Advanced Physics Home Page

Mr. Burns, The Pingry School  dburns@pingry.org

 

XL Labs:

Intro to XL

•XL#00-Kinematics Problems

Rotational Motion

•XL#02-Simple Pendulum

•XL#03-Half Atwood

Data Plotting+Trendlines

•XL#05-Nuclear Decay

•XL#05-Nuclear Decay data

Numeric Methods

•XL#06-SHM Lab

•XL#06-SHM-Logger Pro Data

Numeric Integration

•InClassXL-Numeric Integration

•InClassXL-NumInteg data


 

Homework Handouts :

Mechanics Review

•Mech Review Packet

•AP Physics B Relationship Sheet

•Mech Review Packet—Solutions

•Mech Review-Assignments and Readings from Text (Reif)

Rotational Motion

•Rotational-Assignments and Readings from Text (Reif)


•HH#01-Rotational Kinematics (w/ Key)
•HH#02-Rotational Dynamics (w/ Key)

•HH#03-Rotational Dynamics (w/ Key)

•HH#03.1-Rotational Dynamics-2 Mech C Probs+Key)

•HH#03.5-Angular Momentum(w/ Answers)

•HH#03.75-Angular Momentum(w/ Answers)


Other Handouts :

General Information

•Advanced Physics Syllabus

Articles

•Acceleration of a Pulled Spool

•Newton's Discovery of Gravity -- I.B. Cohen


 

Diagrams:

Mechanics Review

•Mech Review-APPhysicsB-Relationship Sheet

Rotational Motion

•Rotational-A Problem of Forces Handout (+KEY)

•Rotational-Radial vs Tangential Acceleration Handout

•Rotational-Gyroscopic Precession Handout

Orbital Mechanics

•Orbital-Lunar+Solar Eclipses

•Orbital-Helio+Geocentric Models

•Orbital-Universal Gravitation and Kepler's Laws


 

General XL Documents :

•XL Reference and Style Guide
•3D Plotting and Scrollbars

•Description of XL Lab Content—Format+Grading
•Sample Procedure+Analysis

•Embedded Word Documents in Excel


 

Take-Home Problem Sets :

•Four Mechanics Review Problems

•M2F#1
•M2F#2
•M2F#3


 

 

 

Useful Links :

Advanced Physics BBoard

•bboard.pingry.org

Special Relativity

•Michelson-Morley Experiment-Simulator
•Einstein's Paper-E=mc2
•Special Relativity Link at USC

•NOVA-Einstein Revealed (excerpts)


 


Last Updated: February 29, 2012