Physics Boot Camp Part 2b of 3: Advanced Force Concepts

This is a three session class designed to prepare students to excel in a future high school physics course.  The class consist of three 90-minute face-to-face sessions and assigned Minds on Physics© game modules played outside of class. Minds on Physics© functions as homework for practice and assessments for feedback. Students and parents will receive weekly progress updates. Access to a one-year subscription for Minds on Physics© is provided for all students.

Face-to-face, synchronous learning, will be an inquiry-based discovery of physics concepts through the creation and analysis of visual, graphical, and mathematical models. Experiments will be designed and data will be collected through virtual web-based interactives. Google Sheets will be used to create graphical models of data collected. Students will present the models to each other for peer review, then test the models for their predictive abilities. [This process meets the curricular competencies of: questioning and predicting; planning and conducting; processing and analyzing data and information; evaluating; applying and innovating; and communicating.] Students will be supplied with resources to explain and support the physics concepts developed and tested during the inquiry portion of class time.

Homework and Assessments of Understanding will be done asynchronously through the Sudden Death (for credit) mode of the Minds on Physics©  application (MOPs).  Test it out by clicking on this link:  https://www.physicsclassroom.com/mop/Kinematic-Concepts/Scalars-and-Vectors/Mission-KC1

Part 2b: Advanced Force Concepts
Big Idea: Forces influence the motion of an object.
Inquiry Questions:
  How can forces change the motion of an object?
  How can Newton’s laws be used to explain changes in motion?
Content:
  balanced and unbalanced forces in systems
     multi-body systems
     inclined planes
     angled forces
     Elevators

Syllabus:

First Class - 
Face2Face: 
  Forces in multi-bodied systems, including elevators
  Application of newton’s laws with kinematic equations for a system analysis of motion
Concept review: 
  Car Acceleration
  Stopping Distance Problem
  Time to Traverse Table with Friction
Concept Checkers:
  Elevator Ride
  Forces on Elevator

Second Class - 
Face2Face: 
  Forces applied at an angle
  Force analysis of system with inclined plane
Concept review:
  Visualizing Forces on an Incline
  Newton's Law with Friction (Force on Angle)
  Displaced Angle for Accelerating Car
  Newton's Law System on Incline Problem
Physics Aviary: 
  Net Force Game Medium (non-linear)
  Forces On Incline Simple
  Forces on Incline
  Acceleration on Incline
  Acceleration on Incline Simple
  Atwood Machine Problem
  Atwood Machine Unknown Mass Problem

Third Class - 
Face2Face: 
  Circular motion and centripetal force
  Newton’s universal law of gravitation
Concept review:
  Describing Motion of Object Traveling in a Circle
MOPs: 
  Mission CG1: Speed and Velocity
  Mission CG2: Acceleration and Net Force
  Mission CG3: Centripetal Force and Inertia
  Mission CG4: Centripetal Force Requirement
  Mission CG6: Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
  Mission CG7: Gravitational Field Strength
Physics Aviary:
  Quick Circular Motion Calculations Challenge
  Slice the String
  Circular Acceleration
  Gravitational Field Strength