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Hoạt động 2: PERFORM THE EXPERIMENT TO DETERMINE THE FREE FALLING ACCELERATION AND
DEDUCE THE FORMULA OF FREE FALL

A, The Goals
- Students show their assumptions about the characteristic of free fall
- Dicussion on planning experiment or planning experiment selection
B, Activity
- Students perform experiment , collect data and write it down in table ( Position, velocity of free falling particle at different time
with an interval dt = 0.1 )

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(Ticker-tape Timer)
− Leader of the group reports the result of experiment, other students write it down again and plot graph ( Velocity
versus time / Height versus time )
− Point out the kind of motion for free fall ( Motion with constant velocity or motion with constant acceleration )
− Show how to determine g
− Show the equation of motion for free fall
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− Other students : Discuss and comment

Note# (ở bài trước có bài tìm ptcđ của chuyển động nhanh dần đều rồi, mình tìm được gia tốc trọng trường thì có thể nêu ra ptcđ rơi tự do luôn!)
C) Student's work
- Direction : Straight
- Orientation : Above to below
- Free fall is a motion with constant acceleration g
=> Equation of motion for velocity : v = gt
S= 1/2 gt2

Data table
D, Activity organization
a)
Execution Activity Student’s work
1. Act 1: The characteristics of free fall
From the experiment ( drop two things in vacuum ) Students discuss and show their point of view Student’s answer :

which have been done before, teacher give the
question to student :
“ We can see that two things here only depend on
gravitational force and fall with the same rate. So,
from what we have learned , can we draw to some
conclusion ?
If yes, so what is it ? ”
Teacher will show the definition of free fall
acceleration g right after sutdents give their views
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2 particle fall with the same acceleration => Same rate of
speed
Students comprehend and write the definition of
free falling acceleration in their notebook
Student discuss and base on knowledge what
they have learned to construct the
characteristics of free fall , free fall distance, free
falling time

Definiton of free falling acceleration

Teachers give a task to students : Construct the
characteristics of free fall , free fall distance, free
falling time
The characteristics of free fall
- Direction : Straight
- Orientation : Above to below
- Free fall is a motion with constant acceleration

g(m/s 2 ¿
- Velocity : v= v 0+ at

1 2
- Distance : s= g t
2

2. Act 2: Free falling acceleration experiment

- Time t=
√ 2s
g

− Teacher break the class into 2 groups to   2h

determine the g Case 1 : Measure the height , free falling = > g by g=
- Dicussion on t2
planning Case 2 : Fix time constant and use Ticker-tape Timer
experiment or  Measure delta s => calculate velocity and plot grap v-
planning time => g is the slope of function
experiment
selection
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Aims : Measure the time t in different distance = >

Conclude about the the characteristics of free fall and
determinde g

3.Hoạt động 3: Perform experiment

1: Discussion on planning experiment ( determine the Case 2: Fix time constant
g) Δt
- Student : Team-work , execute the  Δs=s 2−s1=s1 −s 0
experiment
Teacher gives task “ Free falling acceleration - Collect data and write it
determination” to student according to the plan which down in table .
they have made or chosen Comments on kind of
- Teacher : Helping student when motion
they are doing work
- Leader of the group
reports the result of
experiment, other
students write it
down again and plot
graph ( Velocity
versus time / Height
versus time )
- Point out the kind of motion for free
fall ( Motion with constant velocity
or motion with constant acceleration
- Other students :
Discuss and
comment

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2. Execution and analysis
- Teacher observe groups to detect groups having
difficulty in the discussion process, thereby providing
appropriate orientation and support.
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Students perform learning tasks
HS: Group work
Students record their discussion results on paper.
Through the observed HS graph,
From the results of the paper attached to the Ticker-tape
Timer), the students predict the motion pattern of the free fall
Data table
g is the slope

- - Based on the results in the Table, using
coach 7, choose the appropriate scale on the
vertical and horizontal axes to plot the v-t
graph.
3, Report (fill in the report table)
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The representative of the group reports the
results of the discussion to the class. Students can
write discussion results on the blackboard, or on
A1 paper for presentations and reports.
Students: Discuss, exchange, and give
suggestions to the whole class
Determine the slope of the plotted velocity and determine g
The groups go to the board and present the graph and the
results of g.
Students determine the acceleration due to gravity g, state the
characteristics of free fall motion and the equation of motion
-g~9.8m/s2
- motion has a vertical direction, from top to bottom
- uniformly accelerated motion with acceleration g~9.8m/s2
-programmer free fall s= 1/2gt^2