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Mechanics
Mechanics
ME.1.01 - Students will use position, displacement, average and instantaneous velocity, average and
instantaneous acceleration to describe 1-dimensional motion of an object. (Week 01 - Week 03)
ME.1.02 - Students will use kinematic equations to understand and predict 1-dimensional motion of objects
under constant acceleration,including vertical (free-fall) motion under gravity. (Week 04 - Week 08)
Essential Questions: Can one predict where an object will be at a future time if acceleration is not
constant?
Skills:
‣A. Explain why displacement equals area under a velocity-time graph.
‣B. Use a velocity/time graph to explain, justify and/or derive kinematics equations for constant
acceleration problems
‣C. Solve 1-dimensional motion problems using the kinematic equations for constant acceleration.
‣D. Solve kinematics problems involving vertical (free-fall) motion under gravity.
Concepts:
‣A. Area under a curve
ME.1.03 - Students will understand the importance of reference frames and use relative velocity to describe
the motions of 2 objects with respect to each other in 1-D (Week 09 - Week 10)
Essential Questions: What happens to the relative velocity of a pool ball wrt a cue ball on an excellent pool
shot that leaves the cue ball stationary?
Skills:
3 ‣A. Determine the relative velocity of one object wrt another, both of which moving in 1-D
‣B. Can analyze the relative velocities of two objects before and after a collisin in 1-D given the pre-
and post-collision velocities
Concepts:
‣A. Reference frame
‣B. Reference object
‣C. Velocity as a signed quantitiy
‣D. Difference of velocities
ME.1.04 - Students will be able to use vector concepts to extend 1-d kinematics to motion in 2-D. (Week 11 -
Week 14)
ME.1.05 - Students will be able to analyze and solve 2-D projectile problems in the absence of air resistance
(Week 01 - Week 02)
Essential Questions: How does the gravity affect in motion of bodies on the earth?
Skills:
‣A. Students should be able to explain the independence of the vertical and horizontal motion of
projectiles.
‣B. Demonstrate both mathematically and experimentally that projectiles move in a parabola
‣C.Solve 2-dimensional projectile motion problems
Concepts:
‣A. Launch angle
‣B. Projectile Motion
‣C. Range
ME.1.06 - Students will be able to use Newtown's 1st Law and vector algebra to analyze systems in
translational equilibrium. (Week 03 - Week 05)
Essential Questions: What change will happen if you replace a coplanar forces act at a point by only one
force?
Skills:
‣A. Find the resultant of forces meet at a point
‣B. resolve a force into two component
‣a.Use Lami's rule
‣b. use triangle of force
‣c. Solve equilibrium problems requiring point forces to balance
Concepts:
‣A. Resultant of forces
‣B. resolution of a force
‣a. Lami's rule
‣b. Triangle of force
‣c. Equilibrium of co-planar forces act at a point
Texts & References: Active Physics, section 2.1, pages 128-144
ME.1.07 - Students will experimentally justify Newton's 2nd law and use it to mathematically predict motion
of objects in 1-D (Week 06 - Week 08)
ME.1.08 - Students will be able to use Newtown's 2nd Law and vector algebra to analyze motion of objects
in 2-D (Week 09 - Week 11)
Essential Questions:
Skills:
‣A. Add forces as vectors and determine an objects acceleration )or lack of acceleratin)
‣B. Knowing motion of a mass and all forces except one, determine the unknown force.
Concepts:
A. Vector sum of forces: resultant
ME.1.09 - Students will be able to analyze circular motion of an object using concepts of centripetal
acceleration and centripetal force (Week 12 - Week 14)
ME.2.01 - Students will be able to model the force of friction when analyzing applied problems in Newtonian
mechanics. (Week 01 - Week 04)
ME.2.02 - Students will be able to determine the work done on an object by an external force using the
scalar (dot) product of vectors. (Week 05 - Week 07)
Essential Questions: Why do you think the cross and vector product are not equivalent?
Skills:
‣A. Define the dot product and prove its major properties.
‣B. Use the dot product to solve applied physics problems.
‣C. Solve problems in mathematics and applied settings by using the concepts of length and
distance and their relationship to the dot product .
‣D. Solve problems in mathematics and applied settings by using the relationship between scalar
product and the angle between vectors.
‣E. Calculate the cross-product,
‣F. Use the cross product to solve applied problems in physics, engineering, and mathematics
Concepts:
‣A. Dot Product
‣B. Magnitude (length) of a vector
‣C. Angle between vectors
‣D. Cross-product of 2 vectors
Evidence:
‣The following is a good quiz of the basic concept of dot product, and the two ways of computing the
dot product: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Z3k2X-9-NiWDNUTzVocVBKSjQgeometric vs algebraic
dot product reveiw quiz.pdf - Google Drive
‣The following is a good quiz of applying dot product to find work and to compute the product of a
vector and the projection onto that vector:https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Z3k2X-9-
NiQzRIdl9GRmJ0Mmcquiz.
