Unit 3- Uniform Acceleration
Unit 2 - Uniform Acceleration
Week 1 10/24- 10/25
- Thursday-Acceleration Lab
- Friday- Introduction to acceleration - I will be gone, continue the lab
Week 2 - 10/28- 11/1
- Monday - Teacher lead discussion on worksheet 1 - What is accelerated motion and how can we represent it graphically?
- Tuesday - Continue discussion on graphically representing accelerated motion
- Homework - Worksheet 2 - Understanding motion maps applications for accelerated motion.
- Worksheet 1 - Notes on deriving acceleration ANSWER KEY FROM IN CLASS NOTES
- Wednesday - Whiteboard homework - Understanding motion maps applications for accelerated motion.
- Homework - Worksheet 2B - Various interpretations of accelerated motion.
- Thursday - Group discussion - Worksheet 2B - Various interpretations of accelerated motion.
- Friday - Quiz on stacks of graphs
Week 3 - 11/4-11/8
- Monday - Planet Freefall problem
- TUESDAY - Goeldi is sick today
- Wednesday- Whiteboard discussion - worksheet 4 - interpreting graphs of accelerating objects
- Thursday- Quiz on quantifying velocity time graphs
- Start the free fall lab
- Friday- Work on lab - How does mass affect free fall
Week 4 - 11/11-11/15
- Monday -Work on Free Fall Lab
- Tuesday- Conduct research for How does Mass Affect Acceleration for a Falling Body?
- Wednesday- Analyze the data you recorded for the lab
- Thursday- Juniors will be gone - time to work on lab report
- Friday
- Video
- Example of how to solve a story problem in Physics
Week 5- 11/18-11/22
- Monday- Present findings on how mass affects acceleration
- Tuesday - Whiteboard Worksheet 5- Quantifying acceleration
- Wednesday- Whiteboard Review
- Thursday- Tests on Accelerated Motion
- Friday- Bowling ball races
Helpful websites to assist with the kinematics
Acceleration is defined as the rate of change of velocity.
The slope of a velocity time graph shows you your acceleration. If you have a constant slope for a velocity time graph, you have constant uniform acceleration.
An object in free fall will accelerate towards the Earth at a constant rate of -9.8 m/s/s.
We use the letter "g" to represent -9.8 m/s/s acceleration.
Bowling Ball Drop
1.) http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-a-bowling-ball-and-feather-fall-in-world-s-biggest-vacuum-chamber
http://dev.physicslab.org/document.aspx?doctype=3&filename=kinematics_derivationkinematicsequations.xml
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/1DKin/U1L4a.cfm
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Mechanics/motgraph.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3xeOA6MMDc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/add_ocr_pre_2011/explaining_motion/describingmotionrev3.shtml