Warm Up: 

Today:

• Check/review homework
• 2nd (and final) launch

Homework:

• Rocket project practice problems

Warm Up: 

Today:

• Create spreadsheets
• Rebuild rockets

Homework:

• Spreadsheet problems

Warm Up: 

Today:

• Return tests -- review answers
• Notes: Drag and terminal velocity
• Rocket rebuild

Homework:

• Drag problems

Warm Up: 

 None

Today:

• Test

Homework:

• Think about rocket improvements
• No other work

Class 6:

Warm Up: 

 Is it literally possible to "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps?"  What if you have superhuman strength and/or speed?  Explain. 

Today:

• Check/review homework
• Some test review
• Rocket launch

Homework:

• Study/Review:  Test next class over everything in the handout up to this point

Class 5:

Warm Up: 

What will happen if I poke a knife through a potato, hold both objects in the air with the knife pointing downward, and then hammer the butt of the knife into the potato?  Why?  What if it's an apple, because I didn't have potatoes?

Today:

• Check/review homework
• Newton Sled Activity (p.17-18, #1-5)
• Rocket Building Time

Homework:

• Newton Sled Problem(s) -- #6, p. 18-19

Class 4:

Warm Up: 

There is a heavy object suspended from the ceiling by a string.  Another segment of the same string is hanging downward from the object.  I am going to pull on the bottom string until one of the two strings breaks.  Which string is going to break first?  Why?

Today:

• Check/review homework
• Notes p.12-15: Newton's Laws of Motion
• Rocket Building Time

Homework:

• Practice problems on p.15-16