Physics is taught by Mr. Ellis, and it is by far the most conventional and hardest class at Mass Academy. A typical class begins with Mr. Ellis talking about the notes we had for homework. After he finishes talking, we usually work on practice problems. We also design and perform labs, and there are tests and quizzes in each unit.
In one lab, we were split into groups of three and tasked to design a lab that incorporated a spring of some sort. My group decided to do a lab on how the amount of spring compression affects the distance traveled by a Lego block on the surface of a table. To the left is a picture of one of my lab partners and me about to release the Lego block from the spring.
At the end of some chapters, we also get Über problems, which are large problems that require multiple steps to complete. Each student gets their own set of starting values, and making a mistake anywhere in the process will cause the final answer to be wrong. In my first Über problem of the year, there was a guy who launched his pet hamster in a rocket, and I had to calculate the distance that the rocket landed from the starting point. Usually, it takes a few tries to get Über problems correct, but for this one, I got it right the first time.