Concepts of Physics
Chapter 4
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Updated 10.21.2008
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Wednesday, October 22
- Buckle Up activity
- Intro. to Chapter 4: Inertia (Newton's First Law)
- Inertia Demonstrations: Eyore, tablecloth, headgear, pen in bottle, card/penny/glass, coin on elbow
- Next time question 4–1
Thursday, October 23
- Read Chapter 4 by today
- Answer Next Time Question 4-1
- Concept Development 4-1 (1st page)
- Mass is not weight! w=mg
- Demonstrate calculating mass and weight (Concept Development 4-1 page 2)
- Units of mass and weight; calculating weight
- Physics Demonstration DVD inertia demonstrations
Friday, October 24
- Air track demos
- Inertial balance demonstration
- Net force (overhead transparency)
- bird on a wire demonstrations - rope with weight and two people then 20 lb. dacron with 3.815 kg mass
- Equilibrium and vector addition of forces
- Aristotle's ideas of natural and violent motion
- Finish concept development 4-2
Monday, October 27
- P. 56, 1-8 due (hand in)
- Concept Development 4–3
- Balanced forces - Equilibrium - no net force on object - object does not accelerate
- Unbalanced forces - there is a net force on the object and it accelerates
- Introduction to force lab
Tuesday, October 28
- Sports Figures video: That mu you do
- Sports figures: Why do golf balls have dimples?
- This video is 10 years old; Tiger Woods is now a professional golfer
- 32 ft/s2 is used as an acceleration instead of 9.8 m/s2
Wednesday, October 29
Thursday, October 30
- Force Lab (continued)
- Work on homework
- P. 57, 13-19 due
- Friction
Monday, November 3
- Force Lab due
- Return & review homework
- Work on review problems and force lab
Tuesday, November 4
- Chapter 4 Review due
- Go over review
Wednesday, November 5
Thursday, November 6 and Friday, November 7
- No school – Parent/Teacher Conferences
Monday, November 10
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