HONORS PHYSICS (HP) – LESSON PLANS & ASSIGNMENTS
UNIT 8: OPTICS & QUANTUM MECHANICS
HP does not meet B & F Days. Labs on D Days.
Online resource for Geometric Optics:
http://wps.prenhall.com/esm_giancoli_physicsppa_6/17/4359/1116016.cw/index.html
Objectives:
Law of Reflection / Types of Mirrors (23.1 - Two Slit interference, Diffraction Gratings (24.3,
23.3) 24.6)
Law of Refraction / Types of Lenses (23.4 – Thin Film Interference (24.8)
23.6) Polarization (24.10)
Simple Ray Tracing: image, object, and focal Early Quantum Mechanics (27.1-27.4)
lengths (23.7, 23.8) Wave/Particle Duality (27.7-27.8,27.13)
Images: Virtual/ Real; Inverted/Upright; Heisenberg Formulation of QM (28.3)
Diminished/Magnified Schrodinger Formulation of QM (28.2)
DAY/DATE/BLOCK CLASS ACTIVITIES HOMEWORK
M 04/04 H Test 7 – Unit 7 READ pp. 632-633 + pp. 642-647
Tu 04/05 A - Correct Test 7 DO p. 657, Q 9-14, 17 + p. 658 Pbs 1, 4
- Ray Model of Light (HW 8.1)
- Intro to refraction: Snell’s law, total internal
reflection, fiber optics
- Summary HO
- Practice Worksheet
W 04/06 B No Class
Th 04/07 C - Correct HW DO p. 658 Pbs 25, 27, 30, 36, 37 (HW 8.2)
- Refraction Lab Refraction Lab Report due 04/11
F 04/08 D-LAB No Class - Conference READ pp. 633-642
Work on Progress Report
M 04/11 E - Refraction Lab Report due DO p. 657 Q 1, 3-5, 7, 18, 19, 21 (HW 8.3)
- 2nd semester project progress report due
- Correct HW
- Intro to Reflection: law of reflection, virtual & real images,
convex, planar and concave mirrors.
- Practice Worksheet
Tu 04/12 F No Class
W 04/13 G - Correct HW REVIEW for Quiz 8.1
- End mirrors, image object and focal distances, virtual/real,
convergent/divergent, enlarged/diminished,
upright/inverse
- Practice Worksheet for Quiz
Th 04/14 H - Quiz 8.1 READ p. 615-623 & p. 647-656
- Correct HW DO p. 658 Pbs # 2, 3, 5, 7
- Curved Mirror Lab (HW 8.4)
Curved Mirror Lab due 04/15 or 04/26
F 04/15 A - Correct HW DO p. 660-661 Pbs # 45, 47, 52, 53, 55
- Ray Tracing wrap-up: lenses (HW 8.5)
- Intro to Ray Tracing : Virtual Ray Tracing Phet Lab END Virtual Ray Tracing Phet Lab
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HONORS PHYSICS (HP) – LESSON PLANS & ASSIGNMENTS
M 04/18 – F 04/22 SPRING VACATION
M 04/25 B No Class
Tu 04/26 C - Virtual Ray Tracing Phet Lab due Lenses Lab due 04/27
- Mirror Lab due END Class worksheet (possibly)
- Correct HW
- Lenses Lab
W 04/27 D-LAB - Polarization, Intro to path length difference READ pp. 679-690
- Practice Worksheet DO p. 691 Q 27-31 (HW 8.6)
- Diffraction Pattern Lab Reports due 05/02
Th 04/28 E - Diffraction Pattern Lab End Path Length Difference WKSHT
- Practice WKSHT – Path Length Difference
F 04/29 F No Class
M 05/02 G - Diffraction Lab report due READ pp. 754-763
- Correct HW DO p. 691 Q 5-8, 22, 23, 26 +p. 692 Pbs
- PP: Huygens’ principle & diffraction + Light Dispersion + 1-5 + p. 693 Pb 44 (HW 8.7)
Diffraction by a single slit or disk + Diffraction Grating
Tu 05/03 H - Correct HW Thin Film Lab Report due 05/06
- Thin film interference + Thin Film Interference Lab
- More practice
W 05/04 A - Correct HW Review for Quiz 8.2
- More Thin Film Practice
Th 05/05 B No Class
F 05/06 C - Correct HW Thin Film Interference Home Quiz
- Quiz 8.2
M 05/09 D-LAB - Correct Quiz READ pp. 754-765 & 769-779
- Begin Quantum Mechanics: Photoelectric Effect DO p. 782 Q 1-6 (HW 8.8)
- Photoelectric Effect Phet Lab END Photoelectricity Phet Lab
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Tu 05/10 E - Correct HW READ pp. 765-768 & 780-781
- The Bohr atom & De Broglie DO p. 782 Q 11-14 (HW 8.9)
DO (Handouts) pbs 17.1 & 17.2
W 05/11 F No Class
Th 05/12 G - Correct HW Possibly Pb 17.3 (Wave-particle duality
- Matter as waves (Wave-particle duality) handout)
- Heisenberg + Schroedinger
F 05/13 H Review for Test 8 – Unit 8 REVIEW for Test 8
M 05/16 A Test 8 – Unit 8 TBD
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