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Rotate from station to station in the classroom. Follow the directions that correspond with your
station. Make observations, record your results, and answer the questions for each station.
Station 1: Inertia is Nuts!
Using a cup or beaker, an index card, and a penny, can you demonstrate Newtons first law of
motion?
1. Set the index card on top of the cup.
2. Place the penny on top of the index card.
3. Try to get the penny into the cup by only touching the index card.
Questions:
1. What is Newtons first law of motion?
Interia
2. What is inertia?
When something stops but the object wants to continue
3. Does inertia increase or decrease as mass increases?
Yes it increases
4. How does this experiment demonstrate the first law of motion? Because when the penny is at
rest and you move the card it continues and then it will hit the wall and fall
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Station 5: Dominoes
Physics is all around us. Have you ever played with dominoes and thought about Newtons laws?
Heres your chance.
1. Gather the dominoes.
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2. Second Law?
The falling domino has more net force than the upright domino
3. Third Law?
The domino is push down the next domino. Also it is static friction.
4. What types of friction are present when you play with dominoes?
Does the surface area of a parachute affect the rate at which a person falls?
1. Pick up the parachutes and army men.
2. Stand on a table.
3. Drop the various parachutes and make observations about the rate at which they fall.
Questions:
1. Is there a relationship between the size of the parachute and the rate at which they fall to the
ground?
Yes because if you have a 5 foot wide parachute. You will fill down to the grown faster
2. Why do you think this occurs?
From gravity pushing downward to the ground
3. What is gravity? What is air resistance? And how are they related in this case?
Gravity is keeps us from floating to out space . air from you falling is being
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