college prep forces 1

FORCES I
COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHYSICS

TEXTBOOK: Chapter 4, Sections 4.1 to 4.3, pages 124 -140.

OBJECTIVES:

State Newton's three laws of motion and display an understanding of their applications.
Investigate the relationships among mass, force, and acceleration.
Be able to use Newton's second law in solving problems.
Understand the difference between net forces that cause acceleration and action-reaction pairs.

ACTIVITIES:

TYPE	DESCRIPTION	DATE
EXPERIMENT	Investigating Force and Motion.	November 16
MULTI-MEDIA	Table Cloth Trick	November 17
MULTIMEDIA	Inertia	November 17
HOMEWORK	Read pages 130 - 135 and complete Conceptual Question Sheet - First Law.	November 17
EXPERIMENT	Investigating Force, Mass, and Acceleration.	November 19
HOMEWORK	Read pages 137 - 138 and complete Conceptual Question Sheet - Second Law	November 19
DEMONSTRATION	Moving Car and Bart	November 22
HOMEWORK	Read page 137 and complete Problem Set #1: page 138, # 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.	November 22
IN-CLASS ACTIVITY	Worksheet – Force and Motion.	November 29
HOMEWORK	Problem Set #2: page 152, # 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 29, 30, 32.	November 29
DEMONSTRATION	Ballistics' Car	November 30
DEMONSTRATION	Spool of Thread	November 30
MULTI-MEDIA	Car Crash	November 30
IN-CLASS ACTIVITY	Worksheet: Action - Reaction Forces.	November 30
HOMEWORK	Read page 138 and complete Conceptual Question Sheet - Third Law.	November 30
IN-CLASS ACTIVITY	Worksheet: Bowling Ball.	December 1
DEMONSTRATION	Scale with Two Weights	December 1
HOMEWORK	Review Problems - In Packet.	December 1
DEMONSTRATION	Investigating Newton’s Third Law	December 2
TEST	Forces I	December 7