My teacher for Physics is Mr. Ellis. Our class covers the same content as AP Physics 1 and AP Physics C. So far, we’ve covered kinematics, forces, work and power, and rotational concepts. We go back and forth taking notes on note sheets and practicing the content on practice problems. During the day, Mr. Ellis often goes over the notes to make sure we understand the topics and gives the rest of the time for us to try it out. Each unit is in two parts, the first part is learning the material and the second part is applying it through Uber problems, labs, or EOC(end of chapter) problems. At the end of the unit, we take a themed test (with our names included in the problems) to test our understanding.
Uber problems are given at the end of a unit and are long problems that tests our knowledge about the entire unit. Each problem is the same with different starting variables, which means we can ask each other for help on the process, but we won’t have the same answers. Once we get our solution, we check with Mr. Ellis to see if it is right, and once it is, we have to write up a formal document with our methods. This uber problem was for our kinematics unit, with a rocket shooting upwards and landing with a parachute.
Another uber problem was for our forces unit. This problem used a pulley system to launch an object a certain distance and said object would slide across the ground. The problem was to figure out the coefficient of friction for when the object slides across the ground. This was different than most other problems because we are given the final distance of the object. This means we have to work backward, substituting variables for numbers.