Vehicles in Motion

1. The Coaster-Car Challenge: Design and Build a Coaster Car That Goes Straight and Far

• Messing About Observations: Toy Car
• Messing About Observations: Coaster Car

1.Think About How to Make Your Coaster Car Go Straight and Far

2.Design a Test Procedure for Measuring Vehicle Performance

• Testing My Design
• Solution-Briefing Notes

3.How Straight Is Your Coaster Car Traveling?

• Finish-Line Procedure and Results

4.What Is Keeping Your Coaster Car From Going Straight and Far?

5.Finding Friction: Coaster-Car Inspections

• Sources of Friction

6.Revise Your Design

• Testing My Design
• Solution-Briefing Notes
• Redesigning My Vehicle
• Create Your Explanation

7.Speed Trials

8.The Physics Triple Play

9.Combining Forces

• Redesigning My Vehicle
• Create Your Explanation
• Force Diagrams
• Coaster-Car Motion Storyboard

2. How Will Carrying a Load Affect Your Vehicle's Performance?

1. Think About How Carrying a Load Will Affect Your Vehicle's Performance

2.What Is the Relationship Between Mass and Acceleration?

3.What Is the Effect of Mass on the Acceleration of Your Propeller Car?

• My Experiment: Procedure
• My Experiment: Results

4.Stopping on a Dime

• Mass and Acceleration | (spanish)

5.An Overview of Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion

• Newton's First Law | (spanish)
• Newton's Second Law | (spanish)
• Newton's Third Law | (spanish)

6.Designing a Better Propeller Car

• Design Decisions

7.Design and build a vehicle that will go straight, far, and fast, and carry a load

• Bicycle Motion Storyboard