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Science 8 Learning Enrichment Module (REVISED)
Science 8 Learning Enrichment Module (REVISED)
1. NORMAL FORCE
2. APPLIED FORCE
3. FRICTIONAL FORCE
4. TENSION FORCE
5. SPRING FORCE AND
6. RESISTING FORCE 1. NORMAL FORCE
These forces make objects change their motion or
movement which are the act of going
Thefrom one place
normal forceto is the support force exerted
another.
upon an object that is in contact with another
stable object. For example, if a book is resting
upon a surface, then the surface is exerting an
upward force upon the book in order to support
the weight of the book.
2. APPLIED FORCE
An applied force is a force that is applied to an
object by a person or another object. If a person is
pushing a desk across the room, then there is an
applied force acting upon the object.
3. FRICTIONAL FORCE
Frictional Force refers to the force generated by
two surfaces that contacts and slide against each other.
These forces are mainly affected by the surface texture
and quantity of force requiring them together.
4. TENSION FORCE
5. SPRING FORCE
1. BALANCED FORCE
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What is Unbalanced
Force?
SELF - CHECK
If there are some instances that is not clear to you, you are
free to look at it once again and be familiar with it.
Now, if you are really sure and confident enough about your
understanding to the concept you have read, we will be
having your assessment.
Are You Ready?
Let’s try this!
Directions A. Read the statements carefully and choose the correct
answer. Encircle TRUE if the statement is correct, otherwise
encircle FALSE if the statement is incorrect.
TRUE FALSE
2. A book sitting still on a table has unbalanced forces acting on it.
TRUE FALSE
3. When all the forces acting upon an object balance each other, the
object will be at equilibrium; it will not accelerate
TRUE FALSE
4. A person standing still on the floor has balanced forces acting upon
him or her.
TRUE FALSE
5. A person starting to fall through the floor has balanced forces acting on
him or her
TRUE FALSE
Let’s try this!
Procedure:
1. Stand on a bathroom scale and measure your weight.
2. Hold a large book, stand on the scale, and measure the
combined weight of you and the book.
3. Repeat step #2 using a chair, heavy jacket, and fourth object of
your choice.
Analysis
1. Subtract your weight from each of the combined weights to
calculate the weight of each object in pounds.
2. Multiply the weight of each object in pounds by 4.4 to calculate
its weight in newtons.
3. Calculate your own weight in newtons.
First Law of Motion
When you give a book on a table a push or when you push a book
on a table, it slides and comes to a stop. After you throw or hit a
baseball and it hits the ground, it soon rolls to a stop. In fact, it
seems that anytime you set something in motion, it stops moving
after a while.
Objects tend to "keep on doing what they're doing." In fact, it is the natural
tendency of objects to resist changes in their state of motion. This
tendency to resist changes in their state of motion is described as inertia.
What is Inertia?
It is the resistance an object has to a change in its state of motion.
All objects resist changes in their state of motion. All objects have this
tendency - they have inertia.
Absolutely yes!
The tendency of an object to resist changes in its state of motion varies
with mass. Mass is that quantity that is solely dependent upon the inertia
of an object. The more inertia that an object has, the more mass that it
has. A more massive object has a greater tendency to resist changes in
its state of motion.
1. Imagine a place in the
cosmos far from all gravitational
and frictional influences. Suppose that
you visit that place (just suppose) and throw
a rock. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE ROCK?
2. Mac and Tosh are arguing in the cafeteria. Mac says that if he
flings the Jell-O with a greater speed it will have a greater inertia.
Tosh argues that inertia does not depend upon speed,
but rather upon mass. Who do you agree with?
Explain why.
4. Fred spends most
3. Supposing you were in space in Sunday afternoons at rest on
a weightless environment, would it the sofa, watching pro football
require a force to set an games and consuming large quantities
object in motion?
of food. What affect (if any) does this
practice have upon his inertia? Explain.
Absolutely yes!
That word is…………
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Let’s do this!
You’ve gone so far, this time as you read and understand the 2nd
Law of Motion, practicing your math skills will be an additional
knowledge. Are you ready?
I hope you were able to calculate it, now let’s try another one. Ready?
1. While driving down the road, a firefly strikes the windshield of a bus and makes a
quite obvious mess in front of the face of the driver. This is a clear case of Newton's
third law of motion. The firefly hit the bus and the bus hits the firefly. Which of the two
forces is greater: the force on the firefly or the force on the bus?
2. For years, space travel was believed to be impossible because there was nothing
that rockets could push off of in space in order to provide the propulsion necessary to
accelerate. This inability of a rocket to provide propulsion is because ...
a. ... space is void of air so the rockets have nothing to push off of.
b. ... gravity is absent in space.
c. ... space is void of air and so there is no air resistance in space.
d. ... nonsense! Rockets do accelerate in space and have been able to do so for a long
time.
3. Many people are familiar with the fact that a rifle recoils when fired. This recoil is the
result of action-reaction force pairs. A gunpowder explosion creates hot gases that
expand outward allowing the rifle to push forward on the bullet. Consistent with
Newton's third law of motion, the bullet pushes backwards upon the rifle. The
acceleration of the recoiling rifle is ...
a. greater than the acceleration of the bullet.
b. smaller than the acceleration of the bullet.
c. the same size as the acceleration of the bullet.
