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Coming into today's class many students were expecting to have a two hour delay. After there was no such delay many students where seriously disappointed. Of course, though, by Mr. Manning's fifth period physics class, the students in his class were able to recover and were excited with anticipation of starting class again. After the bell rang and the few stragglers that entered class were seated Mr. Manning began class. We started class with a homework check for five points of questions five and seven of the work sheet. After a few minutes of students jotting down what they believed to be the correct answers to the questions assigned, we spent the next ten minutes going over the homework in its entirety. Most of the class had little problems with the first few questions, but as we got to questions seven and eight Mr. Manning had to help and explain the work behind finding the answers to those problems. Question eight involved finding the area of the line on the graph to find impulse. After a few minutes many students had a better understanding of how to answer those sort of questions. We then moved on to a five part daily question which conceptually asked questions about impulse. Many students were at first puzzled by the questions but after finding out the pattern and relationship of the values involved in impulse they had a much better understanding of impulse conceptually. Or next assignment for class was to spend fifteen minutes to complete a worksheet on momentum and impulse. This worksheet reviewed the ideas that we have learned over the week and after it was completed, the class met as a group and went over the worksheet. By the end of going over the worksheet class was completed and it was time for lunch.