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Physics A — Motion, Forces, Momentum and Gravitation (California)
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4 Sections
20 Lessons
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Unit 1: Motion in One and Two Dimensions
5
1.1
Can the Car Stop? Position, Velocity and Motion Graphs
50 mins
1.2
Ramp Lab: Measuring Acceleration Frame by Frame
100 mins
1.3
Reaction Time or Braking Distance? Arguing from the Equations
50 mins
1.4
Vectors and Projectiles: Predicting Where It Lands
100 mins
1.5
Performance Task — Time to Stop: Yellow Lights and School Zones
150 mins
Unit 2: Forces and Newton’s Laws
5
2.1
Runaway Trucks on the Grapevine: Forces, Free-Body Diagrams and Newton’s Laws
50 mins
2.2
Cart Lab: Testing Newton’s Second Law with Data
100 mins
2.3
Does Area Matter? Arguing About Friction from Data
50 mins
2.4
Inclines, Pulleys and Elevators: Modeling with Newton’s Second Law
100 mins
2.5
Performance Task — Design a Runaway-Truck Escape Ramp
150 mins
Unit 3: Momentum, Collisions and Crash Safety
5
3.1
Helmets, Airbags and the Impulse-Momentum Theorem
50 mins
3.2
Collision Carts and the Conservation of Momentum
100 mins
3.3
Where Did the Momentum Go? Arguing from Collision Data
50 mins
3.4
Crumple Zones, Foam and Designed Materials
100 mins
3.5
Performance Task — Design, Test and Defend a Crash-Safety Device
50 mins
Unit 4: Gravitation, Circular Motion and Orbits
5
4.1
Staying Up: Circular Motion and the Centripetal Force
100 mins
4.2
Pendulum Lab: Measuring the Strength of Earth’s Gravity
100 mins
4.3
The Apple and the Moon: Arguing for the Inverse-Square Law
50 mins
4.4
Orbits by the Numbers: GPS, Geostationary Satellites and Kepler’s Third Law
100 mins
4.5
Performance Task — Choose an Orbit for a California Fire-Watch Satellite
150 mins
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