2-19-09

Today is the third thursday of the month of February. The weather was cold as it typically is at this time of the year, but the students of Mr. Manning's fifth period physics class were not deterred. As usual I'm one of the first students to enter class that day and I take my seat in the center back row. After a few of the perennial late students strolled into class a few moments after the bell rang, we settled as group and waited for Mr. Manning to start teaching the things we would be learning for today. As we regularly do, we started this Thursday afternoon class with a daily question. The question asked us to find the final speed of a penny thrown off the Empire State Building. Many of the students in classed found the answer right away, but for a few it took some explaining. With some help we learned that when dealing with the conservation of energy the masses of the objects involved can be negated because they cancel each other out. Then Mr. Manning decided to surprise us students by giving us a pop quiz to make sure we understood everything that we have gone over in recent weeks. Everyone seperated and went to their on personal area in the class to prevent any cheating. After the short pop quiz we moved on to the next planned activity for the day which was completing the simulation labs we began the day before. We broke up into our groups and then continued to try and make sense out of the worksheet we were given. After sometime most of the worksheet was completed and only a few students had to complete the worksheet for homework.