Unit I: Kinematics (6 days, 217 pages):$30

This unit is designed to provide experiences for students that will help them review fundamental concepts of kinematics from first-year physics and simultaneously begin to develop some of the calculus tools that will be needed in this course.  The usual daily routine (not to be rigidly adhered to) is to assign one worksheet and one problem each day for homework. The papers are collected the next day, shuffled randomly, and redistributed to be corrected in class by students. Solutions are presented on the blackboard, with as much input as possible from students. (Sometimes a student who has not completed his or her assignment may be sent to the blackboard.) Point values are decided by the teacher. Students score and sign the papers, and return them to the teacher, who records the scores and returns them. On some occasions only part of a worksheet is graded, and the rest is completed at the blackboard with as much input as possible from the students.

Topics include River Race, Review of Kinematics, Superball Game (experiment), Simple Trajectories, Motion Along a Curved Path, A New Way to Look At Circular Motion, Kinematics Review Sheet.

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