Last Days

This is the end. Here are some things for you to do:

Have a good summer!

Winding Down

Well, your final lab is due today. We are watching a movie in class, about which there will be an extra credit quiz to encourage you to watch the movie and pay attention.

I will take everything else, like missing work, labs, and test retakes, until Thursday. Unfortunately I will not be here on Thursday due to graduation practice, but you can still put stuff in the basket to turn it in. If you need to take a test on Thursday, email me (miss.volkening@gmail.com) so I know to come back to school after grad practice. We have a half day, so that is an option.

I’ll be taking over as the faculty liaison for graduation next year, and I’d like to get a head start on gathering info on seniors - that's you! Please fill out the following survey to help me out.

https://tinyurl.com/UHS2019Graduation

You can also join the UHS graduation information Remind by texting the code @uhs2019fyi to 81010.

AP Review

Here are some old AP test questions to practice/review for your AP Physics 1 test.

AP Physics 1 FRQs with answers (all previous tests)

AP Physics B was the class/test before our current class. It was discontinued about 4 years ago. Its questions may be useful for study purposes, but they do not really reflect the type of questions you will see on the AP Physics 1 test. The ones after about 2009 fit better than older ones, though. AP B also covered more content than we do now, so some of these questions are irrelevant.

AP B FRQs
AP B FRQ answers
AP B MC questions
AP B MC answers

Practice Time

The rest of the week is work time for you to finish all of your homework and to study for the test. You have one last homework, Electricity TIPERs #4, which is due tomorrow. The practice test was also available.

Electricity Test Practice
Key:

Your test is either Monday or Tuesday. You will have a little time to study before it starts.

Compound Circuits

How do you solve a circuit that has both series and parallel components? That was the topic today. We took notes by solving a problem on the board. Here is the problem before any work was done:

Here is a video that I made a couple of years ago solving this problem.

And here is the problem after it was solved:

Whatever time we didn't spend on this problem (which is a lot of time) you were working on two worksheets: Concept-Development 35-2 and Compound Circuits Practice. Whatever you didn't finish in class is homework.

Power and Circuit Breakers

Today we talked about electrical power and circuit breakers.

Notes: Electrical Power

Here is the setup for the practice problem:

Homework: Concept-Development 34-2

Ohm's Law and Circuit Lab #3

We started by using your lab to come up with Ohm's Law, then we did another qualitative lab, Circuit Lab #3. After that we used your results to start talking about series and parallel circuits. You may be able to complete the lab online with the online simulator PhET Circuit Construction Kit.

Lab/Notes: Ohm's Law + Series and Paralllel Circuits. We will practice series and parallel circuits on Wednesday.

Homework: Ch. 17 (p. 611) #10, 11, 13, 15, 20, 51