The recent on-line assignment has increased traffic and awareness of the class blog. I would like to establish a habit of giving a weekly update on Fridays for the rest of the year. This is a tall order for me, but I know students will benefit from having consistent reminders and updates that may have been overlooked during class.
The purpose of the weekly reminder is to highlight the key aspects of the past week of class and to look ahead to the activities or challenges the next week may provide.
From the past week, students had the treat of traveling to the Carter Center with Mr. Billingsley and Miss Shepherd. This gave us one less day to review the pulley lab and analyze the data, but we worked in class to make sense of how the pulley works. The end of the week was a reality check for us all as we tried to explain how the pulley provides a mechanical advantage and how it does work by taking a quiz.
This next week will take us into a new topic of study as we move toward calculating potential and kinetic energy. We have two days, over which we will be reading the textbook to gain key information about types of energy, and we will be using a new piece of lab equipment that demonstrate the physics involved in a roller coaster.
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