Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Scribe for Nov.13th
Have a Nice Day. =)
Monday, November 12, 2007
1. Section 5-3, Diagram Skills
2.Concept Development Practice Page 8-1
3.Concept Development Practice page 8-2
Next scribe for tomorrow will be Mr.Ferrari(Steven) haha.
Friday, November 9, 2007
Friday's Class
PS. Victor, did I even spell that right?
Scribe Post 2
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Hooke's Law

Hooke's Law
Spring Potential Energy
Gravitational Potential Energy
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Scribe
Today was the day we learned about energy! But before that we just went over a bunch of problems relating to work. Just gotta remember:
Work = Force * Distance
Work = Force * Cos theta * distance
(the Cosine theta find the component of the force that lines up with the distance)
Then we moved onto the video lesson, which summed up kinda goes like this:
- Review of Ft = momentum
- Then we learned that Fd = Energy or work = energy
- Energy comes in many many many forms electricity and light to name a couple
- From there it moved onto Kinetic and Potential energy
-Kinetic energy is the energy of motion
-Potential energy is stored energy
-They are related, when potential energy is transformed into motional energy the total energy stays the same by the law of conservation, so if 5J of PE is transformed into Kinetic energy there will still be 5J of energy in the system (assuming that which is transferred to the surroundings is negligible)
-Then with a brilliant demonstration on pulleys he showed us how each rope takes some tension force but the person would still have to exert the same amount of energy to move the object because they would have to pull a larger distance.
That pretty much sums up the class...
The next scribe will be KIM
Monday, November 5, 2007
Scribe #2 (wow, it sure is a huge gap between the first and second scribes)
Well, we started off the class with Mrs. K. going over the handout on "WORK: A DEFINITION". It reviews the concept of work (with Force and Displacement as its two essential elements).
an example of these elements are in the diagram: "F" being force, and "d" being displacement



WOW!!! That was a lot of explaining... anyways, next we took a look at Work being positive or negative. Now it can be either, depending on the direction of the Force relative to the displacement, if the Force is acting in the opposite direction of the displacement, the Work would be negative. So to support this, if the Force were to act in the same direction as the displacement, the Work would have to be positive. ***However, if the Force is acting (or has a component acting) neither in the opposite nor the same direction and is perpendicular to the displacement [eg. Force acting UP, displacement to the RIGHT], the Work is ZERO (0)***
The next section dealt with Work and Force at an Angle.

Finally we briefly looked at the calculation of Kinetic and Gravitational Potential energies. Kinetic Energy (KE) is said to be: the work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass from rest to its current velocity. Gravitational Potential Energy (PE) is: the energy that an object of a given mass has by virtue of its position relative to an arbitrary "zero ground". The formulae for these are as follows:

That's all for tonight, very, very, very, very sorry for the late scribe... Hope this will at least be useful for test review. Thanks, and tomorrow's scribe is...
Grey-M!!!
Saturday, November 3, 2007
POWER WORKING
- WORK is the product of force exerted on an object and the distance the object moves in the direction of the force. It has no direction and is therefore considered a scalar unit. WORK is measured in JOULES. It is calculated using the formula:
W = fd
- POWER is the rate of doing work or the rate at which energy is transferred. Power is measured in WATTS. it is measured using, where t is time:
P = w/t
Today in class, we did two GRUELING labs (just kidding). The first lab was about calculating our own work and power as we go up the stairs. First, the height of the stairs was measured, then the we recorded the amount of time it took for us to climb up the stairs at a constant pace. We needed the mass of the participants so we can calculate force using F = mg.
The second lab involved a cart with one kilogram of weight on it. The cart was held on top of a 30 cm-high incline, and was released going downhill. The time it took for the cart to travel one meter from the base of the incline was recorded. Three trials were done to acquire a much better result. Further calculations were made.
For both labs, questions were answered and were taken home as well because NOBODY finished them. Discussions about work and power will continue on MONDAY! I hope everyone has a great weekend! I'm not having a fun one so far because I got stuck at home.
I think I've covered everything we did in class on Friday. OH WAIT, Mrs. Kozoriz didn't give us candies! Anyway, do your labs over the weekend and see you guys on Monday!
The next scribe is... CRAIG.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
All Saint's Day Scribe
&I'm done. Woww.. scribing for Physics is so pointless.