- Get into your groups from Friday and complete the lab. If you haven't started doing the testing outlined in the lab writeup, that's what today should be about!
Learning Goal: To use Newton's Laws of motion to predict the behavior of objects' motion.
Today: Balloon Rockets
- Given: balloons, tape, scissors, paper, string, clothes pins, drinking straws, ring stands, clamps
- Find: the best design to propel a balloon rocket the fastest along a 6 meter string.
Assignment:
- Due Tues 12/19: Read this article and this one for understanding. Take notes in your Physics Notebook and be prepared to participate in a discussion.
- 12/21: Comprehensive Semester Final (Pd. 3,5) You are allowed to use one 3"x5" notecard on the final.
- 12/22: Comprehensive Semester Final (Pd. 4)
- The final will have double the weight of a typical summative test.
- You are allowed to use one 3"x5" notecard on the final.
- The final will have a similar format to the other summative tests.