Thursday, February 24, 2011

Physics of Sports on the Moon

Please add the following to your project using the Active Physics SPORTS book in the front of the room.  You must show your work to get credit.

p. 118-119 #3. a-g

p. 122 #6

p. 127 #1, #4

p. 134, #1-#4

p. 139, #1-#6

P. 145, #1

Wednesday, February 16, 2011



Over the next three days, you will be creating a spreadsheet that details the use of motion in Cartoon Physics. Before you start, you must pick a video and identify where you feel constant velocity, uniform horizontal acceleration and uniform vertical acceleration   Make a short movie of these three segments using Windows Live Movie Maker.

Cartoon Name:

Constant Velocity:
Uniform Horizontal Acceleration
Uniform Vertical Acceleration

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

What is the purpose of CERN?

What is the possible benefit or risk of a multi-national, multi-experimental center like CERN?   Think of the following and attempt to comment on pros and cons for each

a) talking with members of different countries
b) medical technologies
c) the grid
d) the energy needed
e) the construction costs
f) the use of energy
g) the discoveries for physics
h) the age of the universe

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/About/About-en.html

Physics of Today

http://www.particleadventure.org/

Get one or two partners.   Your mission:  to find out how physics has changed, what the physics of today looks like, and what we still don't know.

For each section below, you will need to come up with a top FIVE facts list.

Standard Model
Forces Game

The Accelerator Lab
How to Accelerate Game
Trails Game


Mysteries to Solve