‣A quiz or homework assignment teaching a Highly Proficient application of dot products and
projections is the https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4ZyP1rEOBQPQzY2dEctcHlSa2sVideo Game
Problem.
‣The following is a good quiz of the basic concept of dot product, and the two ways of computing the
dot product: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4ZyP1rEOBQPLThESkhMRjk2SncGeometric vs Algebraic
Dot Product Review Quiz.
‣The following is a good quiz of applying dot product to find work and to compute the product of a
vector and the projection onto that vector: https://drive.google.com/open?
id=0B4ZyP1rEOBQPNkZ3am14WmZLRWcApplied Dot Product Quiz
‣You can use the problem set from MOE Grade 1 text, chapter 4, pages 179-180. These are also a
potential assessment resource. See https://drive.google.com/open?
id=0ByuHv6kvW3gQMXlWN2ZSNVk0LXMfiles here.
ME.2.03 - Students will be able apply the work-energy theorem to analyze the state of an object subject to a
variety of forces (Week 08 - Week 10)
ME.2.04 - Students will be able to apply the Law of Conservation of Energy to analyze the state of
mechanical systems (Week 11 - Week 12)
Essential Questions: ‣What do you learn from the law of conservation of energy?
‣How can you use the law of conservation of energy?
Skills:
ME.2.05 - Students will be able to apply the concept of power to analyze energy transfer in mechanical
systems. (Week 13 - Week 14)
ME.2.06 - Students will be able to analyze the movement of a system of discrete masses by using a center
of mass approach. (Week 01 - Week 04)
Essential Questions: Why do you need to know the center of gravity of bodies?
Skills:
‣A. Find the center of gravity of a system of particles
‣B. Find the center of gravity of a rigid body
‣C. Determine the point of toppling
‣D. Equilibrium of suspended laminae
‣E. Use of calculus
‣F. solids of revolution
Concepts:
‣A. Attraction of the earth
‣B. center of gravity of a system of particles
‣C. center of gravity of a rigid body
‣D. composite laminae
‣E. toppling
‣F.equilibrium of suspended lamina
‣G. use of calculus
‣H. solids of revolution
ME.2.07 - Students will be able to use the Law of Conservation of Momentum to analyze collisions (Week 05
- Week 08)
Essential Questions:
Skills:
Concepts:
ME.3.01 - Students will be able to use vector Cross Product to determine torque on an object produced by a
force (Week 01 - Week 02)
ME.3.02 - Students will be able to analyze conditions for systems of objects in General Equilibrium, i.e.
translational and rotational equilibrium (Week 03 - Week 05)
ME.3.03 - Students will be able to analyze Rotational Kinematics of systems for constant and non-constant
angular acceleration (Week 06 - Week 07)
Essential Questions:
Skills:
‣A. Use kinematics equations for angular motion with constant angular acceleration to solve for other
angular variables
‣B. Understand and explain the mathematical similarity between 1-d and angular kinematics
‣C. Determine the total angular displacement in situations with non-constant angular acceleration
using the area under an angular-velocity - time graph
Concepts:
‣A. Angular displacement
‣B. Average and instantaneous angular velocity
‣C.. Average and instantaneous angular acceleration
ME.3.04 - Students will be able to analyze Rotational Dynamics of systems using the rotational analogue of
Newton's 2nd Law (Week 07 - Week 08)
Essential Questions:
Skills:
‣A. Can determine the moment of inertia of a system of discrete objects
‣B. Can determine the angular acceleration of an extended object using rotational equivalent of
Newton's 2nd Law
‣C. Can determine the conditions for rotational equilibrium
‣D. Can describe reasons for train derailment in terms of position of center of gravity, wheel base,
and speed.
Concepts:
‣A. Moment of Inertia
‣B. Torque and angular acceleration
‣C. Rotational equilibrium
ME.3.05 - Students can analyze rotational problems, employing conservation of angular momentum where
appropriate (Week 08 - Week 09)
ME.3.06 - Students will be able to analyze total mechanical energy of systems that include rotational and
translational energy (Week 10 - Week 11)
Essential Questions:
Skills:
A. Can determine the "winner" of a race down an incline between solid and hollow spheres of same size and
mass
Concepts:
A. Rotational kinetic energy
ME.3.07 - Studens will be able to use calculus to analyze problems in kinematics, dynamics and energy
(Week 12 - Week 14)
Essential Questions: How can you relate the calculus with Mechanics?
Skills:
‣A. Find acceleration as a function of time
‣B. Find velocity as a function of displacement
‣C. Find acceleration as a function of displacement
‣D. Find acceleration as a function of velocity
‣E. Determine variable force
‣F. determine motion under gravity
‣G. Find work done by a variable force
‣H. Determine variable force acting along a curved path
‣I. study motion in a straight line
Concepts:
‣A. Acceleration as a function of time
‣B. Velocity as a function of displacement
‣C. Acceleration as a function of displacement
‣D. Acceleration as a function of velocity
‣E. Variable force
‣F. Motion under gravity
‣G. work done by a variable force