ACTIVITY 1

TITLE: RELATIVE MOTION

OBJECTIVE: TO UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF RELATIVITY.
MATERIALS:
BICYCLE
STONE
BLINDFOLD
RIDING A VEHICLE (SUCH AS: BUS, TRICYCLE, CAR, & JEEPNEY)
PROCEDURE:
1. Go to the second floor of any building, and drop a
stone to the ground.

2. Ask someone to ride a bicycle, and as he ride

forward, let him drop the stone next to him.

3. Try to ride a bus or any vehicle and cover your

eyes and put an earphone to your ear.
 4. Try to ride a bus or any vehicle and do not cover your eyes.

5. Try to ride a bus or any vehicle, and toss your comb or cellphone up, as you
are sitting your sit.

ANALYSIS:
 1. In procedure number 1, since the Earth is moving, do the stone falls many
yards away from the track? Why?

- Based on my observation, it does not move a few yards away from the track,
for the gravity of the earth makes the stone drop in the same spot where I dropped it;
the downward force makes it possible.

2. In procedure 2, do the stone land right below the biker’s hand or it land
behind him? Write your observation.
- The stone landed a few centimeters behind the biker’s back for the moment
that the stone landed due to gravitational force, the bike already moved away
from the spot where the biker dropped the stone.

3. In procedure 3, can you feel that you are moving forward? Why?
- Yes, I can feel that my body is moving forward as the bus moves for I am
inside the bus and it's in motion and my body tends to be affected my its
movement that's why even with the absence of sight I can feel that the bus is
moving forward. Considering that the bus moves with a constant velocity, while
sitting in a moving bus, its natural that I have the same velocity as the bus has.

4. In procedure 4, can you feel that you are moving forward? Why?
- Yes, it's the same with what I felt during procedure three but the difference
is that I am really aware that the bus is in motion because of my sense of sight. The
bus is moving forward and I am inside the bus that's why I can feel that I am also
moving forward along with the bus. 
5. Do the comb or cellphone fly to the back of the bus or any vehicle or it will
land back to your hand?
- As I do the experiment, my phone landed back to my hand, given that the bus
is in constant speed as I throw my phone up it landed back to my hand for both of
them cover the same distance at an equal time.