Lesson Plans for
Acceleration

IDEAS/OPTIONS

DEMO: Dollar bill challenge.

DEMO: water droplet stream and strobe light.

DEMO: liquid accelerometer

SPREADSHEET: distance fallen in 0.05 sec intervals. Use to mark meterstick.

DEMO: narrowing of water stream from faucet as it falls. (AP: derive width of stream as function of distance fallen.)

CONTENT NOT ON NOTES PAGE

 

DEMO: video the drop of a hackeysack held high by a student. View video frame-by-frame. Mark positions on board, or use Tracker.

DEMO: Walk in the hall, at a speed of 1 tile/sec, then with an acceleration of 1 tile/sec/sec.

DEMO: drop hackeysack from height of 1 ft and time the drop. Then drop it from a height of 4 ft. Is the time quadrupled?

VIDEO: Hammer and feather on the Moon, from Apollo 15. Then DEMO hammer and feather on Earth. Then DEMO penny and feather tube, with and without air in the tube.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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