Static Charge SIMULATORS

LINK TO JOHN TRAVOLTAGE (pHet)

LINK TO ONLINE SIMULATIONS OF STATIC CHARGE (pHet)

HW: Due Thursday 5/4
1) fiddle around with online static electricity simulators-
think about what is moving where and why.
What objects allow for the build up of charge? Which don't?

2)  See this blog entry.  Please do NOT do questions below.
 due Monday, 5/8
from the text book: READ pages:   628-633
PRACTICE PROBLEMS  pages 654-655, #1, 2, 3, 17 AND 18.
(You might have to review the meaning of atomic #s to be able to do one of these problems.  It is expected that you review this information independently to do this problem).

Triboelectric Series

Answers to Review questions for 5/1 test

Waves... review 2

Textbook photocopy
Chapter 13:
page 493, #3
page 499: #2
page 503 #2
reading: pages 504-505
page 507; #13, 14 & 15

Chapter 14:
page 523: #2
page 548: #4

Chapter 15:
page 567: Practice 5A 1-3, and review 1-3
page 585: #1
page 587: #16

DUE Monday, 5/1
QUIZ CLOSED NOTES OVER THE SAME QUESTIONS
QUIZ WILL FOCUS (ha!) ON OPTICS more than SOUND.... b/c we've already had a quiz on sound.... so... big big big hint.... quiz will put emphasis on Chapters 14 & 15...

POLARIZATION reading

READING: Polarization

Snell's Law Lab

Snell's Law Lab
Big hints:
1) easiest to calculate sine of angles in a calculator, then create your data tables in excel
2) n = sin theta i/ sin theta r... x-axis is to be the denominator & y-axis the numerator in that equation.... see in class notes for more detail.

Wave Application Presentations

WAVE application presentations: explanation