Objectives - Newton's Laws of Motion
The objectives for the Newton's Laws of Motion module are listed below.
1:The student should understand the significance of Newton's law of inertia by identifying and refuting classic misconceptions concerning the causes of motion. The student should recognize inertia as a property of an object which depends solely upon mass.
2.The student should be able to relate the presence of balanced or unbalanced forces to the state of motion of an object.
The student should be able to relate force diagrams and force information to information describing the motion of an object.
3.The student should be able to relate the state of motion of an object (especially the direction of the acceleration) to the magnitudes of the individual forces which act upon it.The student should be able to relate the net force of an object to the acceleration of the object.
4.The student should be able to identify the forces acting upon an object if given a physical description of the situation.
5.Student should be able to analyze a physical scenario and determine the relative magnitude of forces acting upon the object in the scenario.
6. The student should be able to distinguish between the concepts of mass and weight.
The student should be able to calculate the mass of an object if given its weight (or vice versa).
7.The student should be able to identify the proportional relationship between acceleration, net force, and mass.
The student should be able to predict the quantitative effect of an alteration in the net force or mass of an object upon the acceleration of that object.
 

Mrs. Collins is a certified science and gifted education teacher. She has experience teaching various types of science courses, and this course is a portion of her physical science curriculum. 

Teacher created curriculum, using Glencoe Physical Science curriculum.