Thermal Physics

Homework Thursday March 22

Thursday, March 22, 2012

MORNING LESSON BOOK DUE TOMORROW!  No Exceptions!

STUDY For Final Exam (Study Guide attached)

PROJECT DUE TOMORROW!

Homework Wednesday March 21

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

ROUGH DRAFT: Gasses: Pressure, Volume, and Temperature: (1) Describe our three experiments and what each one shows about Pressure, Volume and/or Temperature and their relationship. (2) Summarize these relationships between P,V, & T (3) Describe Lord Kelvin's experiments that led him to hypothesize absolute zero and create an alternative...

Homework Tuesday March 20

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

ROUGH DRAFT: Energy Considerations & Calorimetry (1) Feynmann's analogy about energy (2) Specific Heat of some substances (3) Different kinds of energy (4) Calorimetry, what it is, what it does (5) How to speak correcty of heat (don't say heat flows or heat rises!)

PROJECTS DUE FRIDAY!

Homework Monday March 19

Monday, March 19, 2012

ROUGH DRAFT: Joule's Experiment & Heat.  Include: (1) Description of our experiments, including our several unsuccessful attempts and what we changed that made it successful, (2) James Prescott Joule's experiment.  In final form, you will reproduce his diagram of his apparatus and label the parts.  Then explain what his apparatus did and...

Homework Thursday March 15

Thursday, March 15, 2012

CATCH UP with all of your final form work this weekend.

MAKE your Table of Contents and start to think about your cover page.  It shoudl be colorful, relevant and inviting.

FINAL FORM Diagram of how a refrigerator/AC works

PROJECT CHECK Monday!

If you are doing the house project: Bring a draft of your paper and show me that you've...

Homework Wed March 14

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

ROUGH DRAFT: Phase Change Lab.  Describe the two experiments (ice block, wire & weight and syringe with warm water).

Explain what happened in each case and how this can be explained

Explain the relationship between temperature, pressure and changes of state.  Describe what water, dry ice and liquid nitrogen each do when placed in a...

Homework Tuesday March 13

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Put into FINAL FORM, your temperature vs. time graph of water warming, melting, warming, boiliing and warming again.

Recopy the data into a FINAL FORM data table.

Project Check tomorrow!

Homework Monday March 12

Monday, March 12, 2012

FINAL FORM: What is temperature?  We wrote this together in class, but feel free to add your own words and insights to this.

NEXT PROJECT CHECK: This Wednesday.  If you are doing a passive solar house, bring a preliminary plan, drawing and some writing (not materials).  If you are doing an engine, take picture of progress or bring it in...

List of Block Book Items So Far

Thursday, March 8, 2012

1. Thermal Experiences Stories

2.Contemplation of the word "Heat"

3.Conduction, Convection & Radiation Experiments (Parts 1, 2ab, 3ab, 4ab)

4. Modes of Warming and Cooling (C,C,R)

5. Contraction/Expansion Experiments (Parts 1, 2,3)

6. Making Thermometers Experiment

7. Specialness of Water Write-Up

8. Handout: International...

Homework Wed March 7

Thursday, March 8, 2012

ROUGH DRAFT Experiment 3: Thermometers (Include Procedure, Our Classes Mystery Temperature Water Measurements along with an average, What is a Thermometer & What Does it Tell You?)  DUE MONDAY March 12.

ROUGH DRAFT: Write Up on the Specialness of Water, specifically it's expansive and contractive responses which are unusual and how this...

Homework Tuesday March 6

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

FINAL FORM Contraction & Expansion Experiment (3 parts)

PROJECT PROPOSAL due tomorrow, Wednesday March 7.  Make sure to include (1) The what (what do you plan to build or create, what components will it have?) (2) The how (how do to plan to get it done?  Where will you get materails? (3) Websites and books you are consulting to...

Homework Fri Mar 2 2012

Friday, March 2, 2012

FINAL FORM Experiment 1 (Parts 1 and 2a&b)

FINAL FORM Convection, Conduction and Radiation.  We worked on this in class, and it characterizes the clear differences between the three modes of warming/cooling.

ROUGH DRAFT Experiment 2 (Parts 1,2,3 )

CONTINUE Project Research (proposal due Wednesday)

Homework Thurs Mar 1 2012

Thursday, March 1, 2012

ROUGH DRAFT Eperiment 1 continued.  Parts 3 (a & b) and 4 (a & b), plus discussion of the 3 Modes of Warming/Cooling

FINAL FORM My Thermal Experiences (due at next final form collection)

CONTINUE Project Research

Homework Wed Feb 29 2012

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

ROUGH DRAFT Experiment 1:

Part One:  Meditate on "heat".  What is heat?  How do we use the word.  Why is it damaging to understanding actual thermal experiences to name "heat" as the cause?  In what way is it only half of the story?  What is actually true about thermal happenings, always?  What about thermal happening involving chemical...

Homework Tues Feb 28 2012

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Student should re-write and improve their descriptive essays of their thermal experiences, based on hearing and sharing with their classmates today. (Due tomorrow)

Begin researching for your project.  Check websites, get books from the library, and starting planning! (Due next week Wed)

Homework Monday February 27 2012

Monday, February 27, 2012

Read the course syllabus and the final project description, and come with questions.

Begin thinking about your project.  What wil you do and how will you do it?

Write a Rough Draft of a descriptive story of a time you experienced a strong change in thermal experiences (falling into an icy lake, going from a sauna into a snowbank,...

Documents for Thermal Physics

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Here are some beginning documents for our work together. . .