Forces & their effects on motion

What is the meaning of force? What are the different types of forces? What is the effect of unbalanced and balanced forces on motion?

1.0 Topic Outline and lesson guide

P8.0 Lesson Sequence - Forces

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Lesson Outline

P8.0 Unit overview - Forces

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Detailed lesson sequence & checklist

1.1 The meaning of force and types of forces

Objective: What are Contact and Non-contact forces?

Examples of forces

Recap

Teacher explanations

P9.1 Contact and non-contact forces

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Practice exercise

1.2 Forces between objects

Objective: When two objects interact, what can we say about the forces acting?

Intro to the 3 Laws

3rd Law Examples

Teacher explanations

P9.1 Interacting forces

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Practice exercise

1.3 Resultant force/Net force

Objective: What is a resultant force? What happens if the resultant force on an object is zero? What happens if the resultant force on an object is not zero?

Video tutorial

P9.3 newtons-second-law

Practise 1

Practice 2

P9.3 Resultant forces - Law #1 Balanced vs Law #2 Unbalanced forces

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1.4 Required practical - a = F/m

Video tutorial

Required practical

Capture interest

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1.5 Gravitational force - falling objects

Video tutorial

Video: Feeling weightless

Teacher explanations

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1.5 Balanced forces & Terminal velocity (1st law)

Video tutorial

Introduction - Inertia

Forces on a skydiver

Explanations

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