Readers of Action-Reaction might be interested in today’s post from my 180 blog.
College-Prep Physics: This year I decided to bring relative motion into my curriculum. It’s a unit in Preconceptions in Mechanics, a book I used a lot last year for introducing different types of forces. My hope is that vector addition of velocities (which can be easily demonstrated, see below) will help some kids understand that vector addition of forces act the same way.
I modified the lesson cycle from the Preconceptions in Mechanics, Unit 2Day 1 Lesson.
I started off the lesson showing the first 15 seconds of of this Japanese video in which a baseball is shot at 100 km/hr out of the back of a truck moving in the opposite direction at 100 km/hr (you could even do the first 3 minutes if you’re evil):
They’re hooked. “What happens?”
Next, I handed out the voting sheets. Here are the slides with my questions for each stage of…
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