Optional Assignments

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Listed below are assignments that are optional for AP Physics 1 students.  These assignments are not required!  The intent is to enrich the educational experience, provide additional practice, and give an opportunity to the student to improve his or her average.

These assignments are not extra credit.  The assignments will be graded as usual for quality and content.  The score will then be "averaged in" by adding the points to the student's record of grades or replacing a lower grade of equal value for the same subject matter.  Note: only quality work should be submitted for a grade; it will become a permanent addition to the student's record and could conceivably actually lower the numerical average.


Optional Assignments - AP Physics 1
Description Value Due Date
Homework Problems - Measurement & Graphing 50 points Mon 31 Jan
Lab - Projectiles Video or Strobe Photograph 50 points Mon 28 Feb
Lab Report - Conical Pendulum 50 points Mon 11 Apr
Lab Report - Conservation of Momentum 50 points Mon 25 Apr
Write a Problem - Make Up Your Own 50 points Mon 16 May

The due dates shown will be strictly observed except in the case of a student with a failing grade.
Any student with a failing grade may turn in any of these assignments at any time before the end of the term.