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=Intensive Physics Course @ Dwight=

3rd week of June, 2011
Dear Students,

We'll use a wiki to organise our weeklong intensive physics course around. I guess that there are two reasons for this. One, it will be good to have something to refer back to after the course from wherever you are spending your summerly holidays. Second, I hope to ease the interaction with you and, though that is more likely to occur when we use it for a longer period of time (he, we might continue using it in the Fall it we like it), the interaction among all of us.

It shall be nothing too fancy these pages, forgive me for that.

We'll be making use of the Khan Academy video which is a very useful endeavour by Sal Khan to share resources. To this end, you will all need to sign up before you start watching the videos I link below at the Khan Academy and choose me as a coach, you can find instructions via this screenshot: ClassProfileKhanAcademy.png.

I'll put some jump off pages below on the rough outline of the week. //God said, Let Newton be! — and all was light.//
 * All classes will be held in the Biology classroom in the Science Block.**
 * Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * 8:45 - 16:00 || 8:45 - 16:00 || 8:45 - 12:15 || 8:45 - 12:15 || 8:45 - 16:00 ||
 * speaking a common lingo || intro to labs || lab feedback || the hamster in that wheel -**uniform circular motion** || //Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.// - **relativistic kinematics** ||
 * moving through space-time - **1D kinematics** || practice lab || formal lab || //Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night://
 * Gravitational field** ||  ||
 * may the force be with you -**dynamics** || doing **work**, getting **energized**, and feeling **powerful** ||  ||   ||   ||

coffee -it's going to be a long day if you have one, your laptop binder with paper and pencil and a ruler more coffee or chocolate coated coffee beans calculator sunscreen and if you fancy a swimsuit (you may never let anybody know I will take a physics class outside, ever!)
 * Things to have with you each day**:

For completion sake, here you can find: [|PhysicsIBDP2009Guide.pdf] (do **not** print, some 1.5 x 10² pages!, just download) [|PhysicsIBDP2009DataBooklet.pdf] (do not print, if you haven't got a copy, I have one for you) [|lab_criteria.pdf] (do not print, I will make copies of this)

Make sure to check here regularly, such as each day, I may add stuff as the week progresses.

Best, Arno Dirks