1. Newton’s Second Law of Motion: Force and Acceleration
ICP Week of 2/9/15

2. Bell Work
Get out your IP (your completed Net Force worksheet and Newton’s First Law activity if they have not yet been turned in) and have it ready to turn in. Next, answer the following questions on a scrap sheet of paper.
What is your average speed if you run 90 m in 15 seconds?
A ball sits on the floor in a bus. When the driver hits the brakes, the ball slides forward. The explanation for this is that
Objects can sometimes begin moving without an applied force.
The ball was moving along with the bus yet did not experience the braking force that the bus did, so the bell kept going.
Friction on the ball pushed it forward.
What does Newton’s First Law state?

3. Acceleration Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity
Acceleration includes speeding up AND slowing down!

4. Acceleration Checkpoint
Suppose that in 1 s, we steadily increase our velocity from 30 km/h to 35 km/h. In the next second, we go from 35 km/h to 40 km/h, and so on. What is our acceleration?
When a car maintains its speed while making a turn, is it accelerating?
What does the unit for acceleration look like?

5. Force Causes Acceleration
Acceleration is directly proportional to the net force
What happens when a force is applied in the opposite direction?
What happens what a force acts at right angles?
If you push on a shopping cart, it will accelerate. If you apply four times the net force, how much greater will the acceleration be?

6. Mass and Inertia The greater an object’s mass, the greater its inertia
Think about kicking a can of rocks
Mass: the amount of matter in an object. Also a measure of its inertia (or “laziness”)
Weight: the force due to gravity that acts on an object’s mass
Volume: measure of space

7. Checkpoint
Does a 2-kg iron block have twice as much inertia as a 1- kg iron block? Twice as much mass? Twice as much volume? Twice as much weight when weighed in the same location?
Does a 2-kg iron block have twice as much inertia as a 1- kg bunch of bananas? Twice as much mass? Twice as much volume? Twice as much weight when weighted in the same location?
How does the mass of a bar of gold vary with location?

8. One Kilogram Weighs Ten Newtons
The standard unit of mass is the kilogram
The standard unit of force is the newton
A 1-kg bag of any material has a weight of 10 N in standard units
How many Newtons does a 4-kg block of gold weigh?

9. Mass and Acceleration
Objects with more mass are more difficult to accelerate
Mass and acceleration are inversely proportional
That is, as one increases, the other decreases
Twice as much mass results in half the acceleration
Suppose you apply the same amount of force to two carts, one with a mass of 4 kg and the other with a mass of 8 kg.
Which cart will accelerate more?
How much greater will the acceleration be?

10. Newton’s Second Law
The acceleration produced by a net force on an object is directly proportional to the net force, is in the same direction as the net force, and is inversely proportion to the mass of the object.
In short:
Acceleration = 𝑛𝑒𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠
Alternatively, Force=mass*acceleration

11. Checkpoint: Newton’s Law
Consider a 1000-kg car pulled by a cable with N of force. What will be the acceleration of the car?
Hint: N is the same unit as kg*m/s
An object weighing 10 kg is accelerating at 200 m/s2. What force is being exerted on the object?

12. Friction Friction always acts in a direction to oppose motion
Air drag: friction acting upward as an object falls through the air
The amount of friction between two surfaces depends on the kinds of materials and how much they are pressed together

13. Check Point: Friction
Two forces act on a bowl resting on a table: the bowl’s weight and the support force from the table. Does a force of friction also act on the bowl?
Suppose a high-flying jumbo jet flies at a constant velocity when the thrust of its engines is a constant 80,000 N. What is the acceleration of the jet? What is the force of air drag acting on the jet? E

14. Free Fall and Acceleration
Free fall: when air resistance doesn’t affect the motion of a falling object
Acceleration in the same for all freely falling objects
Always gains speed at a rate of 10 m/s each second (OR 10 m/s2)
How? Why?
The ratio of weight to mass is the same for these or any objects
We know that a feather drops more slowly than a coin when both are dropped in air—that’s because of air drag. But in a vacuum…

15. Checkpoint
A 5-kg bag of sand has a weight of 50 N. When dropped, its acceleration is:
A 10-kg bag of sand has a weight of 100 N. When dropped, its acceleration is:
Calculate the free-fall acceleration of a 20-kg bag of sand.

16. Air Drag Air drag depends on speed and surface area
Results in reduced acceleration
Think about a skydiver with a parachute
Terminal speed: when acceleration is equal to 0
Occurs when air drag equals weight

17. Air Drag: Checkpoint
Consider two parachutists, a heavy person and a light person, who jump from the same altitude with parachutes of the same size.
Which person reaches terminal speed first?
Which person has the greatest terminal speed?
Which person gets to the ground first?
If there were no air drag, like on the Moon, how would your answers to these questions differ?

18. Gliding: Biological Approach
In nature, when do we see things taking advantage of air drag and surface area?
Why would this be advantageous?
Escape
Less energy climbing from tree to tree
Less injury upon a fall
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19. Exit Ticket In what way does mass correspond to inertia?
What two things does friction depend upon?
One pound is the same as 4.45 N. Show that 1 N equals 0.23 lb.
A 40-kg block of cement is pulled sideways with a net force of 200 N. What is its acceleration?

20. To Study For Wednesday/Thursday Quiz
Vocabulary (see next slide)
Write out Newton’s First (words) and Newton’s Second (formula)
Calculate net force
Calculate average speed`

21. Vocabulary
Acceleration: the rate at which velocity changes with time; the change may be in magnitude or direction or both
Air drag: frictional resistance due to motion through air
Free fall: motion under the influence of gravitational pull only
Friction: the resistive force that opposes motion
Inversely: when two values change in opposite directions, so that if one increases and the other decreases by the same amount, they are said to be inversely proportional to each other
Kilogram: the fundamental SI unit of mass
Mass: the amount of matter in an object; the more mass an object has, the more it resists changes in motion
Inertia: the property of objects that resists changes in motion
Volume: the quantity of space an object occupies
Weight: the force due to gravity on an object