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August 31, 2011

Spreadsheets and Graphing

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Today we are going to graph the data for the five cars (or baby carriage or bike)  we measured traveling along Bancroft.

1. Start OpenOffice [You will find it in the Applications folder], don’t put any of your personal info in when it asks you, just click next next next until it asks you if you want to register, then click Ido not want to register.

and select Spreadsheet when it asks about the document you want to create.

2. Enter the  data for the first car into the cells of the spreadsheet:

 

3. Drag your mouse from the top left cell all the way to the bottom right cell [Don't Grab the BLACK BOX!!!]  if you do, Command-z to undo.  Then press the Chart button:   When the Chart Wizard pops up, choose xy scatter.

4. Click “Chart Elements” , unclick “Display Legend”, enter the title as well as the X and Y Axis names, and click Finish.

Graph each car and save your document as your name and graphing like this: Tony Farley graphing.ods

August 30, 2011

Tuesday, Aug. 30

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1. Speed

2. Calculate the speed of each car from yesterday.  Put the calculations and results on your graph.

3. Conversion with the computer.  Convert your speeds to Miles/Hour to see who was speeding ( the limit is 25 mi/hr).

Homework: Read pages 10-12 and answer the questions on page 13.  Write out the questions and answers completely.

August 29, 2011

Monday, Aug. 29

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No books needed today

1. Go out to Bancroft and measure the distance vs. time of 5 different cars.

2. Graph the results with distance on the y-axis and time on the x-axis. Use the whole page of graph paper by skipping 2 squares at a time.

August 26, 2011

Friday!

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No books needed today.

1. Binder and Homework check.

2. Measuring and Calculations discussion

3. Quiz

August 25, 2011

Thursday August 25th

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No books needed today

1. Homework Check

2. Table of Contents, title, and number the page with your homework with a big 1 inside a box.

3. Discussion of homework problems [Notes on page 2]

4. Measurements and calculations [Page 3]

Task: Measure the height, width, and length of the top of your table.

Calculate the area and volume of your tabletop.

August 18, 2011

First Day 2011/2012!

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Welcome to a year of physics learning!

1. Get Books.

Period 5 @ 12:15

Period 6 @ 1:15

Period 7 @ 2:15

2. Make a cover for your book and decorate it.  Put your first name very large on each side of the book and on the spine.
Also, decorate it with three things important to you and something physics related.

3. What you need for the class, how you will be graded, class procedures.

Homework: Do this all on one page in your binder.

Read pages 1-5 in the book.
Answer Review Questions 1-6 and #12 on page 8.  Write out each question in your notes as well as the answers.

 

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