Cox Physics

Lesson Summary

In this lesson, the students will be in groups of 2 (depending on how much paper you can get). You will give each group a long sheet of construction paper. Make it a few feet long. I find that a length of 25 feet is pretty ideal for this activity. Have one of them start by taking evenly spaces steps across the sheet of paper, toe-to-heel, and mark each step on the sheet. Then have them take evenly spaces steps again but this time have them be larger steps, and mark each step on the sheet. Finally, have them take steps that are getting increasingly larger as they move across the sheet and mark off each step.

Dot Patterns

Dot Pattern Forensics

Lesson Summary

We've learned what dot patterns correspond to constant speed, speeding up, and slowing down. That's three different manifestations of motion. Last class, we did practice with having only one of those types of motion present and identifying which kind it was. Now, we're going to look at some dot patterns where we have multiple forms of motion present.

Complex Dot Patterns

This lesson will expand on our idea of dot patterns into

2D Dot Patterns

With this worksheet, students will connect their knowledge of Net Force and practice determining the type of motion present for the situations given.

Net Forces: Speeding up vs. Slowing down