UNIT 5: PHYSICS IN ACTION

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS- What is inertia, acceleration, and gravity?- What are Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion and how can they be

applied to everyday principles?- How does a person’s center of mass effect their balance

and performance?- What is vertical accelerated motion and how can this be

applied to athletic jumping?- How does the surface effect the force due to friction, and

how does this affect an athlete’s performance?- What is momentum and how is it conserved?

CHAPTER CHALLENGE – DUE JANUARY 30- You will need to find a 2-3 minute sports clip (can be

recorded from TV or downloaded from the internet) of a sport that you enjoy watching/participating in

- You may work individually or with a group (max. 3 people)- You will explain the physics principles behind the sport

clip by either:- Submitting a written script- Performing a live narrative- Dubbing onto the video soundtrack- Recording on file

DAY 1: A RUNNING STARTLearning Objectives:- Understand and apply Galileo’s Principle of Inertia- Understand and apply Newton’s First Law of Motion- Recognize inertial mass as a physical property of matter

STARTERWatch the following videos and answer the questions:- What determines the amount of horizontal distance a

basketball player travels while “hanging” to do a slam dunk during a fast break?

- How do figure skaters keep moving across the ice at a high speed for long periods of time while seldom pumping their skates?

Time: 15 minutes

ACTIVITY 1Newton’s First Law of Motion

- Place some water in a plastic beaker.- Place a piece of paper under the beaker.- Try to remove the paper without spilling any water- Try this again using a different amount of water. Any

change?- Create a definition for Newton’s first law of motion based

on what you observed

- Time: 20 minutes

ACTIVITY 2- Make a target on a piece of paper- You are going to try to hit the target with a tennis ball as

you run past it- Make any changes to your definition for Newton’s first law

of motion based on what you observed- Time: 20 minutes

ACTIVITY 3- Complete steps 1-4 on pages 5 & 6- Record your data in a table you create- Time: 25 minutes

CLOSING & HOMEWORK- What does Newton’s First Law of Motion state?- Why is a ball’s return height not a mirror image when you

roll it down a ramp?- For you to read/Physics talk, page 8-12- Physics to go, pg. 13 # 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9

DAY 2: ADDING VECTORSLearning Objectives: - Recognize that a force is a push or pull- Identify the forces acting on an object- Determine when the forces on an object are either balanced or

unbalanced- Calibrate a force meter in arbitrary units- Use a force meter to apply measured amounts of force to objects- Compare amounts of acceleration semi-quantitatively - Understand and apply Newton’s Second Law of Motion- Understand and apply the definition of the newton as a unit of

force- Understand weight as a spatial application of Newton’s Second

Law

STARTER- What is a force?- What is Newton’s Second Law of Motion?- If you apply the same amount of force to the shot put and

the tennis ball, - Will they move the same distance?- Will one ball move farther than the other?- Why?

- Time: 15 minutes

ACTIVITY 1Choose 4 various masses and record their weight in newtons. Check that the mass is correct by taking the mass on the electronic scale.

How will acceleration be calculated? What do you notice about the acceleration of each mass? What does this number represent?Time: 25 minutes

Mass (kg) Force (N) Acceleration (m/s2)

ACTIVITY 2- Take a coffee mug and find its mass- Slide the coffee mug across the table at a slow, constant

speed. Record the force used to pull the mug. - Repeat, this time sliding the mug at a faster rate. Record

the force used to pull the mug.- Calculate the acceleration in both cases. What conclusion

can you make?- Time: 15 minutes

F = maa = F/m

ACTIVITY 3We will go to the computer lab to go through 2 activities:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/energy_electricity_forces/- Go to “Forces” and do the “revise”, “activity”, and “test”

http://learner3.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/bumpercars/- Work through the bumper car problems

- Time: 30 minutes

CLOSING & HOMEWORK- Read physics talk/for you to read, Pg. 18-22- Physics to go, Pg 23. #1, 2, 5, 9- Choose any 3 calculation questions from #3, 4, 11-18

DAY 3: CENTER OF MASSLearning Objectives:- Locate the centre of mass of oddly shaped 2-D objects- Infer the location of the cenre of mass of symmetrical 3-D

objects- Measure the approximate location of the centre of mass of

body- Understand that the entire mass of an object may be

thought of as being located at the object’s centre of mass

STARTER- Watch the video of the world high jump record being set

(2.45m) by Javier Sotomayor. Sotomayor is 1.95m tall.- Think of the following questions after you watch:

- What is center of mass? What does this mean?- Where is your body’s center of mass?- The high jump technique to get over the bar is called the

Fosbury Flop. Where is the person’s center of mass when they are trying to get over the high jump bar?

- Time: 15 minutes

ACTIVITY 1- Cut out the shapes from the templates onto construction

paper- Draw the shapes in your notebook as well- For shapes A, B, and C, try to locate the object’s center of

mass- Where will the object balance on your finger?

