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General Physics1: Quarter 1 - Module 3: Kinematics: Motion Along A Straight Line
General Physics1: Quarter 1 - Module 3: Kinematics: Motion Along A Straight Line
General Physics1
Quarter 1 – Module 3:
Kinematics: Motion Along a
Straight Line
Science – Grade 12
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Quarter 1 – Module 3: Motion Along a Straight Line
First Edition, 2020
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General Physics1
Quarter 1 – Module 3:
Motion Along a Straight Line
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:
This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also aims to help
learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking into consideration
their needs and circumstances.
In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the body of
the module:
As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this module.
You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist
the learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
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For the learner:
The hand is one of the most symbolized part of the human body. It is often used to
depict skill, action and purpose. Through our hands we may learn, create and
accomplish. Hence, the hand in this learning resource signifies that you as a
learner is capable and empowered to successfully achieve the relevant
competencies and skills at your own pace and time. Your academic success lies in
your own hands!
This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities
for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You will be
enabled to process the contents of the learning resource while being an active
learner.
What I Need to Know This will give you an idea of the skills or
competencies you are expected to learn in
the module.
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process what you learned from the lesson.
1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any part of
the module. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the exercises.
2. Don’t forget to answer What I Know before moving on to the other activities
included in the module.
3. Read the instruction carefully before doing each task.
4. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking your
answers.
5. Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
6. Return this module to your teacher/facilitator once you are through with it.
If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this module, do not
hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator. Always bear in mind that you are
not alone.
We hope that through this material, you will experience meaningful learning
and gain deep understanding of the relevant competencies. You can do it!
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What I Need to Know
This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you
master the Uniformly Accelerated Motion. The scope of this module permits it to be
used in many different learning situations. The language used recognizes the
diverse vocabulary level of students. The lessons are arranged to follow the
standard sequence of the course. But the order in which you read them can be
changed to correspond with the textbook you are now using.
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What I Know
Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a separate sheet of
paper.
1. When we say that light objects and heavy objects fall at the same rate,
what assumption(s) are we making?
a. They have the same shape.
b. They have the same size.
c. They have surfaces with similar air resistances.
d. They are falling in a vacuum.
2. When an object was thrown upwards reaches its highest point, which
is TRUE?
a. The acceleration switches from positive to negative.
b. The acceleration is zero.
c. The total displacement is zero.
d. The velocity is zero.
4. Pedro was angry and wishes to drop an egg onto the head of Juan. He
stations himself in a building window 19.6 m above the level of Juan’s
head. Determine how many seconds before Juan is directly beneath
him that he will have to drop the egg in order to get the desired plat?
a. 1.5 seconds c. 2.5 seconds
b. 2.0 seconds d. 3.0 seconds
For numbers 5-7
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5. A stone is thrown from the top of the building with an initial velocity
of 20.0 m/s straight upward. The building is 50.0 m high, and the
stone just misses the edge of the roof on its way down. Determine the
time at which the stone reaches its maximum height.
a. 2.0 s c. 4.0 s
b. 3.0 s d. 5.0 s
7. Determine the time at which the stone returns to the level of the
thrower.
a. 4.0 s c. 8.0 s
b. 6.0 s d. 10.0 s
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10. A freely falling body has a constant acceleration of 9.8 m/s 2. This
means that;
a. the acceleration of the body increases by 9.8 m/s 2 during each
second
b. the body falls 9.8 m during each second
c. the body falls 9.8 during the first second only
d. the speed of the body increases by 9.8 m/s during each second
11. If the contraction of the left ventricle lasts 250 m/s and the speed of
blood flow in the aorta (the large artery leaving the heart) is 0.80 m/s at
the end of the contraction, what is the average acceleration of a red blood
cell as it leaves the heart?
12. If the aorta (diameter da) branches into to equal-sized arteries with a
combined area equal to that of the aorta, what is the diameter of one of
the branches?
a. 1da b. da /12 c. 2da d da/2
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14. A feather, initially at rest, is released in a vacuum 12 m above the
surface of the earth. Which of the following statements is correct?
15. A lunar lander is descending toward the moon’s surface. Until the
lander reaches the surface, its height above the surface of the moon is
given by y1t2 = b - ct + dt2, where b = 800 m is the initial height of the
lander above the surface, c = 60.0 m/s, and d = 1.05 m/s 2. What is the
initial velocity of the lander, at t = 0?
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Lesson
Pick something up with your hand and drop it. When you release it from
your hand, its speed is zero. On the way down its speed increases. The longer it
falls the faster it travels. Sounds like acceleration to me.
But acceleration is more than just increasing speed. Pick up this same
object and toss it vertically into the air. On the way up its speed will decrease
until it stops and reverses direction. Decreasing speed is also considered
acceleration.
But acceleration is more than just changing speed. Pick up your battered
object and launch it one last time. This time throw it horizontally and notice
how its horizontal velocity gradually becomes more and more vertical. Since
acceleration is the rate of change of velocity with time and velocity is a vector
quantity, this change in direction is also considered acceleration.
