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Objective:  SWBAT build and test circuits in series and in parallel.

Warm Up:  Pick up a lab packet.  Silently pre-read the lab and make a list of the materials you will need.

1/30

Objective:  SWBAT build virtual circuits and test them for current and voltage.

Warm Up:  Pick up one handout.  Get into a group of three and choose a computer to work on.

1/27

Objective:  SWBAT calculate equivalent resistance, current and voltage drop in a parallel circuit.


Warm Up:  Diagram a circuit that contains a 12 V battery, a 3ohm resistor, a 5 ohm resistor, a light bulb with 1 ohm of resistance and a closed switch.  Calculate the equivalent resistance and total current of the ciruit, as well as the current and voltage drop through each "resistor" (including the light bulb).

1/26

Objective:  SWBAT diagram a circuit as well as calculate the equivilent resistance, current and voltage within the circuit.

Warm Up:  With one partner and using one battery, one wire, and one light bulb ONLY, arrange your circuit so that the light bulb is lit.

1/24

It's Tremendous Tuesday-  brace yourselves for the peak of a solar storm due to hit us during class!

Objective:  SWBAT review for tomorrow's test of Electrostatics and Electrical Energy.

Warm Up:  I wanna give a shout out to the sun for providing us with an excellent event to discuss electromagnitism!  What happens during a solar flare and why are scientists and cummunications managers so interested in them?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72O5LWkywuM&feature=player_embedded

1/23

Objective:  SWBAT practice solving problems involving static electricity

Warm Up:  Determine the electric field 0.2 m away from an isolated charge of 15 uC using a test charge of 0.8 uC.

1/20

Objective:  SWBAT understand the force on a point charge in an electrical field and the energy associated with its position in the field.

Warm Up:  Write an equation for the total energy an object can have that includes terms for each of the types of energy that we have studied.