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LEARNING ACIVITY SHEET IN GENERAL PHYSICS I

Impulse, Collisions, and Conservation of Momentum
Name of Learner: ____________________________________
Grade Level: 12__________________________________
Strand/Track: STEM – ACADEMIC ___________________
Section: ____________________________________

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Date: ____________________________________

A. Background Information for Learners

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The lesson focuses on the applications of linear momentum and impulse as
well as the types of collisions in the context of rocket motion, vehicle, ping-pong
and others. The following sets of activities will help the students to develop
mastery aligned with the given competency.

B. Learning Competency with code

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Solve problems involving center of mass, impulse, and momentum in contexts
such as, but not limited to, rocket motion, vehicle collisions, and ping-pong.
(STEM_GP12MMIC-Ii- 63)
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C. Directions/ Instructions
After going through the unit, students are expected to:
1. Read and follow every activities directions carefully.
2. Accomplish each activity with mastery of competency.
3. Use Activity Sheets accordingly and carefully.
4. Record the scores in every activity.
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5. Have a score of at least 80% of the total items.

6. Ask question/s to the subject teacher regarding the activities through
messenger, text and call.
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D. Exercises / Activities
DAY 3
D.1. Introduction

A. What I need to Know?

At the end of the unit, the students are expected to:
1. Interpret word problems into free body diagrams to better
understand of the linear momentum and types of collisions with
certain applications.

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2. Solve problems about impulse and momentum with the application

of center mass, rocket repulsion, vehicle collisions and ping-pong,
etc.

B. What’s New

Activity 1: All about Center Mass

1. Why do you think that a boomerang goes

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back as it is being thrown away?

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C. What I Know?

Activity 2: Linear Momentum

Directions: Analyze and completely show the solution of the given
problem. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.
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1. A rifle with a mass of 5.0 kg fires a 50 g bullet at a speed of 300 m/s.
Solve the recoil velocity of the rifle.
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2. A bullet with a 2.0 g mass and 300 m/s velocity hits a wooden trolley
with 1.5 kg mass which is at rest on a frictionless track. Determine
the final velocity of the wooden trolley.
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D. What’s In
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Activity 3. Linear Momentum and Center Mass

Directions: Show the complete solution of the given problem.

Determine the center mass of the fisherman and boat system if the
fisherman stands at the end of a boat length L. The fisherman has a
mass ¼ of the boat when is at rest.
MY SCORE:

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E. What is it

For further reading about the discussion refer to the book 6th Edition
Physics by Giancolli, Exploring Life through Science: Physics by Silverio
1st Edition General Physics 1 by Santos and websites such as
SparkNotes, Khan Academy and YouTube Streaming videos.

D.3. Engagement

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F. What is More?

Activity 4. Applications of Momentum, Impulse and types of

Collisions

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Directions: Show the complete solution of the given problem by
following the GUFSA Format. Box the final answer.
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1. A 0.224 kg billiard ball moving at a speed of 12.0 m/s strikes the side
of the table at 30° with the horizontal. The ball rebounds at the same
speed and angle. What is the change in momentum of the ball?

2. At takeoff, a rocket launched vertically from Earth has 2500 kg, 1500
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kg of which is fuel. (a) if the initial acceleration of the rocket is 4.9
m/s2 and its fuel consumption is 15 kg/s, find the speed of the exhaust
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gases. (b) what is the final acceleration of the rocket? Ignore the
variation of g with altitude.
MY SCORE:

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G. What I can Do?

Activity 5. Problem Sets!!!

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Directions: Show the complete solution of the given problem by

following the GUFSA Format. Box the final answer. Draw a free-body
diagram.
1. Three people of roughly equal masses on a lightweight (air-filled)
banana boat sit along the x-axis at positions xA = 1.0 m, xB = 5.0 m
and xC = 6.0 m, measured from the left-hand end shown in the
picture. Find the position of the center mass. (mass of the boat is
neglected)
2. A 10,000 kg railroad car A, traveling at a speed of 24.0 m/s strikes
an identical car B at rest. If the cars lock together as a result of the
collision, what is their common speed just afterward?

