # 22 Resistance in Parallel and Series - worth 12 pts. D(c) & D(a)
Due 4/1/02 Lab Assignment # 23, Determining Illumination Levels - worth 18 pts. P(a) & P(b)
Due 4/1/02 Lab Assignment # 24, Radioactivity using Exponential Functions with semi-log and log-log plots - worth 9 pts. Evaluation.
Due 4/1/02 Lab Assignment # 25, The Chart of Nuclides - worth 9 pts. Evaluation.
Due 4/17/02 Lab Assignment # 26, Snell's Law handwritten in class - worth 6 pts. P(a) & P(b)
Due 4/22/02 Lab Assignment # 27, *Using Rocketry Determine Escape Velocity - worth 38 pts. Full report
Due 5/4/02 Lab Assignment # 28, Pulleys A Simple Machine handwritten in class - worth 6 pts. P(a) & P(b)
Due 5/20/02 Lab Assignment # xx Investigate the Photoelectric Effect - worth 8 pts. 
Due TBA Lab Assignment # X, Work and Energy
Due TBA Lab Assignment # X Investigate Kepler's Law - worth 8 pts.
Due TBA Lab Assignment # X Investigate the Stirling Engine - worth 8 pts.
Due TBA Lab Assignment # X Investigate the Steam Engine - worth 8 pts.
Due 1/10/02 Lab Assignment # X Investigate A Rubber Band Driven Toy Airplane - worth 8 pts.
Due x/xx/02 Lab Assignment # xx Application of NIOSH Lifting Formula - worth 8 pts. 
Due x/xx/02 Lab Assignment # xx Work Pace & Energy Costs of Lifting - worth 8 pts. 
*means a full laboratory write-up in accordance with IB standards.
Further explanation of the IB rubric...this is a minimum only.
Planning (a)...please do not use the IB rubrics sections as titles.
1- 2 sentences on the problem statement
2- 2-3 sentences on the hypothesis which includes why this hypothesis
3- list the constants, variables...explain why each variable is dependent or independent.
Planning (b)...please do not use the IB rubrics sections as titles.
1- a detailed methodology including a diagram or photo of the apparatus
2- explain how to control the variables
3- explain how to collect the data...it is wise to design a data table include the appropriate units
Data (c)...please do not use the IB rubrics sections as titles.
1- State any and all observations and explain the observations relevance. If no relevance, state there is no relevant observations. State and describe the uncertainty. Qualitative and/or quantitative explanations are good.
2- Develop a table that is easy to follow and then describe the table in text.
Data (a)...please do not use the IB rubrics sections as titles. 
1- Introduce quantitatively the error and show all work, too. Put raw data into useable givens.
2- Show all math and graphs with appropriate table to accompany the graph.
If your paper is not formatted in the above manner you may receive less credit! Please make use the same size sheets of paper. The most common size that I prefer is 8.5" by 11".
· Please read Chapter 16 and answer the end of chapter questions 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 13, 14 and 15 and problems 9, 27, 35, 41, 49, 51, and 61. 
· Velocity of Sound Lab Report due 1/4/01 for both B and C days. 
· Please read Chapter 17 and answer the end of chapter questions 1, 8, 13, 14, 19,21, and 23 and problems 13, 19, 33, 43, 49, 51, 59 and 69. 
· Please read Chapter 18 and answer the end of chapter questions 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 20, and 21 and problems 7, 23, 37, 45, 55, 65, and 73. 
· Please read Chapter 19 and answer the end of the chapter questions 1, 3, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18, 20, 21, and 24 and problems 15, 25, 33, 39, 47, 59, and 65. 
· Lab: Investigation Ohm's Law (Report is due 2/5/01 for B-day & 2/6/01 for C-day. Ohm's Law Lab report requires a: purpose, procedure, diagrams and setup layout, and a tables reflecting what data and observations need to be made.) 
· Please read Chapter 20 and answer the end of the chapter questions 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 15, and 16 and problems 11, 21, 27, 37, 47, 57, and 73. 
· Please read Chapter 21.3, 21.4, 21.5, & 21.6 and answer the end of the chapter questions 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, &15 and problems 7, 19, 25, 37, and 47. 
· Lab -- Design A Solenoid Value due 2/8/01 for B-day & 2/9/01 for C-day. 
· Please read Chapter 22.1, & 22.2 and example problems. 
· Please read Chapter 23 and answer the end of the chapter questions 1- 6, &10-13 and problems 9, 15,21, and 37. 
· Lab -- Electromagnetic Induction. Design and complete a demonstration of inducing an electric current via magnetism. This will be a full lab report due 2/21 or 22 depending whether you are a B or C day class. 
· On 2/27 or 2/28, there will be a test on chapters 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23. The exam will be all problems and will take both periods to complete. 
· For the first week in March, we will review chapters 3 and 4. There will be a quiz on the 13th and 14th on chapters 3 and 4. In preparation for this one-hour quiz, please work every other third problem at the end of these two chapters. If you care prepared, we will go over them in class on Monday (3/5) or Tuesday (3/6). 
· Every student must dissect an electric motor, label each part and explain how an electric motor works. Please do not copy off the Internet without giving it as a citation. Your explanation must be in your own words. To document your personal dissection please makes a photograph of your own dissection. If you choice to take a regular photo, then please place the photo in plastic so it may be copied and sent aboard if required by IBO. 
· Chapters 9 and 10. Read both chapters and answer questions 1,4-6,11-15, & 20-24 in Chapters 9. Answer questions 1-5, 8-12, & 16. I will collect Chapters 9 and 10 homework. 
· Read chapter 11 Thermo Physics; answer end of chapter questions 1-4, 6, 7, 13-15, 26, & 27; and solve the end of chapter problems 3, 17, 25, & 37. 
The FBD lab report is the explanation including a free body diagram of a person using a hand truck on an incline. The incline is 223 mm vertical and 889 mm horizontal. The mass of the load is 250 kg. If the person loses control of the hand truck such as slipping because the surface is wet, what force is coming at the person? What is the speed of the hand truck as it passes the end of the incline? If you need to see picture of this please see me.
The Toy Airplane experiment is for each student to attain a rubber band propelled wooden airplane. Please provide the Procedures (A) & (B) to determine the following: The distance of the takeoff roll; the time of lift off; acceleration at liftoff; and the liftoff velocity.
A rocket experiment. I ask you to divide your class in to teams of four or five. That is five persons per team. Each team will purchase their own rocket. You will assemble the rocket during your Physics block time. Each student will be responsible for writing his or her own lab report documenting the assembly, launch procedure, the launch, and the recovery stage. Each report will have a hypothesis of the height of which your rocket will reach. Please restrain the altitude your rocket can reach to 200 meters. In addition to your own launch, (and we are not going to do this) you are to calculate what velocity (escape velocity) your rocket must attain to reach an orbit. Any questions please send them to me via e-mail. Report will have: hypothesis, diagrams or photos, procedure (including safety procedures), data from the launch, analysis (calculations), escape velocity calculations, and a conclusion. The next labs will be on determining the takeoff roll of a rubber band propelled airplane and then thermo labs.