Air Track Collision Data

Use the data set from your 3rd tri period.  Create a scaled (ish) if chart for one of the trials.

For 1st hour, one person from your group needs to do one of the first three trials, a second person needs to do one of the trials from four through six, and the third person needs to do either trial seven or trial eight.

Here's the data for 1st hour.

For 2nd hour, one person from your group needs to do one of the first three trials, a second person needs to do one of the trials from four through six, and the third person needs to do either trial eight or trial nine.

Here's the data for 2nd hour.

Dealing with Angled Launches

Finding the Vx and Vy for a launch speed of 6.4 m/s at varying angles.  You can solve for the right triangle components by drawing to scale, or by mathing with Law of Sines or #SohCahToa

Physics Check

If you have some free time, go check out the XKCD called 'Hoverboard.'  If you move around in the comic, you'll eventually stumble upon the Washington Monument.  Use your skills to determine how realistic the physics within this comic is?  Collect some data, and report back!

Link to the comic (have fun!)

Projectile Motion

Here are a couple of videos to summarize what's going on in projectile motion.

Concepts:

Problem Solving:

Solving angled launch problems with scaled diagrams.

Dealing with Smoosh Poosh and Friction on Inclines

As a reminder, we have dealt with forces on inclines previously, during the BFPM model.  That's where you're starting from in the first problem on this worksheet, the object is moving down the incline at a constant speed.  There were some common issues that I noticed on many of the boards, and I attempt to address them in this short video clip.

So try to address these concerns for the forces you've diagrammed on your whiteboard.  Once your FAD is a right triangle, and you're following our guidelines for direction of smoosh poosh and direction of friction, compare whiteboards for part 1 as a class.  Do not erase your board when moving on to part 2.  In part 2 the only thing that changes is that the amount of friction decreases.  In other words, there's no longer enough friction to make a balanced FAD, and you'll now have an FU filling in the rest of that gap.  That'll affect the motion of the object, so I guess I wasn't truthful in saying that only one thing changes, several things will change.  Use your diagrams and graphs to figure out what they are.  Good Luck!

UBFPM on the ICE

Link to the video