Title: What is a force?

Learning Objective: Today we will learn how forces affect objects

Starter: Decide whether each picture requires more friction or less friction.
Keywords
Free Body Diagram
Contact Force
Non-Contact Force
Weight
Force
Reaction Force
Buoyancy
Friction
Tension
Electrostatic
Chemical
Air resistance
Drag
Thrust
 Starter answers

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 Lesson outcomes:
• Describe a force (as a push or pull that causes an
object to either speed up, slow down or change
direction)

• State the difference between Contact and non-

contact forces

• Draw free-body force diagrams (to scale) with forces

(names) identified
 New information

Forces

Forces can push things

Forces can pull things

Forces can twist and turn things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=511rdc8K_TU
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Forces can change:
• the s____ of an object
• the d______ that an object is moving in
• the s_____ of an object.

Forces are measured in N______ (N)

And can be measured using a N_________

This is Isaac
Newton
 Self-assessment:
Forces can change:
• the speed of an object
• the direction that an object is moving in
• the shape of an object.

Forces are measured in Newtons (N)

And can be measured using a Newtonmeter

This is Isaac
Newton
 New information

Types of forces
• Thrust
B C
• Tension
A
• Magnetic
• Electrostatic
• Air resistance E
• Friction
D F
• Weight
• Upthrust

G
 B. Magnetic

C. Friction
A. Thrust

E.
Tension

D. Upthrust F. Weight

G. Electrostatic H. Air resistance

Finished? Ask for a Forces reverseword
Weight
Magnetic
Friction
Upthrust
Static
 New information

Contact and non-contact forces

A contact force occurs when two objects are physically touching.

A non-contact force occurs when two objects are physically separated.

Finished? Ask for a Forces reverseword

 Mark your work:

Air resistance Weight

Friction Magnetic force
Water resistance Static electricity
 New information

Free-body diagrams
Example 1: A ball placed on a table Free-body diagrams are used to show the size
and direction of all forces acting upon an object
Reaction force of the table
pushing up on the ball
It has only the object we are interested in drawn
on it.

Forces come in pairs - Every action has an equal

and opposite reaction.

If you push on something (action) it pushes back

(reaction).
Weight force caused by
Earth’s gravity
Example 2: The forces acting on the plane

Lift is the force that acts at a

right angle to the direction of
motion through the air

Drag forces are forces

acting the opposite Thrust – the force causing
direction to an object an object to move
moving
Example: The forces acting on the plane
 Task
Label the free body diagrams:
1. 2.
3.

Challenge: Draw a free body diagram for a car driving forward

Finished? Ask for the ‘Forces are everywhere’ worksheet
1. Upthrust 2. Air resistance 3.
weight

reaction
weight
weight

reaction
Challenge:
drag thrust

weight
Homework

Extension
List or draw 3 real life examples of
the following forces:
● Air resistance
● Upthrust
● Friction
● Tension
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