Mechanics

Mechanics: Grade 1, Semester 2

Energy Force and Power

Big Idea: Vector analysis describes the position of a straight line in 2, 3 and 4 dimensions.
ME.1.05 - Students will be able to analyze and solve 2-D projectile problems in the absence of air rsistance
(Week 01 - Week 02)

Essential Questions:

How does the gravity affect in motion of bodies on the earth?

Skills:

‣ A. Students should be able to explain the independence of the vertical and horizontal motion
of projectiles.

‣ B. Demonstrate both mathematically and experimentally that projectiles move in a parabola

‣ C. Solve 2-dimensional projectile motion problems

Concepts:

‣ A. Launch angle

‣ B. Projectile Motion

‣ C. Range

ME.1.06 - Students will be able to use Newtown's 1st Law and vector algebra to analyze systems
in translational equilibrium.

(Week 03 - Week 05)

Essential Questions:

What change will happen if you replace a coplanar forces act at a point by only one force?

Skills:

‣ A. Find the resultant of forces meet at a point

‣ B. resolve a force into two component

‣ a .Use Lami's rule

‣ b. use triangle of force

‣ c. Solve equilibrium problems requiring point forces to balance

Concepts:

‣ A. Resultant of forces

‣ B. resolution of a force

‣ a. Lami's rule

‣ b. Triangle of forces

‣ c. Equilibrium of co-planar forces act at a point

Texts & References: Active Physics, section 2.1, pages 128-144

ME.1.07 - Students will experimentally justify Newton's 2nd law and use it to mathematically predict motion
of objects in 1-D

(Week 06 - Week 08)

Essential Questions:

How the acceleration affect the motion?

Skills:

‣ A. Students will be able to provide evidence of how acceleration is affected by forces and mass.

‣ B. Students will be able to apply Newton's 2nd Law and draw conclusions about an object's motion,
based on the forces acting upon it and be able to determine forces based upon the motion.

‣ C. Create or interpret a free-body diagram and determine the acceleration of an object

‣ D. Students will be able to apply Newton's 2nd Law to situations with forces acting at non-
orthogonal directions, using skills learned in math class.

‣ E. Interpret a physics word problem to retrieve pertinent information.

Concepts:
‣ A. Net force

‣ B. Mass.
‣ C. Acceleration

‣ D. Free body diagrams

‣ E. Friction

ME.1.08 - Students will be able to use Newtown's 2nd Law and vector algebra to analyze motion of objects
in 2-D

(Week 09 - Week 11)

Essential Questions:

Skills:

A. Add forces as vectors and determine an objects acceleration

B. Knowing motion of a mass and all forces except one, determine the unknown force.

Concepts:

A. Vector sum of forces: resultant

ME.1.09 - Students will be able to analyze circular motion of an object using concepts of centripetal
acceleration and centripetal force

(Week 12 - Week 14)

Essential Questions: Why do the planets rotate in orbit form?

Skills:

‣ E.1: Students will be able to demonstrate how circular motion (at constant speed) requires
an acceleration directed towards the center of the circular path.

‣ E.2: Students can evaluate the forces (draw a force diagram) that act during circular motion
identifying the direction of the net force.
‣ E.3. Derive and apply the formula for acceleration under circular motion

‣ E.4. Justify the formula a=v^2/r for circular motion.

‣ E.5. Calculate a, v, or r during circular motion, when given the other two variables

Concepts:

‣ A. Centripetal acceleration

‣ B. Centripetal force

‣ D. Force (free body) Diagrams