Week 12 Reflection

This week in physics we focused mainly on review material, which incorporated labs, class discussions, and whiteboarding activities. On Monday, we finished up our spaghetti bridges, which happened to be a success for the class as a whole. We then began flashing back to our first unit, Velocity, to continue our knowledge on position vs. time graphs, velocity graphs, writing equations, and analyzing the motion of different objects. It poses as a reminder that although we finished the unit and were already assessed on it, we still have to hold onto and apply the skills we learned as it pertains to other units.

We were given a worksheet on Google Drive to work on two days this week that included material that was already covered earlier in the year. In groups we worked on questions regarding constant velocities, calculating an objects weight (w=m*g), and drawing force diagrams for different situations. The following day we had a sub in class, but continued our work on the worksheets, whiteboarded our results, and shared with the class to come to a complete understanding. The worksheet personally went really well for me, but I did have to review some key concepts that I was a bit fuzzy on. We had an assessment on Friday on this material, and I felt that it went really well for me. Having the worksheet helped me a ton in reviewing for the assessment and I hope we use worksheets in the future to review.

In addition to reviewing and assessing, we also began a lab in which we used a car on a ramp with technology that recorded graphs of the position and velocity of our car. My group ended up receiving great, clear results that allowed us to interpret them with ease. For the position vs. time graph, the postion increased as the time increased, but they went up at a slope, indicating that the velocity was not constant. The velocity was actually changing by the same amount each second and continued to increase until the car came to a stop. We came to the conclusion that the car would continue to increase in velocity until it was stopped by an unbalanced force.

Until next week,
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