- Mark the balance points on your sketch in your notebook and on your object

- Time: 30 minutes

ACTIVITY 2- You will now test to see if your balance point was accurate- Follow steps 3-7 on pp. 28-29- Record the answers to the questions in your notebook as

you go along- Time: 40 minutes

ACTIVITY 3- Watch the following videos to determine the athlete’s

center of mass- How do you make a football player fall?- What do you notice about the gymnast’s center of mass?- Time: 10 minutes

CLOSING & HOMEWORKPhysics to Go, pg. 30, #1, 2, 3, 5

DAY 4: DEFY GRAVITY Learning Objectives:- Measure changes in height of the body’s center of mass

during a vertical jump- Calculate changes in the gravitational potential energy of

the body’s center of mass during a vertical jump- Understand and apply the definition of work- Recognize that work is equivalent to energy- Understand and apply the joule as the unit of work and

energy- Apply conservation of work and energy to the analysis of

a vertical jump

STARTER“No athlete can escape the pull of gravity.”

From previous videos:- Was Michael Jordan able to defy gravity when he went up for

his slam dunk?- Was Katarina Witt able to defy gravity while doing a double

axel?- Did Javier Sotomayer defy gravity when breaking the world

record for high jump?- Did Dominique Dawes defy gravity when she did a double-

back in the air?- Explain your answers- Time: 15 minutes

ACTIVITY 1- Watch the video of the skater doing a triple axel- You will count the number of frames the skater is in the air

- Each frame appears to be “jerky”- Each frame is 1/30 seconds- You will calculate the skater’s “hang time”

- Time in air = Number of frames x 1/30- Watch the video of the basketball player doing a slam dunk- Calculate the basketball player’s “hang time”- Did either athlete “hang” in the air? Explain.- Time: 15 minutes

ACTIVITY 2You will work with your group to analyze a vertical jump- Complete steps 3-8 on pp. 32-34- Record your data and answers as you go along- 1 answer sheet/group will be handed in at the end of the

lesson- Time: 35 minutes

CLOSING & HOMEWORK- Read “for you to read”, pp. 35-39- Read “physics talk”, pp. 40-42- Physics to go, pp. 43-44, Choose any 6 calculations

Formulas:Work (J)= Force (N) x distance (m)Work (J) = Kinetic energy (J) = Potential energy (J)Potential energy (J) = Mass (kg) x acceleration due to gravity (9.8m/s2) x height (m)Kinetic energy (J) = ½ x Mass (kg) x velocity2 (m/s)

DAY 5: RUN AND JUMPLearning Objectives:- Understand the definition of acceleration- Understand meters per second per second as the unit of

acceleration- Use an accelerometer to detect acceleration- Use an accelerometer to make comparisons of

acceleration- Distinguish between acceleration and decceleration

STARTERPretend you have met somebody who has never jumped before.- What instructions would you provide to get the person to

jump up?- Where do they need to apply force?- What actions do they need to do?- Give instructions to someone in your group to see if they

are accurate - Time: 15 minutes

ACTIVITY 1Pg. 45, step 1

ACTIVITY 2Pg. 46, step 2, 3

ACTIVITY 4Pg. 47, step 4-6

CLOSING & HOMEWORKPhysics to Go-Pg. 48 #1, 3, 6

Stretching Exercise-If you have access to an elevator, complete the exercise-If you don’t, watch a clip on Youtube showing what happens to the needle on a bathroom scale when you are in an elevator

DAY 6: THE MU OF THE SHOELearning Objectives:- Understand and apply the definition of the coefficient of

sliding friction, μ- Measure the coefficient of sliding friction between the

soles of athletic shoes and a variety of floor surfaces- Calculate the effects of frictional forces on the motion of

objects

STARTERA shoe store may sell as many as 100 different kinds of sports shoes. - Look at the pictures and explain the difference between

the shoes- Why do different sports require different shoes?- What shoes would the sports be used for?- Time: 15 minutes

ACTIVITY 1Follow steps 1-4 on pg. 50-52- Use any shoe you want, you may want to use 2 different

shoes to compare how the soles of the shoe affect how it slides across 2 different surfaces

- Surface choices:- Smooth: table, tiles at back of room, lab bench surface- Rough: carpet, grass, cement walkway

- For the “filler”, you can use the masses on the back table- Time: 45 minutes

ACTIVITY 2CalculationsYour running shoe has a weight of 3.5N. The shoe slides across a surface when a horizontal force of 12N is applied to it. What is the coefficient of sliding friction?

What do you know?- Force to slide shoe = 12N- Weight of shoe = 3.5N

Solve:μ = force required to slide object on surface at a constant speed perpendicular force exerted by the surface of the object = 3.5N 12 = 0.29

CLOSING & HOMEWORKYou may use this time to work on your chapter challenge

Homework: - Read Physics Talk, pg. 53- Physics to Go, pg. 54-55 #1, 2, 3, 4, 5- Assignment, pg. 55 #8

DAY 7: CONCENTRATING ON COLLISIONS (60 MINS)Learning Objectives:- Understand and apply the definition of momentum- Conduct quantitative analysis of the momentum of pairs

of objects involved in 1-D collisions- Infer the relative masses of two objects by observing

collisions between the objects

STARTERIn contact sports, very large forces happen during short time intervals.- Name 3 sports where collisions happen, and what the

collisions are in the sports- If 2 athletes have a head-on collision, what factors

determine which player will make it through the collision?- Time: 15 minutes

ACTIVITY 1Complete steps 1-7 on pp. 56-58

- Balls to use are on the back lab bench- Wood pieces to assemble ramps are on back lab bench- Record observations and answer questions as you go

along- Hand in 1/group when completed

CLOSING & HOMEWORKPhysics to Go, pg. 59 #1, 2, 3, 6

DAY 8: SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT Presentation of Commentary on Sporting Event