Tentative Schedule Spring 2002

Week 1

Lesson 1 Jan 14/15

Course Introduction, Math, Motion; Reading; 1.2 - 1.5, Apendix C, D; 2.1-2.7; MM#1 Metric Measurement.

Lesson 2, Jan 16/17

Force & Newton's Laws; Reading - 2.8, 2.10 - 2.14; Lab #1 Measurement Lab

Quiz #1 Either M/W or T/R

Week 2

(School Closed Jan 21)

Lesson #3, Jan 23/24;

Work & energy, Conservation of Energy, Power; Reading - 3.4 - 3.6, 3.7, 3.9; Lab #2 - Bicycle Lab

Week 3

Lesson #4 Jan 28/29

Gravity, Orbital Motion; Reading - (4.1 - 4.4), (4.5 - 4.7); MM#2 - Heat Transfer

Lesson #5 Jan 30/31

Heat & Temperature, Specific Heat, Phase Change/Heat Transfer; Reading - (5.1 - 5.5), 5.6 - 5.7), 5.8 - 5.9); Lab #3 - Energy Conservation

Quiz #2 Either M/W or T/R

Week 4

Lesson 6 Feb 4/5

Unit Test #1 (Review Lessons 1 - 5); Introduction to Waves, Doppler Effect; Reading (7.1 - 7.9); Lab Test #1 (Review Labs 1 - 3)

Lesson 7 Feb 6/7

Electrostatics/Coulomb's Law, Voltage/Current/Resistance; Reading (8.1 - 8.4),(8.6 - 8.9); Lab #4 - Household Energy Lab

Week 5

Lesson 8 Feb 11/12

Ohm's Law/Circuits, magnetism/Electricity, Motors & Generators; Reading (8.10 - 8.11), (9.1 - 9.5), (9.8 - 9.10); MM#3 Motors & Generators

Lesson 9 Feb 13/14

Bohr Atom, Nature of Light; Reading (12.1 - 12.8)(11.1 - 11.4); Lab #5 - Ohm's Law

Quiz #3 M/W or T/R

Week 6

Lesson 10 Feb 18/19

Electromagnetic Spectrum, Spectral Analysis, Polarization, Radioactivity; Reading - (11.6)(11.8 - 11.10)(13.1 - 13.4)(13.8); Lab Test #2 (Review Labs 4 - 5)

Lesson 11 Feb 20/21

Fission & Fusion; Reading (14.8)(14.10 - 14.15); Lab #6 - Radioactivity

Quiz #4 M/W or T/R

Week 7

Lesson 12 Feb 25/26

Unit Test #2 (Review Lessions 6 - 11); Elements, Compounds; reading (15.1 - 15.6); MM#4 Gas Laws

Lesson13 Feb 27/28

Gas Laws, Introduction of Periodic Table: Reading (15.7 - 15.11)(16.1 - 16.3); Problems to be worked in Class

Week 8

Lesson 14 Mar 4/5

Equations & Bonding; reading (16.4 - 16.6); MM#5 - Proton in Chemistry

Lesson 15 mar 6/7

Acids and Bases; Reading (17.2 - 17.4); Lab #7 - pH Lab

Quiz #5 M/W or T/R

Week 9

Lesson 16 Mar 11/12

Unit Test #3 (Review Lessons 12 - 15); Atmosphere/Global Circulation; reading (18.1 - 18.4); Lab Test #3 (Review Labs 6 - 7)

Lesson 17 Mar 13/14

Special Topics or Work Problems to be worked in Class;

Week 10

Lesson 18 Mar 25/26

Humidity, Precipitation, Fronts; Reading (18.5)(18.7)(18.10); MM #6 - Earthquakes

Lesson 19 Mar 27/28

Seasons (Class discussion and exercise on Computer); Lab #8- Earth/Sun Relationships & Seasons

Quiz #6 M/W or T/R

Week 11

Lesson 20 Apr 1/2

Earth's Interior & Rock Cycle; Reading (19.1 - 19.3); MM #7 - Rock Cycle

Lesson 21 Apr 3/4

Continental Drift, Plate Tectonics; Reading (19.6 - 19.8); Lab #9 - Rock And Mineral Lab

Quiz #7 M/W or T/R

Week 12

Lesson 22 Apr 8/9

Earthquakes & Volcanoes, Weathering & Erosion; Reading (19.9)(19.10); MM #8 Power of Water

Lesson 23 Apr 10/11

Hydroligic cycle, Aquifers; Reading (20.4 - 20.8)(20.9); Lab #10 - Topographic Maps

Quiz #8 M/W or T/R

Week 13

Lesson 24 Apr 15/16

Unit Test #4 (Review Lessions 16 - 23); Phases of the Moon, Eclipses; reading (21/4 - 21.9); Lab Test #4 (Review LaBS 8 - 10)

Lesson 25 Apr 18/19

Historical Astronomy, Kepler's Laws; reading (21.4 - 22.4); Lab #11 - Phases of the Moon

Week 14

Lession 26 Apr 22/23

Origin of Planets/Sun & Moon, Terrestrial and Jovian Planets; Reading (22.1 - 22.4)(Discussion by Instroucor); MM#9 - Least Energy Orbits

Quiz #9 M/W or T/R

Week 15

Lesson 28 Ap[r 29/30

Stellar Death, Galaxies, Quasars; reading (23.5 - 23.7)(24.1 - 24.2)(24.3); MM #10 Creation of Universe

Lesson 29 May 1/2

Cosmology; reading (24.4); Lab #13 - HR Diagram

Quiz #10 M/W or T/R

Week 16

Lesson 30 May 6/7

Unit Test #5 (Review Lessions 24 - 29); Lab Test #5 (Review Lessions 1 - 30)

Lesson 31 May 8/9

Quiz #11 on May 8/9

Week 17

Final Exams:

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