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PS2 1 Newton's Second Law
Project Zero THINKING ROUTINES
Phenomenon
Watching the direction a spinning wrench travels WIS
What did you see in the movie?
What are you curious about?
What questions do you have?
Motion:
Force and motion
Friction
Acceleration
EXTRA: PULLEYS
Pulley Inquiry activity
Aerospace applications: Pulleys WIS
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HS-PS2-1 Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
Analyze data to support the claim that Newton’s second law of motion describes the mathematical relationship among the net force on a macroscopic object, its mass, and its acceleration.
Performance Expectation
Grade: High School (9-12)
Prior Knowledge/Preview
Simple machine review Idaho Public TV
Newton's Law Review and the Hero engine WIS
Forces of Flight: Vertical Take off Smithsonian Learning Lab
Aerospace CONNECTIONS:
Applications and examples
Pulleys WIS
and part ii 120 ton lift start at 1 minute NASA
Newton's 2nd Law demo in Space NASA
Flight control including pulleys FAA
Measuring acceleration in coronal ejections NASA
Newton's Laws in Space Christa McAuliffe Lesson NASA
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Inquiry science
Printable activity
Energy for Life: Cell Respiration activity Go To Lessons 4.3 & 4.4 CK-12
On-line activity
Scroll to the questions in the Cellular Respiration Summary after seeing the videos Texas Gateway
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LAB activities
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Lab #1 Measuring forces
Lab #2 Launch forces
Lab #3 Projectile Motion
Lab #4 Pulley use: the bosun's chair WIS
Lab #5 Pulley inquiry lab--link will be added Washington International School
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EXTENSION material for the curious
PhET Forces and Motion
PhET simulation on projectile motion
Projectile motion with Barney WIS
Part ii Pulley calculations WIS
To consider after you have investigated Newton's Laws:
Why did Newton, an Englishman, write in Latin?
Who would be able to read his Principia Mathematica? Is this limited access fair? Why/whynot?
Newton's First Law
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An object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant velocity, unless acted upon by a force
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Sum of forces = 0 Change in velocity dv/dt = 0
An object that is at rest will stay at rest unless a force acts upon it.
An object that is in motion will not change its velocity unless a force acts upon it.
The property where massive bodies resist changes in motion is called inertia
PS2 2 Momentum
Project Zero THINKING ROUTINES
Prior Knowledge/Preview
Smithsonian Learning Lab
Phenomenon
Look at Car Crash Test video IIHS
See inertia at 2 mins into video
See momentum at 5 mins into video
See impulse at 6 mins
G forces at 7.5 mins
Conservation of momentum at 11 mins
Which parts, in particular, help your understanding of momentum and inertia?
Momentum and Collisions
Conservation of Momentum
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HS-PS2-2 Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
Use mathematical representations to support the claim that the total momentum of a system of objects is conserved when there is no net force on the system.
Performance Expectation
Grade: High School (9-12)
Pocket nozzles
Pixy.org CC0
Aerospace CONNECTIONS:
Applications and examples
Momentum in Space NASA
Rocket nozzle design NASA
Inquiry science
Printable activity
under development
On-line activity
Spaceplace Momentum NASA
Momentum quiz CK-12
LAB activities follow safety guidelines linked above and in the activity
Lab #1 introduction to momentum
Lab #2 conservation of momentum
Lab #3 impulse and collisions
Lab #4 PhET simulation momentum
Lab #5 Dolphin momentum and robotics Bitescis
Lab #6 Forces and motion PhET
EXTENSION material for the curious
Momentum in re-entry FAAIdeal rocket equation NASA
More momentum questions OR.US
Momentum wheel attitude control of ATS-6 Satellite Smithsonian NASM -see images below:
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Momentum, p, makes it hard for an object to stop
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Momentum is numerically equal to the mass of an object x velocity
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Unit of momentum = kg.m/s
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p = mv
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Momentum video: scroll down for video Bozeman Science