In each of these examples the acceleration was the result of gravity. Your object
was accelerating because gravity was pulling it down. Even the object tossed
straight up is falling — and it begins falling the minute it leaves your hand. If it
wasn't, it would have continued moving away from you in a straight line. This is
the acceleration due to gravity.
What’s In
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Notes to the Teacher
It is significant that learners had background on how to used and
derived mathematical equations.
What’s New
Free Fall
The motion of falling objects is the simplest and most common example of motion
with changing velocity. If a coin and a piece of paper are simultaneously dropped
side by side, the paper takes much longer to hit the ground. However, if you
crumple the paper into a compact ball and drop the items again, it will look like
both the coin and the paper hit the floor simultaneously. This is because the
amount of force acting on an object is a function of not only its mass, but also area.
Free fall is the motion of a body where its weight is the only force acting on an
object.
Galileo also observed this phenomenon and realized that it disagreed with the
Aristotle principle that heavier items fall more quickly. Galileo then hypothesized
that there is an upward force exerted by air in addition to the downward force of
gravity. If air resistance and friction are negligible, then in a given location (because
gravity changes with location), all objects fall toward the center of Earth with
the same constant acceleration, independent of their mass, that constant
acceleration is gravity. Air resistance opposes the motion of an object through the
air, while friction opposes motion between objects and the medium through which
they are traveling. The acceleration of free-falling objects is referred to as the
acceleration due to gravity gg. As we said earlier, gravity varies depending on
location and altitude on Earth (or any other planet), but the average acceleration
due to gravity on Earth is 9.8 m/s2. This value is also often expressed as a negative
acceleration in mathematical calculations due to the downward direction of gravity.
Equations
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The best way to see the basic features of motion involving gravity is to start by
considering straight up and down motion with no air resistance or friction. This
means that if the object is dropped, we know the initial velocity is zero. Once the
object is in motion, the object is in free-fall. Under these circumstances, the motion
is one-dimensional and has constant acceleration, gg. The kinematic equations for
objects experiencing free fall are:
V = V0 – gt
y = y0 + V0 t – ½ gt2
What is It
At zero count I step into space. No wind whistles or billows my clothing. I have
absolutely no sensation of the increasing speed with which I fall.
Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more
before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my
altitude. An Air Force camera on the gondola took this photograph when the cotton
clouds still lay 80,000 feet below. At 21,000 feet they rushed up so chillingly that I
had to remind myself they were vapor and not solid.
For most skydivers, the acceleration experienced while falling is not constant. As a
skydiver's speed increases, so too does the aerodynamic drag until their speed
levels out at a typical terminal velocity of 55 m/s (120 mph). Air resistance is not
negligible in such circumstances. The story of Captain Kittinger is an exceptional
one, however. At the float altitude where his dive began, the Earth's atmosphere
has only 1.5% of its density at sea level. It is effectively a vacuum and offers no
resistance to a person falling from rest.
The acceleration due to gravity is often said to be constant, with a value of 9.8
m/s2. Over the entire surface of the Earth up to an altitude of 18 km, this is the
value accurate to two significant digits. In actuality, this "constant" varies from
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9.81 m/s2 at sea level to 9.75 m/s2 at 18 km. At the altitude of Captain Kittinger's
dive, the acceleration due to gravity was closer to 9.72 m/s2.
Given this data it is possible to calculate the maximum speed of Captain Kittinger
during his descent. First we will need to convert the altitude measurements. To
save calculation time we will only convert the change in altitude and not each
altitude. Given that he stepped out of the gondola at 102,800 feet, fell freely until
96,000 feet, and then continued to accelerate for another 6,000 feet; the distance
over which he accelerated uniformly was…
It's now just a matter of choosing the correct formula and plugging in the numbers.
v0 = 0 m/s
a = 9.72 m/s2
∆s = 3900 m
v= ?
v = v02 + 2a∆s
2
v = √(2a∆s)
v= √(2(9.72 m/s2)(3900 m))
v = 275 m/s
This result is amazingly close to the value recorded in Kittinger's report.
As one would expect the actual value is slightly less than the theoretical value. This
agrees with the notion of a small but still non-zero amount of drag.
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What’s More
Identify the given quantities, unknown quantities and equations to solve the given
problem.
1. (a) If a flea can jump straight up to a height of 0.440 m, what is its initial
speed as it leaves the ground? (b) How long is it in the air?
2. A small rock is thrown vertically upward with a speed of 22.0 m/s from the
edge of the roof of a 30.0-m-tall building. The rock doesn’t hit the building
on its way back down and lands on the street below. Ignore air resistance.
(a) What is the speed of the rock just before it hits the street? (b) How much
time elapses from when the rock is thrown until it hits the street?
3. A juggler throws a bowling pin straight up with an initial speed of 8.20 m/s.
How much time elapses until the bowling pin returns to the juggler’s hand?