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3. Bend your knees when landing. (a) Calculate the impulse

experienced when a 70-kg person lands on firm ground after jumping
from a height of 3.0 m. (b) Estimate the average force exerted on the
person’s feet by the ground if the landing is stiff-legged and again (c)
with bent legs. With stiff legs, assume the body moves 1.0 cm during
impact, and when the legs are bent, about 50 cm.
4. A proton of mass 1.01 u traveling with a speed 3.60 x 104 m/s has an
elastic head-on collision with a helium (He) nucleus (mHe = 4.00 u)

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initially at rest. What are the velocities of the proton and helium
nucleus after the collision? (1 u = 1.66 x 10-27 kg).
5. Billiard ball A moving with a speed of VA = 3.0 m/s in the +x direction
strikes an equal-mass ball B initially at rest. The two balls are
observed to move off at 45° to the x-axis ball A above the x-axis and

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ball B below. That is, θ’A = 45° and θ’B = -45°. What is the speed of
two balls after the collisions?
6. The distance between a carbon atom (mC = 12 u) and an oxygen
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atom (mO = 16 u) in the CO molecule is 1.13 x 10-10 m. How far from
the carbon atom is the center mass of the molecule?
7. There are two astronauts, one of the mass is 60 kg and the other is
80 kg, it is initially at rest in outer space. They then push each other
apart. How far apart are they when lighter astronaut has moved 12
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m?
8. A ball of mass m makes a head-on elastic collision with a second ball
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(at rest) and rebounds in the opposite direction with a MY SCORE:

speed equal to one-fourth its original speed. What is
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the mass of the second ball?
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H. What other Enrichment Activities I can Engage in?

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Activity 6. CAM (Construct-a-Map) in PHYSICS

Directions: Create a concept map showing the relation of all the
important concepts in the chapter study about Momentum, Impulse and
Conservation of Momentum. Use of words and concepts are not limited
Based on the level of your understanding.

MY SCORE:

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D.4. Assimilation

I. What I have Learned?

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Activity 7. Learning Checklist
Directions: Read and check the items that matches your learning
experiences for the given topic, then for those items that is
unmark/uncheck, write your reason/s why it doesn’t suit you.

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MY LEARNING EXPERIENCES
I know how to interpret word problems into free body diagram.
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I can easily analyze and identify unknown given in the problem
I can solve the problem accordingly and explain it well.
I know how to derive new formulas from the existing formula.
I can identify the direction, sign convention of the values
I know how to show the solution in understandable manner.
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I can formulate and calculate the problem intuitively.
I can identify the unknown values in one reading.
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Reason/s :
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J. Assessment/What I can show

Activity 8. SOLVE it!!!

Directions: Solve for the following unknown on the table below. Show
the complete solution for each item by following the GUFSA Format.
Box the final answer.

1. A 25-kg bullet strikes and becomes embedded in a 1.35-kg block of

wood placed on a horizontal surface just in front of the gun. If the

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coefficient of kinetic friction between the block and the surface is

0.25, and the impact drives the block a distance of 9.5 m before it
comes to rest, what was the muzzle speed of the bullet.
2. A 0.145-kg baseball pitched horizontally at 35.0 m/s strikes a bat and
is popped straight up to height of 55.6 m. If the contact MY time is 1.4
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m/s, calculate the average force on the ball during contact.
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E. Guide Questions

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Activity 9. I can ANSWER!
Directions: Respond to the following questions accordingly.
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1. How can a rocket change direction when it is far out in space and is
essentially in a vacuum? MY SCORE:

2. Why do you tend to lean backward when carrying a heavy load in your
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arms?
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F. Rubric for scoring

SCORING RUBRICS FOR ESSAYS and QUESTIONS

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Description
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Answers are comprehensive, accurate and complete. Key ideas are

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clearly stated and well supported.
Answers are accurate and complete. Key ideas are well stated and
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supported.
Answers are accurate and complete. Key ideas are stated and
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supported.
Answers are not comprehensive or completely stated. Key points are
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addressed but not well supported.
1 Answers are partial or incomplete. Question not adequately answered.

