Weekly Blog 1/22 - 1/26

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http://problemsplitter.com/moodle/pluginfile.php/1649/course/overviewfiles/force%20icon.PNG

Summary:

A force can be seen as a push or pull of something. Some examples include the pull of gravity, the push you apply to a ball, etc. There are many different forces. For example, balanced force, unbalanced force, combined forces, etc. If there was a box still on a table that wouldn't mean just no force. That would mean there is an equal force on all sides making it stay still.

S&EP:

SP2: Developing and using models

This week I worked on a document about forces. We had to use a model multiple times to see what would happen with balanced and unbalanced force. This is SP2: Developing and using models because I used a model to see how forces work.

Weekly Blog 1-17 - 1-19

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https://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics/one-dimensional-motion/acceleration-tutorial/a/acceleration-article

Summary:

Acceleration is a change of velocity in an amount of time. One example of this is 10 miles per hour to 20 miles per hour. You can find acceleration everywhere from falling objects to the little toy cars you played with as a kid. You can put this on graphs although it depends on what type of graph you're using if you want to put a straight line for acceleration on your graph.

S&EP:

SP3: Planning and carrying out investigations

This week I and my team worked with a hot wheels lab trying to find the acceleration with different heights and stuff. This is SP3: Planning and carrying out investigations because we did an experiment to find this information and data.

Weekly Blog 1/8 - 1/12

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http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/1DKin/U1L1e6.gif

Summary:

Acceleration is the change of velocity over time. Acceleration is usually shown as a curving line going upwards towards the top right corner. Deacceleration is shown as a curving line going downwards towards the bottom right corner. It could also be shown as a straight line if the graph has speed as the y-axis and time as the x-axis.

S&EP:
SP4: Analyzing and interpreting data
This week I worked on an acceleration document and a lab about acceleration. This is SP4: Analyzing and interpreting data because there was data there that I examined and found out which parts of the graph were an example of acceleration and what parts were a constant speed. That is how I performed SP4: Analyzing and interpreting data this week.