Physics Jan-Feb
This type of pulley system is the favorite of the Smarter Every Day.
What is...Snatchblock! Extra GBs if you tell me which Greek mathematician used pulleys to move a boat, and why that was possible
The sound videos taught us some of these interesting facts.
What are....
_Sound can be weaponized
_Sound can levitate items
_Every item has it's own vibration, and when you match it's vibration with soundwaves, you make it vibrate and possibly break.
_The soundwaves of individual instruments combine into a completely different wave when they are played together.
_Sound is a compression wave
This is the writer, purpose, and year of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson, to tell England and the world that we were breaking away from England and forming our own nation, in 1776
These are some of the issues at hand in the American Civil War
What are
_Slavery
_State's Rights
_Economics
_Slave States vs Free States added into nation
These people defined the counter-revolution of the 1960's in part because of this war
What are hippies and the Vietnam War?
(Extra GBs for other related tidbits I shared with you)
This unit conversion was decided by the class when Jeff taught us, well, Unit Conversions
What is Markers per Grace-breath?
Extra GBs if you can do a unit conversion on the white board.
These are some the 4 themes and experiments we did with light.
What are
_Refraction (pencil in water, joker card with flipped image through water bottle)
_Chemical reactions making light (glow sticks)
_Reflection (Spoon as a mirror, laser maze)
_Light as heat (magnifying glass and leaf)
These are the major differences between the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary War
What are...
_Leaders seeking God's Will and help VS Anti-Christs
_Lack of desire to kill their king VS The Guillotine killing all royals and nobles
_1776-83 vs 1789-99
_George Washington VS Robespierre
_Orderly Gov't formed Vs Anarchy and instability
This is why and how the Archduke Ferdinand died and what resulted from the assassination
What is the shooting of him and his wife in their car because the Black Hand wanted Austria out of Slavic lands (Xtra GBs if you tell details)
This happened in 1989 and signaled the collapse of the Soviet Union
What is the Fall of Berlin Wall
(Xtra GBs if you can give the backstory in a nutshell: why it was built, what happened over time)
These statements by Newton describe how physics works.
What are the 3 Laws of Physics?
Extra GBs for each one you can name and explain
These 3 principles must work in tandem in order for a plane's wing to lift
What are
_Bernoulli's Principle (Xtra GB if you explain)
_Conservation of momentum (Air bounces off bottom of wing to make what happen?)
_Euler's equations on conservation of mass, momentum and energy altogether.
This was the purchase of millions of acres of land from Napoleon and the French in 1803 and lead to the Lewis and Clark Expedition
What is the Louisiana Purchase, which nearly doubled the land of the United States
This is the war between England and the US where neither one won, nor lost
OR
Remember the Alamo
OR
This woman was known as the American Moses for her work in leading slaves to freedom.
What is the War of 1812
or
What was the rallying cry of soldiers as they fought for independence from Mexico?
or
Who is Harriet Tubman?
(Extra GBs for telling more!)
This was born in the 1950s as the Baby Boomers entered the scene.
What is the subculture of the Teenager
or
Rock and Roll, TVs, Suburbs, road trips, Nasa, the Civil Right's Movement and other aspects of culture
This is what a Free-body Diagram shows us
What is a physical representation of Newton's second law of physics?
Extra GB if you can draw one on the whiteboard
These are some differences between the A-bomb and the H-bomb.
What are their
_Names (Atomic vs Hydrogen)
_Weights (144 lbs for A-bomb, 2 lbs for H bomb)
_Power (1 Hbomb=hundreds of A bombs)
_Destructive radius (1 mile vs 10 mile radius)
_Method: Fission (splitting atoms) vs fusion of atoms combined with fission.
_H-bomb gets hotter than the Sun.
Why, this is our nation's type of Government, of course!
And these are 3 of our Bill of Rights Amendments
What is a Democratic Republic?
And
1-Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
2-Right to keep and bear arms in order to maintain a well regulated militia.
3-No quartering of soldiers.
4-Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.
5-Right to due process of law, freedom from self-incrimination, double jeopardy.
6-Rights of accused persons, e.g., right to a speedy and public trial.
7-Right of trial by jury in civil cases.
8-Freedom from excessive bail, cruel and unusual punishments.
9-Other rights of the people.
10-Powers reserved to the states.
These are the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance nations of WWI.
OR
These are the 4 main ideas that contributed to WWI
What are France, England, and Russia VS Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
(Xtra GBs for any Xtra Info)
OR
Imperialism
Nationalism
Militarism
Alliances
These are some of the methods Hitler used to gain power in Germany and get people to believe in him and follow him.
What is...
_Became a politician (Xtra GBs for naming other occupations he tried for)
_Appealed to Germany's pride after losing WWI by blaming the Jews for their problems (Victim card)
_Brought the economy up and created jobs
_Got them to give him temporary dictatorship by framing a Communist for the burning of a government building
_Outlawed Homeschooling, Boy Scouts, etc and set children against their parents/traditions
_Harsh consequences for those who criticized him
π
It's digits
It's purpose
What is Pi?
What are 3.14159263539....
What are...how many times the diameter of a circle wraps evenly around it's circumference?
This is the name and credentials of our occasional guest teacher
Who is Jeff Brown, the physics clown, with a B. S. in Physics?
These are the 3 major branches of the US government, their people, and their function
What are the
Executive Branch (President who signs law and declares war, military, police force)
Legislative Branch (Congressmen in Senate and House of Representatives, who write the laws)
and
Judicial Branch (9 Supreme Court Justices who interpret whether laws are constitutional)
This is a pretty fitting list of the causes of the Great Depression
What are
_America's economic boom while Europe struggled
_Invention of Stock Market
_Many new inventions people took out loans for
_Speculation and buying stocks without care
_Inflation bubble
These are some of the heroes of WWII.
Who are
_Helmut Hubener
_Sophie Scholl
_Ten Boom family
_Sir Nicholas Winton
_Oskar Schindler
_Irene Sendler
(Xtra GBs for saying what they did)