4.
In the top picture (below),
Kent Budgett is pulling upon a
rope that is attached to a wall. In the
bottom picture, Kent is pulling upon a
rope that is attached to an elephant. In
each case, the force scale reads 500 Newton.
Kent is pulling ...
What is
WORK?
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On occasion, a force acts upon a moving object to hinder a displacement.
Examples might include a car skidding to a stop on a roadway surface or a
baseball runner sliding to a stop on the infield dirt.
In such instances, the force acts in the direction opposite the objects motion in
order to slow it down. The force doesn't cause the displacement but rather
hinders it. These situations involve what is commonly called negative work.
The negative of negative work refers to the numerical value that results when
values of F, d and theta are substituted into the work equation.
1. Apply the work equation to determine the amount of work done by the
applied force in each of the three situations described below.
2. A student lifts a box of books that weighs 135 N. The box is lifted
0.600 m. How much work does the student do on the box?
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The standard metric unit of power is the Watt. As is
implied by the equation for power, a unit of power is
equivalent to a unit of work divided by a unit of time. Thus,
a Watt is equivalent to a Joule/second. For historical
reasons, the horsepower is occasionally used to describe
the power delivered by a machine. One horsepower is
equivalent to approximately 750 Watts.
1. Two physics students, Will N. Andable and Ben Pumpiniron, are in the
weightlifting room. Will lifts the 100-pound barbell over his head 10 times in
one minute; Ben lifts the 100-pound barbell over his head 10 times in 10
seconds. Which student does the most work? ______________ Which student
delivers the most power? ______________ Explain your answers.
2. During a physics lab, Jack and Jill ran up a hill. Jack is twice as massive
as Jill; yet Jill ascends the same distance in half the time. Who did the most
work? ______________ Who delivered the most power? ______________ Explain
your answers.
3. A tired squirrel (mass of approximately 1 kg) does push-ups by applying
a force to elevate its center-of-mass by 5 cm in order to do a mere 0.50
Joule of work. If the tired squirrel does all this work in 2 seconds, then
determine its power.
4. When doing a chin-up, a physics student lifts her 42.0-kg body a distance
of 0.25 meters in 2 seconds. What is the power delivered by the student's
biceps?
In everyday life, the word
ENERGY is used in a variety of
ways.
Your little brother who runs and plays
long after adults are tired is said to be full of
energy bars. The sun provides solar energy for the
planet.
Companies that supply your home with electricity, natural
Gas, or heating fuel and your car with gasoline are called energy
companies.
When these resources become scarce and more expensive, the
media report stories of an energy crisis.
ENERGY is the
capacity to do
WORK
The energy of a moving object is called energy of motion or
KINETIC energy (KE). The word kinetic comes from the Greek
word kinetikos which means moving.
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In a deeper sense, this refers to the energy gained
or lost by the object which is called
1. A box has a mass of 5.8kg. The box is lifted from the garage floor and placed
on a shelf. If the box gains 145J of Potential Energy (Ep), how high is the
shelf?
2. A man climbs on to a wall that is 3.6m high and gains 2268J of Potential
energy. What is the mass of the man?
3. A 800g ball is pulled up a slope as shown in the diagram. Calculate the
potential energy it gains.
A sound wave is a pressure
disturbance that travels through a
medium by means of particle-to-particle
interaction. As one particle becomes disturbed,
it exerts a force on the next adjacent particle, thus
disturbing that particle from rest and transporting the
energy through the medium. Like any wave, the speed of a
sound wave refers to how fast the disturbance is passed from
particle to particle. While frequency refers to the number of
vibrations that an individual particle makes per unit of time,
speed refers to the distance that the disturbance travels per
unit of time. Always be cautious to distinguish between the two
often-confused quantities of speed (how fast...) and frequency
(how often...).
Speed of wave - distance (d) that apoint on a wave
travels per unit time (t), in equation
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This is an activity that students can do independently or with partners.
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Making and analyzing a graphic organizer can be a great way to
help visual learners learn more about visible light.
Heat describes the transfer of thermal energy between molecules within a system and
is measured in Joules. Heat measures how energy moves or flows. An object can gain
heat or lose heat, but it cannot have heat. Heat is a measure of change, never a
property possessed by an object or system. Therefore, it is classified as a process
variable.
Procedure:
Get a thermometer, record the room temperature.
(carfeul with the thermometer)
Hold the thermometer in your hand and wrap your
fingers around it. Record your body temperature in
degree celcius.
Room Temp:__________°C
Body Temp: __________°C
5.
A lamp draws a current of 0.50 A when it
is connected to a 120-V source.
a. What is the resistance of the lamp?
b. What is the power consumption of the
lamp?
6.
A 75-W lamp is connected to 120 V.
a. What is the current through a
lamp?
b. What is the resistance of the lamp?
Miranda has to use a hair dryer in order to dry her long hair quickly
enough to get to school on time. She has a powerful hair dryer that
dries her hair faster than a less powerful hair dryer would. That’s
because a more powerful hair dryer changes electric current to
thermal energy more quickly.
If Miranda uses her 1.8-kilowatt hair dryer for 0.2 hours, how much
electrical energy does she use?