AP Physics B (SP2XB)    (SPRING)                             Mr. Spergel

 

UNIT 1 – WAVES & OPTICS

 

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS

 

Please note that this list is tentative and can be modified at any time.  Unless otherwise indicated, all assignments are in the ÒProblemsÓ section at the end of the corresponding chapter in Serway and FaughnÕs College Physics, 6th Edition.

 

 

MECHANICAL WAVES & SOUND

                                                                  HW#     Read         Problems          Comments

The nature of waves

1

13.8-13.13

 

Quest S1

The nature of sound

2

14.1-14.3

 

Ò

Doppler effect, shock waves

3

14.5, 14.6

Q9, Q14, Q17

 

Interference, superposition, beats

4

14.7 14.11

30-32, 50, 52

 

Standing waves & resonance

5

14.8-14.12

42-48

skip 14.11

 

 

 

PHYSICAL OPTICS                                                           

                                                                  HW#    Read         Problems           Comments

The nature of light

6

TBA

On-Line

 

Polarization

7

24.9

Q11,Q14, Q18 

←questions 

Interference, Diffraction

8

24.1-24.8

1, 8, 35, 41 

 

Thin Films

9

24.4

14 - 19

 

 

 

GEOMETRIC OPTICS                                                       

                                                                  HW#    Read         Problems           Comments

Reflection

10

22.1-22.3

23.1

6, 17

2, 4 

←different

←chapters

Refraction

11

22.3-22.8

23.4, 23.5

7-9, 13-15 

←different

←chapters

Total Internal Reflection

12

22.8

34-38, 40, 43 

 

Spherical mirrors

13

23.2, 23.3, 23.7

  7-12

 

Thin lenses

14

23.6, 23.7

  29-35

  skip 33