First I just wanted to let everyone know that I will not be in school on Wednesday, November 17. I will be attending the CWC Academic Partnership meeting in Tri-County. This is a great opportunity for me as an educator to meet up with other science teachers in the CWC to discuss curriculum matters.
For a few of the classes that day, I will be recording a video lecture; one of the benefits to having a SMARTBoard in my room. I will post those lectures here in case students want to review what was discussed.
Physics: Today we went over the unit exam from last Friday. We then began our discussion on forces, but looking at the forces acting on a book, resting on a table. Tomorrow we will further investigate the forces in this situation.
AP Chemistry: We looked over the unit exam last week, and then began looking at Chapter 7, which is an introduction to Quantum Theory. This will be a slow moving unit (if there is such a thing in AP) as material will be very abstract, and very different from everything that students have been taught in the past. I encourage students to read and study this chapter, and chapter 8, over the next few weeks. Reading the book could be a big help.
Physical Science: In class today we went over the unit review for the test tomorrow. Students who were gone on Friday picked up this assignment today, and are expected to take the test tomorrow after sitting through today's unit review discussion.
Chemistry: Today we talked about specific heat capacity, heat of vaporization, and heat of fusion. This is how we quantify the energy being absorbed by a system or lost by a system while matter undergoes a temperature change of a phase change. I assigned WS 3, which deals with single changes. After studying this, we will look at how to deal with situations where we want to measure the energy change for multiple changes.
