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Newton’s Laws of Motion
1st Law of Motion An object at rest will stay at rest and an
object in motion will stay in motion (in the same direction and at a constant speed) UNLESS an unbalanced force is applied.
Examples
Can you explain these using the 1st Law of Motion?
1st Law
More simply stated: If they are moving, they want to stay
moving. If they are still, they want to stay still. The only way to change what they are
doing is to apply a force.
Law of Inertia
Objects are lazy – they do not want to stop what they are doing.
What can we call this “laziness?”Inertia
Inertia is a measure of it’s resistance to change.
The more resistant, the more inertia Newtons’ First Law is also called the
2nd Law of Motion Usually stated as an equation:
F = ma
What does this mean? And don’t say force equals mass times
acceleration. Anyone can say that, but do you really understand what it means?
What if I restated the equation?
Newton’s 2nd Law Explained
It means the acceleration of an object depends on two things – the mass of the object and the amount of force you apply to change its motion.
Let’s look at this relationship.
Let’s Look Mathematically
If I double the numerator, what happens?
= 4 = 8
4 4
When one variable increases, another variable increases the same amount.
This is called a direct proportion Which 2 variables are directly proportional? What does that mean?
But this is science class!
Math and Science What happens when I increase the
denominator? Let’s try!
4 = 4 =
4 8 This is called an indirect proportion, or inverse
proportion Which 2 variables are inversely proportional? What does that mean?
Newton’s 2nd Law
Look at the equation. Think of the previous fractions. Can you explain what it means now?
2nd Law of Motion The greater the applied force, the faster
the object will move (acceleration).
The more mass an object has, the more force you need to change it’s motion
3rd Law of Motion
For every action, there is an equal and opposite action.
Let’s ReviewNewton
Once moving at a steady speed In a straight line It will continue moving At a steady speed In a straight line
Once standing still It will stay still
Newton
It accelerates in the direction that you push it
If you push twice as hard, it accelerates twice as much
If it has twice the mass It accelerates half as much
Newton
If you push on it It pushes on you
Check out these videos
http://science.discovery.com/interactives/literacy/newton/newton.html
http://www.fmalive.com/
Questions?