Best Practice High School

Conceptual Physics Unit #12

(THREE WEEK SCHEDULE)

MECHANICS - CONSERVATION OF ENERGY

Labs (215)

 

12-1 Spring Energy (50)

12-2 Horsepower Races (50)

12-3 The Pendulum Energy (50)

12-4 Work and Potential Energy (20)

12-5 Elastic and Inelastic Collision (30)

 

Worksheet: (150)

 

12-1 Work and Energy (50)

 

12-2 Review Questions (50)

(1 -20)

 

12-3 Plug and Chug (50)

(1-10)

 

Reading: (25)

Chapter 8
Pages 103-118

 

Summarize the Chapter on a Full Sheet Of Paper

 

 

POINTS GRADES

 

400 A

350 B

300 C

250 D

 

 

 
Definitions (60)

 

  • Efficiency 
  • Energy 
  • Fulcrum 
  • Joule 
  • Kinetic 
  • Energy 
  • Law of Conservation of Energy 
  • Lever Machine 
  • Mechanical Advantage 
  • Mechanical Energy 
  • Potential Energy 
  • Power 
  • Pulley 
  • Watt 
  • Work 
 

Test (150)

 

Bell Quiz #1 (25)

Bell Quiz #2 (25)

Final Exam (100)

 

 

POINTS:

 

LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS (200)

WORKSHEETS   (150)

READING   (25)

DEFINITIONS    (60)

TEST     (150)


TOTAL 550
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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