Simulation Lab: Universal Law of Gravitation

Before Class Preparation:

In Class Activity:

  • Pear Deck: Universal Gravitation
  • Use this simulation to investigate the Universal Law of Gravitation
    • Design your own experiment and collect data
    • Use data and graph to determine the universal gravitation constant, G

After Class Work:

Free fall of a tennis/G-ball (Day 2)

Before Class Preparation:

  • BYOD laptop
  • Make sure you completed your raw data table in Google Classroom
  • Complete the linearization exercises in Google Classroom and check your work

In Class Group work:

  • Linearizing free fall equation
  • Reaction time: catching a metre stick
    • How does it affect your data?
  • Presenting data: Line Straightening & Slope

After Class Practice:

  • CK12
  • Edpuzzle

Quiz – Forces

Before Class Preparation:

  • Complete assigned CK12 exercises on forces

In Class Work:

10 minute group discussion

20 minute quiz: 3 questions on Forces

Can you:

  • Draw and label forces on a free body diagram on bodies in motion with or without air resistance.
  • Predict the motion of an object based on the size of relative forces.
  • Use a v-t graph to determine the forces acting on an object.
  • Determine the forces acting on objects moving with different types of motion in one dimension.
  • Based on a free body diagram:
    • Compare the sizes of forces on an object
    • Determine the net force of an object
    • Calculate the acceleration of an object and its direction of motion
    • Calculate the forces on an object

After quiz:

Newton’s 2nd Law Lab: Constant Applied Force

Before Class Preparation:

In Class Activity:

  • Newton’s 2nd law simulation: Constant mass
  • Newton’s 2nd law: Constant applied force
    • Data to be collected individually (7 choose 5 or 9 choose 6)
  • Rubric for Lab Skills Assessment

After Class Work:

  • Review:
  • Create an appropriate data table with Google sheets
  • Linearize the data
  • Create an appropriate scatter plot and add a trend line
  • Calculate the slope of the trend line