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Honors Physics

Week 4 (9/13-9/17)

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Quiz	Acceleration	Acceleration,	Motion Graphs (v vs. t)	Catch the speeder lab

Equipment needed: pen/pencil, scientific calculator, notebook will be needed everyday

Graph paper & ruler will be needed on Thursday

Assignments:

Match Graph Lab Questions due Monday 9/13
Ch. 2 Section 2 Review Questions 5 & 6(p. 59) due Friday 9/17
Practice 2B problems (p. 49) due Friday 9/17

Important Vocabulary:

	acceleration
	positive acceleration
	negative acceleration
	deceleration (not the same as negative acceleration)

Watch out for misconceptions!

	negative acceleration does not always mean an object is slowing down (see table 2-3 on p. 51)
	Acceleration is a vector, and must have a direction.
	Negative signs denote direction. Negative velocity means velocity in the negative direction. Negative acceleration means acceleration in the negative direction.

Important Equations:

a = Δv/Δt

v_ave = 1/2 (v_i + v_f)