SCORING RUBRICS FOR CONCEPT MAP

Exemplary Proficient Progressing Partial
5 pts 4 pts 3 pts 2 pts
Identification of Map identifies Map includes Map includes Map includes
concepts the important most important some of the few concepts

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concepts and concepts and Important with most

provides provides concepts important
evidence of evidence of provides concepts
understanding understanding evidence of missing and
of knowledge knowledge understanding limited or non-
domain on domain on knowledge existent
multiple levels some levels domain on evidence of
limited or one understanding

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domain knowledge
domain
Evidence of
Evidence of Evidence of Evidence of
understanding
understanding understanding understanding
of few
relationships of most of some
relationships

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Interconnectivity and how all relationships relationships
and how
among concepts concepts are and how most and how some
limited number
interlinked with concepts are concepts are
of concepts
many other
concepts
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interlinked with
other concepts
linked to other
concepts
are linked to
other concepts
Proficient and Often clear and Vague and
Succinct and mostly sometimes partially
accurate accurate accurate accurate
Descriptive
description of description of description of description of
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connectivity of
all most some most
links
relationships relationships relationships relationships
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through links through most through some through most

links of the links of the links
Most links are
Some links are
Most links are not distinct but
Each link is distinct from
distinct from rather
distinct from all others,
others, synonymous
others, moderately
considerably to each other,
concisely describe some
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describe most describe

describes relationships,
Efficiency of links relationships, vaguely any
relationship and are used
and is used relationships,
and is used with some or
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mostly and are used

consistently limited
consistently with no
throughout the consistency
throughout the consistency
map throughout the
map. throughout the
map
map.
Most concepts Some concepts Limited
All concepts
are organized are organized concepts are
are organized
Evidence of in hierarchical in hierarchical organized
hierarchically
hierarchical order with order with fair hierarchical or
with clarity and
organization and considerable with moderate none at all,
with extensive
use of examples clarity and with number of and there is a
number of
substantial examples and limited number
relevant
number of links of examples

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examples and examples and and links

links links provided provided
Map provides Map provides
evidence of some evidence
complex and of mostly Map provides
Map provides
sophisticated complex and evidence of
evidence of
critical thinking; substantial moderate
limited critical
most critical critical thinking;
Critical thinking thinking; the

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appropriate thinking; the concept
and type of
selection of appropriate map selected
communication concept map
type of concept selection of allows for
allows for
map that concept map moderate level
basic level of
allows for that allows for of
understanding
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level of of
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SCORING RUBRICS FOR ACROSTICS
Exemplary Proficient Progressing
5 pts 4 pts 3 pts
The poem has a The poem has a
The poem does not topic, but clear topic.
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have a clear topic. 1-2 line(s) of the Each line of the
More than 2 lines do poem does/do not poem begins with a
not start with a letter start with a letter in letter in the topic
Structure and
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in the topic word. the topic word.

format More than 2 lines do word. Each line describes
not describe or relate 1-2 lines of the poem or relates to the topic
to the topic of the does/do not describe of the poem.
poem. or relate to the topic
of the poem.
The poem contains
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more than two

The poem contains a
The poem does not interesting word
couple of interesting
contain any choices, uses
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word choices, uses

interesting word vivid/descriptive
Interconnectivity some vivid language,
choice, vivid language throughout
among concepts language, or poetic and makes use of
the entire poem, and
only one poetic
elements or makes use of more
element or
techniques. than 1 poetic
technique.
element or
technique.

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G. Reflection

Activity 10. I UNDERSTOOD it.

Directions: Write the things that creates an impact to you from our discussion
in the whole chapter that change your perspective in life. Use the format of an
acrostics.

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H. References for learners

Books

Giancoli, Douglas C, 6th Edition PHYSICS: Principles with Applications, 2007.

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Santos, Gil Nonato C., 1st Edition General Physics 1, 2017

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Silverio, Angelina A., 2nd Edition Exploring Life through Science : PHYSICS,
2012

Electronic Sources

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics/linear-momentum/center-of-
mass/a/what-is-center-of-mass

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/cm.html

https://physics.ucf.edu/~roldan/classes/phy2048-ch9_sp12.pdf

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