Broadneck High School AP Physics “C” Summer Assignment Summer 2010  UPDATED ON AUGUST 1st   Mr. Schwenke  -  B204   e-mail: gschwenke@aacps.org or schwenke@broadneck.org

A good description of our course may be found in the College Board "Acorn" book (at http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap-physics-course-description.pdf).  Please take a look at the sections which discuss AP Physics "C" and the content we cover.  ALSO, look at the relative amounts of time each section is allotted -- we must be finished the Mechanics section of the course by Christmas/Winter break in order to complete Semester II - Electricity and Magnetism in early April  and then review for the May AP test.

The classwork schedule for each week will be posted online at http://apphysics.broadneck.org.  If we miss classes due to any circumstances (hurricanes, snowstorms, tsunamis, N1H1 virus, alien invasions, whatever...) we stay on this schedule for readings and problems.  Plan on doing some work at home!

Each of you has already taken a year-long course in Physics.  We are going to build upon that knowledge, not repeat it.

Here are the problems I would like for you to do to keep your physics brain cell(s) active.  Please write out the details of the problem for me (tell me what you know, what you're looking for, the equation(s) you use, and so on.  Provide UNITS in all calculations and answers, and make sure I can read your work.  This work will be turned in at the FIRST class meeting, where we will go over it.  It WILL be graded.

Page 24, problems 38 & 39

Page 25, problems 51, 53 & 64

Page 26, problem 77

Page 54-59, problems 13, 14, 18, 29, 35, 47, 60, 70 & 99

THESE PROBLEMS ARE AVAILABLE TO PRINT OUT AS EITHER A PDF FILE OR WORD FILE. Click your choice! You will not need a textbook in order to do the summer assignment (our enrollment went up and we ran out!)

If you don't have a textbook, go to Guidance and check one out...or e-mail me.  I'm also on Facebook and can receive messages there.

For those rainy (or too hot) summer days...take a look at the first two online lectures from Physics 8.01 as offered at MIT....  Professor Lewin is a bit strange, but most physics teachers seem to have that problem!  We will be using these videos as supplements to our regular content throughout the year, and many times they will be assigned as Homework because they are best watched using You Tube, which is blocked at school.  Don't get me started on that one...

Introduction/Units and Dimensions:  http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-01-physics-i-classical-mechanics-fall-1999/video-lectures/embed01/
or on YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmJV8CHIqFc&feature=player_embedded

One-dimensional Kinematics:  http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-01-physics-i-classical-mechanics-fall-1999/video-lectures/embed02/
or on YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ig-e509uRQ&feature=player_embedded