Unit 3- Uniform Acceleration

Unit 2 - Uniform Acceleration

Week 1 10/24- 10/25

  1. Thursday-Acceleration Lab
    1. Homework - Read about motion maps for accelerating objects
  2. Friday- Introduction to acceleration - I will be gone, continue the lab

Week 2 - 10/28- 11/1

  1. Monday - Teacher lead discussion on worksheet 1 - What is accelerated motion and how can we represent it graphically?
  2. Tuesday - Continue discussion on graphically representing accelerated motion
    1. Homework - Worksheet 2 - Understanding motion maps applications for accelerated motion.
    2. Worksheet 1 - Notes on deriving acceleration ANSWER KEY FROM IN CLASS NOTES
  3. Wednesday - Whiteboard homework - Understanding motion maps applications for accelerated motion.
    1. Homework - Worksheet 2B - Various interpretations of accelerated motion.
  4. Thursday - Group discussion - Worksheet 2B - Various interpretations of accelerated motion.
    1. Answer Key and Notes
  5. Friday - Quiz on stacks of graphs

Week 3 - 11/4-11/8

  1. Monday - Planet Freefall problem
  2. TUESDAY - Goeldi is sick today
    1. Derive equation Kinematic Equation Number Three
    2. Work on the follow up question after.
  3. Wednesday- Whiteboard discussion - worksheet 4 - interpreting graphs of accelerating objects
  4. Thursday- Quiz on quantifying velocity time graphs
    1. Start the free fall lab
  5. Friday- Work on lab - How does mass affect free fall


Week 4 - 11/11-11/15

  1. Monday -Work on Free Fall Lab
  2. Tuesday- Conduct research for How does Mass Affect Acceleration for a Falling Body?
  3. Wednesday- Analyze the data you recorded for the lab
  4. Thursday- Juniors will be gone - time to work on lab report
  5. Friday
    1. Video
    2. Example of how to solve a story problem in Physics

Week 5- 11/18-11/22

  1. Monday- Present findings on how mass affects acceleration
  2. Tuesday - Whiteboard Worksheet 5- Quantifying acceleration

  3. Wednesday- Whiteboard Review

  4. Thursday- Tests on Accelerated Motion
  5. Friday- Bowling ball races


10- Review Worksheet on Accelerated motion.pdf
Key08-Worksheet 5- quantitative acceleration problems-Key

Helpful websites to assist with the kinematics

Changing Velocity time graph

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