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Newtons Laws of Motion Lab

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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

Station 2: Balloon Blow Out!


How does a balloon demonstrate Newtons third law of motion?
1. Blow up a balloon to about the size of your head.
2. Let go of the balloon and observe what happens.
Questions:
1. What is Newtons third law of motion?
Reaction
2. How does a balloon rocket demonstrate the third law of motion?
When there is now air it will fly around
3. Draw the action-reaction pair that the balloon rocket demonstrated.

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Station 3: Spinning Penny


Centripetal force is a force that causes an object to move in a circle.
1. Place a penny inside a balloon.
2. Blow up the balloon until it is no longer cloudy.
3. Hold the balloon upside down so the penny sits on the bottom.
4. Spin the balloon in one direction until the penny is traveling in a circle that is parallel to the
ground. The penny should be going around the inside perimeter of the balloon.
5. Stop spinning the balloon and observe what happens to the penny.
Questions:
1. What did you observe when you stopped spinning the balloon? As you move the balloon the
more the penny moves
2. How does this demonstrate centripetal force?
When the penny is on the side of the balloon and when it passes.
3. Does the spinning penny also show Newtons first law of motion? Explain. Yes when the penny
keep going when you stop spinning it.
4.

Station 4: Water Whirl


For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Can a soda can filled with water
demonstrate this?
1. Pick up the soda can and make sure it is tied to the string.
2. Fill the soda can with water (keep it over the bin of water).
3. Once the can is filled, hold the can over the bucket while holding on to the string, and watch
what happens!
Questions:
1. What did you observe? What happened to the can as the water came out?
The higher the can is more it spins.

2. How does this demonstrate Newtons third law of motion?

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. Set them upright.


3. Using what you know about Newtons laws, experiment with the dominoes and try to
demonstrate all three laws.
Questions:
1. How do the dominoes demonstrate Newtons first law of motion? When one domino has more
acceleration and spped that that will nock down the other domino it its a continues process

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?

Station 6: Yay for seatbelts and airbags!


Using the provided car, washer (representative of a passenger), and stack of books, can you show
why wearing your seatbelt is important?
1. Take the car and place the washer on top of it.
2. While holding on to both the car and the washer, wind the car up.
3. Before the cars wheels start going, place it on the ground facing the books.
4. Observe what happens when the washer does not have a seatbelt on in the car.
Questions:
1. Why is it important to wear your seatbelt?
Because of inertia
2. How does this activity apply to the first law of motion?
When the car hits another car say like going 70 mph you will go flying out the window,.
3. What is velocity?
The direction of the moving object.

Station 7: Free Fallin


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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

Station 8: Rolling Chair


What laws can you demonstrate with a rolling chair?
1. Grab a rolling chair.
2. Using the members in your group, try to come up with ways to demonstrate each law of
motion (be creative, also be safe!).
Questions:
1. How did you demonstrate the first law?
Push a chair I nto another chair

2. The second law?


Once the chair hit the other chair it lost speed and it had a negative acceleration

3. The third law?

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