About the Workshops - Workshop Goals

Workshop Overview
-Workshop Goals-
Workshop Structure and Materials
About the Contributors

Concepts

• Develop an understanding of forces as interactions.
• Develop the ability to analyze the forces acting on objects.
• Develop the ability to analyze the motion of objects.
• Develop an appreciation for Newton's Laws of Motion.

Skills

• Identify and represent forces, including:

Contact forces:

• Active pushes or pulls (e.g. by the human body; rubber bands or springs)
• Passive pushes or pulls (e.g. by floor or rope)
• Friction (e.g. sliding, rolling, or fluid resistance)

Non-contact forces:

• Gravitational, electrical, and magnetic forces

• Explain the forces acting on objects that are:

• At rest
• Moving with a constant speed
• Moving with a constant acceleration

• Describe and explain (using words, pictures, data tables, and graphs) the motion of objects in one dimension, including:

• Linear horizontal or vertical motion
• Falling, with and without air resistance
• Motion on an inclined plane (e.g. rolling and sliding)

• Describe the motion of objects using appropriate terms including:

• Instant in time
• Interval of time
• Position
• Instantaneous speed
• Mass
• Acceleration

• Develop a familiarity with terms related to force and motion including:

• Inertia
• Vector
• Pressure
• Stability
• Net force
• Power