Name:

12/5/14
Westermayer
Period:

12/1/14
Physics

Week agenda
Monday Gravitational Force
Tuesday Momentum
Wednesday Momentum Lab Competition
Thursday Momentum Lab Conclusion and Impulse
Friday Impulse & Quiz

Upcoming events
No homework this week
Retesting this week? If you miss class due to retesting you are responsible for making up missed
work!
Quiz Friday 12/5/14
-Centripetal Acceleration
-Force
-Momentum
Monday, December 1, 2014:
Objective: Today I will review how to solve for gravitational force.
Do now:
1. Calculate the force of gravity between you and the person sitting next to you in class,
assuming you both have masses of 60.0 kg and are sitting 1.20 m apart.

2. Two tennis balls have a mass of 0.25 kg each and they are placed so that there is a distance of
42 m between their centers. What is the gravitational force between the two tennis balls?

3. Two objects with the same mass are placed 60. cm apart. If the gravitational force between
the objects is
7.0 x 10 -9 N, what is the mass of each object?

4. Mr. Gewanter, whose mass is 60.0 kg, is doing a physics demonstration in the front of the
classroom.
a) How much gravitational force does he exert on 55.0-kg Martha in the front row, 1.50 m away?

b) How does this compare to what he exerts on 65.0-kg Lester, 4.00 m away in the back row?

5. When Royce was 10 years old, he had a mass of 30 kg. By the time he was 16 years old, his
mass increased to 60 kg. How much larger is the gravitational force between Royce and Earth at
age 16 compared to age 10?

Exit ticket:
1. As the distance between two objects increases, the force of attraction between the objects
________________.
2. Suppose Earth orbited a star whose mass was triple the mass of the sun. If the distance
between the star and the Earth remained the same, what would happen to the force of
gravitational attraction between the Earth and the new star compared to the Earth and the sun?

The force would _______________ (increase or decrease) by _______________ (the number of times)

Tuesday, December 2, 2014:

Objective: I understand the factors that influence and objects momentum. I will demonstrate my
understanding in the momentum challenge lab.

Momentum Lab Purpose: As a team, you must somehow achieve the most momentum in a 5m
span. You are competing against the other teams in the class.
Your "racer"/contraption must be
-only powered by one person's legs (no cars!)
-ready to compete next class period
Create a drawing and description of your plan by the end of class today. Plan must include team
roles and why you think you will have the most momentum. Use the space below:

Exit ticket:
1. What object are you bringing in for the lab?

2. What do you need to collect in terms of data?

3. If you are not going to be here for the lab Wednesday, who will be summarizing the lab
findings with you on Thursday?
Wednesday, December 3, 2014:
Objective: Today I will investigate the laws of conservation of momentum in one dimension.
Do now/bell ringer:
If you were not here yesterday, meet in a group by your teacher so you can be assigned a lab
group.
Today we will do the momentum challenge, where the goal is to achieve the greatest momentum
in a 5m span. Why do you think your team will have the most momentum?

What will you have to measure and calculate in this lab (things you will put in your data table)?
Create a data table to collect data for all groups. Assume there are 6 groups in the class and
make sure you have room to collect a description of each groups racer (e.g. person running,
ball rolling, etc. instead of just group 1, group 2)
Create your DATA TABLE here:

Show one sample calculation here

Put a * next to the team with the greatest momentum once you finish calculating.
Maximizing momentum - today's instructions
As a team, you must somehow achieve maximum momentum in a 5m span.
While you are waiting for your team's turn to race, determine the mass of your
racer, record your observations and begin collecting data from the other groups
to add to your data table. You must calculate the momentum of each racer. The
equation is ___________________.
One team will race at a time. You get one practice run.
We will have 10

minutes to collect our observations.

Exit ticket:
What trends did you see?

How did mass effect the objects momentum?

How did velocity effect the objects momentum?

Thursday, December 4, 2014:

Objective: Today I will demonstrate and apply the laws of conservation of momentum in one
dimension by calculating the impulse applied to, and momentum of a physical system.
Do Now:
1. Given the following data, solve for the missing value.
Object

Mass (kg)

Velocity (m/s)

Bird

.04

19

Football player

100

10

Momentum (kg-m/s)
.76

Skier

60

1200

Bullet

.004

24

Frog

.9

12

Meteorite

.1

1,000

Baseball

.14

30

Wagon
Satellite

3
3,00

6
240000

2. List the objects from least momentum to greatest.

3. Do you think that these objects would always be placed in the same order according to
momentum? Why or why not?

Momentum Lab Discussion Questions:

Which groups racer had the greatest momentum?

Why did their racer have the greatest momentum; how was it different from your groups racer?

If we repeated this lab, what would you differently to give your racer more momentum?

Impulse
Equation:

Units:

Impulse Practice:
1. If the 10kg bowling ball crashed into the stack of books at 6m/s how much impulse is need to
stop it?

2. If the 10kg bowling ball crashed into the stack of pillows at 6m/s how much impulse is need to
stop it?

3.
An object has an impulse of 78 Ns. If the mass of the object is 12 kg, what is the change in veloc
ity for the
object?

4. A 130 kg race car is traveling at 80 m/s while a 15,00 kg truck is traveling at 20 m/s. Which
has the greater momentum?

5. A 30 kg snowmobile is traveling at 30 m/s. How fast would a 20 kg snowmobile need to travel

to have the same momentum?

6. A loaded delivery truck has a mass of 500 kg and is moving at 8 m/s. The truck is unloaded
and travels at 12 m/s. If the truck has the same momentum in each case, what is the mass of the
empty truck?

7. A force of 4 N is applied to a ball for 0.75 s. What is the impulse?

8. A car pulls a trailer with a force of 250 N. If the total impulse is 90 00 Ns, for how long is the
force applied?

9. A model jet rocket applies an impulse of 20 Ns over 3s interval of time. What is the force
applied?

10. A 3 kg rock is subject o the force of gravity for 8s. What is the impulse?

Exit ticket:
1. If the same force was applied to each groups racer, which would take the longest time to stop?
The shortest? Why?

2. If you wanted them all to stop in the same time, how would the force vary for each group?

Friday, December 5, 2014:

Objective: Today I will demonstrate mastery of calculating the impulse applied to, and
momentum of a physical system.
Do Now/Bell Ringer:
A skydiver with mass of 65kg jumps out of plane, but his parachute doesnt open. If his terminal
velocity (vf before hitting the ground) is 56m/s and he landed in a blackberry bush that slowed
him to a stop in 3 seconds, what is the force he experienced to bring him to a stop?
a. What is the equation you would use to solve this problem?
b. Do you think he survived?
c. If he hit the ground instead of the bushes and came to a stop in 0.5s would the force required
to stop him be more, the same or less than the force he experienced in the bushes.

d. Calculate the force he experienced when he hit the bushes.