Honors Physics: Objectives and Schedule
Last updated: October 12th, 2011
Unit 3- Forces and Newton’s Law of Motion - Chapter 4
Unit 4- Applying Newton’s Laws - Chapter 5
Text
College Physics, by Randy Knight, Brian Jones, and Stuart Field, Pearson/Addison
Wesley, 1st edition, 2007.
In these chapters we develop a true understanding of force and the Newton’s Laws of
Motion first conceptually and then through applications.
Student Learning Objectives (Chapter 4)
 Recognize what does and does not constitute a force
 Identify the specific forces acting on an object
 Draw an accurate free-body diagram of an object
 Begin the process of understanding the connection between force and motion
Student Learning Objectives (Chapter 5)
 Draw and make effective use of FBDs
 Recognize and solve simple equilibrium problems
 Distinguish mass, weight, and apparent weight
 Learn and use simple models of friction and drag
 Apply the fully strategy for force and motion problems to problems in single
particle dynamics
 Understand how to apply Newton’s laws for systems of interacting particles.
Schedule
Day # Date
Day
Class Work
18
19
20
6-Oct
10-Oct
12-Oct
Thu
Mon
Wed
21
14-Oct
Fri
22
18-Oct
Tue
23
20-Oct
Thu
24
24-Oct
Mon
25
26-Oct
Wed
26
27
28-Oct
1-Nov
Fri
Tue
28
29
30
31
3-Nov
8-Nov
10-Nov
14-Nov
Thu
Tue
Thu
Mon
Unit 2 Test (full block)
Remediation: Relative Velocity
Remediation: Projectile Motion
Newton's 1st Law; What is Force?;
Examples
Examples and Identification;
Newton's Second Law
Free Body Diagrams; Newton's
Third Law
Equilibrium; Dynamics and 2nd
Law; Mass and Weight
45 min Test on Unit 3; Normal
Forces and Friction
Drag; Interacting Objects;
Problems (DRS, Hwk, CP)
Problems
30 min Quiz; Ropes and Pulleys
(Tension)
Problems; Review
Problems
Unit 3 and 4 Test (full block)
Homework
Lab
Reading
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
Friction Lab
28
29
30
31
We will begin using an electronic homework system from Mastering Physics (MP) on
Day 2. (An introduction to MP will also be available on Day 2). All text based
homework is to be downloaded from, solved, and the answers submitted on-line to
www.masteringphysics.com . See the Expectations and Procedures document for penalty
details on submitting late work.
Reading and MP problems
Q = Conceptual/Multiple Choice Questions at the end of the text chapter
P = Problems at the end of the text chapter
ST = Step through/Skill builder problems in Mastering Physics
MP Assigned Lab Prep
# Date
18
Reading ?’s
Probs
ST and Other
ST: A Push or a Pull?; Book
on a Table
6-Oct
3.25,
56,58,59,60,6
2
3.32, 33,64,
66,68
19
10-Oct
20
12-Oct
21
14-Oct
4.1-4.3
4,5
22
18-Oct
4.4-4.6
7,8,9,11,14,18
,21,24,25
23
20-Oct
4.7-4.8
35,36,50,61,6
3
24
24-Oct
5.1-5.3
25
26-Oct
5.4-5.5
26
28-Oct
5.6-5.7
27
1-Nov
28
3-Nov
29
30
8-Nov
10-Nov
31
14-Nov
MC:22,
23,25,2
7,29
66,6972,58,20; 5.1,
2,3,4,11,14
2,7,
16,19,
24,25,29,39,4
2
34,52,57,54,5
9,56
60,7073,66,35
5.8
Friction Lab
36,38,63,64,6
MC:
29,30,3
2,31,34
10
3.14,3.2
5
40,48,49,51,
58
5.7,5.47, 5.55
3.34
Biking vectors
Velocity in a Moving Frame;
The archerfish
ST: Tactics Box 4.1 Drawing
Force Vectors; Tactics Box
4.2 Identifying Forces; World
Class Sprinter
ST: Conceptual Questions on
Newton's 1st and 2nd Laws;
Force and Velocity
Conceptual Question
ST: Tactics Box 4.3 Drawing
a Free-Body Diagram;
Tactics Box 4.4 Identifying
Forces for Interacting
Objects; Newton's 3rd Law
Discussed
ST: Relating Graphs and
Free-Body Diagrams ; FreeBody Diagrams and Newton's
Laws
ST: A Friction Experiment;
Comparing Friction Forces
with Gravity Conceptual
Question; Kinetic Friction
Ranking Task; Pushing a
Chair along the Floor; Static
Friction and Frictional Force
Ranking Task
ST: Pulling Two Blocks;
Pushing Too Hard ; Blocks in
an Elevator Ranking Task
ST: Board Pulled Out from
under a Box; Friction Force
on a Dancer on a
Drawbridge;Velocity from
Force Diagram Ranking
Task;
DRS; ST: Tension Definition;
Tension in a Massless Rope;
Two Hanging Masses; Two
Masses, a Pulley, and an
Inclined Plane; Suspending a
Speaker
ST: Motion of a Block with
Three Forces; Kinetic Friction
in a Block-and-Pulley
System; Normal and
Frictional Forces Ranking
Task; Hanging Chandelier
Review Problems from class
Due
Day
#
Due
Date
19
10-Oct
20
12-Oct
21
14-Oct
22
18-Oct
23
20-Oct
24
24-Oct
25
26-Oct
26
28-Oct
27
1-Nov
28
3-Nov
29
8-Nov
30
31
10-Nov
14-Nov
32
16-Nov