Best Practice High School

Conceptual Physics Unit #8

(THREE WEEK SCHEDULE)

SOUND & WAVES

Labs (250)

 

9-1 How Waves Act (50)

9-2 The Straw Trumpet (15)

9-3 Standing Waves On a Spring (25)

9-4 Standing Waves in 2 D. (40)

9-5 Standing Waves in Aluminum (25)

9-6 Standing Waves in RippleTank(15)

9-7 Velocity and Tension (25)

9-8 Superposition (25)

9-9 Doppler Effect (15)

9-10 Measuring Frequency Strobe (15)

 

Worksheet: (70)

 

9-1 Wave Pictures (25) 

9-2 Wave Problems (45)

 

 

Reading: (50)

 

Chapter #25 

Vibrations and Waves (25)

Pages 372-386

 

Chapter #26 

Sound (25)

Pages 390-400

 

 

Video: (25)

 

9-1 One Page Summary of Notes (25)

 

 

 

Grades:

 

A 400

B 350

C 300

D 250

  

 

Definitions (45)

 

  • Amplitude 
  • Crest 
  • Doppler Effect 
  • Frequency 
  • Fundamental Frequency 
  • Harmonic 
  • Longitudinal Wave 
  • Node 
  • Period 
  • Pitch 
  • Resonance 
  • Superposition 
  • Transverse Waves 
  • Trough 
  • Wave Wavelength 
 

 

Test

 

Bell Quiz #1 (25)

Bell Quiz #2 (25)

Bell Quiz #3 (25)

 

Final Exam (100)

 

 

 

Points:

 

Labs (250)

Worksheets (50)

Reading (50)

Video (25)

Definitions (45)

Test (175)

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Total Point (595)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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