Lesson duration: 3.5 hours
Curriculum Expectations
LEARNING GOALS
We are learning to:
- identify and understand uses of vectors in the real word
- construct and analyze vectors using three different methods
- Establish frames of reference and explain their importance
- Analyze relative motion
- Add and subtract vectors to solve relative motion problems
- Compare uniform and non-uniform motion
- Solve motion problems
- Understand and explain the effect of gravity on motion
- Analyze problems involving projectile motion
- Perform an investigation involving projectile motion
- understand and explain the effect of force on motion
- solve problems involving forces and motion
- identify advantages and disadvantages of friction
- describe the relationships between variables affecting uniform circular motion
- identify and analyze the forces contributing to uniform circular motion
- distinguish between inertial and non-inertial frames of reference, and real and fictitious (apparent) forces
SUCCESS CRITERIA
I am able to:
- add and subtract vectors by use of scale diagrams
- add and subtract vectors by use of Cosine and Sine Laws
- Add and subtract vectors by use of vector components
- solve one-dimensional and two-dimensional motion problems involving displacement;
- solve one-dimensional and two-dimensional motion problems involving average velocity;
- Use vector notation with subscripts to represent frames of reference
- Understand when a situation involves the analysis of relative motion
- Add and subtract vectors to solve relative motion problems
- Describe the differences and provide examples of uniform and non-uniform motion
- Solve numerical motion problems
- Describe the effects of forces on motion
- Use component analysis and knowledge of acceleration due to gravity to solve problems involving projectile motion
- Collect observations and data in a projectile motion investigation and use this information to perform relevant calculations
- describe the effects of forces on motion
- draw a free-body diagram of objects
- solve numerical problems involving forces and motion
- describe Newton’s laws of motion and apply them to problem solving questions
- solve problems involving forces on an object on an inclined plane
- solve problems involving forces on objects held by a pulley system
- describe the concept of apparent weight and calculate its value
- describe uniform circular motion
- use the centripetal acceleration formula to solve numerical problems
- identify the direction of centripetal acceleration in various scenarios
- draw a free-body diagram of an object undergoing uniform circular motion
- state the various forces contributing to uniform circular motion
- solve numerical problems involving centripetal forces (e.g. horizontal circles, vertical circles, banked curves)
- describe the differences between inertial and non-inertial frames of reference, and real and fictitious (apparent) forces
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