Force and Motion
Intro Text: pages 58-104. 10 day unit.
Conceptual Text: pages 10-102. 20 day unit.
Objectives
After completing this section, students will be able to:
1. identify and apply Newton's 3 laws,
2. define, compare and contrast velocity and speed,
3. define, compare and contrast velocity and acceleration,
4. define, compare and contrast momentum and force,
5. define, compare and contrast inertia and momentum,
6. define, compare and contrast weight and mass,
7. understand and explain the force of gravity,
8. understand circular and projectile motion,
9. apply mathematical formulas to compute velocity, acceleration, momentum and force.
>>>>>Click HERE for a nice outline of the formulas. Here is an outline on how to solve problems. And another one.
Activities
1. Timing velocity of Hot Wheels. Or foot races. Or a bubble in a tube. Breaking the law?
2. A Inertia, Momentum and Force Journal.
3. A Math Worksheet ,Word Problems Homework, and Vocabulary Homework.
4. A Web Lesson.
5. Motion and Force MPEGS
6. Julius Sumner Miller Demonstration MPEGS
7. Motion and Force Jeopardy, Round 1, Round 2.
8. A demonstration of the gyroscope using a bicycle wheel.
Intro Web Lessons
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1. Check the glossary http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/glossary.htm
2. Define these words
3. Rewrite Newton's 3rd http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/miscon/miscon4.html#newt
4. Shoot the cannon http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/Cannon/index.html
5. Coaster applet http://www.funderstanding.com/k12/coaster/
6. Velocity vectors
7. Newton's Laws http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/newt.html#fmaill
8. Quiz on Newton's Laws http://www.quia.com/jq/19675.html
9. Football Physics http://footballphysics.utk.edu/
Inertia, Momentum and Force Activity
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a. Shoot the cannon http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/Momentum/
Web Lessons
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1. Do the Mechanics lesson http://library.thinkquest.org/10796/index.html
2. Shoot the cannon http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/Cannon/index.html
3. Speed & Velocity http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/1DKin/U1L1d.html
4. Acceleration http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/1DKin/U1L1e.html
5. Freefall Calculations http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/1DKin/U1L5d.html
6. A Freefall Misconception http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/1DKin/U1L5e.html
7. Newton's Laws http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/newtlaws/newtltoc.html
8. More on Newton's Laws http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/newt.html#ntcon
9. Quiz on Newton's Laws http://www.quia.com/jq/19675.html
Enrichment sites
Football Physics http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/physics-of-football.htm
http://electron9.phys.utk.edu/
Recognizing Forces http://www.physicsclassroom.com/morehelp/recforce/recforce.html
Coaster Database http://www.rcdb.com/
Coaster Designers http://www.coasters.net/designers/Physics4Kids http://www.physics4kids.com/files/motion_main.html
Momentum applet http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/courses/gladney/phys1/lectures/lecture7/momentum_conservation.html
Pool Tables http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/Applets/Collision/jarapplet.html