4. You throw a glob of putty straight up toward the ceiling, which is 3.60 m
above the point where the putty leaves your hand. The initial speed of the
putty as it leaves your hand is 9.50 m/s. (a) What is the speed of the putty
just before it strikes the ceiling? (b) How much time from when it leaves
your hand does it take the putty to reach the ceiling?
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What I Have Learned
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What I Can Do
Justify the scenario whether a murder or suicide case. An OFW in Dubai fell
from a 15th floor building. Use the concepts and principles of free fall on the case.
Assessment
Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a
separate sheet of paper.
1. When we say that light objects and heavy objects fall at the same rate, what
assumption(s) are we making?
2. When an object was thrown upwards reaches its highest point, which is
TRUE?
3. An object is allowed to fall freely near the surface of a planet. The object falls
54 meters in the first 3 seconds after it is released. The acceleration due to
gravity of that planet is______.
a. 6 m/s2 c. 27 m/s2
b. 12 m/s2 d. 108 m/s2
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4. Pedro was angry and wishes to drop an egg onto the head of Juan.
He stations himself in a building window 19.6 m above the level of
Juan’s head. Determine how many seconds before Juan is directly
beneath him that he will have to drop the egg in order to get the
desired plat?
a. 1.6 m c. 15.9m
b. 10.6 m d. 20.4 m
7. Determine the time at which the stone returns to the level of the
thrower.
a. 4.0 s c. 8.0 s
b. 6.0 s d. 10.0 s
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9. A ball is in free fall. Upward is taken to be in positive direction. The
displacement of the ball during a short time interval is:
a. positive during ascent and negative during descent.
b. positive during both ascent and descent
c. negative during ascent and positive during descent
d. negative during both ascent and descent.
10. A freely falling body has a constant acceleration of 9.8 m/s 2. This
means that;
a. the acceleration of the body increases by 9.8 m/s 2 during each
second
b. the body falls 9.8 m during each second
c. the body falls 9.8 during the first second only
d. the speed of the body increases by 9.8 m/s during each second
11. If the contraction of the left ventricle lasts 250 m/s and the speed of
blood flow in the aorta (the large artery leaving the heart) is 0.80 m/s at
the end of the contraction, what is the average acceleration of a red blood
cell as it leaves the heart?
12. If the aorta (diameter da) branches into to equal-sized arteries with a
combined area equal to that of the aorta, what is the diameter of one of
the branches?
a. 1da b. da /12 c. 2da d da/2
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13. Rocket-powered sleds are used to test the human response to
acceleration. If a rocket-powered sled is accelerated to a speed of 444
m/s in 1.83 s, what is the acceleration and what is the distance that the
sled travels?
15. A lunar lander is descending toward the moon’s surface. Until the
lander reaches the surface, its height above the surface of the moon is
given by y1t2 = b - ct + dt 2, where b = 800 m is the initial height of the
lander above the surface, c = 60.0 m/s, and d = 1.05 m/s 2. What is the
initial velocity of the lander, at t = 0?
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Additional Activities
Identify the given quantities, unknown quantities and equations to solve the given
problem.
Base I. The lander descends slowly under the retro-thrust of its descent
engine. The engine is cut off when the lander is 5.0 m above the surface and
has a downward speed of 0.8 m/s. With the engine off, the lander is in free
fall. What is the speed of the lander just before it touches the surface? The
above the ground. After the sandbag is released, it is in free fall. (a)
Compute the position and velocity of the sandbag at 0.250 sand 1.00 s after
its release. (b) How many seconds after its release does the bag strike the
ground? (c) With what magnitude of velocity does it strike the ground? (d)
What is the greatest height above the ground that the sandbag reaches?
3. The rocket-driven sled Sonic Wind No. 2, used for investigating the
1070 m (3500 ft) long. Starting from rest, it can reach a speed of 224
that it is constant. (b) What is the ratio of this acceleration to that of a freely
falling body (g)? (c) What distance is covered in 0.900 s? (d) A magazine
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article states that at the end of a certain run, the speed of the sled decreased
from 283 m/s 1632 mi/h2 to zero in 1.40 s and that during this time the
magnitude of the acceleration was greater than 40g. Are these figures
consistent?
4. An egg is thrown nearly vertically upward from a point near the cornice of a
tall building. The egg just misses the cornice on the way down and passes a
point 30.0 m below its starting point 5.00 s after it leaves the thrower’s
hand. Ignore air resistance. (a) What is the initial speed of the egg? (b) How
high does it rise above its starting point? (c) What is the magnitude of its
velocity at the highest point? (d) What are the magnitude and direction of its
5. A 15-kg rock is dropped from rest on the earth and reaches the ground in
Enceladus, the rock reaches the ground in 18.6 s. What is the acceleration
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Answer Key
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References
Tabujara Jr., Geronimo D. K-12 Compliant Worktext for Senior High School
General Physics 1. Manila, Philippines: JFS Publishing Services
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